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Touch Not This Wall: A Novel of the Vietnam War... and After

by Harley Melton

312 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2226; ISBN 1-4120-4418-9; US$21.00, C$26.00, EUR16.90, £11.71

From the Reviewers...

"...the Baby Boomer generation's Red Badge of Courage." Andrea Romo

"...a splendid addition to the pantheon of literature about America's still unfinished war." Janann Sherman.

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About the Book

A boy goes off to war seeking Glory, Honor, Manhood and his place in his family's warrior history. A man comes home knowing that there is little glory or honor to be found in war-only to face a second war. A war of words and catch phrases he has no wish to wage. For 30 years he fights that second war and keeps within himself the memory of the friend he left behind... until the woman he loves, a former protester of his war, accompanies him to the place he has long avoided... The Wall. This is the story of the boy turned man by war, the ghost he carried with him for thirty years and the woman who brought them peace.

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About the Author

The author served with the Marines in Vietnam as a helicopter door gunner and armorer with HMM-164 in 1967 and with HMM-265 in 1969. He now lives and works in Memphis, Tennessee. He and his former Vietnam War-protester wife are currently working on completing two additional books. The first, Twisted Warriors, is an account of how and why the myths of the crazed Vietnam Warrior were created by the New Left. The second, as yet untitled, will be a historical romance novel based on a long lost cousin who became one of the most famous of the post Civil War New Orleans' madams.

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