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Keep Your Head Down by Doug Anderson, Norton, 2009 Loon by Jack McLean, Presidio Press, 2009 In the four decades that have slipped by since the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of veterans have written war memoirs. Most are pedestrian; only a handful stands out as creatively written, memorable works of literature. That short …
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