My Year in Vietnam

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The myth of Pax Americana is revealed in Vietnam vet George Ryan's harrowing story, illustrated by Eve Gilbert. Plucked from his workaday youth as an Irish-American kid from Brooklyn, Ryan's military deployment to Vietnam begins in 1966 with shiftless excursions into women, booze, and reefer. As he wades ever deeper north, his cavorting is replaced by an unceasing violence. The amorality of war, and specifically this war, is laid bare. Eve Gilbert's nakedly primitive drawing perfectly reflects R