- Fiction, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Aircraft carriers, Jake Grafton (Fictitious character)
1973. The skies over Vietnam have finally gone silent. America has pulled out, the war is over. But for Lieutenant Jake Grafton, USN, fresh from two combat cruises and a harrowing shoot-down over Laos, the personal battle is just beginning.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Coonts
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 364
- Publisher
- Wheeler Pub., Orion mass market paperback, US Naval Institute Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781591141280
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