Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam

In 1981, while the country was celebrating the end of the Iran hostage crisis, an unemployed Vietnam veteran named Gary Cooper went berserk with a gun, angry over the jubilant welcome the hostages received in contrast to his own homecoming from Vietnam. He was killed in a fight with police. Joe Klein ... tells Cooper's story, as well as the stories of four of the other vets in Cooper's platoon. These stories all begin with an ambush and a grisly battle in the Que Son Valley in 1967, but Payback is less about remembering the war and more about examining its long-term effects on the grunts who fought it. Klein focuses on filling in the next fifteen years of these men's lives after they return home, and his account ... captures the struggles of a whole generation of Vietnam veterans and their families.--Back cover.

• • Author: Joe Klein
• • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• • Publication Date: Oct 27, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 416 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1451683626
• • ISBN-13: 9781451683622