What I liked about this book, is how it gave you essentially an "Inside Drop" about the Vietnam war. Fallen Angels is a very detailed, yet fictional account about a soldier Richard Perry, during the Vietnam War. Walter Dean Myers, (author) writes this book in first person, and the way he writes the story really connects you to Richard. The book contains many close deaths, Anticipation, and thrill, as the US soldiers venture throughout Nam. I say an "inside drop", because when most people think of war, they think of soldiers marching on the battlefield, always fighting. In this book, most of it was sitting around at their camp, waiting for something to happen, and I conversed with some family friends who participated in the Vietnam war, as well as others, and truly most of it was just sitting around. Every now and then, the soldiers would jump up and fight for maybe 3 pages, maybe a bit more, and everything was super crazy, and the Adrenaline pumps up, and then it's over. Back to sitting around. That is how war works, and that is why I liked the book, it was very realistic. By the end of the book, many soldiers had died, but the war was over, and the citizens of America rejoiced. I feel like the general takeaway from the book is that war really isn't just fighting and fighting, like all the other stories depict it, and I liked knowing that. However, when the soldiers were fighting or walking through the hamlets, which were cities around their camps Walter Dean Myers had a very accurate description of what the war was like, since he himself participated in the Vietnam War, and I thought that was pretty cool.
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