H. Lee Barnes Gunning for Ho: Vietnam Stories (Western Literature Series) Paperback - 156 pages (March 2000) Univ of Nevada Pr; ISBN: 0874173469.

From Booklist
Barnes' stories have a strong sense of a dark, dreamlike state where the strange and bizarre go head to head with the very real terror of war. In "Stonehands and the Tigress," a tiger cub becomes a pet of one of the men. His confrontation with the mother could be all in his head, or it could be real. "He held the rifle but had no intention of shooting. Her body twitched. She flicked her tail once again and an instant later disappeared into the fog. What would he tell his squad? Who would believe it?" A few seconds later Stonehands must call in a mortar round as he is suddenly surrounded by Vietnamese soldiers.

In "The Cat in the Cage," an American POW is paraded from village to village in a cage. The edge between dream, nightmare, and raw reality is very thin in most of these stories. Just when you thought you had heard the last of the Vietnam War, another voice demands to be heard. Marlene Chamberlain

Lee Barnes served with the 5th Special Forces at Tra Bong in 1966.

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