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Summary: Memorable and Riveting Account of Experiences
Review: A truly riveting account of the authors experiences. Very clever use of time compression where needed. Awesome story. I wished for a little more background on the training and the motivations that kept him going.A movie version or adaptation of this would be a true testament to the war and the people who fought it.
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Summary: Welcome contrast.
Review: As a former Vietnam war book junkie, I have read many books about the Vietnam War; therefore, the jungle setting and war description are familiar. However, Clark's personal account of the effects of the War paints a unique picture. Rather than merely a demoralizing and meaningless experience, as the War is usually described in similar works, the War helped him to mature as a human being, and he conveys his personal sense of victory and redemption. This book is a welcome change. It is the only Vietnam War book that I have read more than once and which figures prominently on my bookshelf.
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Summary: Anniversary Edition of Guns Up! by Johnnie M. Clark
Review: Dear Amazon customers, the 21st printing of Guns Up! will be out in 2002. It will have a new cover, photo of Johnnie Clark with the M60 machine gun and 15 to 20 photos of the heros he wrote about. It will also include an epilogue telling what happened to some of those gallant marines after Vietnam. Some of his other books may also be reprinted. Two new books are hopeful at this stage. Thanks, Johnnie M. Clark
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Summary: THE BEST BOOK I'V EVER READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: GUNS UP IS THE BEST BOOK I'V EVER READ I HAVE READ IT COUNTLESS TIMES AND AM STILL READING IT EVEN THOUGH I'V READ IT SO MANY TIMES. I THINK ITS NEAT HOW JOHNNY AND HIS BUDDY CHAN KEEP THINKING OF GOD I LOVE THIS BOOK AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ IT TOO I AM ONLY 12 AND I LOVE READING WAR BOOKS ESPECIALLY VIETNAM I ALSO ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD OR CHILDREN TO READ IT TOO ITS THE BEST BOOK IN THE WORLD IF YOU ASK ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: You have to read this book!
Review: I am the wife of a Vietnam Vet. I have read hundreds of books about War written by the men and women who were there. Though all of their stories are deserving of great respect some stand out like the North Star on a black night. "Guns Up" by Johnnie M. Clark is one of these outstanding books. This book takes you to war in Vietnam and it doesn't let you come back the same person. Read it.
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Summary: Through the Eyes of a Marine
Review: I don't know how I missed this book for all of these years but have just finished reading "Guns Up". While I have heard and used that command many times, Clark not only provides the resulting action but includes the thoughts, feelings, and cost to such actions. He took me back to my rifle squad days in the Korean War where it was just me and my buddy in that hole after dark, all of those long nights. I thought I had a real appreciation of my squad Marines in my rifle company in the Vietnam War and what they were going through, but Clark reminded me that the company commander has a different appreciation of what is happening. This book must be in the hands of all Marines because it tells it the way it is at the cutting edge. Thanks, Johnnie, for this treasure of Marines.
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Summary: Through the Eyes of a Marine
Review: I don't know how I missed this book for all of these years but have just finished reading "Guns Up". While I have heard and used that command many times, Clark not only provides the resulting action but includes the thoughts, feelings, and cost to such actions. He took me back to my rifle squad days in the Korean War where it was just me and my buddy in that hole after dark, all of those long nights. I thought I had a real appreciation of my squad Marines in my rifle company in the Vietnam War and what they were going through, but Clark reminded me that the company commander has a different appreciation of what is happening. This book must be in the hands of all Marines because it tells it the way it is at the cutting edge. Thanks, Johnnie, for this treasure of Marines.
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Summary: An excellent, gut-wrenching look at Marines in Vietnam
Review: I have read GUNS UP! several times and keep returning to it. I have read several accounts of Vietnam, but I keep returning to this one. The way that Mr. Clark is able to take his readers through the gamet of emotions and glories of comradeship felt by Marines in Vietnam makes this book a tribute to the men who fought and died when their country called - whether they believed in the war that they were called upon to fight or not, they were truly "forever faithful".
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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: I haven't read a book for pleasure reading in about 10 years, but I am joining the military myself and I thought I might try picking up a war book to read over the summer. So much for the book lasting the summer, I read it in three days. The accounts of war from the narrator are incredible and you feel like you are there fighting in the jungles and on the hills of Vietnam. I dislike reading, but even I will agree that you must get this book. The story jumps into the war pretty fast so you dont even need worry about those long first 50 pages you have to get through usually before you start getting into somethin exciting. I will end just by saying this is the best book I have ever read.
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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: I haven't read a book for pleasure reading in about 10 years, but I am joining the military myself and I thought I might try picking up a war book to read over the summer. So much for the book lasting the summer, I read it in three days. The accounts of war from the narrator are incredible and you feel like you are there fighting in the jungles and on the hills of Vietnam. I dislike reading, but even I will agree that you must get this book. The story jumps into the war pretty fast so you dont even need worry about those long first 50 pages you have to get through usually before you start getting into somethin exciting. I will end just by saying this is the best book I have ever read.
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