![]() ![]() ![]() But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again. For seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column from the front before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. Delacorte Press, 21.95 (389pp) ISBN 978-7-7 An audacious-and ill-conceived-departure from her usual glitzy settings, Steel's ( Daddy Star ) 25th. ![]() Sergeant Tony Campobello had come to Vietnam from the streets of New York to vent a rage that had followed him all the way to Saigon. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chi tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and it seemed nothing could touch him. For Paxton and the soldiers she knew, the war was like a nightmare from which they could not rouse themselves. Ralph Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in Saigon since the beginning. For seven years Paxton Andrews wrote an acclaimed newspaper column from the front lines of the Vietnam War. Peter Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit who would confont his fate in Da Nang. For the men in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not escape or deny. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. Or about the sunsets on the mountains or the green of Viet Nam, or the sounds and the. ![]()
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