Saigon included good times as well as bad.
Like any experience, his year spent with the 1st Infantry Division stationed in the rice paddies near With a compass to direct him in his job as a forward observer and a personal camera to document his experiences-and keep him connected to his creative side-Vietnam veteran Steven Burchik was lucky enough to make it home and years later decided to write about the most challenging year of his life.
AMVET-turned-author Burchik's plainly told 'Nam flashback is a breath of fresh air (as opposed to "the smell of napalm in the morning").Burchik, an avid photographer, made thousands of images on black-and-white and color film during his 12-month tour of duty.The book's easy-flowing, natural structure came out of his penning detailed, chronological captions for what his impassive lens captured, complemented by the regular letters he wrote home to his future wife.Some readers may wish for the Sturm und Drang that other war memoirs have made of death and battle, while others might appreciate the unfiltered, reasoned POV of a humble foot soldier in an unpopular conflict.Īn evenhanded, tasteful, just-the-facts time capsule of one American soldier's Vietnam experience." -Kirkus Reviews
".Many Vietnam War books, particularly memoirs, can be bitterly agenda-driven, determined to take an edgy political position while offering emotional catharsis of the Born on the Fourth of July (1976) kind.
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