Carry Me Home
Published on 18. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
752 pages
978-1-944353-01-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this powerful and poignant epic, Del Vecchio transports the soldiers of the Viet Nam experience to their final battlefield—the home front. High Meadow Farm, in the fertile hill country of central Pennsylvania, would be their salvation. In Viet Nam they had fought side by side, brothers in arms. Now in the face of personal tragedy and bureaucratic deception, they would create a more enduring allegiance, an alliance of the spirit and the soil. "Carry Me Home" is the remarkable story of their struggle to find each other and themselves, a saga spanning fifteen years—fifteen years lost in a wilderness called America. In its scope, breadth, and brilliance, "Carry Me Home" is much more than a novel about Viet Nam and Viet Nam veterans. It is a testament to history and hope, to hometowns and homecomings, to love and loss, to faith and family. It is a novel about two decades in our collective lives and the cleansing of our spirit—an inspiring and unforgettable novel about America itself.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
829 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-944353-01-8 (9781944353018)
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John M. Del Vecchio was drafted in 1969 shortly after graduating from Lafayette College with a bachelor's degree in psychology and minor emphasis in civil engineering. In 1970 he volunteered for Viet Nam where he served as a combat correspondent for the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile); in 1971 he was awarded a Bronze Star for Heroism in Ground Combat.Along with The 13th Valley, Del Vecchio is the author of For the Sake of All Living Things, Carry Me Home, DEMISE: A Novel of Race, Culture Wars and Falling Darkness, The Bremer Detail (with Frank Gallagher), AUGUST 2024, numerous articles and papers including the widely quoted, "The Importance of Story"; the forward for Wounds Of War and the afterword for Code Word: Geronimo. His books have been translated into four languages and published worldwide. He has lectured extensively on the history of the Viet Nam War in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and has appeared on FOX News as a military/political commentator.Del Vecchio's mission has not changed. He is now working on a program to disrupt the false elements of the standard historical narrative of America's Southeast Asia venture.