Darn Those Miserable Yangkhis...

A critic once said of the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, whom Dostoyevsky called the founder of Russian Realism, "His work is full of tears, but there is laughter through the tears."I know, from first-hand experience, that war is not funny; but there is in war much of the unreal, the mystical, and the bizarre. In Darn Those Miserable Yangkhis and Other Stories of the Viet Nam War I have woven a blend of the real, the unreal, the mystical, and the bizarre into tales that will, I hope, generate several chuckles, some laughter, and a few tears, whether one was over there or not. And there is nothing in this story that is more unreal or more bizarre than some of the things that I saw, did, and had done to me.