![]() ![]() and a hard rain fell is a gripping and visceral account of one young man's struggle to make sense of his place in a world gone mad. and a hard rain fell back into print in a newly updated edition, with a new introduction by the author and eight pages of never-before-published photographs.įrom the country roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam, and finally to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. AND A HARD Rain Fell: a GIs True Story of the War in Vietnam by Ketwig, John - 4.33. Now, over 15 years after its initial publication, Sourcebooks is proud to bring. Enlisting to avoid the draft in 1966, Ketwig ended up a platoon sergeant in Thailand, 'in charge of 43 Americans and numerous Thais. And a Hard Rain Fell: A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam, first published in 1985. ![]() and a hard rain fell began as Ketwigs attempt. Another recovered war memoir this one with a first printing of 15,000 is John Ketwig's. ![]() Thus begins John Ketwig's powerful memoir of the Vietnam War. A good question, and one, which Ketwig comes back to in various forms. I needed to get Vietnam out into the open, but I couldn't talk about it. I'd never written more than an occasional letter to the editor in my life. It was 1982, fourteen years after I had last set foot in Vietnam, and thirteen years after I returned to The World. And a Hard Rain Fell:A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam ![]()
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