Brandywine's War: Back in Country — Robert Vaughan

In 1971, the world was introduced to Brandywine's War, a brilliant satiric novel of army life in the midst of battle. That book was peopled by a kooky collection of characters who managed to turn the Vietnam War into a stage for bizarre events. Now a generation later, the author of that novel revisits the picaresque protagonist, Chief Warrant Officer W. W. Brandywine who is "Back in Country" to fulfill an involuntary six-month extension.

Brandywine's War: Back in Country is a sequel to the highly-acclaimed,best-selling Brandywine's War, regarded as the best iconoclastic novel to come from the Vietnam era. No matter how you felt about that tumultuous time in American history, this new book will touch your emotions. You will laugh out loud; you will weep silently, but in the end, you will be proud.

Thirty years ago, CW3 Robert Vaughan came home from the Vietnam War Like millions of other veterans of that era, without fanfare and without respect. He had one gift to help him cope and that was writing. He wrote Brandywine's War, an enormously successful book that looked at the war with a heavy dose of humor.

With the recent attention focused on the Vietnam War by the 2004 presidential race, Vaughan has offered a reprise of the characters the NY Times called the "zaniest to come out of the Vietnam War."

Vaughan's writing makes the war come alive to those who lived through it, both "in country" and at home.

Brandywine's War: Back In Country introduces a whole new generation to the Vietnam war and the antics of CW3 W.W. Brandywine, who is an army helicopter pilot performing his duty while marching to the beat of his own drum.