"From the Delta to the DMZ" By Paul Sinor: Review/Giveaway

Reviewed by J. M. Landon

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Paul Sinor is a skilled writer with a long list of published books. In From the Delta to the DMZ, Sinor takes his character, Sean Kelly, war correspondent, all around up-country while he takes you, the reader, along for a bumpy ride through the red dust of Viet Nam.

 As a war correspondent, Sean jumps into the middle of many different war scenarios, from Huey rides and drops, to an R&R romance. And as a syndicated correspondent, Sean can choose his own assignments. He is responsible for a weekly column to send back to the states. Most Americans experience the war only through the nightly news, in their living rooms, while eating their dinners. Sean wants their experience to feel more personal. He doesn’t focus on the blood and guts of war, but on the heart and soul of the warriors.

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The reader experiences what Sean experiences as he hops from one platoon to another, from one service to another. He covers the Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force impartially. He is even sling-shot in a plane from an air-craft carrier. He goes on a mission to take out a machine gun hill, and on a boat ride up a canal, where he may or may not have witnessed a war crime. The author, Paul Sinor, is a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel with two combat tours under his belt. So there is no question he knows whereof he speaks. He makes the scenes real and moving.

The book is set up in two alternating parts. After Sean takes you through the muck with him, he then lets you see how he presents it to the public through the column he sends in for publication. You might think the repetitiveness of this process might lose your attention. Instead, seeing how the events are sterilized to present to the folks back home is captivating. You’ll experience the monsoons and the humidity, the smells and sounds. And don’t forget the love affair Sean has with a beautiful American working in-country, doing––well, Sean is never sure what she does for our government, but when their worlds collide it like watching tracers through the sky on a moonless night.

If you like books about war, any war, this book will touch your heart. I would compare it to writers like Nelson DeMille, Up Country; Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried; Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain; and Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn.

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J.M. Landon is retired and blissfully at work on the ‘great American novel.’ She’s worn many hats through her career including: wife, mother, piano teacher, middle school teacher, university professor, painter, jewelry maker, and dragon tamer. She has eight published short stories.

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