The Year I Said Goodbye
Peter Winter
Foreword by Lynne Cosgrove
PB 272 PP 210 x 135 ILLUS WITH PHOTOS 186254610X
$9.95 EAN 9781862546103 Wakefield Press
‘The Year I Said Goodbye is a marvelous
chronicle of an exhilarating and poignant year of separation and
longing, of anticipation and nostalgia.’ – Lynne Cosgrove
Platoon commander Peter Winter was a career
soldier who went to Vietnam in 1970 with ambitions of advancement
and promotion. The experience of war resulted in upheaval, anger
with the Moratorium movement back home, and a general feeling
of isolation from the rest of his countrymen. Each day, he would
write home to his family to tell of his emotions and opinions.
This compilation of those letters, a soldier’s personal
war, is gripping reading for anyone who was there, or who has
an interest in the Vietnam War.
Peter Winter was called up for National Service
in 1965 in the ‘first ballot’. He remained in the
army until 1986 when, having reached the rank of major, he resigned.
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