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    Policing Saigon
    Policing Saigon
    Policing Saigon
    Audiobook9 hours

    Policing Saigon

    Written by Loren W. Christensen

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Policing Saigon isn't Platoon or Apocalypse Now, but the story of Loren W. Christensen's experience as a military policeman (MP) in a city of millions at a time when chaos and fear reigned.

    As a twenty-three-year-old from a small town in Washington State, the author was plunged into a chaotic city of brawling servicemen, prostitutes, racial violence, enemy rockets, riots, and death. It was a place that would give him a unique opportunity to see up close a different side of the Vietnam War and its effect on the human condition.

    Nearly eighty stories collectively convey the author's experiences, and his arc-from naive to jaded, angry, confused, anxious, and bone-weary exhausted-is representative of so many GIs who served in the Vietnam War as well as those veterans of today's conflicts around the globe.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 12, 2019
    ISBN9781977343819
    Policing Saigon
    Author

    Loren W. Christensen

    Loren W. Christensen has published more than fifty books and dozens of magazine articles, and has been an editor for a police newspaper for nearly eight years. He has earned a first-degree black belt in arnis, a second-degree black belt in jujitsu, and an eighth-degree black belt in karate. In 2011, Christensen was inducted into the martial arts Masters Hall of Fame in Anaheim, California, receiving the Golden Life Achievement Award.

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