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Sunsets, Bulldozers, And Elephants: Twelve Years in Laos, The Stories I Never Told |  | Author: Howard Lewin
Publisher: Howard S. Lewin
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1669500
Media: Paperback
Pages: 450
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 097646540X
EAN: 9780976465409
ASIN: 097646540X
Publication Date: May 15, 2005
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Great stories! June 13, 2006
N. Faner (Whittier, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a trip back in time and deals with the author's experiences of his life in Laos. The stories he told described a wide array of adventures, customs, compassion, hardships and war that intertwined with his personal journey through a tumultuous era in the history of the United States during the Vietnam War. Adventure-seeking men would envy his experiences.
One Who Was There September 15, 2005
Inveterate Reader (CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Review by Chris Russell
Several days ago I received your book and sent off a letter to you expressing my conviction that your memoirs are the best yet written about the period in which some of us served for varying lengths of time in Laos. Congratulations, Howie! Your revision of the original manuscript is a great success and the final, like the original, is fascinating, insightful, entertaining and wonderfully lively.
Earl Young August 13, 2005
Howard Lewin
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Review by Earl Young
"From the eye-catching photograph that draws the reader's attention to the book cover, through his very personalized account of adventures that spanning twelve years in the unbelievable Land Of Nod, aka "The Royal Kingdom Of Laos", Howard Lewin has turned out a fine first effort.
Either deliberately, or by great good luck, he has chosen to give an intimate, day-by-day account, warts included, of his service, first with the American International Voluntary Service team and then as a member of the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has retained most of the details and the book often reads like a diary, as he frankly discusses his successes and problems.
He breaks new ground here, detailing the day by day life of an ordinary civilian trying to accomplish meaningful tasks in a war-ravaged country, The more popular route would have been the usual expose of CIA activities in Laos, the bombing campaign by the U.S. Air Force or the swash-buckling activities of Air America pilots. But the plentiful supply of good photographs that accompany his story of everyday life make even clearing a road through the jungle clear even to non-engineers.
The book will appeal most of all to the "Old Hands" who served in Laos, and undoubtedly raise the blood pressure among many....But, as Mr. Lewin writes in the dedication, his story- elephants, bulldozers and romantic interludes included- is something he wanted his children to know. They can be proud of their father..."
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