Incident at Muc Wa [Anglais] [Broché]

"The greatest work to date on the Vietnam involvement"

"A fine novel. Recommended."

This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans. It's 1964—early days in South Vietnam—and the U.S. Army Raiders garrison a town that the French abandoned ten years before. "Sad, bawdy, and compelling," wrote the Detroit Free Press—and prophetic, too, of how the larger war would end.

"The greatest work to date on the Vietnam involvement"—Cincinnati Enquirer

Daniel Ford was educated by the University of New Hampshire and the US Army. Afterwards, he worked as a reporter while writing fiction in off moments--often enough, riding a train through Germany to cover a court-martial for The Overseas Weekly. Incident at Muc Wa came out of an assignment in South Vietnam. Doubleday published the novel in 1967, when there still was light at the end of the tunnel. Today, Ford writes about the planes, pilots, and politics of World War II and the Cold War. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Britain, Stern Foundation grantee in Vietnam, Verville Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, and Resident Scholar at the University of New Hampshire. At the age of 68, he flies a Piper Cub almost as old as he is.