Title: Fallen Angels
Product review: Fallen Angels; a novel about Vietnam, written by Walter Dean Myers. This is a story about a young man who goes to Vietnam to fight. This young man represents Myers, and is used to show his experiences and thoughts about the war. Myers goes into great detail with his experiences and feelings of the war. He shows his confusion and disagreement with the United States involvement in the fighting. He also brings in his anti-racist points of view as well. There are a few battle scenes that catch your attention, and are very descriptive. Although this book is an interesting account of Myers experiences and opinions of the war it struggles to show the reality of the war. He puts aside the real reasons for the war, (the attempt to stop communism) to show the gruesome manslaughter and the worthless sacrifice of young men. The book is overly descriptive making it long and a drag to read. There is not enough battle scenes to interest battle enthusiasts either.
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