title: Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption
author: Albert French
description: Personal, lyrical, and extraordinary, <i>Patches of Fire</i> is a memorable exploration of the black soldier's experience in Vietnam, the plight of the Vietnam veteran, and the redemptive power of writing.<br /><br />With the same passion for truth and stunning honesty that marks his highly acclaimed fiction, Albert French's remarkable memoir tells the story of a young man's encounter with a war and with deaths beyond his understanding; of his return to a country torn by racial unrest in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and of his painstaking efforts to defeat his inner demons and make a place for himself as a black man in white America.<br /><br />With a starkness tempered by humor, French brings to life the horrors of Vietnam, and recounts in compelling detail his uneasy tenure as a newspaper photographer, his heady days as publisher of his own magazine, his confrontations with the ghostly images of Vietnam that haunted his dreams--and the sense of renewal and purpose he achieved as a novelist.
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  ### Evelyn Everett-Green
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Book 1: Border Warfare
  
  
    
  Chapter 2: Friends In Need.
  
  
    
  Chapter 3: Philadelphia.
  
  
    
  Chapter 4: An Exciting Struggle.
  
  
  Book 2: Roger's Rangers.
  
  
    
  Chapter 1: A Day Of Vengeance.
  
  
    
  Chapter 2: Robert Rogers.
  
  
    
  Chapter 3: The Life Of Adventure.
  
  
    
  Chapter 4: Vengeance And Disaster.
  
  
  Book 3: Disaster.
  
  
    
  Chapter 1: A Tale Of Woe.
  
  
    
  Chapter 2: Escape.
  
  
    
  Chapter 3: Albany.
  
  
    
  Chapter 4: Ticonderoga.
  
  
  Book 4: Wolfe.
  
  
    
  Chapter 1: A Soldier At Home.
  
  
    
  Chapter 2: Louisbourg.
  
  
    
  Chapter 3: Victory.
  
  
    
  Chapter 4: The Fruits Of Victory.
  
  
  Book 5: Within Quebec.
  
  
    
  Chapter 1: The Impregnable City.
  
  
    
  Chapter 2: The Defences Of Quebec.
  
  
    
  Chapter 3: Mariners Of The Deep.
  
  
    
  Chapter 4: Hostilities.
  
  
  Book 6: Without Quebec.
  
  
    
  Chapter 1: In Sight Of His Goal.
  
  
    
  Chapter 2: Days Of 