title: War Written Words: A Vietnam Love Story: Book Two
author:  kgcummings 
description: kgcummings is the author of The Wind Whispers War: a Vietnam Love Story. It is the first book of the trilogy.
zlib_text: Joe Haldeman THE FOREVER WAR
  AUTHOR'S NOTE
  This is the definitive version of The Forever War. There are two other versions,
  and my publisher has been kind enough to allow inc to clarify things here.
  The one you're holding in your hand is the book as it was originally written. But it
  has a pretty tortuous history
  It's ironic, since it later won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and has won "Best
  Novel" awards in other countries, but The F~re~er War was not an easy book to sell
  back in the early scventies. It was rejected by eighteen publishers before St. Martin's
  Press decided to take a chance on it. "Pretty good book," was the usual reaction, "but
  nobody wants to read a science fiction novel about Vietnam". 'Rventy-Iive years
  later, most young readers don't even see the parallels between The Forever ~l'ar and
  the seemingly endless one we were involved in at the time, and that's okay. It's about
  Vietnam because that's the war the author was in. But it's mainly about war, about
  soldiers, and a