To help with her grief, she wants to travel to Vietnam to see for herself what Peter went through, to understand why the war is taking place and why Peter died. When news gets back to Paxton that Peter has died in combat, she finds it hard to cope. Whilst at Berkeley, she falls in love with law student, Peter, but when war breaks out in Vietnam, Peter is called up to serve for his country, and drafted overseas to fight. We first meet Paxton as a school girl in Savannah, who declines an offer to attend Harvard University, opting to study journalism at Berkeley instead. Message from Nam, follows the life of Paxton Andrews. But for her, and for the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again. So most of them rode home in silence.įor seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column for Americans from the front, before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. How do you tell someone what it’s like to kill a man hand to hand, run a bayonet through his guts, or shoot a sniper in the face who turns out to be a woman? How do you explain the nine-year-old boy who throws a grenade and kills your best friend? How do you tell them what it’s like? Or about the sunsets on the mountains or the green of Viet Nam, or the sounds and the smells, and the people, and the girl who can’t even say your name, but you know you love her. Message from Nam by Danielle Steel – Book Review
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