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The film was a critical and commercial success, as were some other Stone films at the time, but most studios were still reluctant to finance Platoon, because it was about the unpopular Vietnam War. After the release of The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now , the studios then cited the perception that these films were considered the pinnacle of the ...
Platoon Leader is a true story told by James R. McDonough, a Vietnam War veteran. The book takes place in and around a fort near a Vietnamese village in Binh Dinh province. It is McDonough's retelling of his time in Vietnam. He wrote the book as an officer development tool while he was a battalion commander.
Team Yankee is a techno-thriller novel written in 1987 by Harold Coyle, then a major in the United States Army.Set during the World War III scenario outlined in Sir John Hackett's novel The Third World War: The Untold Story, the novel follows the titular United States Army armored company-sized team in combat against the Soviet Union after the Warsaw Pact invades Western Europe.
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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War is a novel by American author and decorated Marine, Karl Marlantes.It was first published by El León Literary Arts in 2009 (in small quantity) and re-issued (and slightly edited) as a major publication of Atlantic Monthly Press [1] on March 23, 2010.
Dafoe shares his memories of making "Platoon" and playing the Green Goblin in the original "Spider-Man." ... the Vietnam War-set movie awarded the then-31-year-old actor one of the most famous ...
The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division .
[7] [8] Heinemann later wrote a book about his Vietnam experiences titled Black Virgin Mountain: A Return to Vietnam, [9] and Stone would direct the dramatization of the battle in the 1986 film Platoon. The final battle scene of Platoon is a dramatization of the real battle Stone experienced. Survivors of the battle often relate how close to ...