Why Are We in Vietnam?

Norman Mailer

Original title: Why are we in Vietnam?

earliest edition we have, 1969 Oxford University Press, 1988 paperback 208 pages

A Berkley Windhover book

Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.

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Editions we hold

Why Are We in Vietnam? edition · 2017 · Random House · 208 pages · 9780399591754
Why Are We in Vietnam? paperback · 2000 · Picador · 224 pages · 9780312265069
Why are we in Vietnam? edition · 1991 · Henry Holt · 208 pages
Why Are We in Vietnam (Twentieth-Century Classics) paperback · 1988 · Oxford University Press · 208 pages · 9780192818416
Pourquoi sommes-nous au Vietnam? paperback · 1987 · Grasset · 242 pages · 9782246139720
Why Are We in Vietnam? edition · 1982 · Holt, Rinehart and Winston · 208 pages
Why are we in Vietnam? edition · 1977 · Putnam : distributed by Berkley Pub. Corp. · 145 pages
Why are we in Vietnam? edition · 1970 · Panther
Why are we in Vietnam? hardcover · 1969 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 208 pages · 9780297176961

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