Böcker av Richard T. Edwards

"Claymore mines and Cobra gunships - and more. This soldier's memoir gives us the straw-sweet smell of JP-4 fuel mingling with the stench of stark terror soaked into bunker sandbag and chopper fuselage by GIs who were there before, and moved on - whole, or shattered, or in a body bag ... vivid images from a bitter war. A Cobra mechanic, he offers a knothole view of short-timer daredevil pilots, S.O.S. and tepid coffee in the mess hall; classically stupid sergeants - and a paratroop general playing Santa Claus for grunts on the wire Christmas Eve. That's just for starters..." - William R. Burkett, Jr., Shadow of a SoldierDoes this sound like your typical Vietnam book? Richard T. Edwards rebuilt an AH-1G Cobra almost by himself, get left on Firebase T Bone with Mortar rounds blowing off around him. He found parts where there were none, met the 5th Dimension in Osaka, Japan, got flown up to the DMZ and took a picture of a Red Flag there along with the remains of Hillbilly crazy chopper pilots who played capture the flag and lost. Did we also mention that he rode shotgun on a trash truck filled with C-4 donated by the grunts? Does this sound like you're average Vietnam storybook? It's not.

This book is two things in one: A helpful do-it-yourself manual that shares Richard T. Edwards' proven tips from a longtime career as a freelance writer ... and a memoir of that same writer's experiences, a photojournalist's journey that began during the Vietnam War. Edwards breaks out the different markets for selling your words and photos, offers writing tips, and shares four freelance business tools you can't work without (and they're not what you may think).