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"""Splendid...a realistic account of a life of constant adventure."" -William E. Colby, former CIA Director ""Jim Morris is an unusual case...a writer whose style is spare, controlled, sprung with tension, whose subject matter is war, whose obvious purpose is to 'tell exactly what it's like'-all dicta impeccably consonant with the Hemingway canon, and yet he is still very much his own man."" -Esquire ""Entertaining...Hard-boiled...Controversial."" -Publishers Weekly ""Morris, a staff writer for Soldier of Fortune magazine, has written a combination travelogue/memoir of a number of wars, current and past, in which he has either fought or reported....there is a blunt message: there is only one war of national liberation, not many, centrally orchestrated by the Soviets through client soldiers and media manipulation....the macho nostalgia and the Third World countries are wonderfully realized. Morris is not an uncritical admirer of anti-Communist soldiers, and he makes severe professional judgments on the guerrilla armies he has seen."" - Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va. ""Powerful...a first-class piece of work!"" -Bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin"

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"JIM MORRIS served three tours with Special Forces (The Green Berets) in Vietnam and was severely wounded during the second and third tours, leading to his retirement as a Major. He has maintained his interest in the Montagnards, the mountain peoples of Vietnam with whom he fought, and for many years has been a refugee and civil rights activist on their behalf.His Vietnam memoir War Story is deemed by many to be the pioneer of the genre and won the first Bernal Diaz Award for military writing, outperforming all other military non-fiction books of the preceding decade.Morris is author of the story on which the film Operation Dumbo Drop was based, was technical advisor for that film, and has written and produced numerous documentary television episodes about the Green Berets and the Vietnam War.He has written four non-fiction books and five novels and has edited more than 200 fiction and non-fiction books as an editor for Berkley and Dell, most on military and adventure themes. As a contributing editor for Soldier of Fortune magazine, he covered eight guerrilla wars during the early 1980s. His work has appeared in Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, and many other venues, including anthologies and college English texts.His latest non-fiction work is The Dreaming Circus, a spiritual memoir of a combat veteran's reintegration into civilian life.He has appeared on MSNBC as commentator on Special Operations and wrote a column on and during the invasion of Iraq for the San Diego Reader.In addition to the Bernal Diaz Award, he has also received the University of Oklahoma Professional Writing Award-also known as the Oklahoma Writer of the Year-an honor he shares with Louis L'Amour and Tony Hillerman, and the Vietnam Veterans Foundation of the Arts ""Silver Star for Television Production"" for A&E's Vietnam: The Green Berets. His military awards are Bronze Star with ""V"" Device and three Oak Leaf Clusters (four awards, two for valor and two for meritorious service), Purple Heart with three Oak Leaf Clusters (four awards), Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Bronze Star, Air Medal, Master Parachutist Badge, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, and the Special Forces tab. He also has been awarded the parachute wings of the Republic of China, the Republic of Vietnam, and the Kingdom of Thailand."

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