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Lightning: Stories from the Second Tour

By Jack Heslin, Jean Heslin
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By Jack Heslin, Jean Heslin
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LIGHTNING: Stories from the Second Tour is a powerful dual memoir of the Vietnam War told from two rarely united perspectives: a combat helicopter pilot and the wife he left behind.

In December 1971, Army aviator Jack Heslin returned to Vietnam for his second tour, expecting a short deployment. Instead, he found himself flying through the white-hot intensity of the 1972 Easter Offensive and the Battle of Kontum-one of the largest and least-known battles of the war. From coordinating air miss...