War College: It's Complicated
It's 1964, you're a high school junior, and the Beatles just came to town. Getting your legs blown off by a mine in a jungle 8,000 miles away isn't something you worry about. Basketball, making out with your girlfriend, and drinking beer on Friday nights are your real priorities.

But then you hear of a kid who got shot and died over there. Then more guys from the next town. Then your former best friend. All blown to hell. All really dead. A war in a place you'd never heard of only months before, is getting closer.

But eighteen-year-old Jon Taylor living the good life in San Diego isn't worried. He has a plan. He's gotten an appointment to the Naval Academy. After graduation, he'll serve his five years, get his MFA from Yale, then pursue a writing career that will make him rich and famous.

Enter the Vietnam War, a duplicitous girlfriend, revoked Naval Academy appointment, low draft number, and Jon's plans are destroyed. Like many of his friends.

War College follows the lives of six young men who come to Hiram Scott College in 1965. None of them ever dreamed they'd spend their freshman year in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, at a college no one had ever heard of. But it's better than a Vietnam jungle. Maybe.

With poignancy, humor, music, and a story of fifty- year friendships, author Mark Donahue weaves a nostalgic tale that could only be told by someone who was there. As the title suggests, War College, like the Vietnam War, is complicated. A story steeped in historical fact, shining a light on both the horrors of war and the joys of youth.

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War College: It's Complicated
It's 1964, you're a high school junior, and the Beatles just came to town. Getting your legs blown off by a mine in a jungle 8,000 miles away isn't something you worry about. Basketball, making out with your girlfriend, and drinking beer on Friday nights are your real priorities.

But then you hear of a kid who got shot and died over there. Then more guys from the next town. Then your former best friend. All blown to hell. All really dead. A war in a place you'd never heard of only months before, is getting closer.

But eighteen-year-old Jon Taylor living the good life in San Diego isn't worried. He has a plan. He's gotten an appointment to the Naval Academy. After graduation, he'll serve his five years, get his MFA from Yale, then pursue a writing career that will make him rich and famous.

Enter the Vietnam War, a duplicitous girlfriend, revoked Naval Academy appointment, low draft number, and Jon's plans are destroyed. Like many of his friends.

War College follows the lives of six young men who come to Hiram Scott College in 1965. None of them ever dreamed they'd spend their freshman year in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, at a college no one had ever heard of. But it's better than a Vietnam jungle. Maybe.

With poignancy, humor, music, and a story of fifty- year friendships, author Mark Donahue weaves a nostalgic tale that could only be told by someone who was there. As the title suggests, War College, like the Vietnam War, is complicated. A story steeped in historical fact, shining a light on both the horrors of war and the joys of youth.

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War College: It's Complicated

War College: It's Complicated

by Mark Donahue
War College: It's Complicated

War College: It's Complicated

by Mark Donahue

Overview

It's 1964, you're a high school junior, and the Beatles just came to town. Getting your legs blown off by a mine in a jungle 8,000 miles away isn't something you worry about. Basketball, making out with your girlfriend, and drinking beer on Friday nights are your real priorities.

But then you hear of a kid who got shot and died over there. Then more guys from the next town. Then your former best friend. All blown to hell. All really dead. A war in a place you'd never heard of only months before, is getting closer.

But eighteen-year-old Jon Taylor living the good life in San Diego isn't worried. He has a plan. He's gotten an appointment to the Naval Academy. After graduation, he'll serve his five years, get his MFA from Yale, then pursue a writing career that will make him rich and famous.

Enter the Vietnam War, a duplicitous girlfriend, revoked Naval Academy appointment, low draft number, and Jon's plans are destroyed. Like many of his friends.

War College follows the lives of six young men who come to Hiram Scott College in 1965. None of them ever dreamed they'd spend their freshman year in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, at a college no one had ever heard of. But it's better than a Vietnam jungle. Maybe.

With poignancy, humor, music, and a story of fifty- year friendships, author Mark Donahue weaves a nostalgic tale that could only be told by someone who was there. As the title suggests, War College, like the Vietnam War, is complicated. A story steeped in historical fact, shining a light on both the horrors of war and the joys of youth.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781734971187
Publisher: Donahue Literary Properties LLC
Publication date: 08/20/2024
Pages: 164
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Mark Donahue grew up in Southwestern Ohio, and graduated from Wright State University with degrees in Social Studies and History with a Minor in Speech. He has lived in Philadelphia, Chicago, Boca Raton and Los Angeles. He currently resides in Ohio with wife Marsha, and their three furry four-leggers. Before turning to writing full time and founding Donahue Literary Properties, LLC, in 2009, he enjoyed a thirty year career in commercial real estate with CBRE, having served as a member of that international firm's Operations Management Board and then President/CEO of Prudential CRES Commercial Real Estate Services.War College is Mark's latest novel, preceded by five best-selling titles, Last at Bat, Stat$, Golden Reich, Answer Man and Fat Girl, all of which have accompanying screenplays. He has also written several stand-alone screen and teleplays, inclusive of The Farm, Call Me Jesse, New York Dirt, Second Serve, and EZ Way. Several other novels are in the works.In addition, Mark has been a member of 5 Men's Senior Baseball League World Series Championship teams, (once earning MVP); and for eight years hosted a weekly internet radio show, "Ohio Baseball Weekly".In his spare time, Mark remains active on the tennis court, batting cage and hiking trails. On slow days, he plays piano, occasionally breaks 80 in golf, can jog three miles slowly with a tail wind, and likes to tool around in his triple-white 1967 GTO Convertible.
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