Brief description:
From the dust jacket:
Black Sabre Chronicles, telling the story of the Sharps family of military men and women from the Buffalo Soldier era of the Indian Wars to the present day, continues in The Stone Ponies, the fourth book in the series.
Franklin LcBaron Sharps is a young paratrooper sent to Vietnam in 1965 with the celebrated l0lst Airborne Division - the “Screaming Eagles." The great-grandson of Sergeant Major Augustus Sharps and son of Brigadier General Samuel Sharps, a former member of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War ll. Franklin fights awar on two fronts. He is bent on avenging the death of his brother by the Vietcong, and back home he fights against reconciling with the tether who deserted his family.
Based on the author’s own experiences as a paratrooper in Viet Nam. The Stone Ponies takes a brutally graphic look at the war in its early years when the United States was divided over its conduct and its military heroes were suffering both abroad and at home.
Black Sabre Chronicles, telling the story of the Sharps family of military men and women from the Buffalo Soldier era of the Indian Wars to the present day, continues in The Stone Ponies, the fourth book in the series.
Franklin LcBaron Sharps is a young paratrooper sent to Vietnam in 1965 with the celebrated l0lst Airborne Division - the “Screaming Eagles." The great-grandson of Sergeant Major Augustus Sharps and son of Brigadier General Samuel Sharps, a former member of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War ll. Franklin fights awar on two fronts. He is bent on avenging the death of his brother by the Vietcong, and back home he fights against reconciling with the tether who deserted his family.
Based on the author’s own experiences as a paratrooper in Viet Nam. The Stone Ponies takes a brutally graphic look at the war in its early years when the United States was divided over its conduct and its military heroes were suffering both abroad and at home.
Publication
Forge (2000), Edition: 1st, 316 pages