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Winston Groom's novel Forrest Gump,
the basis for the smash motion picture starring Tom Hanks, has won him resounding national acclaim. Now Pocket Books is proud to bring Winston Groom's extraordinary first novel back into print. BETTER TIMES THAN THESE was hailed as one of the great, authentic novels of the Vietnam War; Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called it a "tragicomic....mirror of hell" that left him "awe-struck."
Summer, 1966: A few months earlier, First Lieutenant Billy Kahn was studying geology on an ROTC scholarship; now he is the Executive Officer of Bravo Company, responsible for leading over one hundred young men into combat. But his problems are not limited to the Vietcong. There's Colonel Jason Patch, his battalion commander, a cold and callous man willing to sacrifice troops for strategic position; Lt. Brill, an unbalanced sadist whose bizarre behavior spells trouble for the whole company; and Kahn's own struggles with the death all around him, his sense of duty, and the American mission in Vietnam. And just when Kahn wins a Silver Star, he is drawn into an impassable moral quagmire that could mean his downfall-or his redemption.
the basis for the smash motion picture starring Tom Hanks, has won him resounding national acclaim. Now Pocket Books is proud to bring Winston Groom's extraordinary first novel back into print. BETTER TIMES THAN THESE was hailed as one of the great, authentic novels of the Vietnam War; Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called it a "tragicomic....mirror of hell" that left him "awe-struck."
Summer, 1966: A few months earlier, First Lieutenant Billy Kahn was studying geology on an ROTC scholarship; now he is the Executive Officer of Bravo Company, responsible for leading over one hundred young men into combat. But his problems are not limited to the Vietcong. There's Colonel Jason Patch, his battalion commander, a cold and callous man willing to sacrifice troops for strategic position; Lt. Brill, an unbalanced sadist whose bizarre behavior spells trouble for the whole company; and Kahn's own struggles with the death all around him, his sense of duty, and the American mission in Vietnam. And just when Kahn wins a Silver Star, he is drawn into an impassable moral quagmire that could mean his downfall-or his redemption.