Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam

The year is 1968. Like thousands of other American boys, Carl Melcher is drafted and sent to Vietnam. His new company is infected with the same racial tensions plaguing the nation. Despite that, Carl makes friends on both sides of the color line. The war, like a tiger lurking in the bushes, picks off its victims one by one. Naively over-optimistic, Carl believes that karma and good intentions will save him and his friends. Then fate intervenes to teach Carl something of the meaning of life, and death. Along with the likes of best-selling authors Joyce Carol Oates and David McCullough — whose works were nominated for Wednesday's Frankfurt eBook Awards — is an author who's only sold eight copies. Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam, a non-fiction work by Paul Clayton, was rejected by traditional publishers before being picked up last year by Electric eBook Publishing. – M. J. Rose (writing for Wired.com) ...