Bent, But Not Broken; A Novel
Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing, Inc., 1986. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. [6],iii, [3], 411, [1] pages. Author's Note. Glossary. First printing of author's first book, a novel about training for and fighting in Nam. "This book is dedicated not to the reasons, whatever they were; nor to the outcome, whatever it was; nor to the events which are yet to be shaped, whatever they will be; but, simply, to the efforts of those who, in the heat and the mud and the blood, went and did their very best." "Mike Billingsley volunteered for officer training and combat duty in Vietnam with the U.S. Marine Corps. Billingsley led his men through the jungles and the rice paddies, discovering along the way that men are built of more than blood and bone. He discovered that he could be bent, but not broken, by the rigors of warfare and the emotional strain of the Vietnam war. [The book] is a thrilling fictional account of a young Atlanta man's experience. Gerald L. Gillis has skillfully juxtaposed action with emotion in the battlezone and deals sensitively with the emotional tension that afflicted the men in the field and continued to plague them after their return home." - from the rear outer cover. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gerald L. Gillis is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, and holds degrees from the University of Georgia and the University of Tampa. He served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1970 to 1973. H. Bent, But Not Broken is his first novel. - from the rear outer cover. More