Description
| Product ID: | 9780811772297 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Ballad of the Green Beret |
| Subtitle: | The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death |
| Authors: | Author: Marc Leepson |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Military history, Military history, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Vietnam War, Vietnam |
| Description: | A top hit of 1966, “The Ballad of the Green Berets” was a patriotic tribute to the Special Forces by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. This life-and-times biography vividly recounts the sensational details of Sadler’s life, setting his meteoric rise and tragic fall against the big picture of American society and culture during and after the Vietnam War. The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry Sadler The top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn’t The Rolling Stones'' “Paint It Black” or the Beatles'' “Yellow Submarine”--it was “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam veteran, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. But Sadler’s clean-cut, all-American image hid a darker side, a Hunter Thompson-esque life of booze, girls, and guns. Unable to score another hit song, he wrote a string of popular pulp fiction paperbacks that made “Rambo look like a stroll through Disneyland.” He killed a lover’s ex-boyfriend in Tennessee. Settling in Central America, Sadler ran guns, allegedly trained guerrillas, provided medical care to residents, and caroused at his villa. In 1988 he was shot in the head in Guatemala and died a year later. This life-and-times biography of an American pop culture phenomenon recounts the sensational details of Sadler’s life vividly but soberly, setting his meteoric rise and tragic fall against the big picture of American society and culture during and after the Vietnam War. |
| Imprint Name: | Stackpole Books |
| Publisher Name: | Stackpole Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-02-15 |
