General Information
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 Title:                  Fallen Angels
 Author:                 Walter Dean Myers
 Read By:                J. D. Jackson
 Copyright:              1988
 Audiobook Copyright:    2004
 Genre:                  YA Fiction
 Publisher:              Recorded Books Inc
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 ISBN:                   1419316338
 Media:                  Tape
 Number:                 6
 Condition:              Satisfactory

File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         12
 Total Duration:         8:06:51
 Total MP3 Size:         111.55
 Parity Archive:         Yes
 Ripped By:              Nuke
 Ripped With:            Total Recorder
 Encoded With:           Cooledit--FhG
 Encoded At:             CBR 32 kbit/s 22050 Hz Mono
 Normalize:              yes
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v2.3

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 Posted by Nuke on 5/20/09
        

Book Description
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This so-called YA is actually a durn good story for adults, IMHO.

A coming of age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the 

Vietnam War in the late 1960s, Fallen Angels is the story of Perry, 
a 

Harlem teenager who volunteers for the service when his dream of 

attending college falls through. Sent to the front lines, Perry and 

his platoon come face-to-face with the Vietcong and the real horror 

of warfare. But violence and death aren't the only hardships. As 

Perry struggles to find virtue in himself and his comrades, he 

questions why black troops are given the most dangerous assignments, 

and why the U.S. is there at all. Fallen Angels won the 1989 Coretta 

Scott King Award.A coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the 

trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, this is the story of 

Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the service when his 

dream of attending college falls through. Sent to the front lines, 

Perry and his platoon come face-to-face with the Vietcong and the 

real horror of warfare. But violence and death aren't the only 

hardships. As Perry struggles to find virtue in himself and his 

comrades, he questions why black troops are given the most dangerous 

assignments, and why the U.S. is there at all.

