Readers' Favorite announces the review of the Fiction - Historical - Event/Era book "Ballot" by Dan Mulvagh, currently available at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1669882764.
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"Reviewed By Grant Leishman for Readers' Favorite
Ballot by Dan Mulvagh is a powerful anti-war novel that follows the exploits of four Australian servicemen (Diggers) called up to serve in the Vietnam War. Mitch Masters' career in motorcycle speedway racing is derailed by a call-up in the 1969 Australian draft ballot. Three other twenty-year-old Australians find themselves alongside Mitch. Jay Petrovitch, the son of Russian refugees, Greg Sunderland, a dental school dropout and “wannabe” rock star, and Kiwi, a construction worker from New Zealand. By the time the four had completed basic training and were shipped off to Vietnam, they were a tight group nicknamed the Fearsome Foursome. What they found in Vietnam was blood, horror, and death that followed them for the rest of their lives and impacted them more than twenty-odd years later in a desperate mission to save one of their own.
Ballot is an incredibly addictive story. Dan Mulvagh presents four distinct yet easily recognizable characters who could best be described as typical “Aussie battlers”. None of them really knew where Vietnam was, why they were going there, and why they had to slog through the jungles of a tropical country trying to kill people for a reason they didn’t really understand, and yet they went proudly because the country they called home had told them to do so. Although some of the vernacular used is typically Australian, context is everything, and even for the uninitiated, the meaning is either clear or explained. The author does not pull any punches in describing the chaos and mayhem of the killing fields of Vietnam. I particularly appreciated the different ways the combatants dealt with their horrific memories of Vietnam on returning home. For some, like Mitch, it was necessary to get away from his old life and to start again in a new country. For Greg, it was dedicating himself to ensuring that Vietnam veterans were treated with the respect, support, and aid that they needed and deserved. I appreciate how incredibly random the ballot system of the draft was and how good friends could find their lives upended. This is a superb read that I truly could not put down. I highly recommend it."
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