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Title The greatest beer run ever : a memoir of friendship, loyalty, and war / John "Chick" Donohue and J. T. Molloy.
Publisher New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Copyright ©2020
Description xiv, 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 LW-Upper East Side  959.7043 DON Nearby on shelf  30641006286970 08-30-23  DUE 04-06-24
Note "Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture" - cover.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references.
Summary In 1967, John (Chick) Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered at this hearth had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. Now, they were seeing protesters turn on the troops. One neighborhood patriot proposed an idea many might deem preposterous: One of them should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies in combat, and give each of them messages of support from back home, maybe some laughs - and beer. Chick volunteered for the mission. He sailed to Vietnam on a cargo ship carrying a backpack full of American beer, landing in Qui Nho'n in 1968. Things went awry when Chick got caught in the Tet Offensive, starting in the early hours as an eyewitness to the battle to retake the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, where he became stuck for months. Chick Donohue later became legendary as "the Sandhog who went to Harvard." He worked for decades on behalf of New York's tunnel builders as the legislative and political director of Sandhogs Local 147. This is the story of his epic beer run to Vietnam, in his own words and in those of the men he found in the war zone.
Subject Donohue, John (Union leader)
United States. Marine Corps -- Veterans.
Soldiers -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Commando operations.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- New York (State) -- New York.
Tet Offensive, 1968.
Male friendship.
Male friendship -- Vietnam.
Add'l Names Molloy, J. T. (Journalist), author.
ISBN 9780062995469
0062995464