Fallen Angels Themes

Here's a game: close your eyes, open the book to a random page, and point at a sentence. Does it fit the "warfare" theme? You win a prize. After all, Fallen Angels is a war book, and the characters...

Here's the thing about the Vietnam War in this book: there aren't many rich dudes fighting in it. At least, not fighting in active combat, like Perry is. Most of the guys on the front lines are lik...

What do you think when you think of the 1960's? Maybe hippies, peace signs, cute little mod outfits? How about complicated race relations? Anyone?The '60's were a time of social and political chang...

If Yelp existed in the '60s, our main character Richard Perry would have given the entire country of Vietnam zero stars. You can't really blame him, though, because all of his Vietnam experiences a...

Plenty of the guys in Perry's platoon have plans for what they want to do after the war. Brew wants to be a preacher; Monaco's going to get married. Heartbreakingly, we learn after Carroll's death...

At the start of the book Perry hasn't gone to church in years, but as it goes on he starts praying, and eventually actually going to mass. And the amount of senseless death he encounters really beg...

The Sixties and Seventies. On one side, you've got the hippies being all "make love, not war, man." And on the other side, you've got folks saying that the U.S. has a responsibility to stop the spr...

Friendship doesn't feel like a strong enough word for the relationship the men in Perry's platoon develop with each other. Brotherhood, maybe? These guys have survived together, saved each other's...