war fiction · 1987 · estimated
A reckoning for kings
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No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
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Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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A fictionalized account of the Tet Offensive beginning in October 1967, when the North Vietnamese Army crosses the border into South Vietnam, and ending when the Tet invasion erupts on January 30, 1968.
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