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Many Beaucoup Magics is based on a true story. Far from your normal war story, it takes place on the Cambodian Border in the south central highlands of Viet Nam in the summer of 1968. It’s as if Holden Caufield from The Catcher In The Rye has gone to war haunted by a recurring bad dream about a specific day only to fall in love with the sweet, innocent almost stone-age tribal people he leads on jungle combat operations. These mountain men, considered “savages” by the Vietnamese have no alphabet or written history, yet they began to unlock the mystery of his dream as the critical day draws near. This may be one of the most unusual stories set on a war stage ever told. Come into the highlands but keep a small heart and stay close to the trail….
Many Beaucoup Magics, by Tom Garvey - Amazon Sales Rank: #885925 in Books
- Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Published on: 2015-06-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .33" w x 6.00" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 146 pages
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. A Gripping and Intelligent Story By Lawrence Woodlock This is a story that merits a large readership for at least two reasons in addition to the remarkable journey the author invites his readers to share.First, Many Beaucoup Magics calls attention to a little-known corner of the Vietnam War where American Special Forces teams moved in with tribal peoples ("Montagnards" or "Yards") in the mountainous border areas of Vietnam, leading them against North Vietnamese Army units marching into South Vietnam from Laos and Cambodia. Most Americans fortunate enough to have had such a job enjoyed unforgettable friendships with people whom, in late 1970, we abandoned. A brief overview of that tragedy was recently published online in Slate Magazine under the title "The Snake-Eaters and the Yards," which readers can Google and read in order to learn the broader background of Tom Garvey's story.Second, what unfolds within this exotic setting is a classic tale of a young adult forced into conflict with childhood certainties. It is the tale of a youthful "everyman" who grew up on the stories of WW II veterans. Craving such an experience for himself, he went to Vietnam (brilliantly sketched in richly-drawn detail) where he comes to realize that "war stories" - like "war movies" - leave out many things that nobody wants to know about. This is, in the end, an exceptionally humane and gripping account which will keep many readers up late when the protagonist sets out with another American and 72 Yards towards an encounter in which they will certainly need, as the Yards would say, "many beaucoup magics."I served on an A-Team north of the one described in this story, and can attest that the author describes the people and environment accurately. His description of the Air Force pilot and Army helicopter crews is also spot on - those guys never let us down, regardless of weather or threat level. Because Special Forces was always a relatively small outfit, this story came into my hands many years ago. By way of disclaimer, I tried to help get it published back then, only to learn it was too long for a short story, and too short for a novel. Amazon's development of the Kindle solved that problem. I more recently played a small role in helping edit the story for publication.I have always loved this story for the reasons given above, and expect that a larger public will, like me, also thoroughly enjoy the author's wry descriptions of human folly and, even more, his way of capturing "The Better Angels of our Nature" which, in fact, is the real subject of this memorable story.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Read the story. By Roy E. Hughes On a warm fall Saturday afternoon in 1966, at the Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, Candidate Tom Garvey stood before members of his company in the shade of the barracks and talked about Vietnam. Tom described the country's history, beginning as a part of China and coming under French domination from the mid-19th Century until the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. He told of how the country had been divided into two and how, under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, the communist north had been attempting to undermine the south.Although most of Tom's classmates knew little of this history of Vietnam, most of them would be fighting there within a year. At this time, however, Tom and the rest of the company were on the outside looking in.Many Beaucoup Magics is an engrossing story about a young man's passage from patriotic idealism to harrowing realism as he serves as a US Special Forces officer in the south Central Highlands of Vietnam near the Cambodian border. The effects of jungle isolation, the relationship he develops with the native Montagnards he fights with, and the mystical premonition the character carries all come together to create a mesmerizing story of war. After nearly half a century Tom Garvey is telling a story about Vietnam from the inside looking out.Tom's story has the flavor of some of the best work that I've read about the Vietnam War; Phillip Caputo's A Rumor of War, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, and Karl Marlantes's Matterhorn. Tom Garvey is in good company.Read the story.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Mystical Vietnam By Jim Morris It’s not often that one gets a chance to review a book the subject of which he had a hand in the making. In the fall of 1967 I was duty officer in the headquarters of “C” Company, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Pleiku, RVN. Bored, I wandered in the Ops shop and started playing with maps. I placed a transparent overlay of our camp operational areas over the 1/250,000 map of our territory, then placed the overlay of enemy infiltration routes over that. Most camps were located cheek by jowl along the border, but one of the older camps had been left in place further inland, and there was no camp along the border in that area. The infiltration routes ran along the border, avoiding the camps along it, and poured into Vietnam in that notch, flowing around the set back camp.Just then LTC Ludwig Faistenhammer, jr., our commander, came in and asked, “What the hell are you doing?’ I pointed to the map and the overlays, and said, “Sir, the next camp you put in, that’s where it should go.”The events of this novel are set in that camp.Later Colonel Faistenhammer told me it had been put there for the reasons I cited, but I’m pretty sure that the decision to do so preceded my recommendation.Nonetheless, I am thrilled to discover what a fine novel tells its story.Tom Garvey, the author, commanded that camp. He came in country about two months before I left, and I know that country, and those Montagnard people, and love both. So does he, and it shows.A couple of weeks before he shipped out for Vietnam John McManus, the protagonist of the novel, obviously based on Garvey, was in a bookstore with a girlfriend, idly thumbing through Sidney Omarr’s predictions for 1968. Opening a page at random he found a prediction of momentous and dangerous events on November 17th. He quickly put the book up and tried to put the prediction out of his mind.A few months later he found himself commanding the camp at the intersection of every bleeding infiltration route on the Ho Chi Minh trail. A captured NVA colonel revealed that the North Vietnamese intended to wipe out a border camp and kill every American in it, as a propaganda coup to cement the effect of their supposed “victory” in the Tet Offensive of 1968. Parenthetically I note that I fought in that battle and was all over the northern part of South Vietnam in its wake, talking to others who had done so. I tell you definitively that the Tet Offensive of 1968 was one of the most lopsided victories in American military history. When our “free” press reported the opposite to be true I realized we had lost the war, that we had no stomach for victory.That camp, Tieu Atar, was the leading contender for that attack. And it was woefully defended, as the area was so hot that the engineers who had done the heavy work on its construction bailed before it was done.McManus had no faith in astrology or dreams, but the Montagnards were heavy into dreams, and if a precog dream said not to do something, they didn’t do it. One of them dreamed that going on patrol at that time, the 16th of November, would be a hazardous venture. But McManus had a dream of his own, which he revealed at that time in the pidgin in which we spoke to the Montagnards, that this would be a glorious undertaking, that “many beaucoup magics” protected them.I’m not going to spoil the ending by telling you what happened. But I will tell you that this is one of the finest novels of the Vietnam War, that it’s author has every right to be proud, and every reader should prepare himself for a transcendent experience.
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