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The Buffie Brigade

by:
Fred Edwards (Author)

ISBN: 0-7414-3068-1 ©2006
Price: $10.95
Book Size: 5.5'' x 8.5'' , 108 pages
Category/Subject: FICTION / Humorous

Marines take every mission seriously. That's why these Marines formed a joint Navy-Marine Task Force to recover their ceramic elephant figurines from rustlers on the high seas.

Abstract:
The Buffie Brigade is a story chock-full of humor about a group that isn’t known for being jocose - the United States Marines. The plot takes place during the wind-down of the Vietnam War when a handful of senior officers on a Marine Corps seagoing staff scheme to buy and extract a herd of ceramic elephants (called “big, ugly, fragile elephants” - thus “buffies”) from Vietnam. The story takes the reader from Okinawa to Vietnam, the Philippines, and Taiwan. And it does the same for the buffies.

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Customer Reviews

  The Buffie Brigade , 08/14/2006
Reviewer: Don Mace
Well, okay, it's fiction, or so claims the author of a new "novel" about a handful of senior Marine Corps staff officers plotting to round up a herd of ceramic elephants (sometimes called "big, ugly, fragile elephants -- or, "buffies") and extract them from Vietnam. The Vietnam War, like all wars, has its lighter side, as the new book proves. Written by Armed Forces News senior associate editor Fred Edwards, The Buffie Brigade is a rollicking account of the trials and tribulations of these co-corps-conspirators who bend the rules and work the system but ultimately see their project fail, well, to a degree anyway. The surprising outcome is ironic and, well, hilarious. One wonders if Lt. Col. Edwards, USMC-Ret., might be drawing more from personal experience than crafting a work of pure fiction. (I have my suspicions, and frankly I'd be disappointed if that weren't the case.) Edwards, who also authored the highly-regarded nonfiction The Bridges of Vietnam: From the Journals of a U.S. Marine Intelligence Officer, keeps the peppery dialog authentic and clever; no Marine could mistake the ward room patois, and for readers of the other armed services he mercifully provides a useful "terms and acronyms" section.

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  The Buffie Brigade , 08/21/2006
Reviewer: Alan Thompson
One of the few books on events in Vietnam that actually made me laugh.

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  Hilarious! , 08/23/2006
Reviewer: Pauline Utter
As a serviceman's wife, I found The Buffie Brigade to be both hilarious and true. While reading it, I couldn't stop giggling. And when I finished the book, I realized that it describes the way grown men and women behave when, as the author says, they are in "unreal" situations. I recommend it to all service members and their spouses – and to civilians who'd like to get a laugh from the military!

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