Download Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death AudioBook Free
The very best Billboard Hot 100 solitary of 1966 wasn't The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Dark colored" or the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" - it was "The Ballad of the Green Berets", a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam veteran, US Army Personnel Sergeant Barry Sadler. But Sadler's clean-cut, all-American image hid a darker part, a Hunter Thompson-esque life of booze, girls, and guns. Struggling to score another reach song, he wrote a string of popular pulp fiction paperbacks that made "Rambo look like a stroll through Disneyland." He killed a lover's ex-boyfriend in Tennessee. Settling in Central America, Sadler ran weapons, allegedly trained guerrillas, provided medical care to residents, and caroused at his villa. In 1988 he was shot in the head in Guatemala and perished a season later. This life-and-times biography of the American pop culture sensation recounts the sensational details of Sadler's life vividly but soberly, preparing his meteoric surge and tragic show up against the picture as a whole of American population and culture after and during the Vietnam Battle.
