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No Parade
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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Robert Walker
Published: Sep 22 2025
Pages: 582
Weight: 1.47
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
On December 1, 1969, a lottery drawing sealed the fate of a generation. For millions of young men, a single blue capsule determined whether they would live, die, or return from the jungles of Vietnam forever changed.
No Parade is the sweeping saga of four lives irrevocably altered by that night:
Michael, a brilliant student who believes he can outsmart the war with statistics, only to find that the true cost of combat can't be calculated.
Danny, a Pennsylvania steelworker who accepts his duty as a family inheritance, is destined to learn that the price of survival is paid in ghosts.
Jerome, a young Black man from Newark who enlists seeking the equality America denies him, only to find himself fighting a second war against the racism within his own ranks.
Sarah, an idealistic nurse who volunteers to heal the wounded, follows her father's footsteps into a medical nightmare that will consume her.
From the terror of the draft and the brutal crucible of combat to the disorienting landscape of their return, their journeys converge in a nation torn apart. They come home not to parades but to a country that has forgotten how to separate the warrior from the war. Met with silence, protest, and alienation, they discover their hardest battle is the one fought after the war-against the memories that haunt them and the society that refuses to understand.
Decades later, haunted but not broken, they find themselves on a long road toward a different kind of peace, seeking to build new lives from the rubble and discovering that the only ones who can truly understand are the brothers they never knew they had.
No Parade is a powerful, unflinching novel about the true cost of war, the weight of survival, and the enduring power of brotherhood forged in the fires of a conflict that never truly ended.
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