The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

✍ Scribed by John 'Chick' Donohue;J T Molloy

• Book ID: 100602260
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York (State)--New York., United States., Vietnam.
• ISBN: 0062995464

✦ Synopsis

"Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that you read this rollicking story." --Malachy McCourt

Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy Awards for Green Book --a wildly entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and former U.S. marine who embarked on a courageous, hare-brained scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving Vietnam in the late 1960s.

One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue--known as Chick--was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now, they watched as anti-war protesters turned on the troops themselves.

One neighborhood patriot came up with an inspired--some would call it insane--idea. Someone should sneak into Vietnam, track down...

✦ Subjects

Vietnam