Detailed view for the Book: All My Sins Remembered

Title:

All My Sins Remembered
 

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Genres:

Espionage
Science Fiction

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1977-00-00 St. Martin's Press  

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Blurb: 
The central question of the story is this: Can a fundamentally decent man programmed to spend his life committing atrocities survive when his service is done and the killing stops? The theme parallels the nearly impossible adjustment many Vietnam ground combat veterans faced upon returning home. Like lead protagonist Otto McGavin here and William Mandella in "The Forever War," U.S. veterans found reintegrating themselves into polite society after living in a bloodbath for months or years a task for which the human psyche is ill-equipped to deal. Haldeman also explores the underlying theme of duty in this context. To what degree should an enlisted man accept government rhetoric that the lives he"s taking are for the good of the whole? As the story progresses through the years and McGavin"s body toll rises, he finds himself questioning his profession and his assignments more and more. Will assassinating a low-life scum on a remote planet really ensure interstellar peace, or are missions like this simply political justifications to keep the money flowing in and higher-ups working? Is the Confederaci