Fallen Angels (Myers novel)

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Fallen Angels is a novel that was written by Walter Dean Myers about a group of young Americans in the Vietnam War during the Tet Offensive in 1968. The characters of Richie Perry, Lobel, Johnson, Brunner, Brewster(aka Brew), and Peewee are all in Vietnam. They came there for different reasons, but now they share a single dream - getting out alive. The novel deals with issues of race relations in the army during the Vietnam War. It also deals very much with the pains of war, especially for those of a young combat soldier. Only the bond they share can help them make it out alive. Fallen Angels is one of the greatest Vietnam War novels ever written.

Fallen Angels won the 1989 Coretta Scott King Award.

Fallen Angels is listed as number 24 in the American Library Association's list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000.

An edition was published by Scholastic Press in 1988 (ISBN 0-590-40942-5).