By Jonathan Lustgarten and Lonnie Klein

1) PAT HOY: VIETNAM BOOKS
http://www.sewanee.edu/sreview/Hoy103.3.453.html.
this reviewer also favored the book. the reviewers felt this book left a strong impression on them. The seemed to go into detail about the book. They favored the plot most of all.

2) Amazon Book Review
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0679760237/1174-7607168-722429.
This site has multiple reviews from an book reveiwer to a news paper. In general thew site favored the book. The Amazon said,"Tobias Wolf created an unforgettable memoir of an American childhood." the chicago tribune also favored the book.

3) THE WRITE STUFF
http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/ahugo/tws/X0018_3.14PharaohsArmyWOLF.html.
In the Pharaoh's army, was reviewed in this site Giles Hugo. This reveiwer was very descriptive in what he thought about the book. He gave the book away when he reviewed it. In all he generally favored the book. It seemed rto have left a good impression.

4) BOOK WIRE
http://www.bookwire.com/BBR/History,-Politics,-&Polemics/read.Review$1320.
Contempt and Condescension This site is a review of both The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam , andIn Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War, written by the Boston Book Review. After a few paragraphs about The Sorrow of War, it begins the review of In Pharaoh's Army with excerpts of an interview with it's author, Tobias Wolff. It then goes on to review the book, which it seems to have enjoyed, by comparing it to the other book, which was written by a soldier for the Vietnamese.

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