"Alberta man admits to plagiarizing Vietnam veteran Robert Mason's bestseller"

[The Bread Guy]

Torn between this and the Walts thread, but since this is based on book, here we be - this from the CBC:

An Alberta man has admitted that a book he wrote about his experiences in the Vietnam War is all a lie.

Dennis Surrendi, of Nanton, placed an advertisement in the May 27 edition of the Nanton News, saying he never served in Vietnam and that much of the material in his 2014 self-published book was stolen from a memoir written more than 30 years ago.

Surrendi happens to be the stepfather-in-law of former MLA Danielle Smith, who introduced his book at his launch.

"He was still in college when I was in Vietnam," said Robert Mason, author of Chickenhawk, which chronicles his experience as a helicopter pilot in the U.S. army.

Mason discovered Surrendi plagiarized his war stories in December 2014 after a fan in Ireland sent him an email.

"Recently I purchased another helicopter pilot memoir called Set Me Free written by a Mr. Dennis Surrendi," wrote Philip Robinson.

"As I began to read it I soon realised that to all intents and purposes it was a word for word copy of your book." ....

Here's the ad mentioned above:

 

[bLUE fOX]

So basically, life imitating Tropic Thunder?

 

[medicineman]

So basically, life imitating Tropic Thunder?

You beat me to it, lol

MM

 

[jollyjacktar]

"You never go full retard".  Can't wait to see the movie of this.  Maybe his title should have been "Chickenshyte"  ;D

 

[medicineman]

"You never go full retard".  Can't wait to see the movie of this.  Maybe his title should have been "Chickenshyte"  ;D

Or "Shytehawk".

MM