Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, is a 309 page war novel based on the Vietnam War. This book was published in 1988. The main character is Richie Perry, a seventeen year old boy fresh outta high school. His main reason for joining the army was because his mom did not have enough money to pay for college so he went to the army hoping to find something there. The other main character in this novel, Harold “Peewee” Gates, is extremely different from Richie. Peewee is arrogant, loud, and witty. Throughout the book he tends to be very harsh with the other soldiers but eventually he starts to become more tender with his companions. Both of these characters are trying to make it out of the war alive, but both of them seem to be a bit uncertain