Our Time In Vietnam
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Author |
: John H. Corns |
Publisher |
: iUniverse |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2009-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781440183256 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1440183252 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Time in Vietnam by : John H. Corns
Captain John Corns leads his Special Forces team into the jungles of the Central Highlands of Vietnam in 1963. Th ere is an insurgency, and he and his Green Berets have undergone extensive training for the mission of assisting the Vietnamese and Montagnard people in their fi ght against communist terrorism. What they fi nd is a challenge that resists rapid progress and a cause that leaves destruction and death in its wake. Corns returns four years later as a major and operations offi cer for the Army/Navy Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta. Th e confl icting military forces are larger, losses to both the insurgent Viet Cong and to American Forces are greater, and the sacrifi ces of men around him beg the question of what will it cost to win and will it be worth the losses. Now a retired Lieutenant General, Corns looks back at those days as a young offi cer to share the worth, to him, of that experience—his time in Vietnam with men like himself.
Author |
: Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015048526670 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Time Remembered by : Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt
Why did American women go to Vietnam? What were their lives like in the war zone, and after they came home?" A Time Remembered" provides answers to these questions and more, and pays tribute to these patriots. Photos.
Author |
: Daniel H. Weiss |
Publisher |
: PublicAffairs |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 2019-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781541773899 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1541773896 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis In That Time by : Daniel H. Weiss
Through the story of the brief, brave life of a promising poet, the president and CEO of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art evokes the turmoil and tragedy of the Vietnam War era. In That Time tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam through the life of Michael O'Donnell, a bright young musician and poet who served as a soldier and helicopter pilot. O'Donnell wrote with great sensitivity and poetic force, and his best-known poem is among the most beloved of the war. In 1970, during an attempt to rescue fellow soldiers stranded under heavy fire, O'Donnell's helicopter was shot down in the jungles of Cambodia. He remained missing in action for almost three decades. Although he never fired a shot in Vietnam, O'Donnell served in one of the most dangerous roles of the war, all the while using poetry to express his inner feelings and to reflect on the tragedy that was unfolding around him. O'Donnell's life is both a powerful, personal story and a compelling, universal one about how America lost its way in the 1960s, but also how hope can flower in the margins of even the darkest chapters of the American story.
Author |
: Daniel P. Bolger |
Publisher |
: Da Capo Press |
Total Pages |
: 393 |
Release |
: 2017-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780306903243 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0306903245 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Year of War by : Daniel P. Bolger
Two brothers -- Chuck and Tom Hagel -- who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step -- one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war -- a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.
Author |
: A. J. Langguth |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 767 |
Release |
: 2000-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780743212441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0743212444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Vietnam by : A. J. Langguth
Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Nonfiction, and the PEN Center West Award for Best Research Nonfiction Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, historian and journalist A. J. Langguth delivers an authoritative account of the war based on official documents not available earlier and on new reporting from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives. In Our Vietnam, Langguth takes us inside the waffling and deceitful White Houses of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; documents the ineptness and corruption of our South Vietnamese allies; and recounts the bravery of soldiers on both sides of the war. With its broad sweep and keen insights, Our Vietnam brings together the kaleidoscopic events and personalities of the war into one engrossing and unforgettable narrative.
Author |
: Tim O'Brien |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2006-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547527048 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547527047 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Lake of the Woods by : Tim O'Brien
A politician’s past war crimes are revealed in this psychologically haunting novel by the National Book Award–winning author of The Things They Carried. Vietnam veteran John Wade is running for senate when long-hidden secrets about his involvement in wartime atrocities come to light. But the loss of his political fortunes is only the beginning of John’s downfall. A retreat with his wife, Kathy, to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota only exacerbates the tensions rising between them. Then, within days of their arrival, Kathy mysteriously vanishes into the watery wilderness. When a police search fails to locate her, suspicion falls on the disgraced politician with a violent past. But when John himself disappears, the questions mount—with no answers in sight. In this contemplative thriller, acclaimed author Tim O’Brien examines America’s legacy of violence and warfare and its lasting impact both at home and abroad.
Author |
: Mark Bowden |
Publisher |
: Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages |
: 676 |
Release |
: 2017-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802189240 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802189245 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hue 1968 by : Mark Bowden
The author of Black Hawk Down vividly recounts a pivotal Vietnam War battle in this New York Times bestseller: “An extraordinary feat of journalism”. —Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal In Hue 1968, Mark Bowden presents a detailed, day-by-day reconstruction of the most critical battle of the Tet Offensive. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched attacks across South Vietnam. The lynchpin of this campaign was the capture of Hue, Vietnam’s intellectual and cultural capital. 10,000 troops descended from hidden camps and surged across the city, taking everything but two small military outposts. American commanders refused to believe the size and scope of the siege, ordering small companies of marines against thousands of entrenched enemy troops. After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city block by block, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II. With unprecedented access to war archives in the United States and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through multiple viewpoints. Played out over 24 days and ultimately costing 10,000 lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the entire war. When it ended, the American debate was never again about winning, only about how to leave. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction
Author |
: Ron Carver |
Publisher |
: New Village Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2019-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781613321072 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1613321074 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Waging Peace in Vietnam by : Ron Carver
How American soldiers opposed and resisted the war in Vietnam While mainstream narratives of the Vietnam War all but marginalize anti-war activity of soldiers, opposition and resistance from within the three branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam. By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, thousands of active duty soldiers and marines were marching in protest in US cities. Hundreds of soldiers and marines in Vietnam were refusing to fight; tens of thousands were deserting to Canada, France and Sweden. Eventually the US Armed Forces were no longer able to sustain large-scale offensive operations and ceased to be effective. Yet this history is largely unknown and has been glossed over in much of the written and visual remembrances produced in recent years. Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance. In addition, the book features fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists. Notable contributors include Vietnam War scholar and author, Christian Appy, and Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, who played a major role in the Paris Peace Accord. The book originates from the exhibition Waging Peace, which has been shown in Vietnam and the University of Notre Dame, and will be touring the eastern United States in conjunction with book launches in Boston, Amherst, and New York.
Author |
: Christian G. Appy |
Publisher |
: Penguin Books |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2016-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143128342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143128345 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Reckoning by : Christian G. Appy
How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy examines the war's realities and myths and its lasting impact on our national self-perception. Drawing on a vast variety of sources that range from movies, songs, and novels to official documents, media coverage, and contemporary commentary, Appy offers an original interpretation of the war and its far-reaching consequences for both our popular culture and our foreign policy.
Author |
: David Hunt |
Publisher |
: SEAP Publications |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0877271313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780877271314 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American War in Vietnam by : David Hunt
This collection of essays focuses upon American involvement in the Vietnamese War.