Everyman In Vietnam
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Everyman In Vietnam
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Author : Michael Adas
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018
Everyman In Vietnam written by Michael Adas and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Runnemede (N.J.) categories.
"Everyman in Vietnam: A Soldier's Journey into the Quagmire by Michael Adas and Joseph Gilch interweaves a macro perspective of American foreign policy during the war, with the individual-level perspective of one of the many soldiers who lived and died in the "quagmire." This unique perspective is made possible through the personal letters of Private James "Jimmy" Gilch, the late uncle of co-author, Joseph Gilch. Throughout his time on the ground in Vietnam, Jimmy sent dozens of letters back to his family in New Jersey, which detailed everything from the brutal, callous nature of basic training to the daily life of a GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Fascinated by these letters from an early age, Joseph Gilch poured over the nearly 80 letters ravenously. A graduate student at Rutgers University, Joseph has been working with Dr. Michael Adas to situate the story of Private Jimmy Gilch into the broader narrative of the United States' involvement in Vietnam. What comes out of this perspective is a truly remarkable and extraordinary picture of one of America's defining wars through the eyes of one of its many soldiers in a generation forever marked by the conflict."--Provided by publisher.
The Rubicon
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Author : Nanette Challenger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Rubicon written by Nanette Challenger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A group of ten Vietnam veterans from the Akron-Cleveland, Ohio area traveled to Vietnam in November of 1988. This was one of several trips put together by the Akron Chapter 34 of the Vietnam Veterans of America to help veterans deal with the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The BBC in England was working on a TV series called Everyman and requested that a film crew be allowed to join the Akron contingent and film their journey as they traveled from Saigon and the rice paddies and jungle of the Mekong Delta; to the mountains of Da Lat; to the sunny beaches along the South China Sea near Da Nang; to the windswept heights of Marble Mountain; and north to Hue and the wreckage of the Citadel and Dong Ha; then finally to their journey's end in Hanoi. The finished product was called Everyman: A Return to Vietnam and has never been shown in America. The author was the only woman among the American group on the trip to Vietnam, and was a volunteer with the VVA at that time. This was a learning experience that she undertook in the hopes that by so doing she could understand a little more why many Vietnam veterans were still so troubled by the war. During the trip she contracted a parasite that destroyed her health and contributed to an illness that would span the next nineteen years, from which she is still recovering.
For Everyman
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Author : Todd Eric Menzing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
For Everyman written by Todd Eric Menzing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
The Eaves Of Heaven
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Author : Andrew X. Pham
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2009-06-23
The Eaves Of Heaven written by Andrew X. Pham and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of the Ten Best Books of the Year, Washington Post Book World One of the Los Angeles Times’ Favorite Books of the Year One of the Top Ten National Books of 2008, Portland Oregonian A 2009 Honor Book of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association “Few books have combined the historical scope and the literary skill to give the foreign reader a sense of events from a Vietnamese perspective. . . . Now we can add Andrew Pham’s Eaves of Heaven to this list of indispensable books.” —New York Times Book Review “Searing . . . vivid–and harrowing . . . Here is war and life through the eyes of a Vietnamese everyman.” —Seattle Times Once wealthy landowners, Thong Van Pham’s family was shattered by the tumultuous events of the twentieth century: the French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Vietnam War. Told in dazzling chapters that alternate between events in the past and those closer to the present, The Eaves of Heaven brilliantly re-creates the trials of everyday life in Vietnam as endured by one man, from the fall of Hanoi and the collapse of French colonialism to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon. Pham offers a rare portal into a lost world as he chronicles Thong Van Pham’s heartbreaks, triumphs, and bizarre reversals of fortune, whether as a South Vietnamese soldier pinned down by enemy fire, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese under brutal interrogation, or a refugee desperately trying to escape Vietnam after the last American helicopter has abandoned Saigon. This is the story of a man caught in the maelstrom of twentieth-century politics, a gripping memoir told with the urgency of a wartime dispatch by a writer of surpassing talent.
On The Front Line
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Author : Jon E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-06-20
On The Front Line written by Jon E. Lewis and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-20 with History categories.
In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'. It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier and offers heart-stopping renditions of the very first gas attack; aerial dogfights above the trenches; the moment of going over the top. Told chronologically, from the first scrambles of 1914, the drudgery of the war of attrition once the trenches had been dug, to the final joy of Armistice.
Dispatches
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Author : Michael Herr
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-12-15
Dispatches written by Michael Herr and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-15 with History categories.
‘The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time’ – John Le Carré Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conflict and its seductive, devastating impact on a generation of young men. His unflinching account is haunting in its violence, but even more so in its honesty. First published in 1977, Dispatches was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam which has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict. A groundbreaking piece of journalism, part of the Picador Collection, which inspired Stanley Kubrick’s classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.
The Boys Of 67
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Author : Andrew Wiest
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-09-20
The Boys Of 67 written by Andrew Wiest and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with History categories.
Following on from the stunning success of the novel Matterhorn as well as Osprey's own Tonight We Die as Men, this book follows the trials and tribulations of a group of Vietnam draftees from basic training to the rice paddies of Vietnam. In the spring of 1966 the Vietnam War was intensifying, driven by the US military build up, under which the 9th Infantry Division was reactivated. Charlie Company was part of the 9th and representative of the melting pot of America. But, unlike the vast majority of other companies in the US Army, the men of Charlie Company were a close-knit family. They joined up together, trained together, and were deployed together. This is their story. From the joker who roller-skated into the Company First Sergeant's office wearing a dress, to the nerdy guy with two left feet who would rather be off somewhere inventing computers, and the everyman who just wanted to keep his head down and get through un-noticed and preferably unscathed. Written by leading Vietnam expert Dr Andrew Wiest, The Boys of '67 tells the unvarnished truth about the war in Vietnam, recounting the fear of death and the horrors of battle through the recollections of the young men themselves. America doesn't know their names or their story, the story of the boys of Charlie, young draftees who had done everything that their nation had asked of them and received so little in return – lost faces and silent voices of a distant war.
Light At The End Of The Tunnel
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Author : Andrew Jon Rotter
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2010
Light At The End Of The Tunnel written by Andrew Jon Rotter and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
This book gives an overview of the conflict starting with Ho Chi Minh's revolt against the French. It recounts the important events and the issues that developed during the conflict.
In Retrospect
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Author : Robert Mcnamara
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-09-06
In Retrospect written by Robert Mcnamara and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider's account of American policy making in Vietnam. "Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's controversial memoir answers the lingering questions that surround this disastrous episode in American history. With unprecedented candor and drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, McNamara reveals the fatal misassumptions behind our involvement in Vietnam. Keenly observed and dramatically written, In Retrospect possesses the urgency and poignancy that mark the very best histories—and the unsparing candor that is the trademark of the greatest personal memoirs. Includes a preface written by McNamara for the paperback edition.
South Vietnamese Soldiers
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Author : Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-03-21
South Vietnamese Soldiers written by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-21 with History categories.
Published on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, this book brings to life the experiences and memories of South Vietnamese soldiers-the forgotten combatants of this controversial conflict. South Vietnam lost more than a quarter of a million soldiers in the Vietnam War, yet the histories of these men-and women-are largely absent from the vast historiography of the conflict. By focusing on oral histories related by 40 veterans from the former Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, this book breaks new ground, shedding light on an essentially unexplored aspect of the war and giving voice to those who have been voiceless. The experiences of these former soldiers are examined through detailed firsthand accounts that feature two generations and all branches of the service, including the Women's Armed Forces Corps. Readers will gain insight into the soldiers' early lives, their military service, combat experiences, and friendships forged in wartime. They will also see how life became worse for most in the aftermath of the war as they experienced internment in communist prison camps, discrimination against their families on political grounds, and the dangers inherent in escaping Vietnam, whether by sea or land. Finally, readers will learn how veterans who saw no choice but to leave their homeland succeeded in rebuilding their lives in new countries and cultures.