Monk S War In Vietnam
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Monk S War In Vietnam
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Author : Frank M. Beyea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-05-01
Monk S War In Vietnam written by Frank M. Beyea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-01 with Americans categories.
When the U.S. Marines were sent to South Vietnam in the 1960s, 18-year-old Beyea was among them. He offers here a vital document that illustrates his transformation from teenager to soldier in a modern war.
Monk S War An 18 Year Old Marine S Story From The Rice Paddies
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Author : Frank M. Beyea
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-02
Monk S War An 18 Year Old Marine S Story From The Rice Paddies written by Frank M. Beyea and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the last few years, Vietnam Veterans, including myself, have experienced a phenomenon that is hard to explain. People are interested in the Vietnam War! I think the audience for Vietnam War stories is a diverse one. From young people with a thirst for knowledge about what their fathers and grandfathers went through in the only war that America has lost (so far history hasn't made its final judgment on Iraq and Afghanistan) to the baby boomers who fought in Vietnam. Even those boomers who demonstrated actively against the war and resisted being part of it are suddenly interested. This book provides those interested with what they crave: more true stories of what it was like to live the life of a Marine ground pounder in Vietnam. It's like a good adventure novel, when your own "theater of the mind" puts you in the shoes of the main character.
Monk S War
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Author : Frank M. Beyea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-10-01
Monk S War written by Frank M. Beyea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Vietnam categories.
Join 18-year-old Monk and his ground-pounding Marine buddies as they hold it together again. Monk gets to leave Vietnam in the way he has anticipated--on a stretcher.
Monk S War
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Author : Frank M. Beyea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-03
Monk S War written by Frank M. Beyea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03 with History categories.
Monk's War is true stories of what it was like to live the life of a Marine ground pounder in Vietnam. It reads like a good adventure novel.
Titan Fails Vietnam War
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Author : Edgar Wollstone
language : en
Publisher: AJS
Release Date :
Titan Fails Vietnam War written by Edgar Wollstone and has been published by AJS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
In 1963, a photograph had sent the world into a frenzy. It was of a monk who sat solemnly as if he was in deep meditation in the middle of a busy intersection in the capital city of Saigon as flames licked all over his body. The egregious image of the monk being burned alive spread like wildfire and set in motion a series of events that will leave utter chaos, anarchy, and devastation in its wake. The monk was Thich Quang Duc, and his act of self-immolation was done in protest of the systematic persecution of Buddhists by the Roman Catholic government of South Vietnam. The air in the near vicinity was redolent with the stench of the burning flesh. This, along with the wails of the gathered monks and nuns, the utter despair and shock of the onlookers, all contributed to make it an event in the history of Vietnam that will have ripples to this day. Today, Saigon, the capital city of South Vietnam is no more. Saigon exists only in the realms of turbulent history and burning memories. Saigon itself is history, but it's tragic story lives on. It will always be the city of the burning monk; the monk who sat steadfast even when his body was burnt to ashes. A monk had become a martyr, an unlikely scenario even for a post-World War II world. But what does a monk in the small city of Saigon have to do with a great power like America? Why did America enter the Vietnam War? The Vietnam War had cost America 58000 lives, approximately a trillion dollars, costs a president, stoked severe and unprecedented social unrest, and all of this only to be defeated in the end by a small technologically underdeveloped country like Vietnam. Why did the United States of America plunge itself into the war, jeopardizing the lives of thousands of its troops, and exhausting its economic and military resources for a war that it had no stakes to claim at all. In hindsight, America’s decision to enter the war is often stated as a monumental strategic and diplomatic blunder and a humanitarian catastrophe with long-lasting repercussions. The United States of America had no political, strategic, or economic gains in Vietnam. Vietnam didn’t possess any resources that America wanted. The Vietnam War was an internal strife, and the constant skirmishes were for independence from French colonists, then why did America get itself into a soup knowing fully well that it was an unwarranted war? To know why America lost a war it had never wanted to enter in the first place, let’s first know the context. What was the stimulus that triggered the Vietnam War, what were the casualties and the aftermath, and finally how and why did the powerful, technologically advanced, super-power country like the United States of America lose the war that had been going on for an inordinate twenty years?
Vietnam Lotus In A Sea Of Fire
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Author : Thich Nhat Hanh
language : en
Publisher: Parallax Press
Release Date : 2022-08-09
Vietnam Lotus In A Sea Of Fire written by Thich Nhat Hanh and has been published by Parallax Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-09 with Political Science categories.
This stunning commentary on the cultural and political background to the war in Vietnam resonates deeply as the first work of Vietnamese writer, peace activist, and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh This rare book from 1967 is one of the very few written in English giving a Vietnamese perspective on the Indochina Wars. Many years ahead of its time, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire will be welcomed by historians and readers of contemporary Vietnamese narratives. As war raged in Vietnam, the Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh became a leading figure in the Buddhist peace movement. With the help of friends like Catholic monk Thomas Merton, he published Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire in 1967 in the US (and underground in Vietnam as Hoa Sen Trong Biển Lửa), his uncompromising and radical call for peace. It gave voice to the majority of Vietnamese people who did not take sides and who wanted the bombing to stop. Thomas Merton wrote the foreword, believing it had the power to show Americans that the more America continued to bomb Vietnam, the more communists it would create. This was Thich Nhat Hanh's first book in English and made waves in the growing anti-war movement in the United States at the time. Thich Nhat Hanh's portrayal of the plight of the Vietnamese people during the Indochina Wars is required reading now as the United States and Europe continue to grapple with their roles as global powers—and the human effects of their military policies. Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire is of special interest for students of peace and conflict studies and Southeast Asian history. It also gives the reader insights into the thought of the young Thich Nhat Hanh, who would later go on to found--in exile--Plum Village in France, the largest Buddhist monastery outside Asia, and influence millions with his teachings on the path of peace and mindfulness.
In Buddha S Company
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Author : Richard A. Ruth
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2010-09-16
In Buddha S Company written by Richard A. Ruth and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-16 with History categories.
In Buddha’s Company explores a previously neglected aspect of the Vietnam War: the experiences of the Thai troops who served there and the attitudes and beliefs that motivated them to volunteer. Thailand sent nearly 40,000 volunteer soldiers to South Vietnam to serve alongside the Free World Forces in the conflict, but unlike the other foreign participants, the Thais came armed with historical and cultural knowledge of the region. Blending the methodologies of cultural and military history, Richard Ruth examines the individual experiences of Thai volunteers in their wartime encounters with American allies, South Vietnamese civilians, and Viet Cong enemies. Ruth shows how the Thais were transformed by living amongst the modern goods and war machinery of the Americans and by traversing the jungles and plantations haunted by indigenous spirits. At the same time, Ruth argues, Thailand’s ruling institutions used the image of volunteers to advance their respective agendas, especially those related to anticommunist authoritarianism. Drawing on numerous interviews with Thai veterans and archival material from Thailand and the United States, Ruth focuses on the cultural exchanges that occurred between Thai troops and their allies and enemies, presenting a Southeast Asian view of a conflict that has traditionally been studied as a Cold War event dominated by an American political agenda. The resulting study considers such diverse topics as comparative Buddhisms, alternative modernities, consumerism, celebrity, official memories vs. personal recollections, and the value of local knowledge in foreign wars. The war’s effects within Thailand itself are closely considered, demonstrating that the war against communism in Vietnam, as articulated by Thai leaders, was a popular cause among nearly all segments of the population. Furthermore, Ruth challenges previous assertions that Thailand’s forces were merely "America’s mercenaries" by presenting the multiple, overlapping motivations for volunteering offered by the soldiers themselves. In Buddha’s Company makes clear that many Thais sought direct involvement in the Vietnam War and that their participation had profound and lasting effects on the country’s political and military institutions, royal affairs, popular culture, and international relations. As one of only a handful of academic histories of Thailand in the 1960s, it provides a crucial link between the keystone studies of the Phibun-Sarit years (1946–1963) and those examining the turbulent 1970s.
Titan Fails Vietnam War
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Author : Edgar Wollstone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-24
Titan Fails Vietnam War written by Edgar Wollstone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-24 with categories.
TITAN FAILS - VIETNAM WAR In 1963, a photograph had sent the world into a frenzy. It was of a monk who sat solemnly as if he was in deep meditation in the middle of a busy intersection in the capital city of Saigon as flames licked all over his body. The egregious image of the monk being burned alive spread like wildfire and set in motion a series of events that will leave utter chaos, anarchy, and devastation in its wake. The monk was Thich Quang Duc and his act of self-immolation was done in protest of the systematic persecution of Buddhists by the Roman Catholic government of South Vietnam. The air in the near vicinity was redolent with the stench of the burning flesh. This, along with the wails of the gathered monks and nuns, the utter despair and shock of the onlookers, all contributed to make it an event in the history of Vietnam that will have ripples to this day. Today, Saigon, the capital city of South Vietnam is no more. Saigon exists only in the realms of turbulent history and burning memories. Saigon itself is history, but its tragic story lives on. It will always be the city of the burning monk; the monk who sat steadfast even when his body was burnt to ashes. A monk had become a martyr, an unlikely scenario even for a post-World War II world. But what does a monk in the small city of Saigon have to do with a great power like America? Why did America enter the Vietnam War? The Vietnam War had cost America 58000 lives, approximately a trillion dollars, costs a president, stoked severe and unprecedented social unrest, and all of this only to be defeated in the end by a small technologically underdeveloped country like Vietnam. Why did the United States of America plunge itself into the war, jeopardizing the lives of thousands of its troops, and exhausting its economic and military resources for a war that it had no stakes to claim at all. In hindsight, America's decision to enter the war is often stated as a monumental strategic and diplomatic blunder and a humanitarian catastrophe with long-lasting repercussions. The United States of America had no political, strategic, or economic gains in Vietnam. Vietnam didn't possess any resources that America wanted. The Vietnam War was an internal strife and the constant skirmishes were for independence from French colonists, then why did America get itself into a soup knowing fully well that it was an unwarranted war? To know why America lost a war it had never wanted to enter in the first place, let's first know the context. What was the stimulus that triggered the Vietnam War, what were the casualties and the aftermath, and finally how and why did the powerful, technologically-advanced, super-power country like the United States of America lose the war that had been going on for an inordinate twenty years?
The Lotus Unleashed
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Author : Robert J. Topmiller
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2002-12-27
The Lotus Unleashed written by Robert J. Topmiller and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-27 with History categories.
During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices -- including self-immolation -- to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans. Robert J. Topmiller explores South Vietnamese attitudes toward the war, the insurgency, and U.S. intervention, and lays bare the dissension within the U.S. military. The Lotus Unleashed is one of the few studies to illuminate the impact of internal Vietnamese politics on U.S. decision-making and to examine the power of a nonviolent movement to confront a violent superpower.
Vietnam
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Author : David Chanoff
language : en
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Release Date : 2009
Vietnam written by David Chanoff and has been published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the view from the other side - the murderous trek down the Ho Chi Minh trail and life under American bombing.