Surviving Bien Hoa
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Surviving Bien Hoa
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Author : Steve Crews
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2012
Surviving Bien Hoa written by Steve Crews and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
His descriptive narratives include Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps units at Bien Hoa, Long Binh and Tan Son Nhut. He takes you on an exciting tour of Saigon, the Cambodian/Special Forces compound at Bien Hoa and the sprawling expanse of Long Binh Army Base where he attended the last Bob Hope USO show at the outdoor ampitheater in December 1971. His perspective on the sights, smells and sounds of Vietnam will have you feeling that you were there too from October 1971 to October 1972. The mortar and rocket attacks, especially the big one on the morning of August 1, 1972 at Bien Hoa are described in great detail. The photos of damaged buildings and aircraft help explain why surviving a tour of duty at Bien Hoa was a real goal. From arriving and departing "Freedom Birds" during peaceful interludes to the sheer terror and tragic moments of mortar and rocket attacks that changed lives forever, this book is a record of those experiences.
Surviving Twice
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Author : Trin Yarborough
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Surviving Twice written by Trin Yarborough and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with History categories.
Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the war's end and grew up as Americans, speaking English and attending American schools. Instead, this group of Amerasians faced much more formidable obstacles, both in Vietnam and in their new home. Surviving Twice raises significant questions about how mixed-race children born of wars and occupations are treated and the ways in which the shifting laws, policies, social attitudes, and bureaucratic red tape of two nations affect them their entire lives.
Surviving Vietnam
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Author : Bruce P. Dohrenwend
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018-11-15
Surviving Vietnam written by Bruce P. Dohrenwend 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 2018-11-15 with Medical categories.
The war in Vietnam is a watershed moment in United States history -- the first war lost by the U.S. despite its seemingly overwhelming military might. Surviving Vietnam focuses on the psychological consequences, especially posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of service in such a war for U.S. veterans. The diagnosis of PTSD, termed following and significantly influenced by this war, stirred controversy. Much of the initial controversy centered on a major report in 1990 of what numerous critics regarded as unrealistically high rates of this disorder in U.S. veterans. Controversy continues about whether exposure to one or more potentially traumatic events is more significant to the development and persistence of PTSD than pre-exposure personal vulnerability factors, such as age, education and prior psychiatric disorder. This book describes attempts to resolve these controversies. Surviving Vietnam develops a unique blend of historical material, military records, clinical diagnoses of PTSD, and interviews with representative samples of veterans surveyed approximately a decade (the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study) and nearly four decades (the National Vietnam Veterans Longitudinal Study) after the war's conclusion. The book begins with a history of the Vietnam war that provides context for the discussions of mental health thereafter, the outcomes of the severity of veterans' exposure to combat, their personal involvement in harm to civilians and prisoners, their race-ethnicity, and their military assignments. It discusses nurses' experiences in Vietnam and the psychological impact of veterans' chronic war-related PTSD on their families. Surviving Vietnam then examines factors affecting veterans' post-war readjustment, including the effects of changing public and veteran attitudes toward the war and the veterans' own appraisals of the impact of the war on their lives after the war. The authors conclude with a discussion of the policy implications of the research findings.
Volunteering Why We Can T Survive Without It
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Author : Melanie Oppenheimer
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 2008
Volunteering Why We Can T Survive Without It written by Melanie Oppenheimer and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Voluntarism categories.
Timely, lively and unflagging in its coverage of an extraordinary range of organisations and individuals, Volunteering takes the first comprehensive look at why Australians give so much of their time for free.
The Sage Of Saigon
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Author : Steve Crews
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-12
The Sage Of Saigon written by Steve Crews and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-12 with History categories.
The action in this historical novel takes place during the turbulent final full year of American military involvement in Vietnam, 1972. First Lieutenant Tom Ross and his fellow investigators of MACVs 1st Special Investigations Unit constantly find themselves in challenging situations while investigating drug use, drug smuggling and other illegal activities by U.S. military personnel in Saigon and other locations. Ross meets a beautiful young half-French, half-Vietnamese tour guide named Genevieve Ferrand who, unknowingly, helps him by introducing him to her father, Henri Ferrand. Henri has been living in Vietnam since 1947 when it was still French Indochina. He has more information about the high-ranking Vietnamese civilian and military officials who are at the heart of the rampant corruption, drug trafficking and black marketing than anyone else. Hes been blackmailed and he and his daughters lives have been threatened by his boss, the second richest and one of the most corrupt and dangerous men in all of South Vietnam. Henri has an unusual plan to save his daughters life, but it will take a deal with Lieutenant Ross to make the plan work. Meetings between high-ranking Viet Cong members of the Communist Provisional Revolutionary Government provide a unique insight and viewpoints from the other side as they plan for the final overthrow of South Vietnams puppet government shortly after the departure of U.S. troops. Their direct involvement in the corruption of South Vietnamese leaders, the drug trade, and how they got millions of dollars from the U.S. government, shocks Lieutenant Ross and the MACV commander once the truth is revealed in the journals kept by the Sage of Saigon.
Survival The Communists Camps
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Author : Kiet Le
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011
Survival The Communists Camps written by Kiet Le and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
A Vietnam Trilogy Vol 2 Healing Journeys
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Author : Raymond M. Scurfield
language : en
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Release Date : 2006
A Vietnam Trilogy Vol 2 Healing Journeys written by Raymond M. Scurfield and has been published by Algora Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Post-traumatic stress disorder categories.
Scurfield (social work, U. of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Coast) has been involved in treating post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans for nearly 40 years. This text is the second of three volumes in which he reflects upon his therapeutic career and recounts a trip to Vietnam in the year 2000, in which three Vietnam veterans returned to former
Coercion Survival And War
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Author : Phil Haun
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-01
Coercion Survival And War written by Phil Haun and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with Political Science categories.
In asymmetric interstate conflicts, great powers have the capability to coerce weak states by threatening their survival—but not vice versa. It is therefore the great power that decides whether to escalate a conflict into a crisis by adopting a coercive strategy. In practice, however, the coercive strategies of the U.S. have frequently failed. In Coercion, Survival and War Phil Haun chronicles 30 asymmetric interstate crises involving the US from 1918 to 2003. The U.S. chose coercive strategies in 23 of these cases, but coercion failed half of the time: most often because the more powerful U.S. made demands that threatened the very survival of the weak state, causing it to resist as long as it had the means to do so. It is an unfortunate paradox Haun notes that, where the U.S. may prefer brute force to coercion, these power asymmetries may well lead it to first attempt coercive strategies that are expected to fail in order to justify the war it desires. He concludes that, when coercion is preferred to brute force there are clear limits as to what can be demanded. In such cases, he suggests, U.S. policymakers can improve the chances of success by matching appropriate threats to demands, by including other great powers in the coercive process, and by reducing a weak state leader's reputational costs by giving him or her face-saving options.
A Death In Korea
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Author : Steve Crews
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2012-12-21
A Death In Korea written by Steve Crews and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-21 with History categories.
This is a true story that is both tragic and bizarre. It’s tragic because a young twenty-two-year-old serviceman, married and with an infant son back home, died in Korea during the Korean War. It’s bizarre because a fellow serviceman with whom he’d been stationed at two different locations was one of the witnesses at the shooting that took his life. Then that witness later married the man’s widow and adopted his son. Even though they had a church wedding, nobody from either family showed up. Very unusual. Exactly twenty years to the day after the young serviceman died in Korea, his twenty-year-old son had a near-death experience in Vietnam. The son grew up not knowing his biological father’s name, his branch of service, how, when, or where he died, or what he looked like, until he was almost fifty-eight years old. Then fate stepped in and provided him with a reason to investigate into the past. What he found out will astound you as much as it did him.
Heroes From The Wall
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Author : John Douglas Foster
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-02-07
Heroes From The Wall written by John Douglas Foster and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When the author John Douglas Foster was wounded while serving in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive, he received more than a piece of metal in his body-- haunting memories of comrades opened his soul in a quest to learn more about those who didnt return. Sketching a fascinating portrait of the lives of those who fought and died valiantly, Foster pens a riveting and gut-wrenching read in Heroes from the Wall. A clear-eyed tale of truly honorable individuals who were not just mere names, numbers and statistics, Heroes from the Wall ensures that these unsung heroes will never be forgotten by future generations who didnt know them on the battlefield. Foster seamlessly captures their quirks of personality, playful antics, heroic actions, compassion and care for others, their caring and sharing with their comrades, tender concern for their family, and affirmation of life while engulfed in places of death. Leaving readers with a newfound respect for the nameless heroes upon turning the pages, Foster writes with candor and resonating tone.