The Ghosts Of Vietnam
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Ghosts Of War In Vietnam
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Author : Heonik Kwon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-22
Ghosts Of War In Vietnam written by Heonik Kwon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-22 with History categories.
This is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally.
The Ghosts Of Thua Thien
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Author : John A. Nesser
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-02-18
The Ghosts Of Thua Thien written by John A. Nesser and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-18 with History categories.
Drafted in October 1968, John A. Nesser left behind his wife and young son to fight in the controversial Vietnam War. Like many in his generation, he was deeply at odds with himself over the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, instilled with a strong sense of duty to his country but uncertain about its mission and his role in it. Nesser was deployed to the Ashau Valley, site of some of the war's heaviest fighting, and served eight months as an infantry rifleman before transferring to become a door gunner for a Chinook helicopter. In this stirring memoir, he recalls in detail the exhausting missions in the mountainous jungle, the terror of walking into an ambush, the dull-edged anxiety that filled quiet days, and the steady fear of being shot out of the sky. The accounts are richly illustrated with Nesser's own photographs of the military firebases and aircraft, the landscapes, and the people he encountered.
War And Shadows
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Author : Mai Lan Gustafsson
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-15
War And Shadows written by Mai Lan Gustafsson and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Social Science categories.
Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another 300,000 are still missing. Having died badly, they are thought to have become angry ghosts, doomed to spend eternity in a kind of spirit hell. Decades after the war ended, many survivors believe that the spirits of those dead and missing have returned to haunt their loved ones. In War and Shadows, the anthropologist Mai Lan Gustafsson tells the story of the anger of these spirits and the torments of their kin. Gustafsson's rich ethnographic research allows her to bring readers into the world of spirit possession, focusing on the source of the pain, the physical and mental anguish the spirits bring, and various attempts to ameliorate their anger through ritual offerings and the intervention of mediums. Through a series of personal life histories, she chronicles the variety of ailments brought about by the spirits' wrath, from headaches and aching limbs (often the same limb lost by a loved one in battle) to self-mutilation. In Gustafsson's view, the Communist suppression of spirit-based religion after the fall of Saigon has intensified anxieties about the well-being of the spirit world. While shrines and mourning are still allowed, spirit mediums were outlawed and driven underground, along with many of the other practices that might have provided some comfort. Despite these restrictions, she finds, victims of these hauntings do as much as possible to try to lay their ghosts to rest.
Vietnam Shadows
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Author : Arnold R. Isaacs
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2000-04-14
Vietnam Shadows written by Arnold R. Isaacs and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Isaacs talks to the veterans unable to forget the war no one wanted to talk about. He explores the class divisions deepened by a conflict in which the privileged avoided service that an earlier generation had embraced as a duty. And he shows how the "Vietnam Syndrome" continues to affect nearly every major U.S. foreign policy decision, from the Persion Gulf to Somalia, Bosnia, and Haiti.
Ghosts Of Phouc Long Book One Of The Ghost Six Trilogy A Vietnam War Story
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Author : L. Austin Lee
language : en
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2016-08-10
Ghosts Of Phouc Long Book One Of The Ghost Six Trilogy A Vietnam War Story written by L. Austin Lee and has been published by Fulton Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-10 with Fiction categories.
April 1970 - Phouc Long Province South Vietnam. Two years into his term, President Richard Nixon is in a desperate situation. In an attempt to fulfill his campaign promise to end the War in Vietnam with honor, he finds himself at a crossroads. At the Paris Peace Talks, the North Vietnamese seem willing to wait him out until the 1972 elections. Together with his most trusted advisors, he embarks on a risky adventure to forever cripple the NVA troops hiding in the sanctuary of Cambodia. Squarely in the center is a small band of highly trained Special Ops troops who go by the nickname of 'Ghost Teams'; six teams that illegally cross into neutral Cambodia and cause havoc with the NVA troops embedded there. 'Ghost Six' is the best of these highly trained and motivated men, led by former US Army Staff Sergeant Danny Fuller. Mission: find and take out COSVN, the Central Office for Vietnam. This is their story.
Ghosts And Shadows
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Author : Phil Ball
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-11-06
Ghosts And Shadows written by Phil Ball and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with History categories.
The author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego ill-prepared for the training and abuse that awaited him in boot camp. At the time, he would have done anything to escape; only upon reflection years later did he realize that the self-confidence instilled in him by his drill instructors had probably saved his life in Vietnam. A few months after boot camp, Private Ball was shipped out to Vietnam, joining F Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, near Khe Sanh. As a grunt, in the vernacular of the Corps, Ball, like the other youths of F Company, did a difficult and deadly job in such places as the A Shau Valley, Leatherneck Square, the DMZ and other obscure but critical I Corps locales. His--their--fear of death mingled with homesickness. Little did they realize that the horrors of the Vietnam War--horrors that while in-country they often claimed did not even exist--would haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Ghosts Of Vietnam
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Author : Michael A. Talerico
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-11
Ghosts Of Vietnam written by Michael A. Talerico and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with categories.
Ghosts of Vietnam: A private's story is not a story about combat. It follows the life of the author thru his two+ years in the service from basic training to Vietnam. The only combat situations described in his book are incidents that had a direct effect on him. He tells of the effort to overcome his fear of height and achieve his goal to become a paratrooper, and the pranks that occurred during jumps. The attempts to have him transferred to a non-infantry unit in New Jersey, and the trouble that followed when he refused to sign the papers. The eighteen day journey to Vietnam aboard a ship and the trouble he got into there. His arrival in Vietnam under house arrest and the incidents that followed leading up to his court-martial. The time spent in the stockade, the people he met there, and the racial trouble that took place. Highlighted are the deaths caused by stupidity, arrogance and fear of his company leaders. AWOL in Saigon for four days and how he managed to survive using the black market His long journey home and the things he realized along the way, and finally his arrival home.
The Ghosts Of The Highlands
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Author : Kregg P. J. Jorgenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Ghosts Of The Highlands written by Kregg P. J. Jorgenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
Based on accounts and recollections of the men who helped form the 1st Air Cavalry Division's Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol Detachment, small teams of specially trained soldiers charged with carrying out the army's most improtant and dangerous reconnaissance missions.
Lost At Khe Sanh
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Author : Steve Watkins
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Release Date : 2015-03-31
Lost At Khe Sanh written by Steve Watkins and has been published by Scholastic Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-31 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
When Anderson discovers a grenade in a trunk full of old military memorabilia, the ghost of a Vietnam War soldier appears and claims the grenade belongs to him.
Ghosts In The Landscape
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Author : Alison Devine Nordström
language : en
Publisher: Umbrage Editions
Release Date : 2006
Ghosts In The Landscape written by Alison Devine Nordström and has been published by Umbrage Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Documentary photography categories.
"After serving in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine, photographer Craig Barber returns twenty-eight years later to a country that he first saw through the eyes of combat. Haunted by the deaths he witnessed, Barber carries his memories of being eighteen with a taunting bull's-eye painted on his helmet, the smell of smoldering bombs, and the cries of the dying back to Vietnam in order to put his ghosts to rest. In the Vietnamese countryside, he captures the healing landscapes with bomb craters turned into fish-rearing ponds and watering reservoirs, metal sections from former airstrip runways transformed into window grates, and shell casings functioning as fence posts. An essay by Alison Devine Nordstrom, Curator of Photographs at the George Eastman House, Rochester, offers insight into photography's role in unlayering the past."--BOOK JACKET.