The Killing Zone My Life In The Vietnam War
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The Killing Zone
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Author : Frederick Downs
language : en
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date : 1987
The Killing Zone written by Frederick Downs and has been published by Berkley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
A personal narrative about what it was like to fight in Vietnam.
The Killing Zone My Life In The Vietnam War
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Author : Frederick Downs Jr.
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2007-02-17
The Killing Zone My Life In The Vietnam War written by Frederick Downs Jr. and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-17 with History categories.
“The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”—Army Times Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zone tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant to face lethal danger, to follow orders, and to search for the conviction and then the hope that this war was worth the sacrifice. The book includes a new chapter on what happened to the platoon members when they came home.
Kill Anything That Moves
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Author : Nick Turse
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2013-01-15
Kill Anything That Moves written by Nick Turse and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-15 with History categories.
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians The American Empire Project Winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to "kill anything that moves." Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded-what one soldier called "a My Lai a month." Devastating and definitive, Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.
And A Hard Rain Fell
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Author : John Ketwig
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2008-01-01
And A Hard Rain Fell written by John Ketwig and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A magnetic, bloody, moving, and worm's-eye view of soldiering in Vietnam, an account that is from the first page to last a wound that can never heal. A searing gift to his country."-Kirkus Reviews The classic Vietnam war memoir, ...and a hard rain fell is the unforgettable story of a veteran's rage and the unflinching portrait of a young soldier's odyssey from the roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam. Updated for its 20th anniversary with a new afterword on the Iraq War and its parallels to Vietnam, John Ketwig's message is as relevant today as it was twenty years ago. "Solidly effective. He describes with ingenuous energy and authentic language that time and place."-Library Journal "Perhaps as evocative of that awful time in Vietnam as the great fictions...a wild surreal account, at its best as powerful as Celine's darkling writing of World War One."-Washington Post
No Longer Enemies Not Yet Friends
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Author : Frederick Downs
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 1991-11-01
No Longer Enemies Not Yet Friends written by Frederick Downs and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-11-01 with History categories.
Twenty years after he served in Vietnam--and lost his left arm in combat there--Downs returned to Vietnam with the Vessey mission to offer humanitarian aid to his former enemies. This is his personal odyssey from hatred to a deeper understanding of all human suffering. Photos.
Baptism
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Author : Larry Gwin
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2008-12-10
Baptism written by Larry Gwin and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-10 with History categories.
"The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion." A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three years old when he arrived in Vietnam in 1965. After a brief stint in the Delta, Gwin was reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in An Khe. There, in the hotly contested Central Highlands, he served almost nine months as executive officer for Alpha Company, 2/7, fighting against crack NVA troops in some of the war's most horrific battles. The bloodiest conflict of all began November 12, 1965, after 2nd Battalion was flown into the Ia Drang Valley west of Pleiku. Acting as point, Alpha Company spearheaded the battalion's march to landing zone Albany for pickup, not knowing they were walking into the killing zone of an NVA ambush that would cost them 10 percent casualties. Gwin spares no one, including himself, in his gut-wrenching account of the agony of war. Through the stench of death and the acrid smell of napalm, he chronicles the Vietnam War in all its nightmarish horror.
My War In The Jungle
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Author : G. M. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-11
My War In The Jungle written by G. M. Davis and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This memoir tells the story of a Marine rifle platoon commander’s time in the mountainous jungle of the northernmost province of the then Republic of Vietnam. While tasked with fighting the enemy, G.M. Davis made some great friends ... but saw too much death. The author tracks his tour of duty in the jungle, leading Marines not against the Viet Cong but against the North Vietnamese Army, a well-trained and well-supplied professional army dedicated to unifying the two Vietnams. The heat, the worry, the responsibility and the daily grind took a toll amid firefights, battles, victory, and loss. Contact with the enemy was frequent, and the chaos of even a small fight was daunting. Davis also examines the political reality of the time, arguing that the war was lost before it began, but that the nation kept fighting and losing soldiers so politicians could look strong and keep their jobs. Looking back at the war, he concludes it was a waste of lives and treasure.
Summary Of Frederick Downs Jr S The Killing Zone
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-04-05T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Frederick Downs Jr S The Killing Zone written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05T22:59:00Z with History categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was excited to be heading to Vietnam, where I would be able to find answers to my many questions about war and my role in it. I was surprised at the number of lights below. I had always thought that a war zone would be blacked out, but the jewels of lights spread haphazardly through the dark. #2 I was waiting with my duffle bag and flight bag at the airport, long before transportation arrived to take us to the camp. Vietnamese were everywhere, on the roads and in the camp. They were in places I thought would be taboo on a military base. #3 I was assigned to the supply sergeant for my equipment. He gave me two sets of jungle fatigues, olive-drab underwear, a towel, and a M-16 rifle with magazines. He told me to stuff all of my other junk into my duffle bag. #4 I was transferred to the Third Brigade of the Fourth Division, located in Due Pho, Vietnam. The camp was fully developed to the west, and more units were assigned areas in a steadily encroaching circle around to the east side, toward the sea.
Rock N Roll Soldier
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Author : Dean Ellis Kohler
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-08-18
Rock N Roll Soldier written by Dean Ellis Kohler and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-18 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
"During a time when none of us knew for sure if we would live or die, I came to know the true power of music." Dean Kohler is about to make it big—he's finally scored a national record deal! But his dreams are abruptly put on hold by the arrival of his draft notice. Now he's in Qui Nhon, Vietnam, serving as a military policeman. He keeps telling himself he's a musician, not a killer, and that he's lucky he's not fighting on the front lines. When Captain orders him to form a rock band, it's up to Dean to find instruments and players, pronto. Ingenuity and perseverance pay off and soon the band is traveling through treacherous jungle terrain to perform for troops in desperate need of an escape—even if it's only for three sets. And for Dean—who lives with death, violence, and the fear that anyone could be a potential spy (even his Vietnamese girlfriend)—the band becomes the one thing that gets him through the day. During one of the most controversial wars in recent American history, this incredible true story is about music and camaraderie in the midst of chaos.
Matterhorn
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Author : Karl Marlantes
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Matterhorn written by Karl Marlantes and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever. Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world—both its horrors and its thrills—and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.