Twelve And Twenty A Vietnam War Novel
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Twelve And Twenty A Vietnam War Novel
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Author : James Toomey
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Twelve And Twenty A Vietnam War Novel written by James Toomey and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Fiction categories.
The title connotes the tour of duty for a US Marine in Vietnam, for twelve months and twenty days. PFC Sean P. O’Hara embarks upon an adventure that would change his life forever. Twelve and Twenty is a riveting novel that takes place in the jungles of Southeast Asia and the quagmire of the Vietnam War. In a graphic and haunting naturalistic style, James Toomey adroitly tells the story of the madness of war and the paradox of valor in the early summer of 1968 in the Republic of Vietnam. With great skill, Colonel Toomey has created a page-turner. It reveals the arduous and sometimes horrific life of an infantry marine serving his country in a sustained and unpopular ground war. That war changed the country, and that change was not for the better. The book honestly and graphically presents the minute-to-minute, day-to-day, week-to-week dichotomy of insipid drudgery and violent combat that almost instantaneously transforms an Ivy League candidate into a highly trained, coldhearted killing machine. The psychological scars of these hellacious 385 days in 1968 and 1969 will never go away. O’Hara, during the course of his tour, is given a ribald and Mephistophelian education in life that he never would receive at Harvard. A macabre curriculum that included the sight of his fellow marines blown to bits; innocent indigenous villagers tortured by their own countrymen; commercial lust sold by adolescent prostitutes in Bangkok, Thailand. Lastly the ultimate, final examination, which is the manic-depressive phenomenon of an otherwise kind and gentle person having to kill other human beings to survive. O’Hara passed the exam physically but not mentally, and he will never be the same again! There is no glory in war, only heartache and despair.
12 20 5
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Author : John A. Parrish
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2013-09-03
12 20 5 written by John A. Parrish and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor’s year behind the frontlines in Vietnam. Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man’s agonizing confrontation with war. With a wife and two children awaiting his return home, the young physician lives through the most turbulent and formative year of his life—and finds himself molded into a true doctor by the raw tragedy of the battlefield. His endless work is punctuated only by the arrival of the next helicopter bearing more casualties, and the stark announcements: “12 litter-borne wounded, 20 ambulatory wounded, and 5 dead.” 12, 20 & 5 is an intimate and unique look at the effects of war that Library Journal calls “an autobiographical M*A*S*H* . . . phenomenal.”
Twilight Of War
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Author : David Lee Corley
language : en
Publisher: White Mountain Commercial LLC
Release Date : 2024-05-10
Twilight Of War written by David Lee Corley and has been published by White Mountain Commercial LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-10 with Fiction categories.
By the summer of 1973, US combat troops have withdrawn leaving only a handful of American advisors and CIA operatives to assist South Vietnam's struggle for survival. The country's fate hangs by a thread as a massive Communist invasion from the North looms. Abandoned by America, South Vietnam's dispirited generals cede the frontier, awaiting attack against the cities and the Mekong Delta's rice fields. Unwilling to desert their allies, weathered CIA veterans Rene Granier and Tom Coyle hatch an audacious plan - assemble several teams of elite operatives to launch audacious strikes to shatter Communist momentum and demoralize the NVA troops. If their daring raids can shock Northern confidence and rekindle ARVN resistance, Saigon may still survive the coming onslaught. But failure to disrupt the Communist tide will ensure Vietnam's swift fall to a red dawn. Outgunned, Granier and Coyle gamble everything on breaking the siege mentality before Saigon is swallowed by Vietnam's gathering twilight of war.
Looking Back On The Vietnam War
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Author : Brenda M. Boyle
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-17
Looking Back On The Vietnam War written by Brenda M. Boyle and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-17 with History categories.
More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of Vietnam. Looking Back on the Vietnam War brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the war’s psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Marvel comic books to the experiences of Vietnamese soldiers exposed to Agent Orange. By putting these pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies. Though they come from diverse scholarly backgrounds, ranging from anthropology to film studies, the contributors are united in their commitment to original research. Whether exploring rare archives or engaging in extensive interviews, they voice perspectives that have been excluded from standard historical accounts. Looking Back on the Vietnam War thus embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why.
Twelve Twenty And Five
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Author : John Albert Parrish
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Twelve Twenty And Five written by John Albert Parrish and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
When Heaven And Earth Changed Places
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Author : Le Ly Hayslip
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2012-10-03
When Heaven And Earth Changed Places written by Le Ly Hayslip and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters langed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Le Ly was one of those children. Before the age of sixteen, Le Ly had suffered near-starvation, imprisonment, torture, rape, and the deaths of beloved family members—but miraculously held fast to her faith in humanity. And almost twenty years after her escape to Ameica, she was drawn inexorably back to the devastated country and family she left behind. Scenes of this joyous reunion are interwoven with the brutal war years, offering a poignant picture of vietnam, then and now, and of a courageous woman who experienced the true horror of the Vietnam War—and survived to tell her unforgettable story.
Starlight
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Author : Scott Ely
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Release Date : 1988-05-01
Starlight written by Scott Ely and has been published by Grand Central Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-05-01 with Fiction categories.
As two soldiers, Jackson, a radioman, and light, a sniper, reach the limits of physical and psychological danger during the Vietnam War, they find that they can no longer distinguish hallucination from reality
Inside Out Back Again
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Author : Thanhhà Lai
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-06-15
Inside Out Back Again written by Thanhhà Lai and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-15 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Ten-year-old Hà has only ever known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her family and friends close by. But when the Vietnam War reaches the gates of her home, Hà and her family are forced to flee. The journey onboard a refugee ship bound for America is hard - but nothing can prepare Hà for the strangeness of the country that greets them on the other side. The language is impossible, the food is strange - and not all the locals are friendly. But amongst her struggles, Hà finds joy, friendship - and most of all, the power of hope, love and family.
Why Are We In Vietnam
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Author : Norman Mailer
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-07-18
Why Are We In Vietnam written by Norman Mailer and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-18 with Fiction categories.
“It is impossible to walk away from this novel without being sharply reminded of the fact that Norman Mailer is a writer of extraordinary ability.”—Chicago Tribune Featuring a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinley Published nearly twenty years after Norman Mailer’s fiction debut, The Naked and the Dead, this acclaimed novel further solidified the author’s stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature. Ranald “D. J.” Jethroe, Texas’s most precocious teenager, recounts a brutal hunting trip he took to Alaska—in a story of fathers and sons, myth and masculinity, character and corruption. Both entertaining and profound, Why Are We in Vietnam? is an exceptional, timeless work awaiting discovery by a new generation of readers. Praise for Why Are We in Vietnam? “A book of great integrity. All the old qualities are here: Mailer’s remarkable feeling for the sensory event, the detail, ‘the way it was,’ his power and energy.”—The New York Review of Books “A tour de force, a treatise on human nature.”—The Dallas Morning News “A brilliant piece of writing.”—Newsweek “Original, courageous, and provocative.”—The New York Times
What Was The Vietnam War
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Author : Jim O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-05-07
What Was The Vietnam War written by Jim O'Connor and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the Civil Rights Movement. Five US presidents were convinced that American troops could end a war in the small, divided country of Vietnam and stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. But they were wrong, and the result was the death of 58,000 American troops. Presenting all sides of a complicated and tragic chapter in recent history, Jim O'Connor explains why the US got involved, what the human cost was, and how defeat in Vietnam left a lasting scar on America.