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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.
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 Under The Shadows
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Author : R.K Karanjia
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-02-22
Vietnam Under The Shadows written by R.K Karanjia and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-22 with Fiction categories.
GLORIA ARORA has been a Journalist for several years, he is a serious student of the contemporary scene. She has not yet been affected by the cynicism or the complacency which many journalists affect. That she has survived two years in BLITZ Newspaper is a tribute to her idealism and faith in the profession. This publication bespeaks her cosmopolitan interests that she should have written about the trials and tribulations of the Viet-Namese people. The book is its own recommendation.
Shadows And Wind
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Author : Robert Templer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1999-09-01
Shadows And Wind written by Robert Templer and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-01 with History categories.
In Shadows and Wind, Robert Templer paints a fascinating and fresh picture of a country usually viewed with hazy nostalgia or deep suspicion. Here is Hanoi, an increasingly tense and troubled city approaching its millennium but uncertain of its direction. Here are people emerging from a long wilderness of malnutrition, discovering a new lifestyle of leisure and luxury. And everywhere are the anomalies that burst the bubble of optimism: a vastly expensive luxury hotel sitting empty in an unknown town six hours from an international airport; museums crammed with fake exhibits. And there remains the one-party Communist state, still wrapped in secrecy and corruption, and making for an uneasy bedfellow with the rapacious capitalism it now encourages.Drawing on hundreds of interviews in Vietnam and years of research, Robert Templer has produced the first in-depth examination of the problems facing modern Vietnam. Shadows and Wind is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Vietnam that now has emerged from a century of conflict with both foreign powers and with itself.
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.
The Dark Shadows Of Vietnam
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Author : Joseph W. Babine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-08-14
The Dark Shadows Of Vietnam written by Joseph W. Babine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-14 with categories.
Twenty-four hours later, the storm was finally over. When we went above deck, we saw how bad it had been. Armored personnel vehicles and tanks that had been tied on the decks were no longer therejust gone. Two of the ships in the convoy were badly damaged, with twisted parts of superstructures and decks strips bare. In spite of the significant damage, the ships were capable of moving on. So we continued toward Vietnam. It was trouble before trouble. In The Dark Shadows of Vietnam, Joseph Babine relates his personal experiences from one of the most controversial eras in American history. Packed full of heart-wrenching stories of loss on the battlefield and uplifting moments with fellow war-stricken soldiers searching for purpose in an unjust war, Babine's words will touch you in a way only such a harrowing book can. By collecting his memories and sharing them with the public, Babine has assured himself that he will never forget what he experienced so many miles from home. Although he has since been focused on getting on with his life, he will never forget The Dark Shadows of Vietnam."
Fighting Shadows In Vietnam
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Author : Michael P. Moynihan, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-02-10
Fighting Shadows In Vietnam written by Michael P. Moynihan, Jr. and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-10 with History categories.
In this memoir, set as deeply in his mind as in the Southeast Asian jungle, a young American soldier embarks on a journey to a war that, for him, will never be over. The world was a playground for Mickey, a naive Irish American kid bored with his life. His father served in World War II, his brother was a Marine in Vietnam; now it was his turn. His 365 days in the hell that was Vietnam builds in torment until an attack on a bunker complex in Cambodia. Wounded, his friend captured, he becomes a tormented survivor knowing he is always just a heartbeat from death. His adventure-turned-nightmare brings a visceral understanding of the words penned by Thoreau, the very same words Mickey's father spoke throughout Mickey's youth: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," especially those at war. This memoir chronicles the key perspective-shaping experiences of a U.S. Army grunt fighting in Vietnam.
War In The Shadows
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Author : Boston Publishing Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
War In The Shadows written by Boston Publishing Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
Picture essays cover the Golden Triangle and Edward G. Lansdale.
Acts And Shadows
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Author : Philip K. Jason
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Acts And Shadows written by Philip K. Jason and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
The imaginative literature of the Vietnam War participates-both overtly and covertly-in a struggle for national memory. First-generation Vietnam War literature, focusing on representations of combat and life in the battlefield, strove to give testimony, to write history. Later writings, in their range of genre and style, investigate and interrogate the very meaning of war. To reflect these two stages, Philip Jason divides his newest book of literary criticism into two sections: 'acts' and 'shadows.' In 'Acts, ' Jason provides formal and cultural readings of combat narratives-by such authors as James Webb, Larry Heinemann, and Joe Haldeman-and explores the meaning of 'authenticity' as applied to Vietnam War texts. 'Shadows' looks both forward and backward from the combat zone, challenging the parameters of what we define as 'Vietnam War literature.
Shadows Of Vietnam
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Author : Frank Everson Vandiver
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1997
Shadows Of Vietnam written by Frank Everson Vandiver and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Compellingly addressing long-standing questions of whether the White House had become isolated from public opinion and whether Johnson was hardened to the voices raised against the war, Vandiver shows the president as a man who agonized, raged, and grew in response to crises in Vietnam and at home.