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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.
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.
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."
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.
War In The Shadows
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
War In The Shadows written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Vietnam categories.
In The Shadows Of The Dead
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Author : Gregory Abati
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-01-18
In The Shadows Of The Dead written by Gregory Abati and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-18 with categories.
In the Shadows of the Dead is a story of unbelievable courage, acts of bravery and good will, a story of good versus evil, right versus wrong, enlightenment versus darkness. It's a story of unimaginable sadness, cruelty and brutality. This story takes place in the jungles and villages of in 1968 and 1969. At one telling, the war in Vietnam is both a tragic and noble story. It is a story of historic global significance for humanity and a personal story of a boy soldier caught up in a brutal war. It is a story about an eighteen year old boy who naively joins the United States Marine Corps at the height of the Vietnam War, 1968-69; the war's bloodiest years. A kid whose father and mother were at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked Hawaii on December 7th, 1941. A military brat raised on U.S. Army bases. His father was a first generation Italian American, born in Vermont and proud to be an U.S. citizen. His father was a Korean War veteran who retired from the Army in 1964. Believing America could do no wrong this young man joins the Marines to defend his country against the global threat of communism. He would soon discover that the war in Vietnam was much more complicated than a war against communism. He would grow to admire the courage of both the U.S. Marines he served with and the Vietnamese people. He graduates boot camp and infantry training on September 6th, 1968 and arrives in Vietnam on October 25th, 1968. His MOS would be 0331, machine gunner. He would serve in Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marines (Landing Battalion). Vietnam was a war strewn with horrific scenes of brutality; the dead and decaying bodies of men, women and children, combatants and noncombatants, the enemy and the innocent. He is a combat veteran who proudly served his nation as a United States Marine forced to question both his own actions while in Vietnam and the morality of the war itself. It is a story of one boy's journey into manhood and the loss of innocence. a young man who returned home from the country of Vietnam but never home from the war.
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.
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.
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.