The Tet Offensive

The Tet Offensive
Author: Dale Anderson
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780756518240

Provides detailed information on the events leading up to and taking place during the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the struggle for the control of Vietnam. Includes source notes and timeline.

Snapshots from the Vietnam War

Snapshots from the Vietnam War
Author: Richard Udden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2018-08-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781983711121

In 2014, Udden decided to add captions to the snapshots he took in Vietnam in 1970. That effort morphed into his memoir, 21 MONTHS, 24 DAYS. So, he began again to finish captioning his pictures. The result is this book. Soldiers that carried a camera in Vietnam took pictures of each other and then passed the camera to get a picture of themselves. Udden also took snapshots of the land, the people of Vietnam, artillery, helicopters, planes and anything else that caught his eye through the lens. He used a Kodak Instamatic Camera instead of a 35mm because he needed something tough that would survive getting banged around in an ammo can at the bottom of his pack. So, though the images are unique and the colors amazing, he apologizes that some are not focused to a pinpoint. I hope you enjoy what you see. If you want to know the stories that fit between these captured moments, I would suggest you read his memoir.

The Listening Post

The Listening Post
Author: Charles Robinson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2017-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781543226270

I started thinking about writing this book as a memoir of my experience as a young soldier in the Vietnam War, beginning in November, 1967 until November, 1968. It was to have been an effort to relate to my family, especially to my children, what it was like to have fought during the war.As I started trying to recall my experiences, I found that I could remember only a few scattered details. Somehow, it seems as if my entire life can be encapsulated in just a few memorable snapshots in a photograph album. So, the book became not only a memoir of war, but, a memoir of my life, and a reflection upon the war; my thoughts and feelings about what was going on, during the war; my life after the war; and how the two would became inseparable. I hope that in my doing so that those, who read this account, may understand a little bit better how my entire life, and perhaps that of my comrades, was influenced by events of that one year in Vietnam, in service to my country.

Another Vietnam

Another Vietnam
Author: Tim Page
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

These and a hundred other images are seared into our consciousness - but a very different viewpoint appears in this vision of three decades of war in Vietnam.".

Sons of the Greatest Generation

Sons of the Greatest Generation
Author: Ron Copeland
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2016-10-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1460289315

Like thousands of young men before and after him, in 1967 at just nineteen years old, Ron Copeland was drafted into the US Army, trained as an infantry soldier, and shipped off to Vietnam. He spent the next year of his life immersed in the fear, fatigue, tedium, and moral ambiguity that comes with life in a combat zone, while forming deep bonds with his fellow soldiers. Contrary to the losers, addicts, and crazed baby killers that Vietnam veterans have been portrayed to be, Ron found them to be “good boys from every corner of our country, black and white, rich and poor, who did as we were told, the best job we could.” From Ron’s point of view, he and his fellow soldiers were sons of the “greatest generation”, who wanted only to honor their fathers by answering their nation’s call, just like their fathers did in World War II. As a soldier with the First Cavalry Division, Ron participated in some of the most pivotal conflicts of the war, including the Tet Offensive and the siege of Khe Sanh. He wrote this book not only as a memoir of his experience but also as an effort to set the record straight concerning the true character of his fellow soldiers. Packed with photos and personal stories, Sons of the Greatest Generation is a fascinating firstperson account of the Vietnam conflict.

Facets of the Vietnam War in American Media

Facets of the Vietnam War in American Media
Author: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 3643910746

This volume assembles Vietnam War-related stories by twenty Pulitzer Prize laureates - reporters, cartoonists, photographers and book authors - about various phases and aspects of the fightings. There are articles about the origins of the conflict, shocking reports from the combat zones or disclosures of American war crimes; there are book portions re President Nixon's war conduct, anti-war demonstrations in Washington or the death of soldiers; there are cartoons expressing U.S. illusions about alleged war successes or the loss of thousands of casualties; and there are pictures showing Vietnamese civilians facing the war: family members fleeing across a river or children escaping from a war zone after napalm bombings.

Vietnam Snapshots

Vietnam Snapshots
Author: Craig Etchison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2017-08-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781549554506

Short stories based on events the author experienced during his year stationed with the First Cavalry Division in Vietnam. The point of view shifts across stories to includes soldiers and civilians--both men, women, and children--and how the war affected them. According to one veteran, "He (Etchison) got it right." Professor C. Snyder calls this a "powerful book."

Snapshots of Vietnam

Snapshots of Vietnam
Author: James F. Marsh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780978564803

Snapshots of Vietnam: the Unraveling of a Non-Combatant tells the true story of Jim Marsh's thirteen months in Vietnam in a series of vignettes that capture his internal war as well as the external bloodshed. Marsh shows the war through these literary photos that are both poetic and profound in their brevity and simplicity. Each piece captures a scene, and when put all together the book as a whole shows a young man falling apart as he is broken physically and mentally.Thirty-five years after returning from the war, Marsh begins to heal by writing down these images that have haunted him all these years. And the reader is also healed in the process.

1000 Yard Stare

1000 Yard Stare
Author: Marc Waszkiewicz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0811765660

A grunt’s-eye view of the Vietnam War through hundreds of personal photos Marc Waszkiewicz served three tours (1967, 1968, 1969) as an artillery forward observer with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam, where he took thousands of photos capturing the beauty, drudgery, hilarity, and horror of the war. 1,000-Yard Stare collects the best of these in a book that presents an unvarnished grunt’s-eye view of the Vietnam War. These are amazing, well-shot photos--most of them color, many of them truly arresting--of Marines in the field, in camp, on base, fighting, patrolling, writing, drinking, carrying on. Some have the feeling of candid snapshots while others are more composed (Waszkiewicz was, and is, an amateur photographer), with subjects ranging from a gunner calculating ranges with pencil and protractor and a chaplain conducting a battlefield mass to grunts smoking illicit substances while pretending to fish and images of barbed wire twisting in the jungle and watchtowers at twilight. Also included are photographs from Waszkiewicz’s postwar decades of coming to terms with his experiences, such as a sequence of poignant photos from The Wall in Washington and his trip back to Vietnam. This is a visual memoir of the war.

Vietnam Snapshots

Vietnam Snapshots
Author: Craig Etchison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 139
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN: 9780941092340