The Killing Zone My Life In The Vietnam War
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Author | : Frederick Downs |
Publisher | : Berkley |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780425104361 |
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.
Author | : Frederick Downs Jr. |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2007-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393076067 |
“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.
Author | : Nick Turse |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2013-01-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0805086919 |
Based on classified documents and interviews, argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
Author | : Philip Caputo |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080504695X |
Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.
Author | : John Ketwig |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1402224737 |
"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
Author | : Jean Holley Watts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
ISBN | : 9780974058528 |
Memoirs of a Red Cross "donut dolly" 1966-67 in pictures and pieces
Author | : Chris Lynch |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545470056 |
Four best friends. Four ways to serve their country. Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together -- and they promise to do all they can to come home together.Rudi is perhaps the most concerned about whether or not he'll be able to keep that promise. After all -- and he'd be the first to admit this -- he's not the most capable guy. He's not smart like Beck, or brave like Ivan. He lacks the strength of Morris's moral convictions.But once Rudi is pulled kicking and screaming into the Marines, he at last finds something he's good at: following orders. Will that be enough to keep him alive? And if he does survive the war, will his best friends even recognize him on the other side?
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : War |
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Author | : Karl Marlantes |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802197167 |
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.
Author | : Michael H. Hunt |
Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1429930683 |
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives, Hunt reinterprets the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention in Southeast Asia, and renders more comprehensible--if no less troubling--the tangled origins of the war.