The Boys of ’67

The Boys of ’67
Author: Andrew Wiest
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2012-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1780968906

In the spring of 1966, while the war in Vietnam was still popular, the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up. Across the nation, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings from Uncle Sam. Most American soldiers of the Vietnam era trickled into the war zone as individual replacements for men who had become casualties or had rotated home. Charlie Company was different as part of the only division raised, drafted and trained for service. From draft to the battlefields of South Vietnam, this is the unvarnished truth from the fear of death to the chaos of battle, told almost entirely through the recollections of the men themselves. This is their story, the story of young draftees who had done everything that their nation had asked of them and had received so little in return – lost faces of a distant war.

Charlie Company

Charlie Company
Author: Peter Louis Goldman
Publisher: William Morrow
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN:

Relates the Vietnam War, its aftermath and effect on their lives as seen by 65 veterans of Charlie Company, an infantry unit.

Charlie Company's Journey Home

Charlie Company's Journey Home
Author: Andrew Wiest
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472827481

Using countless interviews as well as original diaries and letters, Andrew Wiest lays bare the horror of the Vietnam War for those left behind and the enduring battles they must continue to fight long after their loved ones have returned home. The human experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp – the camaraderie, the fear, the smell, the pain. Men were transformed into soldiers, and then into warriors. These warriors had wives who loved them and shared in their transformations. Some marriages were strengthened, while for others there was all too often a dark side, leaving men and their families emotionally and spiritually battered for years to come. Focusing in on just one company's experience of war and its eventual homecoming, Wiest shines a light on the shared experience of combat and both the darkness and resiliency of war's aftermath.

Boys of '67

Boys of '67
Author: Charles Jones
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2007-07-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0811750825

Winner of the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for Biography, 2006. Now available in paperback.

Vietnam

Vietnam
Author: Andrew Wiest
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2013-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782003231

From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the human experience during the conflict. Vietnam allows the reader a grunt's-eye-view of the conflict – from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands and the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ. It is the definitive oral history of the Vietnam War told in the uncompromising, no-holds barred language of the soldiers themselves.

Vietnam's Forgotten Army

Vietnam's Forgotten Army
Author: Andrew Wiest
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 081479467X

War.

The Class of 67

The Class of 67
Author: Forrest Brandt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08
Genre: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN: 9781491807033

The Class of 67 is a historic novel; an episodic, coming-of-age story set on the Ohio State campus in the sixties. The protagonist, Jerry Roush, and his classmates live through turbulent social upheaval-the free speech movement; the struggle for civil rights, open housing, and access to "the pill;" the space race, and the threat of nuclear war. Jerry and his friends struggle to incorporate the changes, while dealing with their own identities, relationships, commitments, and expectations - all played out on a college campus. The reader will discover - or relive - what it was like to be in the epicenter of a storm of generation-splitting conflicts - including the threat of the military draft and the freedom of "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll." What was the boomer generation's reaction to mandatory military training, to girls' hours and PDA (Public Display of Affection)? What did they think and feel during the Cuban missile crisis? Where were they on the day John F. Kennedy was shot? What did white suburban kids do when they discovered how rental housing worked, or racial tensions flared? How did couples obtain an abortion before Roe vs. Wade? Growing up is never easy, but the times made it even more confusing for Jerry and his classmates as they struggled with their idealism - when the world they thought they could make clashed with the one their parents sought to keep.

The Odyssey of Echo Company

The Odyssey of Echo Company
Author: Doug Stanton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476761914

A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.

The Outlaw's Silver

The Outlaw's Silver
Author: Franklin Dixon
Publisher: Minstrel
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1991
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780671742294

The Hardy Boys are given clues which send them in search of the treasure hidden by the Outlaw of the Pine Barrens.

Slam Dunk Sabotage

Slam Dunk Sabotage
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1439114188

The Hardys and their high school basketball team, the Bayport Bombers, are getting ready to play for their championship. One more victory will put them on top. But somebody’s got a different game plan: Blast the Bombers out of contention by knocking Frank and Joe out of the way—for good.