Author : Josefina J. Card
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
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Author : Jon Hovde
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 1452907455
The inspirational memoir of a Vietnam War veteran and a double amputee recounts not only his remarkable recovery but also recognizes the efforts of the people who aided him, with a lack of bitterness and abundance of hope that will stir emotions in veterans, the families of veterans, and civilians.
Author : Robert Mason
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 110117515X
A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger. "Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Author : Dave Bushy
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1480852384
What happened to the people who remained in the former South Vietnam after the war ended in April 1975? Few of us know. The war-weary United States had turned its attention away from the region, and the Communist leadership closed Vietnam to Western journalists. For more than a decade, little was heard, but retribution against the South Vietnamese was swift and unending. Hundreds of thousands of former South Vietnamese military officers were sent to Reeducation Camps. Expecting a confinement of just ten days, most were incarcerated for years, suffering brutality, starvation and death. The families of prisoners had property and savings confiscated. They were denied jobs and medical care. They lived in poverty. Ultimately, nearly a million Boat People chose to escape Vietnam by sea, taking their chances in fragile overcrowded vessels. Thousands died at the hands of pirates and the unforgiving ocean. This is the true story of Quoc Pham, a former South Vietnamese naval officer, and his wife Kim-Cuong. It tells of the love between a man and a woman and their courage in the face of hopelessness. It is a story of a people of what happened in Vietnam while the world looked away.
Author : James Ebert
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 030741440X
This provocative in-depth book focuses on the experiences of the infantry soldier in Vietnam. More than 60 Army and Marine Corps infantrymen speak of their experiences during their year-long tours of duty.
Author : Gerard Sasges
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9971696983
Through 67 interviews and 59 colour photographs, It's a Living reveals the energy and struggle of the world of work in Vietnam today. A goldfish peddler installing aquariums, a business school graduate selling shoes on the sidewalk, a college student running an extensive multi-level sales network, and a girl doing promotions but intent on moving into management, are just a few of the people profiled. Based on frank and freewheeling interviews conducted by students, the book engages a broad range of Vietnamese, both living in Vietnam and abroad, on their feelings about work, life and getting ahead. By providing a ground-level view of the texture of daily working life in the midst of rapid and unsettling change, the book reveals Vietnam today as a place where ordinary people are leveraging whatever assets they have, not just to survive, but to make a better life for themselves, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Author : Aphrodite Matsakis
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Focuses on the plight of the wives and children of the Vietnam vet.
Author : David Lamb
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0786725788
When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and in the midst of a country on the move, as it progresses toward a free-market economy and divorces itself from the restrictive, isolationist policies established at the end of the war. This was a new country; in Vietnam, Now, David Lamb brings it--and us--forward from its dark, distant past. From the myriad personalities entwined in the dark, distant history of the war to those focused toward the future, Lamb reveals a rich and culturally diverse people as they share their memories of the country's past, and their hopes for a peacetime future. A portrait of a beautiful country and a remarkable, determined people, Vietnam, Now is a personal journey that will change the way we think of Vietnam, and perhaps the war as well.
Author : Jessica Hines
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 9781911306672
My Brother's War tells the story of a soldier, Gary Hines, and his younger sister's search to understand the circumstances surrounding his life with Post Traumatic Stress - and his untimely death by his own hand ten years after returning home from war.
Author : Aphrodite Matsakis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Families
ISBN : 9781886968004
This book revisits the plight of the secondary victims of the war: the wives and children of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. The book explores the many changes encountered by traumatized veterans and their families as they face the difficult developmental stage of mid-life: retirement, the "empty nest syndrome," becoming grandparents, and, in many cases, separation and divorce. The author explains post-traumatic stress disorder, its causes, symptoms, and the devastating long-term effects, including domestic violence, substance abuse, and suicidal feelings. To illustrate both problems and solutions, she extensively uses interviews with wives of Vietnam veterans.
