Author : Deborah Nelson
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0465005276
Examines declassified Army papers that discuss the numerous atrocities that took place in nearly every Army division that went into combat in Vietnam and the lack of prosecution or punishment that resulted when they were reported.
Author : Deborah Nelson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0786726784
In 2005, Deborah Nelson joined forces with military historian Nick Turse to investigate an extraordinary archive: the largest compilation of records on Vietnam-era war crimes ever to surface. The declassified Army papers were erroneously released and have since been pulled from public circulation. Few civilians have seen the documents. The files contain reports of more than 300 confirmed atrocities, and 500 other cases the Army either couldn't't prove or didn't't investigate. The archive has letters of complaint to generals and congressmen, as well as reports of Army interviews with hundreds of men who served. Far from being limited to a few bad actors or rogue units, atrocities occurred in every Army division that saw combat in Vietnam. Torture of detainees was routine; so was the random killing of farmers in fields and women and children in villages. Punishment for these acts was either nonexistent or absurdly light. In most cases, no one was prosecuted at all. In The War Behind Me Deborah Nelson goes beyond the documents and talks with many of those who were involved, both accusers and accused, to uncover their stories and learn how they deal with one of the most awful secrets of the Vietnam War.
Author : William Broyles
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0292783396
Reviews of the Knopf edition: "A wonderful book—fresh and intelligent. Broyles's eye for Vietnam, then and now, is unerring." —Peter Jennings "[A] superbly written, often moving story of Broyles' journey back to the killing ground in Vietnam where he once served as a Marine lieutenant. A cool, clear meditation that stings the heart." —Kirkus Reviews "A first-rate piece of work, infused with an ideal American common decency and common sense." —Kurt Vonnegut "Exceptional and memorable." —Gay Talese
Author : Suzanne Gordon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501730843
U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital system in the country—one that has come under fire from critics in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the nation's media. In Wounds of War, Suzanne Gordon draws on five years of observational research to describe how the VHA does a better job than private sector institutions offering primary and geriatric care, mental health and home care services, and support for patients nearing the end of life. In the unusual culture of solidarity between patients and providers that the VHA has fostered, Gordon finds a working model for higher-quality health care and a much-needed alternative to the practice of for-profit medicine.
Author : Michael Herr
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0307814165
"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
Author : Geoffrey Ward
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1984897748
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Based on the celebrated PBS television series, the complete text of an engrossing history of America’s least-understood conflict, “a significant milestone [that] will no doubt do much to determine how the war is understood for years to come.” —The Washington Post More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its memory continues to loom large in the national psyche. In this intimate history, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns have crafted a fresh and insightful account of the long and brutal conflict that reunited Vietnam while dividing the United States as nothing else had since the Civil War. From the Gulf of Tonkin and the Tet Offensive to Hamburger Hill and the fall of Saigon, Ward and Burns trace the conflict that dogged three American presidents and their advisers. But most of the voices that echo from these pages belong to less exalted men and women—those who fought in the war as well as those who fought against it, both victims and victors—willing for the first time to share their memories of Vietnam as it really was. A magisterial tour de force, The Vietnam War is an engrossing history of America’s least-understood conflict.
Author : Ron Carver
Publisher : New Village Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1613321074
How American Soldiers Opposed and Resisted the War in Vietnam While mainstream narratives of the Vietnam War all but marginalize anti-war activity of soldiers, opposition and resistance from within the three branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam. By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, thousands of active duty soldiers and marines were marching in protest in US cities. Hundreds of soldiers and marines in Vietnam were refusing to fight; tens of thousands were deserting to Canada, France and Sweden. Eventually the US Armed Forces were no longer able to sustain large-scale offensive operations and ceased to be effective. Yet this history is largely unknown and has been glossed over in much of the written and visual remembrances produced in recent years. Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance. In addition, the book features fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists. Notable contributors include Vietnam War scholar and author, Christian Appy, and Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, who played a major role in the Paris Peace Accord. The book originates from the exhibition Waging Peace, which has been shown in Vietnam and the University of Notre Dame, and will be touring the eastern United States in conjunction with book launches in Boston, Amherst, and New York.
Author : Patrick Wilson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0850527457
Published to coincide with the major 2 part BBC1 series (Autumn 2000) of the same name, War Behind the Wire focuses on the capture, interrogation, the comradeship of camp life, escape planning and forgery techniques, tunnelling, the thrill of life on the run, re-capture and punishment, the joy of liberation. All these experiences and more are vividly described by former POWs of the Second World War and their German camp guards, in War Behind the Wire.Through gripping first-hand accounts enhanced with numerous illustrations, we learn the true story of the ill-fated Great Escape, which ended in the barbaric murder of 50 gallant men of many nationalities. Former inmates tell what life in Colditz Castle was really like.War Behind the Wire is an inspiring book of memories and experiences of those who never gave up hope. These will be as unforgettable for the reader as they were for those who found themselves in captivity.
Author : Francis Trevelyan Miller
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 1911
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Byron Edgington
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2016-12-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781541020665
Award winning author Byron Edgington's newest release, 'A Vietnam Anthem' describes an untold side of the Vietnam War, how it shaped and molded the author, and countless other Vietnam veterans, in bad ways...and good. The Vietnam War cost America much in blood and treasure, but it gave this author many things, including a career in the sky as a medical helicopter pilot, assisting wounded people when they most needed help, and a bigger, more expansive perspective on life. Another benefit Edgington writes of is his absence of fear, and his subsequent surrender to all life has to offer. As he writes in A Vietnam Anthem, he feels he is 'living on borrowed time, ' and is now free of the chains that fear wraps many people in. In this book the author recognizes not just the agonizing loss from the long-ago war in Southeast Asia, but the many gains the war provided him. This is a companion book to Edgington's first release, The Sky Behind Me, a Memoir of Flying and Life 2nd Edition, also available at Amazon
