Download or read book Surviving Vietnam written by Bruce Philip Dohrenwend and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely using historical material and military records as well as personal interviews and clinical diagnoses, Surviving Vietnam focuses on veterans' war-zone experiences and the development in some of PTSD. It addresses controversies regarding reported rates of PTSD and the importance of exposure to traumatic events compared with pre-war personal vulnerability.
Download or read book Nam Sense written by Arthur Wiknik and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2005-07-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid memoir of being sent to Vietnam at age nineteen, witnessing the carnage of Hamburger Hill, and returning to an America in turmoil. Arthur Wiknik was a teenager from New England when he was drafted into the US Army in 1968, shipping out to Vietnam early the following year. Shortly after his arrival on the far side of the world, he was assigned to Camp Evans near the northern village of Phong Dien, only thirty miles from Laos and North Vietnam. On his first jungle patrol, his squad killed a female Viet Cong who turned out to have been the local prostitute. It was the first dead person he had ever seen. Wiknik's account of life and death in Vietnam includes everything from heavy combat to faking insanity to get some R & R. He was the first in his unit to reach the top of Hamburger Hill, and between sporadic episodes of combat, he mingled with the locals; tricked unwitting US suppliers into providing his platoon with hard-to-get food; defied a superior and was punished with a dangerous mission; and struggled with himself and his fellow soldiers as the antiwar movement began to affect them. Written with honesty and sharp wit by a soldier who was featured on a recent History Channel documentary about Vietnam, Nam Sense spares nothing and no one in its attempt to convey what really transpired for the combat soldier during this unpopular war. It is not about glory, mental breakdowns, flashbacks, or self-pity. The GIs Wiknik lived and fought with during his yearlong tour were not drug addicts or war criminals or gung-ho killers. They were there to do their duty as they were trained, support their comrades—and get home alive. Recipient of an Honorable Mention from the Military Writers Society of America.
Download or read book Re Membering and Surviving written by Shirley A. James Hanshaw and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length critical study of the black experience in the Vietnam War and its aftermath, this text interrogates the meaning of heroism based on models from African and African American expressive culture. It focuses on four novels: Captain Blackman (1972) by John A. Williams, Tragic Magic (1978) by Wesley Brown, Coming Home (1971) by George Davis, and De Mojo Blues (1985) by A. R. Flowers. Discussions of the novels are framed within the historical context of all wars prior to Vietnam in which Black Americans fought. The success or failure of the hero on his identity quest is predicated upon the extent to which he can reconnect with African or African American cultural memory. He is engaged therefore in “re-membering,” a term laden with the specificity of race that implies a cultural history comprised of African retentions and an interdependent relationship with the community for survival. The reader will find that a common history of racism and exploitation that African Americans and Vietnamese share sometimes results in the hero’s empathy with and compassion for the so-called enemy, a unique contribution of the black novelist to American war literature.
Download or read book Surviving Twice written by Trin Yarborough and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the war's end and grew up as Americans, speaking English and attending American schools. Instead, this group of Amerasians faced much more formidable obstacles, both in Vietnam and in their new home. Surviving Twice raises significant questions about how mixed-race children born of wars and occupations are treated and the ways in which the shifting laws, policies, social attitudes, and bureaucratic red tape of two nations affect them their entire lives.
Download or read book The War I Survived Was Vietnam written by Michael Uhl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflections on the war, from his combat experiences to his exploration of American veteran identity to his struggles with PTSD. His career as an advocate for the welfare of GIs and veterans exposed to dangerous radiation and herbicides is covered. Several pieces deal with how the Vietnam experience is being archived by scholars for historical interpretation. These collected works serve as a study of how wars are remembered and written about by surviving veterans.
Download or read book Vietnam Wives written by Aphrodite Matsakis and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the plight of the wives and children of the Vietnam vet.
Download or read book Collision Over Vietnam written by Don Harten and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 18, 1965, thirty B-52s took part in the first Strategic Air Command B-52 bombing mission in Vietnam, a mission that, if carried out successfully, might have halted the war in its tracks. Before two of the aircraft could deliver their payload, they collided midair, killing eight men as both planes exploded over the South China Sea. In Collision Over Vietnam, Lieutenant Don Harten, a pilot in the combat mission, recounts the harrowing yet miraculous true story of how he survived the B-52 collision and how he lived through the crash of his rescue plane to fly almost 200 more missions in the war. A remarkable account of comradery, courage, and loss, Collision Over Vietnam is sure to make its name in history as did the brave men who fought in Vietnam.
Download or read book SURVIVING the VIETNAM WAR and ITS AFTERMATH written by Duong Duong Phuc and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - A riveting real-life story set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Vietnam War. - A vivid, sweeping memoir of a lifetime of love continuously tested yet strengthened through four decades of war and terror; a love which endured, survived and unequivocally triumphed - A rare, never-told-before, war account by in-the-trenches Vietnamese war correspondents. Authors Duong Phuc & Vu Thanh Thuy, in their own words:... "We began the first lines of this memoir in November 1979 on a police boat heading to Songkhla Refugee camp. We had just been rescued by a United Nations representative after 21 days in captivity by sea pirates on a deserted island in the Gulf of Thailand. ...We are reporters, not fiction writers. We simply want to honestly record the facts of what we heard and saw firsthand on the gruesome battlefront, in the communist re-education camps, and on the open sea. Sometimes the truth surpasses anything in the human imagination. We truthfully present everything-episodes of stark, unbearable terror along with strange, unbelievable turns of fortune; the worst of human flaws as well as acts of kindness suddenly performed by the most despicable of people-to balance fairly the good and bad that can be found in human beings. We attempt to declare the mystery of life and the human heart that gives birth to hope even when fortune and misfortune become unexpectedly mixed up and change places in an instant. ...Nearly forty years have passed from the day we first began writing in the notebook on the Gulf of Thailand. Our hair is gray now, but we finished the book at last." ------------"Sometimes the truth surpasses anything in the human imagination."------------- Upon arrival in the United States, the authors were interviewed, among many more, by Barbara Walters & Hugh Downs in "A Mission of Mercy", Oprah Winfrey brought the children on the show "The Dignity of Children" on NBC, etc. VU THANH THUY: Senior Fellow, American Leadership Forum - Thought Leader, Images & Voices of HopeBoard Member, American Red Cross, Board Member, New American Media, Board Member, IMD, Mission Member: Katrina Hurricane, Haiti Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Thailand Tsunami, Philippines Yolanda Typhoon, Cambodia child-sex mission. VT THUY AWARDS: Woman of the Year & Headliner, Woman of Achievement, Woman of Honor, Woman in Media Award, Entrepreneur of the Year, Woman of the 21st Century, We the People's Vision Award, Asian Business Leadership Award, Houston Women's Hall of Fame Induction, Lifetime Achievement - Asian-American Journalists Association, Vietnamese Americans of 25 years, Century Award Woman, and more.
Download or read book On Full Automatic written by William V Taylor, Jr and published by Deep Water Press. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam 1967-68 Eighteen-year-old Marine recruit William V. Taylor Jr. and his brother Marines are assembled into a new reactionary force that is immediately tested in the fire of a bloody conflict known as Operation Beaver Cage. After a traumatic first fight, they push through back-to-back operations with little time to rest or reflect. Those who survive will return home ensnared by everlasting memories of a real, but entirely surreal nightmare. Now after more than fifty years of holding everything in, Taylor shares his experience in explicit and often horrific detail and with a reverent honor for those Marines who did not live to tell the tale. Taylor reveals what it truly means to walk the path of a warrior, to sacrifice, and to live a lifetime with the memories of a war-seeking answers to the question, "Was it worth it?"
Download or read book Surviving written by Phuc Duong and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving Hell written by Leo Thorsness and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture-to-repatriation memoir of an U.S. Air Force combat pilot who spent six years as a prisoner of war in the infamous Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War.
Download or read book Defiant The POWs Who Endured Vietnam s Most Infamous Prison the Women Who Fought for Them and the One Who Never Returned written by Alvin Townley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of Communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain their Code of Conduct, the inmates of the Hanoi Hilton and other POW camps developed a powerful underground resistance. To quash it, the North Vietnamese singled out its eleven leaders, Vietnam's own 'Dirty Dozen,' and banished them to an isolated jail that would become know as Alcatraz. None would leave its solitary cells and interrogation rooms unscathed ; one would never return. As these men suffered in Hanoi, their wives launched an extraordinary campaign that would ultimately spark the POW / MIA movement. " --Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Hard to Kill A Hero s Tale of Surviving Vietnam and the Catholic Church written by Joe Ladensack and published by Hellgate Press. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the inspiring memoir of an extraordinary warrior who fought bravely for his country and his faith.. Shot in the head during a massacre in which sixty-eight of seventy men in his company were killed or wounded on a black mountain in Vietnam, Joe Ladensack had an out-of-body experience that inspired him to become a Roman Catholic priest. Back home in Arizona, Ladensack displayed the same valor and courage that earned him two Silver Stars and six Bronze Stars in Vietnam. He became the first priest to voluntarily testify before a grand jury about the worldwide clergy abuse scandal. He helped expose more than fifty sexual predators in the Diocese of Phoenix, brought down a bishop, and sent a half-dozen priests to prison or fleeing in exile.
Download or read book Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton written by Amy Shively Hawk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Senator John McCain. In 1967, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot James Shively was shot down over North Vietnam. After ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief aircraft, he landed in a rice paddy and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. For the next six years, Shively endured brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy in Hanoi prison camps. Back home his girlfriend moved on and married another man. Bound in iron stocks at the Hanoi Hilton, unable to get home to his loved ones, Shively contemplated suicide. Yet somehow he found hope and the will to survive--and he became determined to help his fellow POWs. In a newspaper interview several years after his release, Shively said, "I had the opportunity to be captured, the opportunity to be interrogated, the opportunity to be tortured and the experience of answering questions under torture. It was an extremely humiliating experience. I felt sorry for myself. But I learned the hard way life isn't fair. Life is only what you make of it." Written by Shively's stepdaughter Amy Hawk--whose mother Nancy ultimately reunited with and married Shively in a triumphant love story--and based on extensive audio recordings and Shively's own journals, Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton is a haunting, riveting portrayal of life as an American prisoner of war trapped on the other side of the world.
Download or read book Surviving Vietnam written by James Toscano and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Toscano was smart, talented, and the rock in his family. When he was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War at age twenty-two, he willingly accepted the request from Uncle Sam. After all, Jimmy, who was always up for a challenge, was full of life, drive, and a determination to make the world a better place. In a posthumous collection of poems, Jimmy leads others down a lyrical path through the experiences he endured during the Vietnam War as he fought alongside over two million other soldiers, and after as he returned to an unwelcoming America. Jimmys poems shine a light on the effects war has on a soldiers family, what it is like to stare death in the face, the brutality of combat, how the war transformed energetic young men into broken souls, and the challenges that accompanied their return home as they learned to battle a new enemy: the haunting memories of war. Surviving Vietnam shares poignant and candid poems from a war veteran that expose the realities of the battlefield and beyond.
Download or read book Bouncing Back written by Geoffrey Norman and published by . This book was released on 1992-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing and inspiring account of a group of American POWs--how they survived years of brutality at the hands of the North Vietnamese to emerge with remarkably healthy spirits and minds. The soldiers used an intricate support system to bounce back after dealing with their captors.
Download or read book Courageous Women of the Vietnam War written by Kathryn Atwood and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are introduced to courageous women and girls who risked their lives through their involvement in the conflict in Vietnam. These women served in dangerous roles as medics, journalists, resisters, and revolutionaries. Through their varied experiences and perspectives, young readers gain insight into the many facets of this tragic and complex conflict.
