Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by Gregory Pemberton and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes the first real assessment of what the Vietnam War meant, on the battlefields and in Australia. When the first Australian troops landed on Vietnamese soil, the significance of the conflict was scarcely realised - but in time it was to affect not only tens of thousands of Australians who served in Vietnam, but an extraordinary cross-section of people at home. Debate about the war continues two decades later - and this book provides the vital answers about how Australia got involved in Americarsquo;s war; what happened to our troops in Vietnam; the way protest against the war built up on the home front; how the lsquo;Vietnam erarsquo; - the sixties and early seventies - impinged on Australian attitudes; how Australia received its Vietnam veterans on their return. It also looks at our countryrsquo;s relationship with the Vietnamese, now that many live in Australia. A top team of experts show in this book that the Vietnam War had far-reaching effects on Australiarsquo;s foreign policy, national politics, and social attitudes. Some of the controversies it provoked have spread beyond the years 1965-1971, when Australia was directly involved. This thorough, fascinating account tells the whole story of the Vietnam conflict, abroad and in Australia. It contains the Roll of Honour of those who died as a result of the Vietnam War; and it ends with a fourth edition of the lists of those who served in Vietnam.
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by Varick Chittenden and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book featuring miniature dioramas that translate the Vietnam war into art and self-therapy for the artist
Download or read book A Time Remembered written by Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did American women go to Vietnam? What were their lives like in the war zone, and after they came home?" A Time Remembered" provides answers to these questions and more, and pays tribute to these patriots. Photos.
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered Today written by MR Mark William Shaughnessy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam Remembered Today is a compare and contrast story of brothers in Vietnam at the same time with dramatically different experiences and outcomes. Mark was in a support function while Don was in the jungle fighting the enemy until injured. We describe what many encountered during the Vietnam Conflict. This memoir will resonate with others who cannot tell their story but want others to know what they endured, and it provides a broader perspective for those who were not there. The background on the Vietnam War (not officially declared) reviews the critical battles and events that shaped the military and political strategies. It provides an in-depth look at Vietnam; before, during and after the tour of brothers was completed. Our book includes the history of the Vietnam Conflict from 1950-75 and highlights the critical battles and events that shaped the military and political strategies including: Ia Drang Valley (LZ-X-Ray), Siege at Khe Sanh, Tet Offensive, My Lai murders, bombing of Cambodia and the Kent State shootings. There were 27 million men eligible for the draft in that era. Nine million served in the military and only three million served in Southeast Asia. Our stories describe what many encountered during the Vietnam Conflict and represent many of the 2.6 who served in Vietnam. This memoir provides a broader perspective for those who were not there and want to know about that era. Interestingly, many women have purchased the book as they want to know what their brothers, uncles and fathers faced. Our narrative is dedicated to those who fought in Vietnam and to the family members who still care for those seriously wounded. And, we believe those of that era who did not serve in Vietnam will gain a perspective on the conflict and that time period. More than 58,000 American soldiers died in Vietnam, 75,000 were permanently disabled, and another 80,000 were seriously wounded. This story explains why this happened. May they all find peace. Mark spent eighteen months in Vietnam, serving there at the same time as his brother Don who was drafted a year later. After Mark graduated from Kent State in 1972, he worked in the corporate world for more than thirty years before retiring in 2006. He then wrote a book titled: Sales Secrets Today, highlighting the most important ideas for achieving superior sales. Don was drafted in 1969 into the Army as an infantryman. He went through NCO advanced training at Ft. Benning before being deployed to Vietnam. His experiences included several frightening encounters with the enemy, both on his Reconnaissance assignments and his regular grunt job. Don Shaughnessy is also a graduate of Kent State and has worked at the Ashtabula Post Office until he retired a few years ago.
Download or read book Patriots written by Christian G. Appy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." -Chicago Tribune Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides: Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing, inspiring, and revelatory, Patriots is not a chronicle of facts and figures but a vivid human history of the war. "A gem of a book, as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely." -The Washington Post Book World
Download or read book Warriors Remembered written by Albert J. Nahas and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warriors Remembered isone veteran¿s journey tocapture the recognitionthat proudly standsthroughout our country for veterans ofthe Vietnam War. The emotion of thesememorials is evident in every story.The memorials are as much for the livingas the dead. They reveal the spirit of thosewho survived and offer comfort for familiesaffected by the war. They helped to heal anation torn by a most divisive war.The book can be a travel guide for your ownjourney to see these compelling memorials.For those who love a veteran, it is a catalystto connect and open a conversation aboutpast service still wrapped in silence. Forveterans, it is an overdue Welcome Home!
Download or read book A War Remembered written by Mark Updegrove and published by LBJ Presidential Library and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When former president Lyndon B. Johnson opened the LBJ Presidential Library in May 1971, he proclaimed, “It’s all here, the story of our time—with the bark off.” Accordingly, he wanted his library to reflect not only the triumphs of his administration, but the failures, too—and he wanted us to learn from them to build a better future for our country. In keeping with President Johnson’s vision, the LBJ Library took a substantive, unvarnished look at the Vietnam War, with the goal to shed new light on the war and the lessons it provides. The passage of years offers greater perspective on the complexities of a war that altered not only our history but our perception of ourselves as a nation. The result was the Vietnam War Summit, an intensive three-day conference in April 2016 that brought together policy makers, scholars, reporters, photographers, musicians, and importantly, those who were on the front lines of the war and the antiwar movement. In conjunction with the conference, the library displayed a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Twice each day during the summit, ceremonies recognized Vietnam War veterans. A War Remembered features photographs and documentation from the Vietnam War Summit, but also includes a number of historic photographs from both the LBJ Library and the Briscoe Center for American History, offering a diverse perspective on the conflict that defined a generation.
Download or read book Nothing Ever Dies written by Viet Thanh Nguyen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War—a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations. “[A] gorgeous, multifaceted examination of the war Americans call the Vietnam War—and which Vietnamese call the American War...As a writer, [Nguyen] brings every conceivable gift—wisdom, wit, compassion, curiosity—to the impossible yet crucial work of arriving at what he calls ‘a just memory’ of this war.” —Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times “In Nothing Ever Dies, his unusually thoughtful consideration of war, self-deception and forgiveness, Viet Thanh Nguyen penetrates deeply into memories of the Vietnamese war...[An] important book, which hits hard at self-serving myths.” —Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review “Ultimately, Nguyen’s lucid, arresting, and richly sourced inquiry, in the mode of Susan Sontag and W. G. Sebald, is a call for true and just stories of war and its perpetual legacy.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)
Download or read book The American War in Contemporary Vietnam written by Christina Schwenkel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today -- in official and unofficial histories and in everyday life. Schwenkel analyzes visual representations found in monuments and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, photography and art exhibits, battlefield tours, and related sites of "trauma tourism." In these transnational spaces, American and Vietnamese memories of the war intersect in ways profoundly shaped by global economic liberalization and the return of American citizens as tourists, pilgrims, and philanthropists.
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by Gregory Pemberton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dispatches written by Michael Herr and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by Varick Chittenden and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book featuring miniature dioramas that translate the Vietnam war into art and self-therapy for the artist
Download or read book Performing Remembering written by Rivka Syd Eisner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Through ethnographic, oral history-based research, it connects the veterans’ wartime histories, memory politics, performance practices, recollections of imprisonment and torture, and social activism with broader questions of how to understand and attend to continuing transgenerational violence and trauma. With an extensive introduction and subsequent chapters devoted to in-depth analysis of four women’s remarkable life stories, the book explores the performance and performativity of culture; ethnographic oral history practice; personal, collective, and (trans)cultural memory; and the politics of postwar trauma, witnessing, and redress. Through the veterans’ dynamic practices of prospective remembering, 'pain-taking', and enduring optimism, it offers new insights into matrices of performance vital to the shared work of social transformation. It will appeal to readers interested in performance studies, memory studies, gender studies, Vietnamese studies, and oral history.
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered Today written by Mark Shaughnessy and published by . This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam Remembered Today is a memoir of two brothers in Vietnam at the same time with different experiences their stories represent many of the 2.6 million who served there. It also describes the major battles and events covering the period of 1950-1975 that shaped the military and political strategies for entering and fighting the war. Some of the key incidents include: the battle at Ia Drang Valley, Tet Offensive, Siege at Khe Sanh, My Lai murders, Hamburger Hill, Cambodian bombings, Kent State and actions resulting in a peace treaty.
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes the first real assessment of what the Vietnam War meant on the battlefields and in Australia. This thorough, fascinating account tells the whole story of the Vietnam conflict, abroad and in Australia. It contains the Roll of Honour of those who died and it ends with a 4th edition of the lists of those who served.
Download or read book Memories of a Vietnam Veteran written by Barbara Child and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Child put her heart and soul into a letter to her partner, Alan Morris—a Vietnam War veteran. The war finally took its toll—Alan put a Colt .45 to his head and pulled the trigger. Eventually, Barbara began analysis with a Jungian psychologist and shared the letter with him. From those writings came this book.
Download or read book Remembering Heaven s Face written by John Balaban and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his years in Vietnam as a conscientious objector, serving as a teacher and a rescue worker for an organization that sent children with war injuries to the United States.
