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A Vietnam War Reader

Michael H. Hunt
A Vietnam War Reader Book PDF

Author : Michael H. Hunt
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807895801

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An essential new resource for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this concise collection of primary sources opens a valuable window on an extraordinarily complex conflict. The materials gathered here, from both the American and Vietnamese sides, remind readers that the conflict touched the lives of many people in a wide range of social and political situations and spanned a good deal more time than the decade of direct U.S. combat. Indeed, the U.S. war was but one phase in a string of conflicts that varied significantly in character and geography. Michael Hunt brings together the views of the conflict's disparate players--from Communist leaders, Vietnamese peasants, Saigon loyalists, and North Vietnamese soldiers to U.S. policymakers, soldiers, and critics of the war. By allowing the participants to speak, this volume encourages readers to formulate their own historically grounded understanding of a still controversial struggle.

The Vietnam War

Edward Miller
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Author : Edward Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405196772

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The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America’s conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights into both American and Vietnamese experiences. Includes substantial non-American content, including many original English translations of Vietnamese-authored texts which showcase the diversity and complexity of Vietnamese experiences during the war Contains original American documents germane to the continuing debates about the causes, consequences and morality of the US intervention Incorporates personal histories of individual Americans and Vietnamese Introductory headnotes place each document in context Features a range of non-textual documents, including iconic photographs and political cartoons

The Vietnam War

Edward Miller
The Vietnam War Book PDF

Author : Edward Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405196789

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The Vietnam War by Edward Miller Pdf

The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America’s conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights into both American and Vietnamese experiences. Includes substantial non-American content, including many original English translations of Vietnamese-authored texts which showcase the diversity and complexity of Vietnamese experiences during the war Contains original American documents germane to the continuing debates about the causes, consequences and morality of the US intervention Incorporates personal histories of individual Americans and Vietnamese Introductory headnotes place each document in context Features a range of non-textual documents, including iconic photographs and political cartoons

The Vietnam Reader

Stewart O'Nan
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Author : Stewart O'Nan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307489746

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The Vietnam Reader is a selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, still photos, and popular song lyrics. All the strongest work is here, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye. Also included are incisive reader's questions--useful for educators and book clubs--in a volume that makes an essential contribution to a wider understanding of the Vietnam War. This authoritative and accessible volume is sure to become a classic reference, as well as indispensable and provocative reading for anyone who wants to know more about the war that changed the face of late-twentieth-century America. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Touring Nam

Martin H. Greenberg,Augustus R. Norton
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Author : Martin H. Greenberg,Augustus R. Norton
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0688153887

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Touring Nam by Martin H. Greenberg,Augustus R. Norton Pdf

By compiling letters, memoirs, stories, and historic accounts by such authors as Philip Caputo, Asa Baber, Tim O'Brien, and others, the editors offer an in-depth look at the war and the men who fought it

The Vietnam War

Geoffrey Ward,Kenneth Burns
The Vietnam War Book PDF

Author : Geoffrey Ward,Kenneth Burns
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781984897749

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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.

The Vietnam Reader

Walter Capps
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Author : Walter Capps
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136635625

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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The American Experience in Vietnam

Grace Sevy
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Author : Grace Sevy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806123907

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Essays discuss America's strategy during the Vietnam War, what it was like to fight there, the role of the press, the antiwar movement, and American guilt over the war

War Is Here

Robert McGill
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Author : Robert McGill
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773551688

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Canada did not fight in the Vietnam War, but the conflict seized the Canadian imagination with an energy that has persisted. In War Is Here Robert McGill explains how the war contributed to a golden age for writing in Canada. As authors addressed the conflict, they helped to construct an enduring myth of Canada as liberal, hospitable, and humanitarian. For many writers, the war was one that Canadians could and should fight against, if not in person, then on the page. In this pioneering account of war-related Canadian literature McGill observes how celebrated books of the era channel Vietnam, sometimes in subtle but pervasive ways. He examines authors’ attempts to educate their readers about American imperialism and Canadian complicity, and he discusses how writers repeatedly used language evoking militarism and violence – from the figure of the United States as a rapist to the notion of Canada as a “peaceable kingdom” – in order to make Canadians feel more intensely about their country. McGill also addresses the recent spate of prize-winning Canadian novels about the war that have renewed Vietnam’s resonance in the wake of twenty-first century conflicts involving America. War Is Here vividly revisits a galvanizing time in world history and Canadian life, offering vital insights into the Vietnam War’s influence on how people think about Canada, its place in the world, and the power of the written word to make a difference.

Boots on the Ground

Elizabeth Partridge
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Author : Elizabeth Partridge
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780425291788

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★ "Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction."* America's war in Vietnam. In over a decade of bitter fighting, it claimed the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and beleaguered four US presidents. More than forty years after America left Vietnam in defeat in 1975, the war remains controversial and divisive both in the United States and abroad. The history of this era is complex; the cultural impact extraordinary. But it's the personal stories of eight people—six American soldiers, one American military nurse, and one Vietnamese refugee—that create the heartbeat of Boots on the Ground. From dense jungles and terrifying firefights to chaotic helicopter rescues and harrowing escapes, each individual experience reveals a different facet of the war and moves us forward in time. Alternating with these chapters are profiles of key American leaders and events, reminding us of all that was happening at home during the war, including peace protests, presidential scandals, and veterans' struggles to acclimate to life after Vietnam. With more than one hundred photographs, award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge's unflinching book captures the intensity, frustration, and lasting impacts of one of the most tumultuous periods of American history. *Kirkus Reviews, starred review of Marching for Freedom

Did Anything Good Come Out of the Vietnam War?

Philip Steele
Did Anything Good Come Out of the Vietnam War Book PDF

Author : Philip Steele
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508170778

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Did Anything Good Come Out of the Vietnam War? by Philip Steele Pdf

This compelling book makes readers think about the Vietnam War in a different way. It asks tough questions, such as if there was any benefit to a war that not only killed millions but also divided America, split generations, and created a rift between America and the rest of the world. With dynamic spreads featuring pictures and easy-to-follow text, this book will inspire readers not only to study history but also to ask the all-important critical questions about the past so that we don’t make the same mistakes.

Escape from Saigon

Andrea Warren
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Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781466834484

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Escape from Saigon by Andrea Warren Pdf

An unforgettable true story of an orphan caught in the midst of war Over a million South Vietnamese children were orphaned by the Vietnam War. This affecting true account tells the story of Long, who, like more than 40,000 other orphans, is Amerasian -- a mixed-race child -- with little future in Vietnam. Escape from Saigon allows readers to experience Long's struggle to survive in war-torn Vietnam, his dramatic escape to America as part of "Operation Babylift" during the last chaotic days before the fall of Saigon, and his life in the United States as "Matt," part of a loving Ohio family. Finally, as a young doctor, he journeys back to Vietnam, ready to reconcile his Vietnamese past with his American present. As the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches, this compelling account provides a fascinating introduction to the war and the plight of children caught in the middle of it.

Touring Nam

Martin Harry Greenberg,Augustus Richard Norton
Touring Nam Book PDF

Author : Martin Harry Greenberg,Augustus Richard Norton
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553279173

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Touring Nam by Martin Harry Greenberg,Augustus Richard Norton Pdf

A vibrant picture of what it was like to be there, Touring Nam takes the reader on a tour of duty from bewildered arrival, through survival in a combat zone and back to the world, to real life and home. A perfect addition to the successful Bantam War Series.

We Gotta Get Out of This Place

Doug Bradley,Craig Werner
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Author : Doug Bradley,Craig Werner
Publisher : UMass + ORM
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781613764268

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We Gotta Get Out of This Place by Doug Bradley,Craig Werner Pdf

“The diversity of voices and songs reminds us that the home front and the battlefront are always connected and that music and war are deeply intertwined.” —Heather Marie Stur, author of 21 Days to Baghdad For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam’s Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools.” And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die” or the song that gives this book its title. In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans—black and white, Latino and Native American, men and women, officers and “grunts”—whose personal reflections drive the book’s narrative. Many of the voices are those of ordinary soldiers, airmen, seamen, and marines. But there are also “solo” pieces by veterans whose writings have shaped our understanding of the war—Karl Marlantes, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bill Ehrhart, Arthur Flowers—as well as songwriters and performers whose music influenced soldiers’ lives, including Eric Burdon, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Country Joe McDonald, and John Fogerty. Together their testimony taps into memories—individual and cultural—that capture a central if often overlooked component of the American war in Vietnam.

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien
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Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547420295

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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Pdf

Look for O’Brien’s new book, American Fantastica, on sale October 24th A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.