Incident At Muc Wa

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1478178183

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Incident at Muc Wa by Daniel Ford Pdf

"In April 1964, Daniel Ford opened his mail to find a check for $1,250-- an advance against royalties on Now Comes Theodora, his first novel, which Doubleday published the following year. Meanwhile the money bought a ticket to Saigon, where he spent three months with American advisors, helicopter crews, Seals, and Special Forces teams on their rounds of South Vietnam. There were 25,000 American military personnel and only fifty reporters in the country that summer. Almost all were volunteers, very few bothered with body armor, and nobody wore a steel helmet. The experience inspired Incident at Muc Wa and the Burt Lancaster film Go Tell the Spartans. 'Sad, bawdy, and compelling, ' wrote the reviewer from the Detroit Free Press."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Warbird Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Incident at Muc Wa by Daniel Ford Pdf

This is the novel that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans. The year is 1964--early days in South Vietnam--and the U.S. Army Raiders have garrisoned a town that the French abandoned ten years before. The Viet Cong attack, and the Americans reinforce. They're not about to repeat the mistakes of the French! 'Sad, bawdy, and compelling,' wrote the Detroit Free Press. Prophetic, too, of how the larger war would end.

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : LCCN:gb68001557

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Incident at Muc Wa by Daniel Ford Pdf

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Warbird Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Only War We've Got by Daniel Ford Pdf

Author : Bernard Gary Burkett,Glenna Whitley
Publisher : Summit Publishing Group
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Homeless veterans
ISBN : 1565302842

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Stolen Valor by Bernard Gary Burkett,Glenna Whitley Pdf

Military documents reveal decades of deceit about the Vietnam War and myths perpetuated by the mainstream media.

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : New York : Avon Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B115522

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Now Comes Theodora by Daniel Ford Pdf

Author : Perry McCoy Smith,Daniel M. Gerstein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781640123724

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Assignment: Pentagon by Perry McCoy Smith,Daniel M. Gerstein Pdf

Selected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List, Assignment: Pentagon takes the reader on an insider's tour of the Pentagon, describing how the headquarters for the world's largest multinational "corporation" functions. The reader gains insights into how this bureaucracy functions as well as the stresses and strains inherent to such a complex organization. Now in its fifth edition, Assignment: Pentagon remains the best practical guide for anyone who works for the Pentagon or any other large bureaucracy. Eminently readable, Assignment: Pentagon is the essential guide for the newly assigned military person, fresh civilian, or interested outsider to the Pentagon's informal set of arrangements, networks, and functions that operate in the service and joint service world. With updated information about jobs and Pentagon vernacular, this fifth edition delivers a wealth of practical advice and helpful hints about surviving the challenges of working in "the Building." If you've been assigned to the Pentagon or are starting work for any large company, you need to read Assignment: Pentagon.

Author : Rick Newman,Don Shepperd
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307414700

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Bury Us Upside Down by Rick Newman,Don Shepperd Pdf

They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made. In today’s wars, computers, targeting pods, lasers, and precision-guided bombs help FAC (forward air controller) pilots identify and destroy targets from safe distances. But in the search for enemy traffic on the elusive Ho Chi Minh Trail, always risking enemy fire, capture, and death, pilots had to drop low enough to glimpse the telltale signs of movement such as suspicious dust on treetops or disappearing tire marks on a dirt road (indicating a hidden truck park). Written by an accomplished journalist and veteran, Bury Us Upside Down is the stunning story of these brave Americans, the men who flew in the covert Operation Commando Sabre–or “Misty”–the most innovative air operation of the war. In missions that lasted for hours, the pilots of Misty flew zigzag patterns searching for enemy troops, vehicles, and weapons, without benefit of night-vision goggles, infrared devices, or other now common sensors. What they gained in exhilarating autonomy also cost them: of 157 pilots, 34 were shot down, 3 captured, and 7 killed. Here is a firsthand account of courage and technical mastery under fire. Here, too, is a tale of forbearance and loss, including the experience of the family of a missing Misty flier–Howard K. Williams–as they learn, after twenty-three years, that his remains have been found. Now that bombs are smart and remote sensors are even smarter, the missions that the Mistys flew would now be considered no less than suicidal. Bury Us Upside Down reminds us that for some, such dangers simply came with the territory.

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Warbird Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780692734735

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Flying Tigers by Daniel Ford Pdf

During World War II, in the skies over Burma and China, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and won immortality as the Flying Tigers. One of America's most famous combat forces, the Tigers were recruited to defend beleaguered China for $600 a month and a bounty of $500 for each Japanese plane they shot down--fantastic money in an era when a Manhattan hotel room cost three dollars a night.This May 2023 revision has never-before-published information about Chennault's early years. "Admirable," wrote Chennault biographer Martha Byrd of Ford's original text. "A readable book based on sound sources. Expect some surprises." Flying Tigers won the Aviation/Space Writers Association Award of Excellence in the year of its first publication.

Author : Jim Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944353518

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War Story by Jim Morris Pdf

A Green Beret veteran recreates the horrors of the Vietnam War experience and the courage and camaraderie of the men who fought side-by-side with the Montagnards, fiercely independent primitive tribesmen from the central Vietnam highlands.

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Warbird Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Michael's War by Daniel Ford Pdf

When he set out on his road to rebellion, Michael Ford only wanted to keep the foxes out of Hannon's Glen. But before he was done, he found himself exchanging rifle fire with the British army, with an unlikely ally in the form of Annabel Love, the squire's daughter. Michael's War tracks the course of revolution and civil war that rended Ireland from 1916 to 1923. It ends with its hero escaping to America--but what sweetheart will he ask to join him in the new world?

Author : Jonathan D. London
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317647898

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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam by Jonathan D. London Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam is a comprehensive resource exploring social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of Vietnam, one of contemporary Asia’s most dynamic but least understood countries. Following an introduction that highlights major changes that have unfolded in Vietnam over the past three decades, the volume is organized into four thematic parts: Politics and Society Economy and Society Social Life and Institutions Cultures in Motion Part I addresses key aspects of Vietnam’s politics, from the role of the Communist Party of Vietnam in shaping the country’s institutional evolution, to continuity and change in patterns of socio-political organization, political expression, state repression, diplomatic relations, and human rights. Part II assesses the transformation of Vietnam’s economy, addressing patterns of economic growth, investment and trade, the role of the state in the economy, and other economic aspects of social life. Parts III and IV examine developments across a variety of social and cultural fields through chapters on themes including welfare, inequality, social policy, urbanization, the environment and society, gender, ethnicity, the family, cuisine, art, mass media, and the politics of remembrance. Featuring 38 essays by leading Vietnam scholars from around the world, this book provides a cutting-edge analysis of Vietnam’s transformation and changing engagement with the world. It is an invaluable interdisciplinary reference work that will be of interest to students and academics of Southeast Asian studies, as well as policymakers, analysts, and anyone wishing to learn more about contemporary Vietnam.

Author : Brenda M. Boyle,Jeehyun Lim
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813579955

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Looking Back on the Vietnam War by Brenda M. Boyle,Jeehyun Lim Pdf

More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of Vietnam. Looking Back on the Vietnam War brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the war’s psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Marvel comic books to the experiences of Vietnamese soldiers exposed to Agent Orange. By putting these pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies. Though they come from diverse scholarly backgrounds, ranging from anthropology to film studies, the contributors are united in their commitment to original research. Whether exploring rare archives or engaging in extensive interviews, they voice perspectives that have been excluded from standard historical accounts. Looking Back on the Vietnam War thus embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why.

Author : Jeff Danziger
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781586422738

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Lieutenant Dangerous by Jeff Danziger Pdf

"A must-read war memoir… with zero punches pulled, related by one of the most incisive observers of the American political scene." —KIRKUS (starred review) "Funny, biting, thoughtful and wholly original." —Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried Jeff Danziger, one of the leading political cartoonists of his generation, captures the fear, sorrow, absurdity, and unintended but inevitable consequences of war with dark humor and penetrating moral clarity. If there is any discipline at the start of wars it dissipates as the soldiers themselves become aware of the pointlessness of what they are being told to do. A conversation with a group of today’s military age men and women about America’s involvement in Vietnam inspired Jeff Danziger to write about his own wartime experiences: “War is interesting,” he reveals, “if you can avoid getting killed, and don’t mind loud noises.” Fans of his cartooning will recognize his mordant humor applied to his own wartime training and combat experiences: “I learned, and I think most veterans learn, that making people or nations do something by bombing or sending in armed troops usually fails.” Near the end of his telling, Danziger invites his audience—in particular the young friends who inspired him to write this informative and rollicking memoir—to ponder: “What would you do? . . . Could you summon the bravery—or the internal resistance—to simply refuse to be part of the whole idiotic theater of the war? . . . Or would you be like me?”

Author : United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UCBK:C061168196

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U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The defining year, 1968 by United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division Pdf