Voices from the Vietnam War

2010-06-11
 |  History
Voices from the Vietnam War

Author: Xiaobing Li

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

ISBN: 9780813173863

Category: History

Page: 296

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The Vietnam War’s influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war’s effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural and legal barriers, the oral histories of the Vietnam War currently available in English are predictably one-sided, providing limited insight into the inner workings of the Communist nations that participated in the war. Furthermore, many of these accounts focus on combat experiences rather than the backgrounds, belief systems, and social experiences of interviewees, resulting in an incomplete historiography of the war. Chinese native Xiaobing Li corrects this oversight in Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans. Li spent seven years gathering hundreds of personal accounts from survivors of the war, accounts that span continents, nationalities, and political affiliations. The twenty-two intimate stories in the book feature the experiences of American, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and North and South Vietnamese veterans, representing the views of both anti-Communist and Communist participants, including Chinese officers of the PLA, a Russian missile-training instructor, and a KGB spy. These narratives humanize and contextualize the war’s events while shedding light on aspects of the war previously unknown to Western scholars. Providing fresh perspectives on a long-discussed topic, Voices from the Vietnam War offers a thorough and unique understanding of America’s longest war.

Voices from Vietnam

1997-08-01
 |  Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Voices from Vietnam

Author: Barry Denenberg

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

ISBN: 0590435302

Category: Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Page: 272

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Explains the unique events and practices that shaped the Vietnam War, bringing together the stories of people who experienced it firsthand, as told in their own voices. Reprint.

Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from the Vietnam War Will Break Your Heart

2021-05-28
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Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from the Vietnam War Will Break Your Heart

Author: Lyman Minrod

Publisher:

ISBN: 9798511669731

Category:

Page: 207

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Fifty years after the fact, the Vietnam War remains part of our collective national consciousness. The public was lied to, soldiers were thrown into chaos, and politicians scrambled to twist the truth. It's no surprise then that these Vietnam War facts still stun today. For the veterans who served during this era, this conflict has a particular meaning. Each of these veterans experienced the war in a unique, individual way; no two stories are the same. According to readers, these are the most popular Vietnam War stories. Though some names have been changed so that the fast action described could be written with some dialog and more details, all of these events are true. This is what Vietnam warfare was about. These stories are purposely written to move the reader through the action as though they themselves are experiencing the events. Thankfully, all readers will survive these stories though some hearts might be beating faster than usual. Just, be careful! These simple but tightly written tales put you right up front in a firefight where there's lots of flying hot lead, so just in case you better wear your flak jacket!

A Voice from the Vietnam War

2004
 |  Vietnam
A Voice from the Vietnam War

Author: Russell H. Coward

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

ISBN: 0313325863

Category: Vietnam

Page: 224

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Russell Coward recounts the experiences he had during the two years he taught South Vietnamese officers English during the Vietnam War.

Voices of the Vietnam War

2019-08-22
 |  History
Voices of the Vietnam War

Author: Terry L. Nau

Publisher: Stillwater River Publications

ISBN: 1950339297

Category: History

Page: 246

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Voices of the Vietnam War is an oral history told by the soldiers who fought, and others who were impacted by the fighting halfway around the world, most especially the wives and siblings who waited at home. This book listens to two people who were against the war and had to take their own philosophical stand, often against their own families and friends. The book features chapters personally written by three military veterans. Two wives tell the story of how they waited at home while their husbands fought in Vietnam, relying on letters and television news for information.Decorated combat officer David Christian is the strongest voice in the book, describing his unit's war experiences and then detailing the loss of his brother Doug to Agent Orange-linked cancer. Christian became a leading advocate for veterans' disability pensions and helped gain government approval for Agent Orange benefits.Vietnam War veteran Terry Nau wrote and edited this book, his fifth on the subject. He interviewed soldiers from his artillery unit, high school friends who went to war, and also convinced acquaintances to tell their own story in their own words.

The Vietnam War on Campus

2001
 |  Student movements
The Vietnam War on Campus

Author: Marc Jason Gilbert

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

ISBN: 0275969096

Category: Student movements

Page: 122

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An examination of Vietnam War protests that occurred among Midwestern and Southern college students American high schoolers, conservative students, and women students.

Army Nurse Corps Voices from the Vietnam War

2021-04-30
 |  History
Army Nurse Corps Voices from the Vietnam War

Author: Janet D. Tanner

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030696177

Category: History

Page: 259

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This book provides an oral history of women who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. It follows the trajectory of eight women’s lives from their decision to become nurses, to surgical and evacuation hospitals in Vietnam, and then home to face the consequences of war on their personal and professional lives. It documents their lived experience in Vietnam and explores the memories and personal stories of nurses who treated injured American soldiers, Vietnamese civilians, and the enemy. Their voices reveal the physical and emotional challenges, trauma, contradictions, and lingering effects of war on their lives. Women in the U.S. Army in Vietnam feared the enemy but also sexual violence and harassment: the experiences this book documents also shed light on the extent of historical sexual abuse in the military.

Bloods

2013-01-16
 |  History
Bloods

Author: Wallace Terry

Publisher: Presidio Press

ISBN: 9780307833587

Category: History

Page: 320

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The national bestseller that tells the truth about the Vietnam War from the black soldiers’ perspective. An oral history unlike any other, Bloods features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race were sent off to Vietnam in disproportionate numbers, and of the special test of patriotism they faced. Told in voices no reader will soon forget, Bloods is a must-read for anyone who wants to put the Vietnam experience in historical, cultural, and political perspective. Praise for Bloods “Superb . . . a portrait not just of warfare and warriors but of beleaguered patriotism and pride. The violence recalled in Bloods is chilling. . . . On most of its pages hope prevails. Some of these men have witnessed the very worst that people can inflict on one another. . . . Their experience finally transcends race; their dramatic monologues bear witness to humanity.”—Time “[Wallace] Terry’s oral history captures the very essence of war, at both its best and worst. . . . [He] has done a great service for all Americans with Bloods. Future historians will find his case studies extremely useful, and they will be hard pressed to ignore the role of blacks, as too often has been the case in past wars.”—The Washington Post Book World “Terry set out to write an oral history of American blacks who fought for their country in Vietnam, but he did better than that. He wrote a compelling portrait of Americans in combat, and used his words so that the reader—black or white—knows the soldiers as men and Americans, their race overshadowed by the larger humanity Terry conveys. . . . This is not light reading, but it is literature with the ring of truth that shows the reader worlds through the eyes of others. You can’t ask much more from a book than that.”—Associated Press “Bloods is a major contribution to the literature of this war. For the first time a book has detailed the inequities blacks faced at home and on the battlefield. Their war stories involve not only Vietnam, but Harlem, Watts, Washington D.C. and small-town America.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution “I wish Bloods were longer, and I hope it makes the start of a comprehensive oral and analytic history of blacks in Vietnam. . . . They see their experiences as Americans, and as blacks who live in, but are sometimes at odds with, America. The results are sometimes stirring, sometimes appalling, but this three-tiered perspective heightens and shadows every tale.”—The Village Voice “Terry was in Vietnam from 1967 through 1969. . . . In this book he has backtracked, Studs Terkel–like, and found twenty black veterans of the Vietnam War and let them spill their guts. And they do; oh, how they do. The language is raw, naked, a brick through a window on a still night. At the height of tension a sweet story, a soft story, drops into view. The veterans talk about fighting two wars: Vietnam and racism. They talk about fighting alongside the Ku Klux Klan.”—The Boston Globe

Why the North Won the Vietnam War

2002-05-30
 |  History
Why the North Won the Vietnam War

Author: M. Gilbert

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230108240

Category: History

Page: 254

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In this new collection of essays on the Vietnam War, eminent scholars of the Second Indo-china conflict consider several key factors that led to the defeat of the United States and its allies. The book adopts a candid and critical look at the United State's stance and policies in Vietnam, and refuses to condemn, excuse, or apologize for America's actions in the conflict. Rather, the contributors think widely and creatively about the varied reasons that may have accounted for the United State's failure to defeat the North Vietnamese Army, such as the role played by economics in America's defeat. Other fresh perspectives on the topic include American intelligence failure in Vietnam, the international dimensions of America's defeat in Vietnam, and the foreign policy of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. None of the essays have been previously published, and all have been specifically commissioned for the book by its editor, Marc Jason Gilbert.

Voices from Vietnam

2008
 |  New Zealand
Voices from Vietnam

Author: Billy Barnz

Publisher:

ISBN: 1877427241

Category: New Zealand

Page: 338

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Voices from Vietnam presents Vietnam War veterans as a cohort of ordinary New Zealanders who did extraordinary things at that time of their lives when they went to serve in an unpopular war. The book demonstrates what fine people they were and what they were able to achieve in their lives despite the fact that many of their compatriots despised them for going to Vietnam.

Legacy of Discord

2001
 |  United States
Legacy of Discord

Author: Gilbert N. Dorland

Publisher: Potomac Books

ISBN: UOM:39015050702672

Category: United States

Page: 408

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Probing interviews with leading participants in, and critical observers of, the Vietnam War