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Author | : Andrew Wiest |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2012-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780968906 |
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In the spring of 1966, while the war in Vietnam was still popular, the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up. Across the nation, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings from Uncle Sam. Most American soldiers of the Vietnam era trickled into the war zone as individual replacements for men who had become casualties or had rotated home. Charlie Company was different as part of the only division raised, drafted and trained for service. From draft to the battlefields of South Vietnam, this is the unvarnished truth from the fear of death to the chaos of battle, told almost entirely through the recollections of the men themselves. This is their story, the story of young draftees who had done everything that their nation had asked of them and had received so little in return – lost faces of a distant war.
Author | : Andrew Wiest |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2012-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780968949 |
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Following on from the stunning success of the novel Matterhorn as well as Osprey's own Tonight We Die as Men, this book follows the trials and tribulations of a group of Vietnam draftees from basic training to the rice paddies of Vietnam. In the spring of 1966 the Vietnam War was intensifying, driven by the US military build up, under which the 9th Infantry Division was reactivated. Charlie Company was part of the 9th and representative of the melting pot of America. But, unlike the vast majority of other companies in the US Army, the men of Charlie Company were a close-knit family. They joined up together, trained together, and were deployed together. This is their story. From the joker who roller-skated into the Company First Sergeant's office wearing a dress, to the nerdy guy with two left feet who would rather be off somewhere inventing computers, and the everyman who just wanted to keep his head down and get through un-noticed and preferably unscathed. Written by leading Vietnam expert Dr Andrew Wiest, The Boys of '67 tells the unvarnished truth about the war in Vietnam, recounting the fear of death and the horrors of battle through the recollections of the young men themselves. America doesn't know their names or their story, the story of the boys of Charlie, young draftees who had done everything that their nation had asked of them and received so little in return – lost faces and silent voices of a distant war.
Author | : Charles Jones |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2007-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811750825 |
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Winner of the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for Biography, 2006. Now available in paperback.
Author | : Andrew Wiest |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472827481 |
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Using countless interviews as well as original diaries and letters, Andrew Wiest lays bare the horror of the Vietnam War for those left behind and the enduring battles they must continue to fight long after their loved ones have returned home. The human experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp – the camaraderie, the fear, the smell, the pain. Men were transformed into soldiers, and then into warriors. These warriors had wives who loved them and shared in their transformations. Some marriages were strengthened, while for others there was all too often a dark side, leaving men and their families emotionally and spiritually battered for years to come. Focusing in on just one company's experience of war and its eventual homecoming, Wiest shines a light on the shared experience of combat and both the darkness and resiliency of war's aftermath.
Author | : Franklin Dixon |
Publisher | : Minstrel |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671742294 |
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The Hardy Boys are given clues which send them in search of the treasure hidden by the Outlaw of the Pine Barrens.
Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395664124 |
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An ALA Best Book for Young Adults: Firsthand accounts of the experiences of boys sixteen and younger who fought in the Civil War, with photos included. Winner of the Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction "Making extensive use of the actual words--culled from diaries, journals, memoirs, and letters--of boys who served in the Union and Confederate armies as fighting soldiers as well as drummers, buglers, and telegraphers, Murphy describes the beginnings of the Civil War and goes on to delineate the military role of the underage soldiers and their life in the camps and field bivouacs. Also included is a description of the boys' return home and the effects upon them of their wartime experiences...An excellent selection of more than 45 sepia-toned contemporary photographs augment the text of this informative, moving work." --School Library Journal (starred review) "This wrenching look at our nation's bloodiest conflict through the eyes of its youthful participants serves up history both heartbreaking and enlightening." --Publishers Weekly "This well-researched and readable account provides fresh insight into the human cost of a pivotal event in United States history." --The Horn Book (starred review)
Author | : Dean Hughes |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439132143 |
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Spencer Morgan And Dieter Hedrick, one American, one German, are both young and eager to get into action in the war. Dieter, a shining member of the Hitler Youth movement, has actually met the Führer himself and was praised for his hard work. Now he is determined to make it to the front lines, to push back the enemy and defend the honor of the Fatherland. Spencer, just sixteen, must convince his father to sign his induction papers. He is bent on becoming a paratrooper -- the toughest soldiers in the world. He will prove to his family and hometown friends that he is more than the little guy with crooked teeth. He?ll prove to his father that he can amount to something and keep his promises. Everyone will look at him differently when he returns home in his uniform, trousers tucked into his boots in the paratrooper style. Both boys get their wishes when they are tossed into intense conflict during the Battle of the Bulge. And both soon learn that war is about a lot more than proving oneself and one?s bravery. Dean Hughes offers young readers a wrenching look at parallel lives and how innocence must eventually be shed.
Author | : Andrew Wiest |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782003231 |
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From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the human experience during the conflict. Vietnam allows the reader a grunt's-eye-view of the conflict – from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands and the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ. It is the definitive oral history of the Vietnam War told in the uncompromising, no-holds barred language of the soldiers themselves.
Author | : Franklin W. Dixon |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439114188 |
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The Hardys and their high school basketball team, the Bayport Bombers, are getting ready to play for their championship. One more victory will put them on top. But somebody’s got a different game plan: Blast the Bombers out of contention by knocking Frank and Joe out of the way—for good.
Author | : Tim O'Brien |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-08-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307762920 |
Download If I Die in a Combat Zone Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried "One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam." —Minneapolis Star and Tribune Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content.