Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Who We Were
2 Drop and Give Me 20
3 Welcome to Vietnam
4 Life and Death in the Nam
5 Combat
6 Loss
7 A World of Hurt
8 Changing Attitudes
9 Freedom Bird
10 Life After Nam

Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Exclusive Extract from The Boys of '67
Index

Product details

Published Apr 20 2013
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 312
ISBN 9781782003212
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 5 b/w; 12 col
Series General Military
Short code GNM
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Andrew Wiest

Dr Andrew Wiest is University Distinguished Profes…

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