You must sign in to add this item to your wishlist. Please sign in or create an account
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.
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 |
Wiest has put together a creditable oral history of soldiers and Marines who saw combat in the Vietnam War.
Veteran Magazine
Wiest has a good feel for the human side of the Vietnam War...[he] asserts that there 'was no single, generic military experience for infantrymen and Marines in Vietnam,' but he still provides a good sampling of what the war was like for American men fighting at the ground level.
Publishers Weekly
Unlike many books about the Vietnam War, Vietnam: A View from the Frontlines doesn't attempt to explain why the United States failed in Vietnam. Instead it aims to give the reader a grunt's-eye view of what happened on the battlefields of that tiny, Third World nation a generation ago.
Failure Magazine
From the testimony of combat veterans and their families, a military historian assembles a unique oral history of America's most controversial war...A smartly composed, affecting memory album of the draftees and volunteers whose service and sacrifice for so long went unacknowledged.
Kirkus Reviews
...powerful and revealing.
The Midwest Book Review
Tell us what titles you would like to see published by Osprey, then vote for your favourites in our monthly book vote!
Free US delivery on orders $35 or over
Your School account is not valid for the United States site. You have been logged out of your account.
You are on the United States site. Would you like to go to the United States site?
Error message.