When We Walked Above the Clouds: A Memoir of Vietnam, H. Lee Barnes
Автор: H. Lee Barnes Название: When We Walked Above the Clouds: A Memoir of Vietnam ISBN: 0803264801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803264809 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 19430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
There is the mythology of the Green Berets, of their clandestine, special operations as celebrated in story and song. And then there is the reality of one soldier’s experience, the day-to-day loss and drudgery of a Green Beret such as H. Lee Barnes, whose story conveys the daily grind and quiet desperation behind polished-for-public-consumption accounts of military heroics. In When We Walked Above the Clouds, Barnes tells what it was like to be a Green Beret, first in the Dominican Republic during the civil war of 1965, and then at A-107, Tra Bong, Vietnam. There, he eventually came to serve as the advisor to a Combat Recon Platoon, which consisted chiefly of Montagnard irregulars. Though “nothing extraordinary,” as Barnes saw it, his months of simply doing what the mission demanded make for sobering reading: the mundane business of killing rats, cleaning guns, and building bunkers renders the intensity of patrols and attacks all the more harrowing.
More than anything, Barnes’s story is one of loss—of morale lost to alcoholism, teammates lost to friendly fire, missions aborted, and missions endlessly and futilely repeated. As the story advances, so does the attrition—teammates transferred, innocence cast off, confidence in leadership whittled away. And yet, against this dark background, Barnes still manages to honor the quiet professionals whose service, overshadowed by the outsized story of Vietnam, nonetheless carried the day.
Название: Running Toward the Guns: A Memoir of Escape from Cambodia ISBN: 1476682534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476682532 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 32340.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An autobiographical story and an accounting of Chanty Jong`s personal inner self-healing journey that lead to a successfully unexpected discovery. His vivid narrative recounts the suffering under the Khmer Rouge, his perseverance to survive physically and emotionally and his perilous escape to America.
Автор: Worthington Bob Название: Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung SAT: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Vietnam, 1968-1969 ISBN: 147667941X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476679419 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 32340.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Describes the author`s participation in the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War, on the Cambodian border, where he almost died of Hookworm and was shot in a night operation. Assigned to Saigon to recuperate, he was tasked with creating an advisor team to train South Vietnamese commandos to conduct raids in the swamps south of Saigon.
Автор: Stillman John, Stillman Lori Название: Jumping from Helicopters: A Vietnam Memoir ISBN: 173273612X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732736122 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 36400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In 1967, at age nineteen, John Stillman-refusing to wait for the draft-voluntarily enlisted in the Army to aid his fellow countrymen in one of the most opposed involvements in our nation's history: the Vietnam War. Quickly falling in love with the rush of being a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne, he believed his service would honorably help the South Vietnamese protect their country from the ruthless communist North and their Southern allies. But once in the volatile jungles of Vietnam, the merciless hunting and killing of the enemy, constant threat of land mines and booby traps, ambushes that could easily backfire, and deaths of his comrades made Stillman question how any man-if he survived-could ever return to his life as he'd known it.
Written with John's daughter, Lori Stillman, Jumping from Helicopters is a vivid and moving memoir that unearths fifty years of repressed memories with stunning accuracy and raw details. Interwoven with the author's own journal entries and including thirty-five photographs, it is a story that will open your eyes to what these brave young men witnessed and endured, and why they returned facing a lifetime of often unspoken unrest, persistent nightmares, and forced normalcy, haunting even the strongest of soldiers.
Автор: Trowbridge George L. Название: Striking Eight Bells: A Vietnam Memoir ISBN: 1945812362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781945812361 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 36400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Steven Grzesik Название: We Had to Get Out of That Place: A Memoir of Redemption and Betrayal in Vietnam ISBN: 1476690510 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476690513 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 35110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Through a variety of combat duties - with the 36th Engineering Battalion, the 75th Rangers and the 174th Assault Helicopter Company - and several close calls with death, Steven Grzesik`s detailed memoir recounts his two tours in-country, where he hoped merely to survive with a semblance of heroism yet ultimately redefined himself.
Автор: Henry J. Colavita Название: Company Grade: Memoir of an Angry Skipper ISBN: 1555717829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781555717827 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 21380.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: From an early age Henry "Rocky" Colavita dreamed of becoming an Army officer. And a policeman. He eventually did both. His engaging, often funny memoir covers the author's 20 year career in the U.S. Army, including multiple tours in Vietnam, and his subsequent 17 year career in law enforcement. Henry was born in New Jersey, raised in Hawaii for a time and grew up in Virginia where most of his schoolmates were Army brats. But his next door neighbor was a cop. The perfect situation for him to develop an affinity for service, both military and public. Wounded in Vietnam on his first tour, he returned for a second tour, this time as Infantry captain in command. He returned home, age 28, and continued his military career--including a stint at The Pentagon and in Berlin--eventually retiring in 1983 and beginning his second career in law enforcement.
Автор: William Watson Название: Bravo Troop: A Forward Observer`s Vietnam Memoir ISBN: 147668846X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476688466 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 34190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This memoir vividly recounts six months of intense combat in Vietnam through the eyes of an artillery forward observer, highlighting techniques of armored cavalry operations, the routines and frustrations of searching for the enemy and chaos of finding him.
Автор: Lentz Fleet S. Название: A Backseat View from the Phantom: A Memoir of a Marine Radar Intercept Officer in Vietnam ISBN: 1476682070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476682075 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 30490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer, Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II during the wind-down of the Vietnam War. His personal and accessible memoir describes how pilots and RIOs executed dangerous air-to-ground bombing missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
Автор: Palm Edward F. Название: Tiger Papa Three: Memoir of a Combined Action Marine in Vietnam ISBN: 147668104X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476681047 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 30490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Corporal Edward F. Palm became a combined-action Marine in 1967. His memoir recounts his experiences fighting with the South Vietnamese, his readjustment to life after the war, and the circumstances that prompted him to join the Corps in the first place.
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