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: 0803234481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803234482 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. 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.
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: 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.
Автор: Crowley Tom Название: Shrapnel Wounds: An Infantry Lieutenant`s Vietnam War Memoir ISBN: 1643960903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643960906 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: SHRAPNEL WOUNDS is the combat memoir of Lieutenant Tom Crowley, an enthusiastic and highly trained U.S. Army enlistee and Officer Candidate School grad who enters combat in Vietnam in mid-1966.
Автор: Tolle Michael E. Название: A Spear-Carrier in Viet Nam: Memoir of an American Civilian in Country, 1967 and 1970-1972 ISBN: 147667597X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476675978 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 38810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Part history, part memoir, this book chronicles an overlooked aspect of US involvement in Vietnam, with a focus on the war victims and refugees most tragically affected by the carnage. The author recounts his two years "in-country" as an aid worker and describes how the humanitarian effort was conducted and why it failed.
Автор: Jones Bill Название: The Body Burning Detail: Memoir of a Marine Artilleryman in Vietnam ISBN: 1476675171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476675176 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A poignantly written and heartfelt memoir that recounts the author`s hair raising - and occasionally hilarious - experience as a young Marine artilleryman in Vietnam. Gritty, unvarnished and often disturbing at times, the book provides a unique window into the lasting physical and emotional wounds of war.
Автор: Reuel S. Long Название: MASH Doctor in Vietnam: A Memoir of the War and After ISBN: 1476690480 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476690483 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 32340.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Reuel Long`s experiences as an MD in the emergency rooms of Flint, Michigan prepared him for only some of what he would see in a mobile army surgical hospital. Antiwar sentiment among the doctors in basic training at Fort Sam Houston set the tone for his tour as a general medical officer. This is Long`s memoir of his war service.
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