Author: Richard E. Ogden
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786015115
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Only 17 years old when he joined the Marines in 1965, Richard Ogden was sent to Vietnam and took part in the amphibious assault at Red Beach. This critically-acclaimed first-person account of his experiences tells the vivid truth about men at war.
Green Knight, Red Mourning
Author: Richard E. Ogden
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786015115
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Only 17 years old when he joined the Marines in 1965, Richard Ogden was sent to Vietnam and took part in the amphibious assault at Red Beach. This critically-acclaimed first-person account of his experiences tells the vivid truth about men at war.
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786015115
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Only 17 years old when he joined the Marines in 1965, Richard Ogden was sent to Vietnam and took part in the amphibious assault at Red Beach. This critically-acclaimed first-person account of his experiences tells the vivid truth about men at war.
Green Knight and Red Mourning
Author: Richard E. Ogden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780532232186
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780532232186
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Green Knight, Red Mourning
Author: R. Ogden
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821731864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821731864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
Author:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
WLA
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War
Author: John A. Wood
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans’ understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation’s collective memory of the war and its aftermath. Instead, veterans’ accounts are mined for colorful quotes and then dropped from public discourse; are accepted as factual sources with little attention to how memory, no matter how authentic, can diverge from events; or are not contextualized in terms of the race, gender, or class of the narrators. Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War is a landmark study of the cultural heritage of the war in Vietnam as presented through the experience of its American participants. Crossing disciplinary borders in ways rarely attempted by historians, John A. Wood unearths truths embedded in the memoirists’ treatments of combat, the Vietnamese people, race relations in the United States military, male-female relationships in the war zone, and veterans’ postwar troubles. He also examines the publishing industry’s influence on collective memory, discussing, for example, the tendency of publishers and reviewers to privilege memoirs critical of the war. Veteran Narratives is a significant and original addition to the literature on Vietnam veterans and the conflict as a whole.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans’ understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation’s collective memory of the war and its aftermath. Instead, veterans’ accounts are mined for colorful quotes and then dropped from public discourse; are accepted as factual sources with little attention to how memory, no matter how authentic, can diverge from events; or are not contextualized in terms of the race, gender, or class of the narrators. Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War is a landmark study of the cultural heritage of the war in Vietnam as presented through the experience of its American participants. Crossing disciplinary borders in ways rarely attempted by historians, John A. Wood unearths truths embedded in the memoirists’ treatments of combat, the Vietnamese people, race relations in the United States military, male-female relationships in the war zone, and veterans’ postwar troubles. He also examines the publishing industry’s influence on collective memory, discussing, for example, the tendency of publishers and reviewers to privilege memoirs critical of the war. Veteran Narratives is a significant and original addition to the literature on Vietnam veterans and the conflict as a whole.
A Life in a Year
Author: James Ebert
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 030741440X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This provocative in-depth book focuses on the experiences of the infantry soldier in Vietnam. More than 60 Army and Marine Corps infantrymen speak of their experiences during their year-long tours of duty.
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 030741440X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This provocative in-depth book focuses on the experiences of the infantry soldier in Vietnam. More than 60 Army and Marine Corps infantrymen speak of their experiences during their year-long tours of duty.
Armor
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanization, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanization, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Search and Destroy
Author: Dean Hughes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481427032
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Recent high school graduate Rick Ward, undecided about his future and eager to escape his unhappy home life, joins the army and experiences the horrors of the war in Vietnam.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481427032
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Recent high school graduate Rick Ward, undecided about his future and eager to escape his unhappy home life, joins the army and experiences the horrors of the war in Vietnam.
Working-Class War
Author: Christian G. Appy
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.--Senator George McGovern "Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached draft age during the war--came from working-class and impoverished backgrounds. . . . Deals especially well with the apparent paradox that the working-class soldiers' families back home mainly opposed the antiwar movement, and for that matter so with few exceptions did the soldiers themselves.--New York Times Book Review "[Appy's] treatment of the subject makes it clear to his readers--almost as clear as it became for the soldiers in Vietnam--that class remains the tragic dividing wall between Americans.--Boston Globe
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.--Senator George McGovern "Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached draft age during the war--came from working-class and impoverished backgrounds. . . . Deals especially well with the apparent paradox that the working-class soldiers' families back home mainly opposed the antiwar movement, and for that matter so with few exceptions did the soldiers themselves.--New York Times Book Review "[Appy's] treatment of the subject makes it clear to his readers--almost as clear as it became for the soldiers in Vietnam--that class remains the tragic dividing wall between Americans.--Boston Globe