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Book Synopsis Tet Offensive 1968 by : James Arnold
Download or read book Tet Offensive 1968 written by James Arnold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A slim, detailed volume on a key moment in the Vietnam War, featuring battlescenes, maps and archive photography. The 1968 Tet Offensive was the decisive battle for Vietnam. Masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, it was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. However, the bloody fighting for Saigon, Hue and other cities actually resulted in a catastrophic defeat for the North. In this excellent assessment of the key battle of the Vietnam conflict, James Arnold details the plans and forces involved and explains how, despite the outcome of the battle, the American people and their leaders came to perceive the war for Vietnam as lost.
Book Synopsis 1968 Vietnam War Love Story by : James Marquis
Download or read book 1968 Vietnam War Love Story written by James Marquis and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baron von Steuben was a former Persian military officer; he served as Inspector General and Major General of the Continental Army (A Two Star General) during the American Revolution. He was one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drilling, tactics, and discipline. He wrote the regulation for the order of discipline of the troops of the United States, and the book served as the army's drill manual for decades. He also served as George Washington's Chief of Staff in the final years of the war. He resigned from the service and settled with his longtime companions, William North and Benjamin Walker, until his death on November 28,1794, at his estate in Oneida County, New York. The estate became part of the town of Steuben, New York, which is named after him.Von Steuben arrived in the United States with his seventeen-year-old secretary, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau. At Valley Forge, he began a close relationship with Benjamin Walker and William North, then both military officers in their 20s. Some historians believe these extraordinary intense emotional relationships were romantic. Von Steuben treated them as surrogate sons. A third young man by the name of John W. Mulligan also considered himself one of Steuben's sons. He inherited Steuben's vast library, collection of maps and $2,500 in cash. Upon Steuben's death, his remaining property was divided between his military companions North and Walker.? Wikipedia
Book Synopsis 1968 a Vietnam Love Story by : James Marquis
Download or read book 1968 a Vietnam Love Story written by James Marquis and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE FIRST GAY AMERICAN SOLDIER" Baron Von Steuben Continental Army 1778 To 1783 - Baron von Steuben was a former Persian military officer; he served as Inspector General and Major General of the Continental Army (A Two Star General) during the American Revolution. He was one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drilling, tactics, and discipline. He wrote the regulation for the order of discipline of the troops of the United States, and the book served as the army's drill manual for decades. He also served as George Washington's Chief of Staff in the final years of the war. He resigned from the service and settled with his longtime companions, William North and Benjamin Walker, until his death on November 28,1794, at his estate in Oneida County, New York. The estate became part of the town of Steuben, New York, which is named after him.Von Steuben arrived in the United States with his seventeen-year-old secretary, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau. At Valley Forge, he began a close relationship with Benjamin Walker and William North, then both military officers in their 20s. Some historians believe these extraordinary intense emotional relationships were romantic. Von Steuben treated them as surrogate sons. A third young man by the name of John W. Mulligan also considered himself one of Steuben's sons. He inherited Steuben's vast library, collection of maps and $2,500 in cash. Upon Steuben's death, his remaining property was divided between his military companions North and Walker.? Wikipedia
Download or read book Hue 1968 written by Mark Bowden and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Black Hawk Down vividly recounts a pivotal Vietnam War battle in this New York Times bestseller: “An extraordinary feat of journalism”. —Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal In Hue 1968, Mark Bowden presents a detailed, day-by-day reconstruction of the most critical battle of the Tet Offensive. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched attacks across South Vietnam. The lynchpin of this campaign was the capture of Hue, Vietnam’s intellectual and cultural capital. 10,000 troops descended from hidden camps and surged across the city, taking everything but two small military outposts. American commanders refused to believe the size and scope of the siege, ordering small companies of marines against thousands of entrenched enemy troops. After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city block by block, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II. With unprecedented access to war archives in the United States and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through multiple viewpoints. Played out over 24 days and ultimately costing 10,000 lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the entire war. When it ended, the American debate was never again about winning, only about how to leave. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction
Download or read book Grief Denied written by Pauline Laurent and published by Catalyst for Change. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief Denied is about healing: it is about coming to terms with the intimate pain and emotional violence that was unleashed by the Vietnam War. It is also a bittersweet love story in which a young girl meets a soldier-boy, a young bride loses her soldier-husband and how, on the 30th anniversary of their marriage, the mature woman is finally able to say good-bye to the man she will always love. Laurent tells her story with clarity and candor and a great deal of caring. There are vivid descriptions of her husband, Howard, who died in combat in Vietnam on May 10, 1968, when she was 22 years old and in the last phase of her first pregnancy. There are also sharp, tender portraits of her daughter Michelle, her parents, her friends and her lovers. The author doesn't seem to have held back anything or to have denied readers a full and complete view of her personality, including her dark side. So there are emotionally wrenching accounts of her depression, her suicidal feelings, her "insanity," as she calls it, as well as her therapy and recovery and rediscovery of prayer and faith. Grief Denied offers deeply moving passages from Howard's letters to Pauline shortly before his death. Laurent describes how Vietnam got to her, though she was thousands of miles away from the heat, the dirt and the mortars. If somehow or other you never did appreciate how Vietnam got to the heart of America, then this book ought to be at the top of your list of books to read.
Download or read book 1968 written by John Edison Schwab and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-03-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when big-city boy leaves the city for the first time to meet small-town girl? THE YEAR IS 1968: the year Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are murdered-- campus protests-- the height of the Vietnam War. DOUGLAS HOLLAND is the only son of a lower-class Jewish family in sprawling, frenetic Los Angeles, and a recent college graduate. Doug has no trouble getting dates, but the ultra-sophisticated L.A. women repel him. He longs for a beautiful, sunny, more conservative girl. Doug Holland has never been in love. SO HE IMPULSIVELY GRABS a rural college scholarship, in a last ditch attempt to escape the madness of Los Angles and the shallowness of L.A. women. But he never imagined what awaited him in tiny Athens, Ohio. CLASSICALLY BEAUTIFUL and Christian, Paige Howard, an entering freshman from a small Ohio town, is decidedly upper class. Paige seeks someone sincere as well as attractive – different from the immature boys wanting backseat sex. But Paige is a sorority girl with a predetermined set of values and ideas. – Enter Doug. ON MEETING, Doug and Paige discover that, despite considerable differences, what they have been so fervently seeking is each other. But trouble brews. It is Doug’s idealism and stubborn unwillingness to compromise his principles that dooms the relationship. When Paige rejects him, Doug’s anguish is so great he volunteers for suicidal duty in Vietnam. But then Paige, unaware, comes to realize she has made a terrible mistake. Is she too late to stop him? The stand-up-and-cheer climax provides the answer. 1968 – A Love Story is not only topical, ala Forrest Gump. It has that one element that sets apart such classics as The Graduate, An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, and Sleepless in Seattle-- POIGNANCY And it’s funny: Doc Hollywood meets Northern Exposure. You’ll laugh and cry. You will feel this simple, compelling story. And your heart will soar.
Book Synopsis Ghostriders 1968-1975 by : William Walter
Download or read book Ghostriders 1968-1975 written by William Walter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If necessity is the mother of invention, the AC-130 gunship was definitely her offspring. Ghostriders: Mors De Caelis is a comprehensive history of AC-130 gunship combat operations in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The story begins with the first AC-130 in 1968, and ends in 1975 at the end of the war in Vietnam. It tells the life and death stories of Spectre crews, who faced extreme danger while hunting trucks on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and providing fire support for US and allied ground forces. Though the AC-130 was credited with 10,000 trucks destroyed, this phenomenal achievement came with a hefty price. Fifty-two Spectre crewmen and six AC-130s were lost during combat operations in Laos and Vietnam. Written in third-person omniscient point of view by an experienced combat veteran and Spectre Historian, all aspects of the story are derived from official declassified records and personal interviews. The level of detail and context figuratively puts the reader in the aircraft as an observer, flying alongside a Spectre crew in combat. Above all, this is the story of Spectre—accurate, detailed, compelling, and unique.
Book Synopsis The Armored Cavalry Regiment by : United States. Department of the Army
Download or read book The Armored Cavalry Regiment written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wind Whispers War by : kgcummings
Download or read book The Wind Whispers War written by kgcummings and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 1960’s... America had elected the youngest President in U.S. history. "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" was the challenge issued to young and old alike. Nightly news brought rioting and violence into our homes, either supporting or opposing Black civil rights. Through the miracle of television, taped footage showed our President being killed, then TV broadcast it’s first live murder days later. The peanut butter and jelly sandwich days of the 1950’s were gone forever. World events, and pop culture had repercussions on the lives of the people you knew, your family, your friends, and your neighbors. Passion grows the moment Airman Jeffrey "Mad Dog" Madison gazes into the eyes of young, naïve Beth Campbell. As war threatens, this sensuous Historic Romance vividly details life. Step back in time as the Myth of Camelot is transformed into the Reality of Life.
Book Synopsis Teenager's War Vietnam- 1969 by : Michael P. Zboray
Download or read book Teenager's War Vietnam- 1969 written by Michael P. Zboray and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal journey from boyhood to manhood written first hand by a teenager living through the experiences of war
Book Synopsis Inside Television's First War by : Ron Steinman
Download or read book Inside Television's First War written by Ron Steinman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steinman describes his experiences as head of the NBC news bureau in Saigon from 1966 to 1968, and he writes of how the war changed the news coverage of battle to a home audience.
Book Synopsis A Story Of Love And Loss, Deception And Betrayal by : Jodee Rodrguez
Download or read book A Story Of Love And Loss, Deception And Betrayal written by Jodee Rodrguez and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man who got off the plane in November of 1968 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago was very different. He looked mostly the same, but he was tough and cynical beyond his years. He had left home filled with traditional patriotism. He came home respecting authority but never trusting America again, not her government nor her people. This is the personal experiences of former Army infantry First Lieutenant the author during his year in Vietnam - 1968. It is a remarkable, touching story that is filled with rage, regret, and heartbreak.
Download or read book The Cat From Hue written by John Laurence and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Award John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from its early days, through the bloody battle of Hue in 1968, to the Cambodian invasion. He was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war, however, the traumatic stories Laurence covered became a personal burden that he carried long after the war was over. In this evocative, unflinching memoir, laced with humor, anger, love, and the unforgettable story of Mé a cat rescued from the battle of Hue, Laurence recalls coming of age during the war years as a journalist and as a man. Along the way, he clarifies the murky history of the war and the role that journalists played in altering its course. The Cat from Huéi> has earned passionate acclaim from many of the most renowned journalists and writers about the war, as well as from military officers and war veterans, book reviewers, and readers. This book will stand with Michael Herr's Dispatches, Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War, and Neil Sheehan's A Bright, Shining Lie as one of the best books ever written about Vietnam-and about war generally.
Book Synopsis Happiness Is A Warm Gun by : Cheryl Breo
Download or read book Happiness Is A Warm Gun written by Cheryl Breo and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I crawl away and shut myself in a room with my Beatle records, the music that would keep me from suicide and strong enough to care for our baby daughter. This was the aftermath of his tours of duty in Vietnam, bringing that war home to our front door, letting itself in uninvited, causing both of us to relive the demons of the violence he experienced over there. It is a story that many women of my era who were married to combat Vietnam vets seldom tell; and who certainly wouldn't commit to paper. It's not a book about The Beatles; but their music is the backdrop to my story, a passion, a love and a musical therapy at the time that absolutely kept me alive. It is the story of the terror a war can bring home and how it can continue with devastating consequences. At that time; when our soldiers returned home from Vietnam; there was no mental health support program for us or our families. They were simply dropped back into a society that despised them and the war they fought; forcing them to internalize the trauma and relive it every day in their minds, and in our homes. Too many committed suicide, too many took my husband's path of physical violence, until finally, during the Gulf Wars our government recognized the need for "debriefing" and PTSD therapy when soldiers returned home; but it is still a token gesture. My story highlights how bad it really was back then and how much more attention needs to be drawn towards the minimal mental health care that our returning veterans receive today.
Book Synopsis Through the Valley by : James F. Humphries
Download or read book Through the Valley written by James F. Humphries and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fierce close combat in the remote areas of South Vietnam's northern provinces in 1967-68--the battles of Hiep Duc, March 11, Nhi Ha, and Hill 406--has been a strangely underreported slice of the Vietnam War. Through the Valley brings those battles into sharp focus, chronicling the efforts of the proud units of the Americal Division and the 196th Light Infantry Brigade against a stubborn enemy in long-forgotten villages and on torturous hills. Colonel Humphries draws on both his own combat experience and the eyewitness reports of fifty former veterans to reconstruct what it was like to fight in Vietnam.
Author :Neal E. Morgan Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781542929240 Total Pages :318 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (292 download)
Book Synopsis Shot at & Missed by : Neal E. Morgan
Download or read book Shot at & Missed written by Neal E. Morgan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of my short military service including my perspective of the Vietnam War from the start, and it follows America's descent into chaos until the final days in 1975. I was drafted several times and eventually was inducted into the Army on April 20, 1967, and then was sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky for Basic Training. Afterwards, I was assigned to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri for Combat Engineering Training where I headed a squad of 16 people. In October, I was sent to Vietnam as a Combat Engineer; but, through fortuitous circumstances, I became a Finance Specialist with the 1st Infantry Division, better known as the Big Red One. I witnessed the treacherous deceit of the 1968 Tet Offensive and the escalation of hostilities that followed from a bunker on our basecamp's perimeter. I honestly do know how it feels to be shot at and missed; but, in fact, I only felt the real impact of the war whenever I had to close a file for someone killed in action. When I was in Vietnam, the world was a completely different place. We still have many of the same social challenges, but the economic, technical, scientific, and medical advances have all been amazing. Unfortunately, in too many ways, nothing has changed. Our planet is still at war, inhumanity is all too frequently the headline, and religious exploitation and racial strife shackle any hope for world peace. Perhaps this book, in some small way, will help us avoid the mistakes of the past. My term of duty ended on November 21, 1968 and I returned physically unscathed but somewhat morally affected. I am very proud of my service and the fact that I chose to serve my country during perilous times. I have offered my insights with high hopes for our country and to honor all those who have served in the military and given so much of themselves to help preserve our nation's freedoms and defend the rights we hold so dear. It took almost five decades, half a century, for me to reflect and then write this book, but I seriously doubt I could have completed it any sooner. God bless America. Neal Morgan
Book Synopsis An Unfinished Love Story by : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Download or read book An Unfinished Love Story written by Doris Kearns Goodwin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller from “America’s historian-in-chief” (New York magazine) An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life. Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir. Over the years, with humor, anger, frustration, and in the end, a growing understanding, Dick and Doris had argued over the achievements and failings of the leaders they served and observed, debating the progress and unfinished promises of the country they both loved. The Goodwins’ last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s, illuminating public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference; a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested. Their expedition gave Dick’s last years renewed purpose and determination. It gave Doris the opportunity to connect and reconnect with participants and witnesses of pivotal moments of the 1960s. And it gave them both an opportunity to make fresh assessments of the central figures of the time—John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and especially Lyndon Johnson, who greatly impacted both their lives. The voyage of remembrance brought unexpected discoveries, forgiveness, and the renewal of old dreams, reviving the hope that the youth of today will carry forward this unfinished love story with America.
