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Book Synopsis One Man’s Story: Memoirs of a Vietnam Vet by : Michael Clark
Download or read book One Man’s Story: Memoirs of a Vietnam Vet written by Michael Clark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Clark was an inquisitive, active boy-difficult for his mother, although he wasn't a bad child. In this memoir, Clark begins by detailing his childhood growing up in the fifties and sixties in rural Michigan, where he built forts, became an Eagle Scout, and met his future wife. As the Vietnam War raged, when he turned eighteen, he eventually registered for the draft. In 1969, after his number was called, Clark details how life changed exponentially as he left his new bride behind and reported for duty amid violent protests and draft card burnings. As he narrates his experiences from basic training to his assignment to the army's medical training center and finally his service in Vietnam, Clark provides a compelling glimpse into the emotional influences of war. In this engaging memoir, a Vietnam veteran chronicles his path before, during, and after war as he accepted his fate and learned to embrace the precious gift of life.
Book Synopsis One Man's Story: Memoirs of a Vietnam Vet by : Michael Clark
Download or read book One Man's Story: Memoirs of a Vietnam Vet written by Michael Clark and published by LULU. This book was released on 2014 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Clark was an inquisitive, active boy-difficult for his mother, although he wasn't a bad child. In this memoir, Clark begins by detailing his childhood growing up in the fifties and sixties in rural Michigan, where he built forts, became an Eagle Scout, and met his future wife. As the Vietnam War raged, when he turned eighteen, he eventually registered for the draft. In 1969, after his number was called, Clark details how life changed exponentially as he left his new bride behind and reported for duty amid violent protests and draft card burnings. As he narrates his experiences from basic training to his assignment to the army's medical training center and finally his service in Vietnam, Clark provides a compelling glimpse into the emotional influences of war. In this engaging memoir, a Vietnam veteran chronicles his path before, during, and after war as he accepted his fate and learned to embrace the precious gift of life.
Download or read book Tracks written by Clyde Hoch and published by Tracks. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of a Marine from boot camp to Vietnam and home again.
Book Synopsis Well Done, Those Men by : Barry Heard
Download or read book Well Done, Those Men written by Barry Heard and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intensely personal account, Barry Heard draws on his own experiences as a young conscript, along with those of his comrades, to look back at life before, during, and after the Vietnam War. The result is a sympathetic vision of a group of young men who were sent off to war completely unprepared for the emotional and psychological impact it would have on them. It is also a vivid and searingly honest portrayal of the author’s post-war, slow-motion breakdown, and how he dealt with it. Well Done, Those Men attempts to make sense of what Vietnam did to the soldiers who fought there. It deals with the comic absurdity of their military training and the horror of the war they fought, and is unforgettably moving in recounting what happened to Barry and his comrades when they returned home to Australia. As we now know, most Vietnam vets had to deal with a community that shunned them, and with their own depression, trauma, and guilt. Barry Heard’s sensitive account of his long journey home from Vietnam is a tribute to his mates, and an inspiring story of a life reclaimed. PRAISE FOR BARRY HEARD ‘Well Done, Those Men is a human, moving, and brutally honest account of one man's emotionally racked journey from naive country boy to jungle soldier, psychologically scarred veteran, and ultimately triumphant victor over the demons within.' The Herald Sun ‘Heard gives meaning and sense to overused cliches such as “stolen youth”, “buried horrors” and even “mateship”.’ The Age
Download or read book Rucksack Grunt written by Robert Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military memoir with an underlying love story
Download or read book Walking Point written by Perry A. Ulander and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vietnam War veteran paints a searing portrait of his one-year tour of duty as an Army draftee, shedding light on the emotional and physical casualties of war In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing experiences that shatter his core beliefs, Ulander also captures the camaraderie and humor of his platoon, the hostility between “lifers” and draftees, the physical hardships of reconnaissance missions, and the unrelenting apprehension underlying everyday life. Ultimately, he describes the surrendering of social norms and accepted identities that allows him to glimpse a previously unimagined realm of heightened awareness. Written after a lifetime of reflection on the nature of war and the effect of violence and domination on the minds and spirits of those forced to practice it, Walking Point offers a powerful narrative for readers with an interest in the effects of war and violence, American involvement in Vietnam, PTSD, and how trauma can be a catalyst for spiritual transformation. Giving voice to profound insights gained through extreme adversity, Ulander movingly captures the depth of trust and commitment among a group of unwitting warriors who struggle to stay alive and sane in unchartered territory.
Book Synopsis Welcome Home, Brother by : Michel Robertson
Download or read book Welcome Home, Brother written by Michel Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome Home, Brother is a collection of the personal memoirs of 31 veterans of the Vietnam War. Told by members of the Navy, Marines, Air Force and Army, these accounts depict combat and day-to-day life in-country, as well as the Vietnam War veterans' experiences as they returned home to a country divided by the war.
Book Synopsis Letters from Lee by : Larayne M. Topp
Download or read book Letters from Lee written by Larayne M. Topp and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soldier's experiences in times of war are as varied and filled with impact as the cause he or she fights to defend. The collection of soldier memories in Letters from Lee: One Man's Story of Vietnam are those of one man, Lee Heckman, who took up arms during the Vietnam War. It's been more than 40 years since Lee Heckman was called upon to fight that war. Although he has spent the years since in a peace-filled Nebraska town, his nights have been anything but. The effects of posttraumatic stress disorder have brought the war back to him in waves as deep as the South China Sea, couched in dreaded nightmares, panic attacks and flashbacks. The letters from Lee contained in this book were written to a girlfriend back home during the days of a young man's life when all he longed for were a fast car, a girl on his arm and a cold beer. These dreams were crushed by an Army ticket to a tropical country in Southeast Asia. Lee's letters, written from the viewpoint of an H-13 Loach helicopter during the terror of war, are mix with Heckman's memories in a look back at the war from a perspective of four decades. Whether you are a seasoned veteran or can't locate Vietnam on a world map, you'll find Letters from Lee to be a sometimes irreverent but always honest story of Vietnam.
Book Synopsis Medal of Honor by : Roy P. Benavidez
Download or read book Medal of Honor written by Roy P. Benavidez and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of one man's fight against bigotry, paralysis, and his war enemy that led to the Medal of Honor
Book Synopsis Because Our Fathers Lied by : Craig McNamara
Download or read book Because Our Fathers Lied written by Craig McNamara and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unforgettable father and son story confronts the legacy of the Vietnam War across two generations: “an important book that should be read by every American” (Ron Kovic, Vietnam Veteran and author of Born on the Fourth of July). Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late 60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense and the architect of the Vietnam War. This searching and revealing memoir offers an intimate picture of one father and son at pivotal periods in American history. Because Our Fathers Lied is more than a family story—it is a story about America. Before Robert McNamara joined Kennedy's cabinet, he was an executive who helped turn around Ford Motor Company. Known for his tremendous competence and professionalism, McNamara came to symbolize "the best and the brightest." Craig, his youngest child and only son, struggled in his father's shadow. When he ultimately fails his draft board physical, Craig decides to travel by motorcycle across Central and South America, learning more about the art of agriculture and making what he defines as an honest living. By the book's conclusion, Craig McNamara is farming walnuts in Northern California and coming to terms with his father's legacy. Because Our Fathers Lied tells the story of the war from the perspective of a single, unforgettable American family.
Book Synopsis Unexpected Prisoner by : Robert Wideman
Download or read book Unexpected Prisoner written by Robert Wideman and published by Robert Wideman. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lieutenant Robert Wideman's plane crashed on a bombing run in the Vietnam War, he feared falling into enemy hands. Although he endured the kind of pain that makes people question humanity, physical torture was not his biggest problem. During six years as a prisoner of war, he saw the truth behind Jean-Paul Sartre's words: "Hell is other people." Unexpected Prisoner explores a POW's struggle with enemies and comrades, Vietnamese interrogators and American commanders, his lost dreams and ultimately himself.
Book Synopsis ...and a hard rain fell by : John Ketwig
Download or read book ...and a hard rain fell written by John Ketwig and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A magnetic, bloody, moving, and worm's-eye view of soldiering in Vietnam, an account that is from the first page to last a wound that can never heal. A searing gift to his country."-Kirkus Reviews The classic Vietnam war memoir, ...and a hard rain fell is the unforgettable story of a veteran's rage and the unflinching portrait of a young soldier's odyssey from the roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam. Updated for its 20th anniversary with a new afterword on the Iraq War and its parallels to Vietnam, John Ketwig's message is as relevant today as it was twenty years ago. "Solidly effective. He describes with ingenuous energy and authentic language that time and place."-Library Journal "Perhaps as evocative of that awful time in Vietnam as the great fictions...a wild surreal account, at its best as powerful as Celine's darkling writing of World War One."-Washington Post
Book Synopsis The Jackson MacKenzie Chronicles: In the Shadows of Vietnam by : Angel Giacomo
Download or read book The Jackson MacKenzie Chronicles: In the Shadows of Vietnam written by Angel Giacomo and published by 1st Battalion Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Lieutenant Tyler "Ty" Carter embarks on his first test as an officer in the jungles of Vietnam. As fate delivers its first brutal blow, he finds himself wounded. Courageously battling through physical and emotional obstacles, he struggles to reclaim his rightful place in the Army ranks. Destiny's twisted hand plays the joker, thrusting him back into the Vietnam War, where his mettle as a leader comes under a fiery crucible of death and destruction. At the end, he is faced with a make-or-break choice that will define his destiny forever.
Download or read book Vietnam written by Brian J. Price and published by Gary Dean Gullickson. This book was released on 1991 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we truly know about this nation's most unpopular war? Do we know about all of the players involved? Do we know of the secret war? Do we know about the people that fought the many battles & what Vietnam did to them? Do we know how they felt then & how they feel now? Do we know about the problems these & all Veterans face with our VA system & budget cuts? Even the President of the United States has said, "Now we are over Vietnam syndrome," What was he saying? Is it truly over for those that went & fought? VIETNAM: OUR STORY, ONE ON ONE will allow you to enter the world of the Vietnam Veteran. It is written in a way never before tried or dared. It is told just how these Veterans felt it. You will get to know them before they went to war for you. You will live with them during the hell on earth, called war. You will feel their pains, fears, sorrow, pride, hopes & dreams. You will return home with them & hopefully, you will understand them. In reading, you may even learn a little about yourself. A time for healing has come.
Book Synopsis Passing Time by : William Daniel Ehrhart
Download or read book Passing Time written by William Daniel Ehrhart and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ehrhart documents his troubled return to American society. The account conveys the Vietnam veterans' anger, alienation and moral confusion and reveals the delayed stress in his stateside life.
Download or read book In Good Company written by Gary McKay and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling account of an Australian infantryman and his companions in the Vietnam War.
Download or read book Bloods written by Wallace Terry and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1985-07-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The national bestseller that tells the truth about the Vietnam War from the black soldiers’ perspective. An oral history unlike any other, Bloods features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race were sent off to Vietnam in disproportionate numbers, and of the special test of patriotism they faced. Told in voices no reader will soon forget, Bloods is a must-read for anyone who wants to put the Vietnam experience in historical, cultural, and political perspective. Praise for Bloods “Superb . . . a portrait not just of warfare and warriors but of beleaguered patriotism and pride. The violence recalled in Bloods is chilling. . . . On most of its pages hope prevails. Some of these men have witnessed the very worst that people can inflict on one another. . . . Their experience finally transcends race; their dramatic monologues bear witness to humanity.”—Time “[Wallace] Terry’s oral history captures the very essence of war, at both its best and worst. . . . [He] has done a great service for all Americans with Bloods. Future historians will find his case studies extremely useful, and they will be hard pressed to ignore the role of blacks, as too often has been the case in past wars.”—The Washington Post Book World “Terry set out to write an oral history of American blacks who fought for their country in Vietnam, but he did better than that. He wrote a compelling portrait of Americans in combat, and used his words so that the reader—black or white—knows the soldiers as men and Americans, their race overshadowed by the larger humanity Terry conveys. . . . This is not light reading, but it is literature with the ring of truth that shows the reader worlds through the eyes of others. You can’t ask much more from a book than that.”—Associated Press “Bloods is a major contribution to the literature of this war. For the first time a book has detailed the inequities blacks faced at home and on the battlefield. Their war stories involve not only Vietnam, but Harlem, Watts, Washington D.C. and small-town America.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution “I wish Bloods were longer, and I hope it makes the start of a comprehensive oral and analytic history of blacks in Vietnam. . . . They see their experiences as Americans, and as blacks who live in, but are sometimes at odds with, America. The results are sometimes stirring, sometimes appalling, but this three-tiered perspective heightens and shadows every tale.”—The Village Voice “Terry was in Vietnam from 1967 through 1969. . . . In this book he has backtracked, Studs Terkel–like, and found twenty black veterans of the Vietnam War and let them spill their guts. And they do; oh, how they do. The language is raw, naked, a brick through a window on a still night. At the height of tension a sweet story, a soft story, drops into view. The veterans talk about fighting two wars: Vietnam and racism. They talk about fighting alongside the Ku Klux Klan.”—The Boston Globe
