Scenes From A Vietnam Era Diary

Download Scenes From A Vietnam Era Diary full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Scenes From A Vietnam Era Diary ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Scenes from a Vietnam-Era Diary

Author : K G. MCLAUGHLIN
Publisher : Lulu Publishing Services
ISBN 13 : 9781483484600
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (846 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Scenes from a Vietnam-Era Diary by : K G. MCLAUGHLIN

Download or read book Scenes from a Vietnam-Era Diary written by K G. MCLAUGHLIN and published by Lulu Publishing Services. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year author K.G. McLaughlin graduated from high school, 1967, was known as ÒThe Summer of LoveÓ by an ever-increasing hippie movement that had been sweeping the country since shortly after the John Kennedy assassination in 1963. It was the best summer of his life. But that ended abruptly, he joined the Marines and was guaranteed a trip to Vietnam. In Scenes from a Vietnam-Era Diary, he chronicles his personal odyssey from a safe and content life in Cape Cod to a Marine Corps boot camp culture shock that unknowingly, at the time, was a gentle prelude to the hellish world of being a frontline combat soldier in Vietnam. Raw and uncomproming, McLaughlin presents a real-time, journal-based narrative describing combat while spending months in the hot, waterlogged, bug-infested jungle with one close call after another dodging bullets, bombs, and mines. Scenes from a Vietnam-Era Diary offers a multifaceted narrative of life, death, and the unspeakable horrors of serving in the Vietnam War.

Da Nang Diary

Author : Tom Yarborough
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 9781612004754
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Da Nang Diary by : Tom Yarborough

Download or read book Da Nang Diary written by Tom Yarborough and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2017-03-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal BEST MEMOIR OF 2014. Originally published in 1990, this classic work has now been revised and updated with 50,000 words of additional narrative and previously unpublished photos. It is the story of how, in Vietnam, an elite group of Air Force pilots fought a secret air war in Cessna 0-2 and OV-10 Bronco prop planes--flying as low as they could get. The eyes and ears of the fast-moving jets who rained death and destruction down on enemy positions, the Forward Air Controller made an art form out of an air strike--knowing the targets, knowing where friendly troops were, and reacting with split-second, life and death decisions as a battle unfolded. The expertise of the low, slow FACs, as well as the hazard attendant to their role, made for a unique birds-eye perspective on how the entire war in Vietnam unfolded. For Tom Yarborough, who logged 1,500 hours of combat flying time, the risk was constant, intense and electrifying. A member of the super-secret "Prairie Fire" unit, Yarborough became one of the most frequently shot-up pilots flying out of Da Nang--engaging in a series of dangerous secret missions in Laos. In this work, the reader flies in the cockpit alongside Yarborough in his adrenaline-pumping chronicle of heroism, danger and wartime brotherhood. From the rescuing of downed pilots to taking out enemy positions, to the most harrowing extended missions directly overhead of the NVA, here is the dedication, courage and skill of the fliers who took the war into the enemy's backyard. Colonel Tom Yarborough, USAF (ret.) served in the Air Force for thirty years in a variety of flying and staff assignments. A command pilot, during his two Vietnam tours as a forward air controller, he earned thirty combat decorations, including the Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, Air Medal, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He currently lives in Springfield, Virginia, where he maintains ties to the academic community as an adjunct history professor at Northern Virginia Community College.

Da Nang Diary

Author : Tom Yarborough
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312984939
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (849 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Da Nang Diary by : Tom Yarborough

Download or read book Da Nang Diary written by Tom Yarborough and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THEY FLEW LOW, SLOW, AND INTO THE FACE OF ENEMY FIRE... In Vietnam, an elite group of air force pilots fought a secret air war in Cessna 0-2 and OV-10 Bronco prop planes-flying as low as they could get. The eyes and ears of the fast-moving jets who rained death and destruction down on enemy positions, the forward air controller made an art form out of an air strike-knowing the targets, knowing where friendly troops were, and reacting with split-second, life and death decisions as a battle unfolded. For Tom Yarborough, the risk was constant, intense, electrifying. A member of the super secret Prairie Fire unit, Yarborough became one of the most frequently shot-up pilots flying out of Da Nang-engaging in a series of dangerous secret missions in Laos. This is Yarborough's adrenaline-pumping chronicle of heroism, danger, and brotherhood in Vietnam. From the rescuing of downed pilots to taking out enemy positions, to the most harrowing day-long missions, here is the dedication, courage, and skill of the fliers who took the war into the enemy's backyard...

War and Watermelon

Author : Rich Wallace
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101524405
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis War and Watermelon by : Rich Wallace

Download or read book War and Watermelon written by Rich Wallace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer of 1969. We've just landed on the moon, the Vietnam War is heating up, the Mets are beginning their famous World Series run, and Woodstock is rocking upstate New York. Down in New Jersey, twelve-year-old Brody is mostly concerned with the top ten hits on the radio and how much playing time he'll get on the football team. But when he goes along for the ride to Woodstock with his older brother and sees the mass of humanity there, he starts to wake up to the world around him-a world that could take away the brother he loves.

Blood Trails

Author : Christopher Ronnau
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307494195
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Blood Trails by : Christopher Ronnau

Download or read book Blood Trails written by Christopher Ronnau and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BAPTISM BY FIRE Chris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack Viet cong and NVA troops in the notorious Iron Triangle and along the treacherous Cambodian border near Tay Ninh. Patrols, ambushes, plunging down VC tunnels, search and destroy missions–there were many ways to drive the enemy from his own backyard, as Ronnau quickly discovered. Based on the journal Ronnau kept in Vietnam, Blood Trails captures the hellish jungle war in all its stark life-and-death immediacy. This wrenching chronicle is also stirring testimony to the quiet courage of those unsung American heroes, many not yet twenty-one, who had a job to do and did it without complaint–fighting, sacrificing, and dying for their country. Includes sixteen pages of rare and never-before-seen combat photos

Inside Out & Back Again

Author : Thanhha Lai
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702251178
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Inside Out & Back Again by : Thanhha Lai

Download or read book Inside Out & Back Again written by Thanhha Lai and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.

Full Metal Jacket Diary

Author : Matthew Modine
Publisher : Rugged Land Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Full Metal Jacket Diary by : Matthew Modine

Download or read book Full Metal Jacket Diary written by Matthew Modine and published by Rugged Land Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirroring his part as a Marine Corp journalist Modine recounts through words and photographs his experiences working with Stanley Kubrick on the film Full Metal Jacket.

Afterburner

Author : John Darrell Sherwood
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081479842X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Afterburner by : John Darrell Sherwood

Download or read book Afterburner written by John Darrell Sherwood and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military history looking at aviators during the second half of Vietnam. The stories are told through interviews and journal excerpts of the pilots and aircrew themselves. Great tradey title.

How We Are Changed by War

Author : D.C. Gill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135148945
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis How We Are Changed by War by : D.C. Gill

Download or read book How We Are Changed by War written by D.C. Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How We Are Changed by War examines the changes to Americans during wartime through the medium of their diaries and correspondence, beginning with the colonial period of the early seventeenth century, and ending with diaries and letters from Iraq War veterans. The book clearly discusses and describes the universal themes of war such as reintegration to society and the horrors of war through private writings regardless of the narrator's historical era. This allows the writers to "speak" to each other across time to reveal a profound commonality of cultural experience." "How We Are Changed by War is a fascinating look at the writings of individuals who served their military in different eras, and a great example of how history is shaped by both memory and experience."--Jacket.

Paco's Story

Author : Larry Heinemann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307539628
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Paco's Story by : Larry Heinemann

Download or read book Paco's Story written by Larry Heinemann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next. One evening, on the tail of a rainstorm, he limps off the bus and into the small town of Boone, determined to find a real job and a real bed–but no matter how hard he works, nothing muffles the anguish in his mind and body. Brilliantly and vividly written, Paco’s Story–winner of a National Book Award–plunges you into the violence and casual cruelty of the Vietnam War, and the ghostly aftermath that often dealt the harshest blows.

My Vietnam War

Author : Dave Morgan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1922132780
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis My Vietnam War by : Dave Morgan

Download or read book My Vietnam War written by Dave Morgan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Vietnam War is Dave Morgan's story. A typical 20 year old, he was forced into extraordinary circumstances in Vietnam. Far from his carefree youth, the Vietnam War would expose Dave to an atmosphere of ever-present danger and sheer terror that would impact him forever. His return to a divided Australia would isolate him further. During his service Dave wrote home to his mother from Vietnam tracking the days and the events. In 1992, after his mother passed away, he found all of his letters with his own recollections and diary entries, and the short stories of seven other veterans, to capture the unbelievable danger and horror that these young men experienced in Vietnam. He also describes how Vietnam established life-long feelings of intense loyalty, trust and mateship between the men that served there. Dave's story focuses on his time as a soldier and his return psychologically exhausted to a divided nation.

Don's Nam

Author : Franklin D. Rast
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781581128499
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Don's Nam by : Franklin D. Rast

Download or read book Don's Nam written by Franklin D. Rast and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don's Nam is a vivid first-person account of war in Vietnam centered around the daily activities of the Orient Express, it is a story unlike any other account of the war. Written from a diary, and documented with operational reports, eyewitness accounts, journals, and photos, Rast eloquently and passionately takes the reader on a gut-wrenching roller coaster ride of horror, courage, and sacrifice that the headlines and TV news never saw. It is essential, poignant reading for those veterans who were in `Nam and cannot forget, and also for those who were not there, but strive to understand the electrifying intensity of what war is about. Ride the primitive roads on dangerous convoys with the men of the Orient Express, and get a true feeling what it was like to be ambushed or mined in 1969 and 1970. Experience "Rat Patrols," rocket attacks, reconnaissance missions, and the political intrigue that made the war so difficult to fight using conventional methods. The men's stories, taken down in his muddy diary, and kept locked in an old army footlocker for twenty-eight years, jump to life off the pages and leave the reader crying, laughing, or just plainly boiling with rage as this dramatic account of the Vietnam war unfolds in a story that is truly spellbinding. Professor Gilda M. Agacer Monmouth University Editor

Valley of Death

Author : Ted Morgan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588369803
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Valley of Death by : Ted Morgan

Download or read book Valley of Death written by Ted Morgan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony. Valley of Death is the untold story of the 1954 battle that, in six weeks, changed the course of history. A veteran of the French Army, Ted Morgan has made use of exclusive firsthand reports to create the most complete and dramatic telling of the conflict ever written. Here is the history of the Vietminh liberation movement’s rebellion against French occupation after World War II and its growth as an adversary, eventually backed by Communist China. Here too is the ill-fated French plan to build a base in Dien Bien Phu and draw the Vietminh into a debilitating defeat—which instead led to the Europeans being encircled in the surrounding hills, besieged by heavy artillery, overrun, and defeated. Making expert use of recently unearthed or released information, Morgan reveals the inner workings of the American effort to aid France, with Eisenhower secretly disdainful of the French effort and prophetically worried that “no military victory was possible in that type of theater.” Morgan paints indelible portraits of all the major players, from Henri Navarre, head of the French Union forces, a rigid professional unprepared for an enemy fortified by rice carried on bicycles, to his commander, General Christian de Castries, a privileged, miscast cavalry officer, and General Vo Nguyen Giap, a master of guerrilla warfare working out of a one-room hut on the side of a hill. Most devastatingly, Morgan sets the stage for the Vietnam quagmire that was to come. Superbly researched and powerfully written, Valley of Death is the crowning achievement of an author whose work has always been as compulsively readable as it is important.

Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912 (Dear America)

Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545415012
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (454 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912 (Dear America) by : Ellen Emerson White

Download or read book Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912 (Dear America) written by Ellen Emerson White and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular Dear America diaries of all time, Ellen Emerson White's bestselling VOYAGE ON THE GREAT TITANIC is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Five years ago, Margaret Ann Brady's older brother left her in the care of an orphanage and immigrated to America. When the orphanage receives an unusual request from an American woman looking for a traveling companion, Margaret's teachers agree that she is the perfect candidate to accompany Mrs. Carstairs on the TITANIC, so that once Margaret arrives in New York she will be free to join her brother in Boston. But the TITANIC is destined for tragedy, and Margaret's journey is thrown into a frozen nightmare when the ship collides with an iceberg.

The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty

Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439876537
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (765 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty by : Ellen Emerson White

Download or read book The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty written by Ellen Emerson White and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968, in a story that includes a history of Vietnam and related military information.

The NVA and Viet Cong

Author : Kenneth Conboy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780967667
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The NVA and Viet Cong by : Kenneth Conboy

Download or read book The NVA and Viet Cong written by Kenneth Conboy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940 Japan placed Vietnam under military occupation, restricting the local French administration to a figurehead authority. Seizing the opportunity, the Communists organised a Vietnamese independence league, the Viet Minh, whose armed forces became known as the PAVN (more commonly known to the West as the Vietcong, or NVA) and prepared to launch an uprising against the French at the war's end. This text details the history, organisation and uniforms of the People's Army of Vietnam from its origins in the fight against colonialism, through two separate wars against the US and Khmer Rouge, to its role in the modern era.

The REMF Returns

Author : David Willson
Publisher : Black Heron Press
ISBN 13 : 9780930773229
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (732 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The REMF Returns by : David Willson

Download or read book The REMF Returns written by David Willson and published by Black Heron Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please welcome back David Willson's REMF, an altogether different kind of war story charcter. In The REMF Returns, Willson continues his story of the office-based soldier who never fires a shot in anger- and whose days are pervaded by the moral and spiritual twilight of life in the rear echelon of a shooting war. Willson's sly humor and carefully stylized minutiae of daily life in the Army join to make this book an important document in an area rarely confronted in our literature of Vietnam.