Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of five well-known naval Academy graduates to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. "This is an amazing piece of work that could make you cry over descriptions of bravery so bold and so big that you wonder how our country deserves such men. . . . It is about the soul of a nation".--Mike Barnicle, The Boston Globe Books. photo insert.
Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of five well-known naval Academy graduates to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. "This is an amazing piece of work that could make you cry over descriptions of bravery so bold and so big that you wonder how our country deserves such men. . . . It is about the soul of a nation".--Mike Barnicle, The Boston Globe Books. photo insert.
Robert Timberg is the author of The Nightingale's Song and John McCain, An American Odyssey. He served with the First Marine Division in South Vietnam from March 1966 to February 1967. He has worked at The Baltimore Sun for three decades as a reporter, editor and White House correspondent. Currently deputy chief of the Sun's Washington bureau, he lives in Bethesda, Md.
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CONTENTS Prologue Book I. IHTFP Introduction I. Halos and Horns 2. Imagination Is Funny 3. Showdown Book II. Fields of Fire Introduction 4. Fire at Sea 5. Music Bingo, Dummy Math, and Gamma Rays 6. Welcome to the Gallant Marines 7. The Crown Prince 8. The Bloody Filter 9. Do You Want to Go Home? 10. The Cherry Boy 11. The Natural 12. Trusting the System 13. 'Tis the Season to Be Jolly 14. Stranger in a Strange Land 15. The Reasonable and Honest War Criminal 16. Long Tall Sally 17. The Water Walker 18. Adult Education 19. A Tutorial with the Greats 20. Reentry 21. A Change of Heart 22. Pug Henry 23. Women Can't Fight 24. Guerrilla Warfare 25. Garlic in a Crowded Elevator Book III. The Nightingale's Song Introduction 26. Ollie, Bud, and John 27. The Candidate from Hanoi 28. Scorpions in a Jar 29. Noble Cause Redux 30. The Doubters 31. The Presbyterian Climax 32. Put 'Em Up, Put 'Em Up 33. Remember Yamamoto 34. An Alien Presence 35. I Don't Have Any Life 36. The White Tornado 37. The Biggest Hawk and the Biggest Dove 38. Where Was Al Krekich When We Needed Him? 39. Chinatown Epilogue A Note on Research Methods Notes Bibliography Interviews Acknowledgments Index
CONTENTS Prologue Book I. IHTFP Introduction I. Halos and Horns 2. Imagination Is Funny 3. Showdown Book II. Fields of Fire Introduction 4. Fire at Sea 5. Music Bingo, Dummy Math, and Gamma Rays 6. Welcome to the Gallant Marines 7. The Crown Prince 8. The Bloody Filter 9. Do You Want to Go Home? 10. The Cherry Boy 11. The Natural 12. Trusting the System 13. 'Tis the Season to Be Jolly 14. Stranger in a Strange Land 15. The Reasonable and Honest War Criminal 16. Long Tall Sally 17. The Water Walker 18. Adult Education 19. A Tutorial with the Greats 20. Reentry 21. A Change of Heart 22. Pug Henry 23. Women Can't Fight 24. Guerrilla Warfare 25. Garlic in a Crowded Elevator Book III. The Nightingale's Song Introduction 26. Ollie, Bud, and John 27. The Candidate from Hanoi 28. Scorpions in a Jar 29. Noble Cause Redux 30. The Doubters 31. The Presbyterian Climax 32. Put 'Em Up, Put 'Em Up 33. Remember Yamamoto 34. An Alien Presence 35. I Don't Have Any Life 36. The White Tornado 37. The Biggest Hawk and the Biggest Dove 38. Where Was Al Krekich When We Needed Him? 39. Chinatown Epilogue A Note on Research Methods Notes Bibliography Interviews Acknowledgments Index
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