Andrew Wiest

Vietnam (eBook, ePUB)

A View from the Front Lines

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the human experience during the conflict.

Vietnam allows the reader a grunt's-eye-view of the conflict - from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands and the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ.

It is the definitive oral history of the Vietnam War told in the uncompromising, no-holds barred language of the soldiers themselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782009399
• Artikelnr.: 40159387

Autorenporträt

Dr Andrew Wiest is University Distinguished Professor of History and the founding director of the Dale Center for the Study of War & History at the University of Southern Mississippi. Specializing in the study of World War I and Vietnam, he has served as a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy in the United States Air Force Air War College. Since 1992 Dr Wiest has been active in international education, developing the award-winning Vietnam Study Abroad Program.

Wiest's titles include Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN (New York University), which won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award, Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land (Osprey), and The Boys of '67 (Osprey), which was the basis for the Emmy nominated National Geographic Channel Documentary Brothers in War. He lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi with his wife Jill and their three children Abigail, Luke, and Wyatt.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Who We Were
2 Drop and Give Me 20
3 Welcome to Vietnam
4 Life and Death in the Nam
5 Combat
6 Loss
7 A World of Hurt
8 Changing Attitudes
9 Freedom Bird
10 Life After Nam
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Exclusive Extract from The Boys of '67
Index