Well Done, Those Men

Author: Barry Heard
Publisher: Scribe Us
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
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 authors 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.

Tracks

Author: Clyde Hoch
Publisher: Tracks
ISBN: 0615396577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Story of a Marine from boot camp to Vietnam and home again.

Well Done, Those Men

Author: Barry Heard
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458774163
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454

Book Description
In this personal account Barry Heard looks back on his life and his time as a conscript to the Vietnam War. He relates how he and his fellow soldiers were completely unprepared for the emotional and psychological impact of the conflict in Vietnam, and unaware that the horror of war would return nightmarishly in their post-war life.

Passing Time

Author: W.D. Ehrhart
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786487585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483

Book Description
From 1969 to 1974 Ehrhart was just Passing Time. His reentry into the "world" began with his enrollment as a 21-year-old freshman (and token Vietnam vet) at Swarthmore College. At first simply trying to bury his past, Ehrhart slowly if inexorably came to understand what happened to him, and why, in Vietnam. Interspersed are flash-backs to the war itself. It is the story of political--and personal--awakening. As the war dragged on, the United States' deceitful involvement and its perpetuation of fallacies and lies about the war's conduct forced Ehrhart to confront his own feelings about his government, country, and self. Throughout, the reader shares with Ehrhart his odyssey through naivete, growing awareness, angry withdrawal and, finally, a measure of peace.

Last Man Out

Author: James E. Parker, Jr.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307486974
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
"I WAS AMONG THE FIRST MEN IN, AND I WAS THE LAST MAN OUT." In Vietnam, at both the start and finish of the conflict, 2d Lt. James E. Parker Jr. saw the war as few men did. Now, with uncommon insight and raw honesty, he captures the stark realities of jungle combat, heavy casualties, and heroic sacrifice. From the tight confines of a VC-occupied Cu Chi tunnel to bloody firefights in areas that hardcore VC and NVA vets had controlled for decades, Parker relives the rain, the heat, the horror, the pain--and the anguish of kneeling beside a buddy whose blood turnd the soil black as he lays dying. Vietnam exacted a very high price. Parker pays tribute to the men who paid it. From the Paperback edition.

When I Turned Nineteen

Author: Glyn Haynie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998209500
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who'd enlisted or been drafted from all over the United States and who'd all come from different backgrounds. We came together and formed a brotherhood that will last through time. I share my experiences about weeks of boredom and minutes to hours of terror and surviving the heat, carrying a 60-pound rucksack, monsoons, a forest fire, a typhoon, building a firebase, fear, death and fighting the enemy while mentally, physically, and morally exhausted.

Red Plateau

Author: John Edmund Delezen
Publisher: Corps Press
ISBN: 9780961852924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 141

Book Description
Red Plateau is a very personal account of a fateful meeting of old adversaries who would become respectful and respected friends. They once stood on opposite sides, only now realizing they were fighting for the same universal ideals and against the same universal enemy.

Armed with Abundance

Author: Meredith H. Lair
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war

Masters of the Art

Author: Ronald Winter
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0307415988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
No punches are pulled in this gripping account of Vietnam combat through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine helicopter crewman and door gunner with more than three hundred missions under his belt. In 1968, U.S. Marine Ronald Winter flew some of the toughest missions of the Vietnam War, from the DMZ grasslands to the jungles near Laos and the deadly A Shau Valley, where the NVA ruled. Whether landing in the midst of hidden enemy troops or rescuing the wounded during blazing firefights, the work of helicopter crews was always dangerous. But the men in the choppers never complained; they knew they had it easy compared to their brothers on the ground. Masters of the Art is a bare-knuckles tribute to the Marines who served in Vietnam. It’s about courage, sacrifice, and unsung heroes. The men who fought alongside Winter in that jungle hell were U.S. Marines, warriors who did their job and remained true to their country, no matter the cost.

You Don't Lose 'Til You Quit Trying

Author: Sammy Lee Davis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698408020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
The inspiring true life story of Vietnam veteran, Medal of Honor recipient and veteran’s advocate Sammy Lee Davis. On November 18th, 1967, Private First Class Davis’s artillery unit was hit by a massive enemy offensive. At twenty-one years old, he resolved to face the onslaught and prepared to die. Soon he would have a perforated kidney, crushed ribs, a broken vertebra, his flesh ripped by beehive darts, a bullet in his thigh, and burns all over his body. Ignoring his injuries, he manned a two-ton Howitzer by himself, crossed a canal under heavy fire to rescue three wounded American soldiers, and kept fighting until the enemy retreated. His heroism that day earned him a Congressional Medal of Honor—the ceremony footage of which ended up being used in the movie Forrest Gump. You Don’t Lose ’Til You Quit Trying chronicles how his childhood in the American Heartland prepared him for the worst night of his life—and how that night set off a lifetime battling against debilitating injuries, the effects of Agent Orange and an America that was turning on its veterans. But he also battled for his fellow veterans, speaking on their behalf for forty years to help heal the wounds and memorialize the brotherhood that war could forge. Here, readers will learn of Sammy Davis’s extraordinary life—the courage, the pain, and the triumph.