William F Brown

Our Vietnam Wars, Volume 3

as told by still more veterans who served

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Want to know what Vietnam was really like? 37 stories with 105 photographs. Like Volumes 1 & 2, these are real stories told by real people, in their own words, men and women, black and white, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard, officers and enlisted, Americans, Australians, and New Zealanders, from 1955 to 1975, caught up in an all too real war. From the Delta to the DMZ, come walk in their boots. If you were there, you understand. If you weren't, grab a copy and you will, because they're like Doritos. Try a few and you won't be able to stop. The Vietnam War dominated my generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways. Some of us were drafted. Some enlisted. Some became war heroes, intentional or not, but most of us were just trying to survive. As we all knew, Vietnam was all about luck, good or bad. And there were hundreds of different wars depending on where you were, the year you were there, your service, branch, unit, rank, job, and race. Whether we were truck drivers, helicopter pilots, infantryman, clerk typists, medics, engineers, MPs, sailors out on Yankee station, artillerymen, or cooks, from 1956 to 1976 from the Delta to the DMZ, these stories tell who we were, the jobs we did, our memories of that time and place, how it changed us, and what we did after we came home. Some of us were drafted. Some enlisted. Some became war heroes, intentional or not, but most of us were just trying to survive. As we all knew, Vietnam was all about luck, good or bad. And there were hundreds of different wars depending on where you were, the year you were there, your service, branch, unit, rank, job, and race. Whether we were truck drivers, helicopter pilots, infantryman, clerk typists, medics, engineers, MPs, sailors out on Yankee station, artillerymen, or cooks, from 1956 to 1976 from the Delta to the DMZ, these stories tell who we were, the jobs we did, our memories of that time and place, how it changed us, and what we did after we came home. Unfortunately, what little our kids and grandkids know of the war comes from books that only focus on one soldier, one unit, and one year, or movies like Oliver Stone's Platoon and Hamburger Hill, leaving people to think that all we did was crawl through the jungle on the Cambodian border smoking dope. But that wasn't how most of us spent our year. Hopefully, these books will help correct that narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: WFB FCB, a Wyoming Limited Liability Company
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781087935980
• ISBN-10: 1087935989
• Artikelnr.: 60894103

Autorenporträt

Ich komme aus Chicago und habe von der University of Illinois einen BA in Geschichte und russischen Regionalstudien sowie einen Master in Stadtplanung erworben. Ich diente als Kompaniechef der US-Armee in Vietnam und engagierte mich in der lokalen und regionalen Politik. Als Vizepräsident der Immobilientochtergesellschaft eines Fortune-500-Unternehmens bereiste ich viel Europa, Russland, China und den Nahen Osten - Orte, die in meinen Texten erwähnt wurden. Ich spiele schlechtes Golf, bin ein verbissener Läufer geworden und male passable Landschaften in Öl und Acryl. Meine Frau und ich sind im Ruhestand und leben in Florida. Der beste Weg, meine Arbeit zu verfolgen und mehr über Verkäufe und Gratisgeschenke zu erfahren, ist meine Website http://www.billbrownthrillernovels.com, die Vorschaukapitel zu jedem meiner Romane, Interviews, Buchrezensionen und andere Links enthält.