Michael Uhl

Vietnam Awakening

My Journey from Combat to the Citizens' Commission of Inquiry on U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam

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Produktbeschreibung

In this vividly honest memoir, author Michael Uhl details his experiences in Vietnam as first lieutenant of a counterintelligence team attached to the 11th Infantry. Referencing his personal journal and wartime correspondence with friends and family, the author relives the most shocking events that he witnessed during his military service, including the abuse and torture of several Vietnamese civilians. In Part Two, the author outlines his years as an activist with the veterans' movement against the Vietnam War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780786430741
• ISBN-10: 0786430745
• Artikelnr.: 22597234

Autorenporträt

As a political activist, Michael Uhl was co-founder of the Safe Return Amnesty Committee and the GI and veteran advocacy organization, Citizen Soldier. An independent scholar, his articles and reviews have appeared in The Nation and The Boston Globe. He lives in Walpole, Maine.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Book One
I. Days of Slumber     
II. Days of Wakening     
III. Days of War (1)     
IV. Days of War (2)     
Book Two
V. Days of Reckoning
1. Days of Reckoning     
2. Tod & Jeremy125
3. The Commissions     
4. How I Grew
5. The Commissions (bis...)135
6. A Grand Tour143
7. Antiwar Vets
8. The CCI-VVAW Split     
9. Organizing the National Veterans' Inquiry     
10. Skirmishing in Washington: 1971     
11. Nuremberg, USA     
12. On Top Down Under     
13. A Personality Abroad     
14. In D.C. and Working Congress
15. Mopping Up     
16. A Farewell to War Crimes     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography
Index