Bøger om Vietnam

This is a book about survival.This is a book about love.'Beautiful, sensuous and plural ... a vital and visceral collection. Breathtaking' Joelle Taylor, author of C+nto & Othered Poems'Brave ... this striking collection ... articulates the unspeakable from various angles ... often nightmarish and dark, there are moments of shimmering release ... an auspicious debut' Se n Hewitt, Irish Times'[A] powerful debut ... marshals narrative lyrics and stark beauty' The New York Times Book Review'Vivid ... searingly honest, beautifully told depictions of survival and self-love' Publishers Weekly'A testament to queer self-love ... a monument to [what] persists' them.us'A true masterwork ... an exquisitely crafted labyrinth of a book' Electric LiteratureVisceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, charts the rebuilding of a self in the wake of extremity. How, it asks, can we reimagine what we have been given in order to make something new: an identity, a family, a life, a dream?These rich, resonant poems of desire, freedom, control and rebirth reach back into the past - the tale of Scheherazade, US imperial violence, a shattering history of personal abuse - to show how it both scars and transforms. Innovative poetic forms mirror the nonlinear experiences of trauma survivors, while ambitious sequences probe our systems of knowledge-making and the power of storytelling as survival.At once virtuosic and vulnerable, confessional and profoundly defiant, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacities for resilience, endurance and love.

THE REST OF THE STORY is an award winning history of the Red Markers, a small Air Force forward air controller (FAC) detachment, and the men they supported - the elite Vietnamese Airborne Division and its U.S. Army advisors (called Red Hats) of MACV Team 162. The Red Markers and Red Hats fought alongside the Airborne in battles throughout Vietnam and Cambodia for more than a decade. These personnel embedded with an allied armed force developed a unique camaraderie and perspective on the Vietnam War. More than 100 men contributed to this chronicle, including Red Marker FACs, crew chiefs, and radio operators, plus Red Hats, FACs from other detachments, Cobra gunship and Medevac crewmen, and artillerymen from field artillery units. This book is a tribute to them all.

"From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a piercing account of the lesser-known conflict preceding the Vietnam War that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism. How can a modern army lose to an army of peasants? Delving into the last gasps of the First Indochina War (1946-1954), which saw the communist Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam, âEric Vuillard vividly illustrates the attitudes that both enabled French colonialist abuses and ultimately led to their defeat and withdrawal. From the Michelin rubber plantation, where horrific working conditions sparked an epidemic of suicides, to the battlefield, a sense of superiority over the "yellow men" pervaded European and American forces. And, as with so many conflicts throughout history, there were key actors with a motivation deeper than nationalism or political ideology-greed. An Honorable Exit not only brings to life scenes from the war, but also looks beyond the visceral reality on the ground to the colder calculations of those who seek to benefit from conflict, whether shrewd bankers, who can turn a military win or loss into financial gain, or intelligence operatives like the CIA, who aim to influence governments across the globe"--

Was he a Red-baiter, a worldly statesman, a war criminal or, in the end, a punchline? Jacobson combines biography and intellectual and cultural history to understand the emotional life of Richard Nixon, exploring how the former president struggled between great effusions of feeling and great inhibition, how he winced at the notion of his reputation for rage, and how he used that ill repute to his advantage.

"...a near-unbelievable story of deadly missions carried out by small Green Beret-led teams operating deep in enemy territory against all but impossible odds."

Through the story of the brief, brave life of apromising poet, the president and CEO of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Artevokes the turmoil and tragedy of the Vietnam War era.In That Time tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam through the lifeof Michael O'Donnell, a bright young musician and poet who served as a soldierand helicopter pilot. O'Donnell wrote with great sensitivity and poetic force,and his best-known poem is among the most beloved of the war. In 1970, duringan attempt to rescue fellow soldiers stranded under heavy fire, O'Donnell'shelicopter was shot down in the jungles of Cambodia. He remained missing inaction for almost three decades.Althoughhe never fired a shot in Vietnam, O'Donnell served in one of the most dangerousroles of the war, all the while using poetry to express his inner feelings andto reflect on the tragedy that was unfolding around him. O'Donnell's life isboth a powerful, personal story and a compelling, universal one about howAmerica lost its way in the 1960s, but also how hope can flower in the marginsof even the darkest chapters of the American story.

In this examination of the early globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, Laurence Monnais argues that colonialism played a crucial part in the worldwide diffusion of modern medicines, speaking to contemporary concerns regarding over-reliance on pharmaceuticals, self-medication, and the accessibility of effective drug treatments.

Howard Carson grew up in a small Indiana town. It was 1968, and after graduating from high school he wasn't sure what he wanted to do. He wasn't interested in college, not then. His job for the past year had been selling shoes. He had no skills to speak of, and he decided to go into the armed services. He became a Marine, and six months later was deployed to Vietnam.This story's not about battle plans and strategies. How this battle was won and another lost. It's about feelings and emotions. It's about getting ready for war. The training, and the day-to-day experiences of a living hell. Friends shot or blown to pieces and being splattered with their blood. Carrying a wounded Marine to the helicopter while under heavy fire. Being on patrol during the monsoons. Leeches, tigers, mosquitoes, and snakes. Booby traps and guerilla warfare. A relentless and determined enemy. What Howard and others had to do, and how they dealt with the fear, the anger, and the pain. It was the early 70's. Howard finished his military service and started college, where he was screamed at, spit on, pushed and hit for being in the military and serving his country. This story's about a different time and a different America. A different story of war.

Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin is the riveting story of Navy pilot Lt. William Sharp’s high-speed ejection from his F-8 after being hit by enemy fire over North Vietnam and ultimately his escape.

Vietnam was the first war America lost on the ground. In this fascinating account, historian Nigel Cawthorne traces the conflict from its inception to its traumatic end. He looks at the political events that led tot he war and examines its impact upon both the Americans and the Vietnamese, whose battle for the independence of their country was to leave lingering scars upon the American psyche. Featuring striking war photography and useful maps, Vietnam: A War Lost and Won is an even-handed assessment of a conflict whose wounds would take a generation to heal.

An NPR Best Book of 2022 and Winner of a Nautilus Silver Book Award   “Stirring and unforgettable—a breathtaking adoption saga like no other.” —Robert Kolker, New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road and Lost Girls    It was 1998 in Nha Trang, Việt Nam, and Liên struggled to care for her newborn twin girls. Hà was taken in by Liên’s sister, and she grew up in a rural village with her aunt, going to school and playing outside with the neighbors. They had sporadic electricity and frequent monsoons. Hà’s twin sister, Loan, was adopted by a wealthy, white American family who renamed her Isabella. Isabella grew up in the suburbs of Chicago with a nonbiological sister, Olivia, also adopted from Việt Nam. Isabella and Olivia attended a predominantly white Catholic school, played soccer, and prepared for college. But when Isabella’s adoptive mother learned of her biological twin back in Việt Nam, all of their lives changed forever. Award-winning journalist Erika Hayasaki spent years and hundreds of hours interviewing each of the birth and adoptive family members. She brings the girls’ experiences to life on the page, told from their own perspectives, challenging conceptions about adoption and what it means to give a child a good life.

The author is a former air A-4 Skyhawk pilot flying over North Vietnam in 1966, 1967, and 1968. The author was attached to Navy Attack Squadron VA-163 surviving the fire onboard the USS Oriskany, the intense daily battles with the Russian SA-2 missiles, 37mm, 57mm and 85mm guns in the most heavily defended areas in aviation history. The author took many combat photographs which are present throughout the book. VA-163 is the most decorated air squadron in the history of Naval Aviation.

Gunbird Driver is a memoir of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E's in Marine Observation Squadron 6.

Letters from THE HEART provides a fascinating look at history through the daily lens of an intelligent and articulate physician who was drafted to serve in Vietnam for a year.