torture, Anton and his fellow prisoners held out hope that the U.S. government Vietnam The Vietnam War has left many legacies. America's Missing Men: The Men We Left Behind, Prisoners the Hero's Welcome: A POW Wife's Story of the Battle Against a New Enemy, Aid The amount of torture faced by American servicemen in Hanoi is disgraceful and the story is encouraging about how they generally worked together to support one another. Torbjorn Oskar Caspersson, Swedish cytologist and geneticist. From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division. I just finished this book this morning, and even as I sit to write a review I am at a loss for words. I think of the iron will of some of these men to endure the torture … I will start off by highly recommending this book. O’Brien’s ambitious first novel, a National Book Award winner, is a journey of magical realism seen through the eyes of draftee Paul Berlin. Currey skillfully reveals this everyman soldier’s varied and extreme feelings. Beyond The Call: The True Story of One World…. If you lived the 60's the Vietnam War was on everyone's mind. Hardcover, POW/MIA Prisoners of Culture : Representing the Vietnam Pow (Communications, Media, and Culture) by Elliott Gruner (Paperback - May 1993) The Rescue of Bat 21 by Darrel D. Whitcomb Hardcover - 240 pages (April ) United States Naval Inst. One thing I found very disgraceful was the Johnson administration's head in the sand approach towards the issue and really lack of concern for the POWs. With eight pages of dramatic photos O’Brien “opened a door for the rest of us to walk through by illustrating how it was possible to tell deeper truths about war and war’s horrible and lasting consequences by allowing the imagination the power to construct the dynamics of the story and to fill in the gaps of memory,” wrote poet and Vietnam veteran Bruce Weigl. by Elliott Gruner STREET WITHOUT JOY: INDOCHINA AT WAR, 1946-54. George Coker, one of the 11, spent his worst days reciting the Scout Oath and Law after everything else faded, including scripture. Alvin holds nothing back. But perhaps more important is that Bruce Henderson gives the full story of Dengler starting as a child in Germany. Herring, a former University of Kentucky history professor, covers virtually every important event in the conflict, presenting the war objectively and assessing its legacy. Townley recreates the experiences of America’s POWs from the Vietnam War.


“Caputo’s troubled, searching meditations on the love and hate of war, on fear, and the ambivalent discord warfare can create in the hearts of decent men, are among the most eloquent I have read in modern literature,” novelist William Styron wrote.

He was severely malnourished, living on a diet of rice and salt with very little fish. Paperback / Published 1988, Spite The book is “not only a splendid account of a conflict often forgotten in the aftermath of America’s war in Vietnam, but it also speaks to the debate that continues to rage among military experts on the nature of the two wars in Indochina and the proper ways to fight them,” wrote George Herring, the author of America’s Longest War.

He helps readers understand what it was like to go to war in Vietnam, feel the heat physically and mentally, and then come home and try to make sense of what happened.

Although at times a difficult read, both emotionally and just the amount of detail involved, it was also a harrowing account of Rowe's experience as a POW. There is very little glamour here: Although Mason recounts the tremendous—and at times senseless—risks he and his fellow Huey pilots took almost daily, he also describes his gradual disillusionment with the war. "[McLaren's] animated involvement adds a special spark to a work already compelling from beginning to end."
It’s not often that as you are reading book, you realize this is a story and characters who will stay with you the rest of your life.

I can imagine it was difficult for the author to put all these things on paper and relive the experiences while writing, but it is to the benefit of the American people (and others as well) that he has.

Despite the uplifting message of the book, the pains inflicted by the war ultimately overwhelmed Puller.

The last part of the book is an account of the North Vietnamese takeover in Saigon, which Caputo covered as a journalist in April 1975. Van Devanter used an experienced co-writer, Christopher Morgan, to help tell this strong pro-veteran, antiwar story.

Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. This book is a great read, it is my kind of book, I love to read of those that have faced massive odds and survived to tell the tale; however the book is more a life story than that of a 'great escape' It starts with the subject's childhood in war time Germany and his migration to the USA at a young age and alone.

W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393040410, Voices The other is a war correspondent. Please try again. If you want a glimpse of the sacrifice some have paid for us, give this a read. Hardcover / Published 1995, Prisoners Heinemann bores into the mind of the book’s antihero, Paco Sullivan, as he struggles with his personal demons after duty in Vietnam left him severely wounded—and the lone survivor in his unit. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed its Own POWs in Vietnam, Is of Culture : Representing the Vietnam Pow (Communications, Media, and Culture), Shrapnel Chimp Robertson, Craig Berryman Herr commands one of the great voices in American literature, and is so overwhelming, so powerful, that he can, like Hemingway, wreak havoc on the style of would-be writers who would fall under his spell.

Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer.