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Author: Frank M. Beyea Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1483408167 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 168
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In the last few years, Vietnam Veterans, including myself, have experienced a phenomenon that is hard to explain. People are interested in the Vietnam War! I think the audience for Vietnam War stories is a diverse one. From young people with a thirst for knowledge about what their fathers and grandfathers went through in the only war that America has lost (so far history hasn't made its final judgment on Iraq and Afghanistan) to the baby boomers who fought in Vietnam. Even those boomers who demonstrated actively against the war and resisted being part of it are suddenly interested. This book provides those interested with what they crave: more true stories of what it was like to live the life of a Marine ground pounder in Vietnam. It's like a good adventure novel, when your own "theater of the mind" puts you in the shoes of the main character.
Author: Frank M. Beyea Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1483408167 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
In the last few years, Vietnam Veterans, including myself, have experienced a phenomenon that is hard to explain. People are interested in the Vietnam War! I think the audience for Vietnam War stories is a diverse one. From young people with a thirst for knowledge about what their fathers and grandfathers went through in the only war that America has lost (so far history hasn't made its final judgment on Iraq and Afghanistan) to the baby boomers who fought in Vietnam. Even those boomers who demonstrated actively against the war and resisted being part of it are suddenly interested. This book provides those interested with what they crave: more true stories of what it was like to live the life of a Marine ground pounder in Vietnam. It's like a good adventure novel, when your own "theater of the mind" puts you in the shoes of the main character.
Author: Frank M. Beyea Publisher: ISBN: 9780913337707 Category : Americans Languages : en Pages : 208
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When the U.S. Marines were sent to South Vietnam in the 1960s, 18-year-old Beyea was among them. He offers here a vital document that illustrates his transformation from teenager to soldier in a modern war.
Author: Frank M. Beyea Publisher: ISBN: 9780913337660 Category : Vietnam Languages : en Pages : 128
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Join 18-year-old Monk and his ground-pounding Marine buddies as they hold it together again. Monk gets to leave Vietnam in the way he has anticipated--on a stretcher.
Author: Don Jardine Publisher: ISBN: 9780989674508 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Pick up Don Jardine's book, Combat Marine at Seventeen, and you will not be reading a history of World War II. History is seen from afar and above. You will instead be in the tangle of the jungle, or rustling through the sugar cane fields able to see only a few feet ahead, looking for the enemy. You will be stepping into the mind of a seventeen-year-old, no longer a boy, thrown into hand-to-hand combat in the jungles of Saipan. Before you read about those conflicts, however, you will get to know this boy from Idaho, as you read of a childhood in a time and a place that gave children a freedom to explore their world in a way that parents today might consider reckless.Born in 1926, Don Jardine was 15 years old when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and 17 when he enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was wounded for the first time twenty-one days after his 18th birthday. At 19, he was among the first Marines to set foot in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb, and was honorably discharged while still a teenager. Sixty-eight years later at age 87, Jardine lives these experiences still.You too will live a bit of the life-changing trauma of being a combat Marine in World War II.Jardine and his fellow members of the military won the war, returned home, got educations, married and raised families. They built careers, businesses, communities and the greatest nation on earth. Dr. Jardine's life after the War was varied and exciting. You will see him mature and will share in his wisdom.Dr. Jardine, a professional artist and educator, illustrates his story with over thirty of his own drawings, and with over thirty five photographs of the war and its aftermath.Step inside.
Author: Philip Kingry Publisher: Mountain Arbor Press ISBN: 9781631834912 Category : Languages : en Pages : 193
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Like the hero of All Quiet on the Western Front, the narrator of this bitter, honest account lives the agony of the common soldier. Blood . . . C rations . . . disease . . . courage . . . whores . . . marijuana . . . battle . . . boredom . . . and fear. The confusions of his monk's cell traded for the harsh truths of a country with villages known as "Dogpatch" and villagers as "dogs." A slice of hell where nearly new boots are always available outside the surgery door. To survive, a man must first kill the terror within-or he hasn't a prayer. Not since Johnny Got His Gun has a book so clawed at the reader's senses, screaming from the page-this is it . . . war . . . This is real.
Author: Frederick Fenwick Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 9780557508310 Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Languages : en Pages : 548
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A coming of age story of a farm boy who grew up in the heartland of Kentucky, who enlisted in the Marines in 1969 and experienced Marine boot camp at Parris Island where domineering drill instructors took away the youth in the author and instilled the discipline, training, and motivation necessary to survive in combat. Arriving in Vietnam in March 1970 he was assigned to 3rd Platoon, Mike Co., 3rd Bn., 7th Marines. His story tells of the bravery, camaraderie, and esprit de corps of this Marine infantry squad. Fred's true accounts take the reader into the jungles, rice paddies, villages, and mountains of Vietnam. Lasting Visions takes you to ground zero of the Vietnam War. Photos, map.
Author: Howard Zinn Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 9780060528423 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 764
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Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Author: Dr. Jack Shulimson Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1787200825 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 528
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This is the third volume in an operational and chronological series covering the Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This particular volume details the continued build-up in 1966 of the III Marine Amphibious Force in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, and the accelerated tempo of fighting during the year—the result being an “expanding war.” Although written from the perspective of III MAF and the ground war in I Corps, the volume treats the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese Armed Forces, the Seventh Fleet Special Landing Force, and Marines on the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, in Saigon. There are separate chapters on Marine air, artillery, and logistics. An attempt has been made to place the Marine role in relation to the overall effort.
Author: Frank M. Beyea
Author: Frank M. Beyea
Author: Frank M. Beyea
Author: Frank M. Beyea
Author: Don Jardine
Author: Philip Kingry
Author: Frederick Fenwick
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Author: Howard Zinn
Author: Dr. Jack Shulimson
Author: United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division