Charlie Company Journeys Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans
Autor Andrew Wiesten Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472827463
ISBN-10: 1472827465
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 24pp plate section colour
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Osprey Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472827465
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 24pp plate section colour
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Osprey Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Based mainly on interviews, letters, and recordings, Charlie Company makes for gripping reading - full of tales of struggle, failure and redemption. A timely reminder of how society at large needs to care for the families and veterans who were prepared to serve their country.
Notă biografică
Dr Andrew Wiest is University Distinguished Professor of History and the founding director of the Dale Center for the Study of War & History at the University of Southern Mississippi. Specializing in the study of World War I and Vietnam, he has served as a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy in the United States Air Force Air War College. Since 1992 Dr Wiest has been active in international education, developing the award-winning Vietnam Study Abroad Program.Wiest's titles include Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN (New York University), which won the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award, Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land (Osprey), and The Boys of '67 (Osprey), which was the basis for the Emmy nominated National Geographic Channel Documentary Brothers in War. He lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi with his wife Jill and their three children Abigail, Luke, and Wyatt.
Cuprins
Prologue Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The Women of Charlie Company Chapter 2: Marriage and Training Chapter 3: Wartime Chapter 4: Days of Terror Chapter 5: Loss Chapter 6: War's End and Homecoming Chapter 7: Living with Vietnam Conclusion Afterword Cast of Characters