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Vietnam

A View from the Front Lines

Andrew Wiest author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:20th Apr '15

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Vietnam cover

Compiled by one of the leading scholars in the field of the study of the Vietnam War, this collection captures the Vietnam experience from the frontline, a cathartic experience destined both to change and haunt a nation.

Written by the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam, this title allows the reader a grunt's-eye-view of the conflict - from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands and the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ.From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the human experience during the conflict.Vietnam allows the reader a grunt's-eye-view of the conflict – from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands and the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ. It is the definitive oral history of the Vietnam War told in the uncompromising, no-holds barred language of the soldiers themselves.

ISBN: 9781472807694

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 317g

320 pages