Vietnam Shadows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vietnam Shadows write by Arnold R. Isaacs. This book was released on 2000-04-14. Vietnam Shadows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Isaacs talks to the veterans unable to forget the war no one wanted to talk about. He explores the class divisions deepened by a conflict in which the privileged avoided service that an earlier generation had embraced as a duty. And he shows how the "Vietnam Syndrome" continues to affect nearly every major U.S. foreign policy decision, from the Persion Gulf to Somalia, Bosnia, and Haiti.
Shadows of Vietnam
Shadows of Vietnam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadows of Vietnam write by Frank Everson Vandiver. This book was released on 1997. Shadows of Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Compellingly addressing long-standing questions of whether the White House had become isolated from public opinion and whether Johnson was hardened to the voices raised against the war, Vandiver shows the president as a man who agonized, raged, and grew in response to crises in Vietnam and at home.
Shadows and Wind
Shadows and Wind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadows and Wind write by Robert Templer. This book was released on 1999-09-01. Shadows and Wind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Shadows and Wind, Robert Templer paints a fascinating and fresh picture of a country usually viewed with hazy nostalgia or deep suspicion. Here is Hanoi, an increasingly tense and troubled city approaching its millennium but uncertain of its direction. Here are people emerging from a long wilderness of malnutrition, discovering a new lifestyle of leisure and luxury. And everywhere are the anomalies that burst the bubble of optimism: a vastly expensive luxury hotel sitting empty in an unknown town six hours from an international airport; museums crammed with fake exhibits. And there remains the one-party Communist state, still wrapped in secrecy and corruption, and making for an uneasy bedfellow with the rapacious capitalism it now encourages.Drawing on hundreds of interviews in Vietnam and years of research, Robert Templer has produced the first in-depth examination of the problems facing modern Vietnam. Shadows and Wind is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Vietnam that now has emerged from a century of conflict with both foreign powers and with itself.
Experiments in Skin
Experiments in Skin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experiments in Skin write by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. This book was released on 2021-02-22. Experiments in Skin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Experiments in Skin Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the ongoing influence of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty. Framing skin as the site around which these ideas have been formed, Tu foregrounds the histories of militarism in the production of US biomedical knowledge and commercial cosmetics. She uncovers the efforts of wartime scientists in the US Military Dermatology Research Program to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin. These dermatologists sought relief for white soldiers while denying that African American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians were also vulnerable to harm. Their experiments led to the development of pharmaceutical cosmetics, now used by women in Ho Chi Minh City to tend to their skin, and to grapple with the damage caused by the war's lingering toxicity. In showing how the US military laid the foundations for contemporary Vietnamese consumption of cosmetics and practices of beauty, Tu shows how the intersecting histories of militarism, biomedicine, race, and aesthetics become materially and metaphorically visible on skin.
Ghosts and Shadows
Ghosts and Shadows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghosts and Shadows write by Phil Ball. This book was released on 1998. Ghosts and Shadows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On November 8, 1967, the author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, ill-prepared for the training and abuse that awaited him in boot camp. At the time, he would have done anything to escape; only upon reflection years later did he realize that the self-confidence instilled in him by his drill instructors had probably saved his life in Vietnam. A few months after boot camp, Private Ball was shipped out to Vietnam, joining F Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, near Khe Sanh. As an infantryman, a grunt in the vernacular of the Corps, Ball, like the other youths of F Company, did a very difficult and deadly job in such places as the A Shau Valley, Leatherneck Square, the DMZ and other obscure but critical I Corps locales. His--their--fear of death mingled with homesickness. Little did they realize that the horrors of the Vietnam War--horrors that while in-country they often claimed did not even exist--would haunt them for the rest of their lives.
