The Only War We've Got - 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 The Only War We've Got write by Daniel Ford. This book was released on 2017-07-31. The Only War We've Got available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Only War We've Got
The Only War We've Got - 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 The Only War We've Got write by Derek Maitland. This book was released on 1970. The Only War We've Got available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
We Gotta Get Out of This Place - 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 We Gotta Get Out of This Place write by Doug Bradley. This book was released on 2016-01-06. We Gotta Get Out of This Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The diversity of voices and songs reminds us that the home front and the battlefront are always connected and that music and war are deeply intertwined.” —Heather Marie Stur, author of 21 Days to Baghdad For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam’s Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools.” And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die” or the song that gives this book its title. In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans—black and white, Latino and Native American, men and women, officers and “grunts”—whose personal reflections drive the book’s narrative. Many of the voices are those of ordinary soldiers, airmen, seamen, and marines. But there are also “solo” pieces by veterans whose writings have shaped our understanding of the war—Karl Marlantes, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bill Ehrhart, Arthur Flowers—as well as songwriters and performers whose music influenced soldiers’ lives, including Eric Burdon, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Country Joe McDonald, and John Fogerty. Together their testimony taps into memories—individual and cultural—that capture a central if often overlooked component of the American war in Vietnam.
Our Year of War
Our Year of War - 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 Our Year of War write by Daniel P. Bolger. This book was released on 2017-11-07. Our Year of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step--one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war--a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.
The Only War We Had
The Only War We Had - 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 The Only War We Had write by Michael Lee Lanning. This book was released on 2007. The Only War We Had available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: [New York]: Ballantine Books, 1987.
