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Außenpolitik. --- Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975) --- Krieg. --- Vietnamkrieg. --- Asien. --- Indochina. --- USA.

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"Portrays the Vietnam experience of an officer and a gentlemen. It is the story of a man with a sense of honor and responsibility that extended beyond his immediate command and encompassed the people of the rural Vietnamese village he was sent to defend. It is a portrait of a compassionate man, a humane soldier and a soldierly humanist, and the precarious mental and physical balance he maintained through the horrors of war. In April 1969, David Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta. A raw and idealistic first lieutenant fresh from the Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Donovan joined an isolated four-man American team operating alone in a remote rural area of the Delta, sent off by the army to cooperate with village chiefs and local militia- and to win the war. As chief commanding officer of his unit, Donovan led patrol and combat missions, and this book vividly recreates the suspense of night ambushes and the high-pitched emotions of surprise attacks and man-to-man warfare in the swamps and jungles of the Delta. But Donovan also became involved with the lives of the civilians of Tram Chim in a role beyond that of military adviser. He was caught up in the Vietnamese culture, its local and national politics, in friendships and families torn apart by the tragic war. Eventually he was inducted into a Vietnamese brotherhood- a sect of honorary "warrior kings." On his return to the United States, Donovan found that Vietnam had become a part of him, separating him from his wife and children, his family and friends. Donovan's chilling account of "coming home, " of his enormous internal battle, is as dramatic as his tales of combat in the Delta. Powerfully written, taut, and compelling, this is an extraordinary book about the Vietnam experience that will burn itself into the minds and hearts of readers."--Jacket.

Erlebnisbericht. --- Soldiers --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamkrieg. --- Personal narratives, American. --- Donovan, David. --- United States. --- Officers --- Biography.

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"In Pharaoh's Army is Tobias Wolff's unflinching account of his tour in Vietnam, his tangled journey there and back. Using his old wiles and talents, he passes through boot camp, trains as a paratrooper, volunteers for the Special Forces, studies Vietnamese, and - without really believing it himself - becomes an officer in the U.S. Army. Then, inexorably, he finds himself drawn into the war, sent to the Mekong Delta as adviser to a Vietnamese battalion." "More or less innocent, self-deluded but rapidly growing less so, he dedicates himself not to victory but to survival. For despite his impressive credentials, he recognizes in himself laughably little aptitude for the military life and no taste at all for the war. He ricochets between boredom and terror and grief for lost friends; then and in the years to come, he reckons the cost of staying alive." "A superb memoir of war, In Pharaoh's Army is an intimate recounting of the central event of our recent past. Once again Tobias Wolff has combined the art of the best fiction and the immediacy of personal history - with authority, humanity, and sure conviction."--Jacket.

American authors --- Authors, American --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamkrieg. --- Écrivains américains --- Biography. --- Personal narratives. --- Wolff, Tobias, --- USA.

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"Comprehensive yet concise, America's Longest War provides a complete and balanced history of the Vietnam War. It is not mainly a military history, but seeks to integrate military, diplomatic, and political factors in order to clarify America's involvement and ultimate failure in Vietnam. While it focuses on the American side of the equation, it provides sufficient consideration of the Vietnamese side to make the events comprehensible"--Publisher's description.

#BIBC:ruil --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- United States --- Vietnam --- Foreign relations --- History --- Diplomatic relations. --- Vietnam-oorlog. --- Vietnamkrieg. --- Geschichte 1950-1975. --- Since 1945. --- USA. --- United States. --- Vietnam. --- Viêt-nam --- États-Unis --- Histoire --- Relations extérieures

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A Vietnam veteran who lost both legs and a hand in the Vietnam War recounts his homecoming and his attempts to come to terms with his life.

Disabled veterans --- Fusiliers marins --- Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 --- Invalides de guerre --- Marines --- Veteran. --- Veterans --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975. --- Vietnamkrieg. --- Anciens combattants --- Biography --- Biography. --- Personal narratives, American. --- Puller, Lewis B. --- United States. --- États-Unis. --- USA.