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Walking Wounded (Vietnam #5)

2014-10-21 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2014-10-21
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 172/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Walking Wounded (Vietnam #5) by : Chris Lynch

Download or read book Walking Wounded (Vietnam #5) written by Chris Lynch. This book was released on 2014-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best Vietnam War novels yet for this age range." -- Kirkus Reviews Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends. So when one of them was drafted into the Vietnam War, the others signed up, too. They promised to watch out for one another. They pledged to come home together.Now, that pledge has been broken. One of the four has been killed in action. And the remaining three are the only men alive who know the awful truth about their friend's death.Each is left to deal with their secret in his own way. One of them will accompany his friend's body home to Boston. One of them will defy orders in an act of protest. And one of them will decide it's up to him to single-handedly win the war.In the end, Vietnam may claim more than their lives. As the war grinds on, their very souls are at stake. And their shattered friendship will prove either their salvation... or their ruin.

12, 20 & 5

2013-09-03 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2013-09-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis 12, 20 & 5 by : John A. Parrish

Download or read book 12, 20 & 5 written by John A. Parrish. This book was released on 2013-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor’s year behind the frontlines in Vietnam. Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man’s agonizing confrontation with war. With a wife and two children awaiting his return home, the young physician lives through the most turbulent and formative year of his life—and finds himself molded into a true doctor by the raw tragedy of the battlefield. His endless work is punctuated only by the arrival of the next helicopter bearing more casualties, and the stark announcements: “12 litter-borne wounded, 20 ambulatory wounded, and 5 dead.” 12, 20 & 5 is an intimate and unique look at the effects of war that Library Journal calls “an autobiographical M*A*S*H* . . . phenomenal.”

For Self and Country

2010-05-15 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2010-05-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 510/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis For Self and Country by : Estate of Rick Eilert

Download or read book For Self and Country written by Estate of Rick Eilert. This book was released on 2010-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam was often called a “teenager’s war.” The average age was 19.2, so in the main, the War was fought by 17, 18, 19 and 20 year olds barely out of high school and often without the income, intelligence, inclination, or focus to attend college. For everyone, the draft loomed large in our futures, so you could choose your branch of service or let the draft decide for you. This was the 60’s. Fresh from sock hops and college freshman mixers, young men found themselves in a fight for their lives, from the Delta to the DMZ, on animal trails, numbered hills and in remote jungle outposts. Teenagers witnessed the unspeakable carnage of war while trying to understand the collision of emotions and insult to the senses that is combat. Thousands died there and many thousands more were wounded and maimed. So the hell of combat was replaced by the painful recovery in a military hospital. For me and thousands of others it was Great Lakes Naval Hospital at Great Lakes, Illinois. For Self and Country follows my many months of recovery along with the stories of the brave young men who surrounded me and sustained me with friendship, uncommon humor, and courage. This is a story of family, young love, and the magnificent care administered by the Navy doctors, nurses and revered Corpsmen. Great Lakes was a place of great pain but also recovery, not just from the physical damage we sustained but also the unseen emotional injuries everyone endured but rarely talked about. We helped each other in our recovery by talking to each other about our wartime experiences and how we would need to cope outside the insulated and protected hospital. Most of us had no expectation of surviving Vietnam; now that we had we were unsure what place we would have in civilian life.

Achilles in Vietnam

2010-05-11 Psychology
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Release : 2010-05-11
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 922/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Achilles in Vietnam by : Jonathan Shay

Download or read book Achilles in Vietnam written by Jonathan Shay. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a “transcendent literary adventure” (The New York Times) and “clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried).

Casualties of War (Vietnam #4)

2013-01-01 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2013-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 24X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Casualties of War (Vietnam #4) by : Chris Lynch

Download or read book Casualties of War (Vietnam #4) written by Chris Lynch. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best Vietnam War novels yet for this age range." -- Kirkus Reviews Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together -- and they promise to do all they can to come home together.Of the four, it's Beck that has the most to lose. He's the smart one of the bunch, and he could be -- SHOULD be -- going to college. His parents certainly think so. But he has a pact to honor, and so Beck enlists in the US Air Force.As their tours of duty near completion and the war itself spirals further out of control, the four best friends are at last on a collision course. Will they all survive long enough to be reunited?

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