Strange Ground: Americans in Vietnam 1945-1975, An Oral History
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, [8], 634, [4] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Maps, Introduction, and An Epiphany. Book One (Dragon's Teeth) covers the period from 1940-1965, and discusses "Welcome to Our American Friends," "La Sale Guerre", and "A Puppet Who Pulled His Own Strings. Books Two (Digging In) covers the period from 1954-1970, and discusses "Two Soldiers", "Grunts and REMFs;" "Bandages and Body Bags', ''Hearts and Minds'', Night Visitors; Those Daring Young Men; In Mine Enemy's House; Aid and Comfort; Brass; and The Good Life. Book Three (Liftoff) covers the period from 1970-1975, and discusses The Long Good-bye and The Fast Exit. The book also contains a Chronology, Glossary and an Index. Harry Maurer is the author of three oral histories: Not Working: An Oral History of the Unemployed; Strange Ground: Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975; and Sex: An Oral History. This oral history traces the evolution of American involvement from the last days of World War II to the fall of Saigon three decades later, after we had achieved "peace with honor." These are the vivid, spontaneous recollections of a vastly divergent group of Americans who lived and worked in Vietnam, in peace and in war--soldiers, diplomats, clerks, medics, reporters, doctors and nurses, generals, relief workers and spies. Some of them are bitter about their country's aggression, others about their country's defeat. Some feel they are better for the experience, or simply did a job that is now over. Some had a good time. Taken together, these unique voices and experiences illuminate the strange ground that was Vietnam. Derived from a Kirkus review: A massive but consistently gripping oral history of American engagement in Vietnam. Maurer was a Business Week staffer and the author of a previous oral history, Not Working, 1980. Maurer didn't serve in Vietnam; in fact, he is, as he confesses in his long introduction to the 65 interviews here, "a draft dodger" (by way of a psychiatric deferment). This book, he explains, grew from his realization a decade ago that he knew little of those who did serve, and needed to know more. Presumably he now knows much; certainly anyone who reads this book will. Arranged in rough chronological order--beginning with an OSS Major who parachuted into the country during WW II to discuss anti-Japanese resistance with Ho Chi Minh, and winding up with an Embassy staffer who describes the mad rush to evacuate Saigon in 1975--the voices, each ushered in by a short essay from Maurer, vary from journalists, medics, nurses, and CIA staffers to grunts, generals, advisors, and "fact-finders" who traveled to North Vietnam a la Jane Fonda. Only one--Dick Rutan, pilot of Voyager--is famous today; many are poor or scarred by the experience. The attitudes expressed range from guilt, regret, and anger to the rare pride; the cumulative impression is of chaos--of a violent political whirlwind. Although nearly all the accounts are involving, by far the most powerful are those of combat--from that of the freelance reporter recalling a napalm attack to that of the former Special Forces operative describing the gruesome torture of Viet Cong. It's all here, well edited and framed by Maurer: the combat horrors, the political maneuvering and corruption, the bar-sex and the drugs, the roots and trunk and rotten flowers of the War. An important addition to the literature: a powerful book.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, friendlybooksforyou.
From a covert 1945 OSS mission to enlist the aid of Ho Chi Minh against the Japanese to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon in 1975, this book gathers the narratives of over sixty U.S. citizens—medics, diplomats, clerks, housewives, spies, grunts, and generals—who lived, worked, and fought in Southeast Asia during America's thirty-year involvement in Vietnam. The result is a work of visceral immediacy and tragic sweep., Paperback, Ausgabe: 1st Da Capo Press ed, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1998-03-22, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 2688350.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, -Daily Deals-.
From a covert 1945 OSS mission to enlist the aid of Ho Chi Minh against the Japanese to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon in 1975, this book gathers the narratives of over sixty U.S. citizens—medics, diplomats, clerks, housewives, spies, grunts, and generals—who lived, worked, and fought in Southeast Asia during America's thirty-year involvement in Vietnam. The result is a work of visceral immediacy and tragic sweep., Paperback, Ausgabe: 1st Da Capo Press ed, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1998-03-22, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 2688350.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, worldreaders.
From a covert 1945 OSS mission to enlist the aid of Ho Chi Minh against the Japanese to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon in 1975, this book gathers the narratives of over sixty U.S. citizens—medics, diplomats, clerks, housewives, spies, grunts, and generals—who lived, worked, and fought in Southeast Asia during America's thirty-year involvement in Vietnam. The result is a work of visceral immediacy and tragic sweep., Paperback, Ausgabe: 1st Da Capo Press ed, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1998-03-22, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 2688350.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Open Books.
From a covert 1945 OSS mission to enlist the aid of Ho Minh against the Japanese to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon in 1975, this book gathers the narratives of over sixty U.S. citizens who lived, worked, and fought in Southeast Asia during America's thirty-year involvement in Vietnam. Hardcover, Label: Random House Value Publishing, Random House Value Publishing, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1992-01-29, Freigegeben: 1992-01-29, Studio: Random House Value Publishing, Verkaufsrang: 16737350.

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asia,biographies,history,military,vietnam war,world, Strange Ground: Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975 : An Oral History, From a covert 1945 OSS mission to enlist the aid of Ho Minh against the Japanese to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon in 1975, this book gathers the narratives of over sixty U.S. citizens who lived, worked, and fought in Southeast Asia during America's thirty-year involvement in Vietnam.

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