Letters from Tommy J.: A Marine's Story - 1966-1967
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Letters from Tommy J.: A Marine's Story - 1966-1967 (1967)
EN USISBN: 0972052291 bzw. 9780972052290, in Englisch, Walker Press, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
asia,biographies,history,humanities,leaders and notable people,memoirs,military,southeast asia,textbooks, Letters from Tommy J. : A Marine's Story, 1966-1967, From the Book Jacket "Small cars, big dances, football, the gang. Boy I sure wish we could go back to it. Now it is a little more serious." In June of 1966, when Thomas J. Holtzclaw graduated from O'Keefe High School in Atlanta, Georgia, he was an A student with a sweet-sixteen girlfriend and a burning desire to become a Marine. Six months later, he boarded the D.S.S. Gaffney, en route to a tropical Southeast Asian country he knew almost nothing about: Vietnam. There, he would find a war in which the enemy was invisible, the notion of fair fighting was gone forever, and no one even knew who was winning. Within a few months, marooned on a mountain top and cut off from everything except his fellow soldiers and the Viet Cong who inexorably poured into the region, Tommy J., as family and friends called him, wrote home almost every day. These letters-to his parents, his best friend, his girlfriend, and his siblings-forged a bridge of hope: Hope that America would win. Hope that he could stay alive. Hope that one day he would see his family again. From December of 1966 to April of 1967, the letters Tommy wrote capture the essence of the Vietnam experience as seen from the perspective of both the boy he was and the man he became, and express the hopefulness of the era and the reality ushered in by the War itself. In frank, unassuming prose, Tommy J. revealed his loneliness. He offered first-hand, terrifying accounts of ambushes and lives lost to mines. He wrote about hi.
asia,biographies,history,humanities,leaders and notable people,memoirs,military,southeast asia,textbooks, Letters from Tommy J. : A Marine's Story, 1966-1967, From the Book Jacket "Small cars, big dances, football, the gang. Boy I sure wish we could go back to it. Now it is a little more serious." In June of 1966, when Thomas J. Holtzclaw graduated from O'Keefe High School in Atlanta, Georgia, he was an A student with a sweet-sixteen girlfriend and a burning desire to become a Marine. Six months later, he boarded the D.S.S. Gaffney, en route to a tropical Southeast Asian country he knew almost nothing about: Vietnam. There, he would find a war in which the enemy was invisible, the notion of fair fighting was gone forever, and no one even knew who was winning. Within a few months, marooned on a mountain top and cut off from everything except his fellow soldiers and the Viet Cong who inexorably poured into the region, Tommy J., as family and friends called him, wrote home almost every day. These letters-to his parents, his best friend, his girlfriend, and his siblings-forged a bridge of hope: Hope that America would win. Hope that he could stay alive. Hope that one day he would see his family again. From December of 1966 to April of 1967, the letters Tommy wrote capture the essence of the Vietnam experience as seen from the perspective of both the boy he was and the man he became, and express the hopefulness of the era and the reality ushered in by the War itself. In frank, unassuming prose, Tommy J. revealed his loneliness. He offered first-hand, terrifying accounts of ambushes and lives lost to mines. He wrote about hi.
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Letters from Tommy J.: A Marine's Story - 1966-1967 (2007)
EN USISBN: 9780972052290 bzw. 0972052291, in Englisch, Walker Press, gebraucht.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books [51315977], Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books [51315977], Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.
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Letters from Tommy J. : A Marine's Story, 1966-1967 (1967)
EN HC USISBN: 9780972052290 bzw. 0972052291, in Englisch, Walker Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Free shipping.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks - Atlanta Book Co. [53553014], Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks - Atlanta Book Co. [53553014], Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases.
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Letters From Tommy J. : a Marine's Story-1966-1967 (2008)
EN HC USISBN: 9780972052290 bzw. 0972052291, in Englisch, Walker Press (GA), gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books, IN, Mishawaka, [RE:5].
Hard cover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books, IN, Mishawaka, [RE:5].
Hard cover.
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Letters From Tommy J. : a Marine's Story, 1966-1967 (2008)
EN HC USISBN: 9780972052290 bzw. 0972052291, in Englisch, Walker Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks - Atlanta Book Co. GA, Atlanta, [RE:5].
Hardcover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks - Atlanta Book Co. GA, Atlanta, [RE:5].
Hardcover.
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