The Laotian Fragments
Title | The Laotian Fragments PDF eBook |
Author | John Clark Pratt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780380698417 |
Major William Blake, a Vietnam veteran, is sent to Laos on a secret assignment to take charge of an unofficial U.S. air squadron
"Reading the Wind"
Title | "Reading the Wind" PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy J. Lomperis |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780822307495 |
The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal, our need to make sense of Vietnam has prompted an outpouring of thinking and writing, from scholarly reappraisals of American foreign policy to highly personal accounts of participants. On the tenth anniversary of the final U. S. withdrawal, the Asia Society sponsored a conference on the Vietnam experience in American literature at which leading writers, critics, publishers, commentators, and academics wrestled with this phenomenon. Drawing on the synergy of this conference, Timothy J. Lomperis has produced an original work that focuses on the growing body of literature—including novels, personal accounts, and oral histories—which describes the experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam as well as the experience of veterans upon their return home.
Vietnam Voices
Title | Vietnam Voices PDF eBook |
Author | John Clark Pratt |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 2008-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820333697 |
Arranged chronologically and in counterpoint, this unique book samples all conceivable forms of oral and written documentation to illuminate the United States' involvement in its longest and most divisive war. From foot soldiers to generals, politicians to protesters, hawks and doves, their attitudes and experiences are graphically revealed.
Special Air Warfare and the Secret War in Laos
Title | Special Air Warfare and the Secret War in Laos PDF eBook |
Author | Air University Press |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2019-07-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781079351712 |
The story of special air warfare and the Air Commandos who served for the ambassadors in Laos from 1964 to 1975 is captured through extensive research and veteran interviews. The author has meticulously put together a comprehensive overview of the involvement of USAF Air Commandos who served in Laos as trainers, advisors, and clandestine combat forces to prevent the communist takeover of the Royal Lao Government. This book includes pictures of those operations, unveils what had been a US government secret war, and adds a substantial contribution to understanding the wider war in Southeast Asia.
Lao Roots
Title | Lao Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Fleur Brofos Asmussen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2005-07-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789748299273 |
Here, Fleur Brofos Asmussen narrates her successful quest to locate her grandmother's Laotian descendants. The text also illuminates the complex and fascinating life of her Norwegian grandfather, a trader in Indochina at the turn of the century.
The Secret War in Laos and General Vang Pao 1958-1975
Title | The Secret War in Laos and General Vang Pao 1958-1975 PDF eBook |
Author | Billy G. Webb |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2016-06-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1514486857 |
From 19611975, the United States found itself embroiled in two wars in Southeast Asia, but for most of that time, the citizens of our country were aware of only one. While scenes from Vietnam made the national news, few Americans knew that their countrymen were also fighting a secret war in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Billy G. Webb's book peels back the layers of secrecy, revealing the truth about a conflict waged below the radar against the relentless forces of Communism. His story celebrates the near-forgotten sacrifices of not just the United States and allied soldiers but courageous civilians as well.
Airpower in Literature
Title | Airpower in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly K. Dougherty |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2022-08-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1793653097 |
The first century of airpower has ended, yet few critics have addressed the literature that chronicles its human toll. Airpower in Literature: Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015 offers fresh insight into this airpower century by placing literature of five major wars in conversation with the clean war discourse. Kimberly Dougherty examines the paradoxical representation of aerial warfare that has allowed extensive airstrikes on cities and civilians while promising a “cleaner” method of waging war. First suggested by early military theorists, the notion of a clean air war—one that would save lives through its speed and precision— proved seductive in the twentieth century and continues to shape the rhetoric of airpower today. The air war is perceived as clean, the author argues, when we see neither the aviator nor the targeted populations in the bombing dynamic. Through analysis of fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, from the ruins of World War I to the technologies of post-modern war, the author identifies counternarratives that make visible both aviators and bombed societies, and present aerial warfare that is not clean, but messy, prolonged, and imprecise. This exploration encourages readers, and writers, to approach the next century of airpower with greater wisdom and empathy.