Goodbye VietnamOpen Road Media, 2 thg 4, 2013 - 284 trang In this “essential” memoir, a former marine returns to Vietnam years later to try to make sense of the war (Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead). When William Broyles Jr. was drafted, he was a twenty-four-year-old student at Oxford University in England, hoping to avoid military service. During his physical exam, however, he realized that he couldn’t let social class or education give him special privileges. He joined the marines, and soon commanded an infantry platoon in the foothills near Da Nang. More than a decade later, Broyles found himself flooded with emotion during the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. He decided to return to Vietnam and confront what he’d been through. Broyles was one of the very first combat veterans to return to the battlefields. No American before or since has gone so deeply into the other side of the war: the enemy side. Broyles interviews dozens of Vietnamese, from the generals who ran the war to the men and women who fought it. He moves from the corridors of power in Hanoi—so low-tech that the plumbing didn’t work—to the jungles and rice paddies where he’d fought. He meets survivors of American B-52 strikes and My Lai, and grieves with a woman whose son was killed by his own platoon. Along the way, Broyles also explores the deep bonds he shared with his own comrades, and the mystery of why men love war even as they hate it. Amidst the landscape of death, his formerly faceless enemies come to life. They had once tried to kill each other, but they are all brothers now. Previously published as Brothers in Arms, this edition includes a new preface by the author. |
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Morning in Hanoi | |
I Am Not a Russian | |
MIAS and the Swedish Disco | |
Dragons from the | |
All Quiet at the | |
An Argument in | |
The Girl at Marble Mountain | |
Number One | |
The Best Weapon | |
My Enemy My Self | |
The Road to Hill 10 | |
The Same Saigon | |
The Targets of Nam Dinh | |
Everyone Did | |
Marching Off to | |
Talking with Generals | |
Tan TraoWhere It All Began | |
Diplomatic Misunderstandings | |
Ghosts in the | |
American Boys | |
Boats Along the Mekong | |
Dancing in the Dark | |
A My Lai Survivor and the White Viet Cong | |
At the End of the Tunnel | |
Epilogue | |
Essay on Sources | |
Acknowledgments | |
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