Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian VeteransThe Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural and legal barriers, the oral histories of the Vietnam War currently available in English are predictably one-sided, providing limited insight into the inner workings of the Communist nations that participated in the war. Furthermore, many of these accounts focus on combat experiences rather than the backgrounds, belief systems, and social experiences of interviewees, resulting in an incomplete historiography of the war. Chinese native Xiaobing Li corrects this oversight in Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans. Li spent seven years gathering hundreds of personal accounts from survivors of the war, accounts that span continents, nationalities, and political affiliations. The twenty-two intimate stories in the book feature the experiences of American, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and North and South Vietnamese veterans, representing the views of both anti-Communist and Communist participants, including Chinese officers of the PLA, a Russian missile-training instructor, and a KGB spy. These narratives humanize and contextualize the war's events while shedding light on aspects of the war previously unknown to Western scholars. Providing fresh perspectives on a long-discussed topic, Voices from the Vietnam War offers a thorough and unique understanding of America's longest war. |
Contents
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Surviving the Bloody Jungle | 23 |
Electronic Reconnaissancevs Guerrillas | 31 |
Communist Regulars from the North | 39 |
Peoples War against Americans | 47 |
No Final Victory No Family Life | 55 |
More Than Meets the Eye | 131 |
Doctors and Nurses | 141 |
Medevac and Medcap Missions and More | 143 |
Drowning Tears with Laughter | 153 |
Life and Death of an ARVN Doctor | 165 |
A Korean Captain and His Hospital | 177 |
Logistics Support | 189 |
Loggies War | 191 |
Hanois Comrades | 63 |
Russian Missile Officers in Vietnam | 65 |
The Dragons Tale | 73 |
Chinese Response to the US Rolling Thunder Campaign | 85 |
Russian Spies in Hanoi | 93 |
Saigons Allies | 99 |
Long Days and Endless Nights | 101 |
And Then Theyre Gone Just Like That | 111 |
No John Wayne Movie | 123 |
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Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans Xiaobing Li No preview available - 2010 |
Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans Xiaobing Li No preview available - 2010 |