Fly Until You Die - An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War

Zusatztext Chia's solo effort, Fly, serve as exemplar to Pao's mantra. Informationen zum Autor Chia Youyee Vang is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the co-editor of Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women (2016) and author of Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora (2010) and Hmong in Minnesota (2008). Klappentext Fly Until You Die: An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War recounts the experiences of ethnic minority men from northern Laos who participated in a covert pilot training program led by the US Air Force. Zusammenfassung Fly Until You Die: An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War recounts the experiences of ethnic minority men from northern Laos who participated in a covert pilot training program led by the US Air Force. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Names and Places Introduction: Collective Memory Chapter 1: The Origin of Hmong Entanglement in the Vietnam War Chapter 2: The Road to Pilot Training Chapter 3: Learning to Fly Chapter 4: Long Cheng Air Chapter 5: Widowhood Chapter 6: Grief and Remembrance Chapter 7: Escape Chapter 8: Starting Over Chapter 9: Reassessing War Conclusion: The Legacy of War Narrator Biographies Appendix: Hmong Special Air Operation in Military Region II Participants Notes Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Chia Youyee Vang, Chia Youyee (Professor of History Vang, Youyee Vang
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780190622145
• ISBN: 978-0-19-062214-5
• Seiten: 232
• Serien: Oxford Oral History Series; Oxford Oral History; Oxford Oral History Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges