Homeward Bound - American Veterans Return from War

Informationen zum Autor Richard H. Taylor Klappentext The story of veterans coming home from wars has not been concisely recorded to highlight the major problems they've faced. Having gone to war and survived, they have expectations, hopes, and dreams of a better life. In Homeward Bound , Taylor chronicles their struggles to realize all of those expectations by tracing the experiences of American veterans from the Revolutionary War through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In doing so, he connects pieces of a longer, larger story that has traditionally been told only in individual parts. Homeward Bound delves into personal memoirs, dusty diaries, and teary interviews to link veterans' hopes for the future with the ways in which their dreams were fulfilled-or died. It shows how war changed these men and women, how they lived with their experiences despite the odds, and how alone they can be. Accompanying photographs relate still other stories-those written on our veterans' gallant faces. Zusammenfassung Accompanying photographs relate still other stories-those written on our veterans' gallant faces. Unlike most histories of American veterans or veterans' organizations that focus on groups from a specific conflict or era! Taylor's work chronicles the struggles faced by American veterans throughout our history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi1 Born of Revolution12 British, Indians, Mexicans, and Manifest Destiny163 Old Dixie Down304 Yankees and the Union455 Brass Buttons and Foreign Excursions586 Doughboys737 "Home Alive in '45!"958 Forgotten Wars: Korea and the Cold War1139 The Unforgotten War: Vietnam12410 Deserts and Terror14111 Homeward Bound159 Notes 165 Selected Bibliography 177 Index 185

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Richard H. Taylor, Richard H./ Taylor Taylor, Taylor Richard H.
• Verlag: Greenwood Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.02.2007
• EAN: 9780275983857
• ISBN: 978-0-275-98385-7
• Seiten: 192
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Praeger Security International
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Staatslehre und politische Verwaltung; USA, HISTORY / Military / United States, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, United States of America, USA, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science, Military History: Home Front