Late Thoughts on an Old War - The Legacy of Vietnam

Philip D. Beidler is a professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has written or edited more than ten books. Beidler served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam. Klappentext Philip D. Beidler! who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam! sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier in what America has made of that war. Each passing year! he says! dulls our sense of immediacy about Vietnams costs! opening wider the temptation to make it something more necessary! neatly contained! and justifiable than it should ever become. Here Beidler draws on deeply personal memories to reflect on the wars lingering aftereffects and the shallow! evasive ways we deal with them. Zusammenfassung Explores the war through chapters on its vocabulary! music! literature! and film. This work contains a catalog of soldier slang that reveals how finely a tour of Vietnam could hone one's sense of absurdity.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

PHILIP D. BEIDLER is a professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has written or edited more than ten books. Beidler served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Philip Beidler, Philip D. Beidler
• Verlag: The University of Georgia Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780820330013
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3001-3
• Seiten: 224
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Staatslehre und politische Verwaltung; Musikgeschichte, Bestimmte Kriege und Feldzüge, USA, Vietnamkrieg, MUSIC / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, History - Military / War, HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War