Late Thoughts on an Old War - The Legacy of Vietnam

Informationen zum Autor 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 Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, draws on deeply personal memories to reflect on the war’s lingering aftereffects and the shallow, evasive ways we deal with them. He brings back the war he knew in chapters on its vocabulary, music, literature, and film.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Beidler, Philip D Beidler, Philip D. Beidler
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780820330013
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3001-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Musikgeschichte, Bestimmte Kriege und Feldzüge, USA, Vietnamkrieg, MUSIC / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, History - Military / War, HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War