Distant war
Subtitle: recollections of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
By: Marc Phillip Yablonka
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Military monograph -- 27; Military history monograph series (Bennington, Vt.)
Publisher: Merriam Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bennington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780557084838; 9780557084418
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Personal narratives; Influence; Journalism; History
Description: Is a compilation of eighteen years of the author's reportage on American involvement in Indochina, telling of those who were there and what they suffered, how most survived and how they overcame adversity. Profiles ground grunts, and those who experienced the war from behind the lines, including doctors who served in Vietnam, pilots who flew for the noted and notorious, mysterious CIA-operated airline Air America, and journalists who covered the war in the jungles alongside the troops who fought the war. Even Wheel of Fortune game show host Pat Sajak, and the gracious and beautiful Vietnamese actress Kieu Chinh (Joy Luck Club, What's Cooking, Hamburger Hill, etc.) have chapters in this book.
Table of contents: title: Doctors in a war zone : the ultimate training ground; title: Wounded four times and still proud : Major Jim Morris; title: A gold-plated mission; title: Indomitable spirit at the Hanoi Hilton : Vice-Admiral James Bond Stockdale; title: Everything is okay now : Nick Ut; title: From AFVN to Wheel of Fortune : Pat Sajak; title: $100, a Leica, and a one-way ticket to Saigon : Catherine Leroy; title: Air America : the truth; title: If the walls of the Continental could talk; title: When art and life blur : Kieu Chinh; title: Cambodia revisited; title: Bringing the war home : requiem; title: Standing by their men : donut dollies; title: Q&A time with Steve Stibbens; title: Lest we ever forget : the POWs; title: Chopper chums reunite : pilot association remembers Vietnam's good times; title: Heaven helped them : Oliver Stone and Le Hy Haislip; title: Back to the present; title: Canada just lost track of something : Vietnam vets from north of the 49th parallel; title: Dog tags take the long road home : David and Kurt Arnold; title: Unfriendly skies for Air Vietnam; title: So long Bob : orbit for Bob Hope; title: Burying the hatchet : Nguyen Ngoc Hung; title: Shadow of war : Cherie Clark; title: A sheperd in Laos : Bishop Jean Khamse Vithavong; title: Radio Japan manager is tuned in to Vietnam : Masaki Yuasa; title: Serving with distinction; title: on four legs! Dogs in Vietnam; title: The longest yards : the mountain people; title: The long journey of Bounlieng Philavong; title: Big trouble in little Siagon; title: He hated war but loved the work : a Q&A with Allen Cates.