They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
de Maraniss, David
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- ISBN 10
- 0743261046
- ISBN 13
- 9780743261043
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. xvii, 572 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. "Here is the epic story of Vietnam and thesixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. David Maraniss takes the reader on an unforgettable journey to the battlefields of war and peace. With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while examining questions about the meaning of dissent and the official manipulation of truth, issues that are as relevant today as they were decades ago. In a seamless narrative, Maraniss weaves together three very different worlds of that time: the death and heroism of soldiers in Vietnam, the anger and anxiety of antiwar students back home, and the confusion and obfuscating behavior of officials in Washington. In the literature of the Vietnam era, there are powerful books about soldiering, excellent analyses of American foreign policy in Southeast Asia, and many dealing with the sixties' culture of protest, but this is the first book to connect the three worlds and present them in a dramatic unity. To understand what happens to the people of this story is to understand America's anguish. In the Long Nguyen Secret Zone of Vietnam, a renowned battalion of the First Infantry Division is marching into a devastating ambush that will leave sixty-one soldiers dead and an equal number wounded. On the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, students are staging an obstructive protest at the Commerce Building against recruiters for Dow Chemical Company, makers of napalm and Agent Orange, that ends in a bloody confrontation with club-wielding Madison police. And in Washington, President Lyndon Johnson is dealing with pressures closing in on him from all sides and lamenting to his war council, 'How are we ever going to win?' Based on thousands of primary documents and 180 on-the-record interviews, the story unfolds day by day, hour by hour, and at times minute by minute, with a rich cast of characters -- military officers, American and Viet Cong soldiers, chancellors, professors, students, police officers, businessmen, mime troupers, a president and his men, a future mayor and future vice president -- moving toward battles that forever shaped their lives and evoked cultural and political conflicts that reverberate still. / David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and the author of two critically acclaimed and bestselling books, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi and First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton. He is also the author of The Clinton Enigma and coauthor of The Prince of Tennessee: Al Gore Meets His Fate and "Tell Newt to Shut Up!" He lives in Washington, D.C., and Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, Linda. They have two grown children." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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El Jan 24 2011, BeatrizRomero dijo:
It is the best book I ever read about the Vietnam War. During its 528 pages you feel like you were part of the platoon. I was very shocked about the violence and the non-sense of the history because I knew all was real.When I finished this book I felt all in that war was absurd, because people who was there was terrified by the situation, but when they came back home we treated them like traitors. This story make you understand how unfair the situation was for those soldiers, and how infuriating was that the government send them to Vietnam to die alone. I recommend this book to everybody interested in knowing more about this war, and about the sixties history. I'm sure anyone who reads it will see that we must learn from past mistakes to not repeat them in the future.
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- Título
- They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
- Autor
- Maraniss, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0743261046
- ISBN 13
- 9780743261043
- Editorial
- Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Asian / South-East Asian; Genre & Subject / Military;
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