Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam - Softcover

Beidler, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820330019 ISBN 13: 9780820330013

Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 2007

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Book by Beidler Philip D

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Beautifully written, at times eloquent... [A] gem of a book. - History News Network ""Now, when the Vietnam War is being transformed into a matrix of fantasy and myth used to promote perpetual warfare, Philip Beidler's lucid memories and meditations become ever more timely and relevant."" - H. Bruce Franklin, author of Vietnam and Other American Fantasies

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Vietnam veteran Philip D. Beidler brings back the war through chapters on its vocabulary, music, literature, and film. His catalog of soldier slang reveals how finely a tour of Vietnam could hone one's sense of absurdity. His survey of the war's pop hits looks for meaning in the soundtrack many veterans still hear in their heads. Beidler also explains how ""Viet Pulp"" literature about snipers, tunnel rats, and other hard-core types has pushed aside masterpieces like Duong Thu Huong's ""Novel without a Name"". Likewise we learn why the movie ""The Deer Hunter"" doesn't ""get it"" about Vietnam but why ""Platoon"" and ""We Were Soldiers"" sometimes nearly do. Drawing on deeply personal memories, Beidler reflects on the war's lingering aftereffects and the shallow, evasive ways we deal with them.

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• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0820330019
• ISBN 13: 9780820330013
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224