Andrew A Wiest
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The human experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp - the camaraderie, the fear, the smell, the pain. Men were transformed into soldiers, and then into warriors. These warriors had wives who loved them and shared in their transformations. Some marriages were strengthened, while for others there was all too often a dark side, leaving men and their families emotionally and spiritually battered for years to come. Focusing in on just...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When the 160 men of Charlie Company were drafted by the US Army in 1966, they were part of the wave of conscription that would swell the American military to eighty thousand combat troops in Vietnam by the height of the war in 1968. In the spring of 1966 the war was still popular, and the draftees of Charlie Company saw their service as a rite of passage. But by December 1967, when the company returned home, only thirty men remained--and they were...
