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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2011
- ISBN
- 9781574413243
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
ISBN-10
1574413244
ISBN-13
9781574413243
eBay Product ID (ePID)
103011050
Product Key Features
Book Title
Donut Dolly : an American Red Cross Girl's War in Vietnam
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Military / Vietnam War, Military
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Book Series
North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-028208
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"One day while guarding Highway 13, we had the rare pleasure of your ladies visiting us. I couldn't believe that you would come to such a terrible place. You were a treat for us to see. We wanted to go home so bad. To see you was a blessing. You may never know how many lives you touched by coming to visit us."-- Gary W. Dyer , Sergeant, C 1/28, 1st Infantry Division, Quan Loi, 1967-68, " Donut Dolly . . . offers a unique perspective from one of some 600 young women who served, often in harm's way, to bring a touch of home to the Americans in Vietnam."-- Vietnam Magazine, "Donut Dolly is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in women serving during wartime. Scholars and graduate students alike would benefit from reading this book because it is a good example of an autobiography that provides insight into the life of a female civilian serving American troops during the Vietnam War."--H-WAR/H-NET Review, "Donut Dolly is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in women serving during wartime. Scholars and graduate students alike would benefit from reading this book because it is a good example of an autobiography that provides insight into the life of a female civilian serving American troops during the Vietnam War."--H-WAR/H-NET Review, "[A] riveting first-hand account of Joann Puffer Kotcher's experiences as a program director for the American Red Cross in the early years of the Vietnam War. . . . I recommend Donut Dolly to those interested in the advancements of the role of women in the armed forces."-- Military Review, "Memoirs about women's experiences in the Vietnam War are hard to come by and outnumbered by books filled with men's combat experiences. Women's experiences reveal an entirely different dimension of the war. The day to day interactions that Kotcher had with servicemen certainly succeeded in warming their hearts and reminding them what they were fighting for."- Meghan K. Winchell , author of Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun, " Donut Dolly is an engaging and useful account of an almost totally ignored facet of the Vietnam War. Kotcher and her colleagues attempted to make life more bearable for the soldiers and airmen engaged in the war, and along the way her insights are fascinating."-- G. L. Seligmann , co-editor of The Sweep of American History, "One day while guarding Highway 13, we had the rare pleasure of your ladies visiting us. I couldn't believe that you would come to such a terrible place. You were a treat for us to see. We wanted to go home so bad. To see you was a blessing. You may never know how many lives you touched by coming to visit us."- Gary W. Dyer , Sergeant, C 1/28, 1st Infantry Division, Quan Loi, 1967-68, " Donut Dolly is an engaging and useful account of an almost totally ignored facet of the Vietnam War. Kotcher and her colleagues attempted to make life more bearable for the soldiers and airmen engaged in the war, and along the way her insights are fascinating."- G. L. Seligmann , co-editor of The Sweep of American History, " Donut Dolly is as much the story of the men whose spirits she tried to cheer as it is her story, though, and includes powerful wisdom she learned firsthand--such as just what motivates a man to put his life on the line for another. Donut Dolly is a captivating firsthand testimony and a welcome addition to Vietnam War biography and memoir collections."-- Midwest Book Review, "Memoirs about women's experiences in the Vietnam War are hard to come by and outnumbered by books filled with men's combat experiences. Women's experiences reveal an entirely different dimension of the war. The day to day interactions that Kotcher had with servicemen certainly succeeded in warming their hearts and reminding them what they were fighting for."-- Meghan K. Winchell , author of Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun, "Readers may be surprised to learn details of the role American Red Cross women played, often serving in dangerous and remote areas as the first women officially allowed in a combat zone. Kotcher was smart, open-minded, and sympathetic and was able to bond well with soldiers from all walks of life. Her memories are especially interesting coming from a time when gender norms were changing both at home and in war. Recommended to readers interested in baby-boomer memoirs, personal stories of the United States in Vietnam, and women's studies."-- Library Journal
Series Volume Number
6
Dewey Decimal
959.704/31 B
Synopsis
Donut Dolly puts you in the Vietnam War face down in the dirt under a sniper attack, inside a helicopter being struck by lightning, at dinner next to a commanding general, and slogging through the mud along a line of foxholes. You see the war through the eyes of one of the first women officially allowed in the combat zone. When Joann Puffer Kotcher left for Vietnam in 1966, she was fresh out of the University of Michigan with a year of teaching, and a year as an American Red Cross Donut Dolly in Korea. All she wanted was to go someplace exciting. In Vietnam, she visited troops from the Central Highlands to the Mekong Delta, from the South China Sea to the Cambodian border. At four duty stations, she set up recreation centers and made mobile visits wherever commanders requested. That included Special Forces Teams in remote combat zone jungles. She brought reminders of home, thoughts of a sister or the girl next door. Officers asked her to take risks because they believed her visits to the front lines were important to the men. Every Vietnam veteran who meets her thinks of her as a brother-at-arms. Donut Dolly is Kotcher's personal view of the war, recorded in a journal kept during her tour, day by day as she experienced it. It is a faithful representation of the twists and turns of the turbulent, controversial time. While in Vietnam, Kotcher was once abducted; dodged an ambush in the Delta; talked with a true war hero in a hospital who had charged a machine gun; and had a conversation with a prostitute. A rare account of an American Red Cross volunteer in Vietnam, Donut Dolly will appeal to those interested in the Vietnam War, to those who have interest in the military, and to women aspiring to go beyond the ordinary., Donut Dolly puts you in the Vietnam War face down in the dirt under a sniper attack, inside a helicopter being struck by lightning, at dinner next to a commanding general, and slogging through the mud along a line of foxholes. You see the war through the eyes of one of the first women officially allowed in the combat zone. When Joann Puffer ......
LC Classification Number
DS559.63.K68 2011
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