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Boys Of '67 : Charlie Company's War in Vietnam by Andrew Wiest (2014, Trade...

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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
ISBN
9781472803337

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1472803337
ISBN-13
9781472803337
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167711384

Product Key Features

Book Title
Boys of '67 : Charlie Company's War in Vietnam
Number of Pages
472 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Veterans, Military / Vietnam War, Military / United States, Military
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Andrew Wiest
Book Series
General Military Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Thoughtful and richly detailed, this outstanding account of the early phase of the War in Vietnam takes us into the forbidding Mekong River Delta with the men of Charlie Company, to witness their harrowing firefights and their fleeting victories, to appreciate the singular combat experience haunting their dreams and those of their country." -Hugh Ambrose, Author of The Pacific   "A powerful account of conflict, Andy Wiest's The Boys of '67 provides what is all-too-rare, a 'face of battle' account that is at once scholarly and well-written, perceptive and engaging." -Jeremy Black, author of War since 1945   "The Boys of 67 is an exceptionally well researched and well told story of an exceptional US Army infantry company in Vietnam. Charlie Company trained together, fought together, and bled together.  Andrew Wiest sheds light and understanding on the human and psychological dimension of war and the aftermath of war.  It is a story of courage, comradeship, tribulation, suffering, and perseverance." -Brigadier General H. R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam   "The Boys of'67  folllows a single infantry company in a single year of the Vietnam War . It ia a story of men who routinely put their lives into each others' hands. It is a story of fear and heroism; of  waste, confusion, boredom--and their impact on those who return home.  Wiest's empathy and perception make the book as emotioally compelling as it is intellectually  penetrating, impossible to read with a detached mind or dry eyes." -Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare   "This is a story of men at war in the tradition of A Band of Brothers . It is a remarkable book written by a master story teller and meticulous historian.  Professor Wiest very effectively demonstrates in extremely personal terms the impact of the war, both good and bad, on the soldiers who did the fighting, while also very eloquently addressing the cost of the war on those left behind at home.  I cannot recommend it strongly enough, particularly for fellow Vietnam veterans and their families, military historians, and anyone interested in what American soldiers went through in the Vietnam War." -James H. Willbanks, PhD, is a Vietnam veteran and author of Abandoning Vietnam and The Battle of An Loc
Dewey Decimal
959.704342
Table Of Content
Preface: Meeting Charlie Introduction: The Need for Charlie Prelude: Losing the Best We Had Chapter 1: Who Was Charlie? Chapter 2: Training Chapter 3: To Vietnam and into the Rung Sat Chapter 4: Into Battle Chapter 5: The Day Everything Changed Chapter 6: The Steady Drumbeat of War Chapter 7: Charlie Transformed, Battlefield Coda, and the Freedom Bird Chapter 8: Home From War Glossary The Men of Charlie Company Bibliography Acknowledgements Dedication Index
Synopsis
When the 160 men of Charlie Company (4th Battalion/47th Infantry/9th ID) were drafted by the US Army in May 1966, they were part of the wave of conscription that would swell the American military to 80,000 combat troops in theater 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 rotated home, only 30 men were not casualties-and they were among the first vets of the war to be spit on and harassed by war protestors as they arrived back the U.S. In his new book, The Boys of '67, Andy Wiest, the award-winning author of Vietnam's Forgotten Army and The Vietnam War 1956-1975, examines the experiences of a company from the only division in the Vietnam era to train and deploy together in similar fashion to WWII's famous 101st Airborne Division. Wiest interviewed more than 50 officers and enlisted men who served with Charlie Company, including the surviving platoon leaders and both of the company's commanders. (One of the platoon leaders, Lt Jack Benedick, lost both of his legs, but went on to become a champion skier.) In addition, he interviewed 15 family members of Charlie Company veterans, including wives, children, parents, and siblings. Wiest also had access to personal papers, collections of letters, a diary, an abundance of newspaper clippings, training notebooks, field manuals, condolence letters, and photographs from before, during, and after the conflict. As Wiest shows, the fighting that Charlie Company saw in 1967 was nearly as bloody as many of the better publicized battles, including the infamous 'Ia Drang' and 'Hamburger Hill.' As a result, many of the surviving members of Charlie Company came home with what the military now recognizes as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-a diagnosis that was not recognized until the late 1970s and was not widely treated until the 1980s. Only recently, after more than 40 years, have many members of Charlie Company achieved any real and sustained relief from their suffering.
LC Classification Number
DS558.4

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