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Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Most of us never get to test ourselves in combat. As a UH-1
Helicopter pilot flying in the jungle highlands of South Vietnam,
Warrant Officer Jim Crigler and the men he flew with were tested
daily. Coming of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s was
challenging for most young men of that era. Throw in drugs, free
love, draft notices, the Vietnam War and a country deeply divided,
and you have one of the most important books of this genre. This
true story is a raw, bold, introspective autobiography where the
author openly wrestles with his personal moral dilemma to find
meaning and purpose in his life. He calls it his "Mission of
Honor."
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In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers
and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work
through the U.S. military. Recently liberated from colonial rule,
these workers were drawn to the opportunities the military offered
and became active participants of the U.S. empire, most centrally
during the U.S. war in Vietnam. Simeon Man uncovers the
little-known histories of Filipinos, South Koreans, and Asian
Americans who fought in Vietnam, revealing how U.S. empire was
sustained through overlapping projects of colonialism and race
making. Through their military deployments, Man argues, these
soldiers took part in the making of a new Pacific world-a
decolonizing Pacific-in which the imperatives of U.S. empire
collided with insurgent calls for decolonization, producing often
surprising political alliances, imperial tactics of suppression,
and new visions of radical democracy.
This concluding volume of The Vietnam War and International Law
focuses on the last stages of America's combat role in Indochina.
The articles in the first section deal with general aspects of the
relationship of international law to the Indochina War. Sections II
and III are concerned with the adequacy of the laws of war under
modern conditions of combat, and with related questions of
individual responsibility for the violation of such laws. Section
IV deals with some of the procedural issues related to the
negotiated settlement of the war. The materials in Section V seek
to reappraise the relationship between the constitutional structure
of the United States and the way in which the war was conducted,
while the final section presents the major documents pertaining to
the end of American combat involvement in Indochina. A supplement
takes account of the surrender of South Vietnam in spring 1975.
Contributors to the volume--lawyers, scholars, and government
officials--include Dean Rusk, Eugene V. Rostow, Richard A. Falk,
John Norton Moore, and Richard Wasserstrom. Originally published in
1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
This searching analysis of what has been called America's longest
war" was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
to achieve an improved understanding of American participation in
the conflict. Part I begins with Truman's decision at the end of
World War II to accept French reoccupation of Indochina, rather
than to seek the international trusteeship favored earlier by
Roosevelt. It then discusses U.S. support of the French role and
U.S. determination to curtail Communist expansion in Asia.
Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
Professor Havens analyzes the efforts of Japanese antiwar
organizations to portray the war as much more than a fire across
the sea" and to create new forms of activism in a country where
individuals have traditionally left public issues to the
authorities. This path-breaking study examines not only the methods
of the protesters but the tightrope dance performed by Japanese
officials forced to balance outspoken antiwar sentiment with treaty
obligations to the U.S. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
Beginning as a young boy, Jules takes you through the unique
process of becoming a Naval Aviator, engages you into his
experiences as a brand new pilot in a combat squadron and, finally
becoming a flying warrior. Having survived two combat cruises
aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk from 1966-1968,
compiling 332 career carrier take offs and landings, being shot at
daily by enemy fire while completing 200 combat missions over
Vietnam, he clearly shares the views of the aviators who flew along
with him on these missions while fighting this unpopular war. Jules
was awarded the Nation's Distinguished Flying Cross, 21 Air Medals,
and many other accolades. After reading this book the reader will
have a new understanding and appreciation about the Warriors who
protect not only their comrades in arms, but the defense of the
nation as well.
Beginning as a young boy, Jules takes you through the unique
process of becoming a Naval Aviator, engages you into his
experiences as a brand new pilot in a combat squadron and, finally
becoming a flying warrior. Having survived two combat cruises
aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk from 1966-1968,
compiling 332 career carrier take offs and landings, being shot at
daily by enemy fire while completing 200 combat missions over
Vietnam, he clearly shares the views of the aviators who flew along
with him on these missions while fighting this unpopular war. Jules
was awarded the Nation's Distinguished Flying Cross, 21 Air Medals,
and many other accolades. After reading this book the reader will
have a new understanding and appreciation about the Warriors who
protect not only their comrades in arms, but the defense of the
nation as well.
For more than a decade, the United States has been fighting wars so
far from the public eye as to risk being forgotten, the struggles
and sacrifices of its volunteer soldiers almost ignored.
Photographer and writer Ashley Gilbertson has been working to
prevent that. His dramatic photographs of the Iraq war for the New
York Times and his book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot took readers into the
mayhem of Baghdad, Ramadi, Samarra, and Fallujah. But with Bedrooms
of the Fallen, Gilbertson reminds us that the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq have also reached deep into homes far from the noise of
battle, down quiet streets and country roads-the homes of family
and friends who bear their grief out of view. The book's
wide-format black-and-white images depict the bedrooms of forty
fallen soldiers-the equivalent of a single platoon-from the United
States, Canada, and several European nations. Left intact by
families of the deceased, the bedrooms are a heartbreaking reminder
of lives cut short: we see high school diplomas and pictures from
prom, sports medals and souvenirs, and markers of the idealism that
carried them to war, like images of the Twin Towers and Osama Bin
Laden. A moving essay by Gilbertson describes his encounters with
the families who preserve these private memorials to their loved
ones and shares what he has learned from them about war and loss.
Bedrooms of the Fallen is a masterpiece of documentary photography
and an unforgettable reckoning with the human cost of war.
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