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Books > Humanities > History > American history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
This book assesses the emergence and transformation of global
protest movements during the Vietnam War era. It explores the
relationship between protest focused on the war and other
emancipatory and revolutionary struggles, moving beyond existing
scholarship to examine the myriad interlinked protest issues and
mobilisations around the globe during the Indochina Wars. Bringing
together scholars working from a range of geographical,
historiographical and methodological perspectives, the volume
offers a new framework for understanding the history of wartime
protest. The chapters are organised around the social movements
from the three main geopolitical regions of the world during the
1960s and early 1970s: the core capitalist countries of the
so-called first world, the socialist bloc and the Global South. The
final section of the book then focuses on international
organisations that explicitly sought to bridge and unite solidarity
and protest around the world. In an era of persistent military
conflict, the book provides timely contributions to the question of
what war does to protest movements and what protest movements do to
war.
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Shadows
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Doyle H Wyatt
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In this heartfelt memoir, Dennis Blessing, Sr., shares his
experiences as a grunt in the First Cavalry Division in 1966 and
1967. Blessing's story is drawn from his own remembrance and from
the 212 letters that he wrote to his wife while deployed. Among his
many combat experiences was the battle of Bong Son in May 1966, in
which his platoon was nearly wiped out, going from 36 to only 6
troopers in just a few hours. Told with honesty and vulnerability,
the book combines gripping combat with personal reflection, and the
author hopes that his story will help other veterans escape the
shadow of the war.
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