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Books > Humanities > History > American history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam
War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from
historical accounts of the conflict, that of the South Vietnamese.
Challenging the conventional view that the war was a struggle
between the Vietnamese people and US imperialism, the study
presents a wide-ranging investigation of South Vietnamese culture,
from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular
culture and film. Beginning with a genealogy of the concept of a
Vietnamese "culture," as the latter emerged during the colonial
period, the book concludes with a reflection on the rise of popular
culture during the American intervention. Reexamining the war from
the South Vietnamese perspective, The unimagined community pursues
the provocative thesis that the conflict, in this early stage, was
not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle between two competing
versions of anticolonial communism. -- .
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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.
This guide showcases knives used by America's clandestine military
in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. It provides the collector
and others interested in the period a way of identifying honest SOG
(Studies and Observations Group) specimens and separating them from
counterfeits. With beautiful color photographs that show a high
level of detail, the book identifies all known SOG specimens (over
165 knives) and includes rare personalized knives and custom combat
knives made in the United States. Sections of the book focus on
Randalls, Eks, Gerbers, and the knives made by tribal artisans in
Southeast Asia. This is the eighth in Mike Silvey's series on
military knives.
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