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Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 > Vietnam War
The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious
events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary
outpouring of poetry. Yet the prodigious poetic voice of its
American participants remains largely unheard; the complex ethical
terrain of their experiences underexplored. In A Shadow on Our
Hearts, Adam Gilbert rectifies these oversights by utilizing the
vast body of soldier-poetry to examine the war's core moral issues.
The soldier-poets provide important insights into the ethical
dimensions of their physical and psychological surroundings before,
during, and after the war. They also offer profound perspectives on
the relationships between American soldiers and the Vietnamese
people. From firsthand experiences, they reflect on what it meant
to be witnesses, victims, and perpetrators of wartime violence. And
they advance an uncompromising vision of moral responsibility that
indicts a range of culprits for the harms caused by the conflict.
Gilbert explores the powerful and perceptive work of these
soldier-poets through the lens of morality and presents a radically
alternative, deeply personal, and ethically penetrating account of
the American war in Vietnam.
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