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Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 > Vietnam War
The gritty and engaging story of two brothers, Chuck and Tom Hagel,
who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each
other's life. One supported the war, the other detested it, but
they fought it together. 1968. It was the worst year of America's
most divisive war. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands.
Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders.
Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it
was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In
Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle
platoon. Together they fought in the Tet Offensive, battled snipers
in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the
other's life under fire. Yet, like so many American families, one
brother supported the war while the other detested it. Tom and
former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel never set out to be heroes,
but they epitomized the best, and lived through the worst, of the
most tumultuous, amazing, and consequential year in the last half
century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland
through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided
America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war,
serving their divided country. It is a story that resonates to this
day, an American story.
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A Million Wars
(Paperback)
Charles E. "Chuck" Ferguson
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R416
R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
Save R67 (16%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Positioning statement: The untold story of the FBI informants who
penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist
Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and
other groups labeled threats to the internal security of the United
States. Sales points: Tells the story of FBI informants in
Communist groups in America in the 60s and 70s Uses newly released
FBI documents to uncover significant information about various
suspected FBI informants The follow up to their groundbreaking 2015
book, Heavy Radicals. Topical in light of recent US Government
leaks and FBI cover-ups Synopsis: Sometime in the late fall/early
winter of 1962, a document began circulating among members of the
Communist Party USA based in the Chicago area, titled ''Whither the
Party of Lenin.'' It was signed ''The Ad Hoc Committee for
Scientific Socialist Line.'' This was not the work of factionally
inclined CP comrades, but rather something springing from the
counter-intelligence imagination of the FBI. A Threat of the First
Magnitude tells the story of the FBI's fake Maoist organization,
The Ad Hoc Committee for a Scientific Socialist Line, and the
informants the FBI used to penetrate the highest levels of the
Communist Party USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary
Union and other groups labelled threats to the internal security of
the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. As once again the FBI is
thrust into the spotlight of US politics, A Threat of a First
Magnitude offers a view of the historic inner-workings of the
Bureau's counterintelligence operations - from generating ''''fake
news'''' and the utilization of ''''sensitive intelligence
methods'''' to the handling of ''''reliable sources'''' - that
matches or exceeds the sophistication of any contenders.
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