Drawing on a range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, this text shows how the United States continued to wage war on Vietnam 'by other means' for another 25 years.
An exploration of how US' efforts to sacralize and repatriate the remains of some 2,000 soldiers killed in action in the Vietnam War might indicate some lingering corporeal and ontological uncertainties in the post-Vietnam era.
The ongoing effort of the United States to account for its missing Vietnam War soldiers is unique. The United States requires the repatriation and positive identification of soldiers' bodies to remove their names from the list of the missing. This quest for certainty in the form…
"In Four Decades On, historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the United States finally left Vietnam. They address matters such as the daunting tasks …
Introduction: 1969 and an American Mythos -- Paradigms Lost and Paradigms Regained : A Mythography of the Lost Frontier -- Vietnam, The Forever War, and the Shattering of American Myth -- Technological Triumph, Mythological Miasma : NASA, the Moon, and Transforming Mythos into L…
The author takes as his canvas the Vietnam War, as seen through a single mission that occurred on May 2, 1968. A twelve-man Special Forces team had been covertly inserted into a small clearing in the jungle of neutral Cambodia--where U.S. forces were forbidden to operate. The te…
Former U.S. Marine Ray Hildreth chronicles the June 1966 battle for Hill 488 in the jungles of Vietnam, describing how he and the other seventeen men of Charlie Company, First Recon Battalion, First Marine Division, held the ground outnumbered twenty-five to one.
Former U.S. Marine Ray Hildreth chronicles the June 1966 battle for Hill 488 in the jungles of Vietnam, describing how he and the other seventeen men of Charlie Company, First Recon Battalion, First Marine Division, held the ground outnumbered twenty-five to one.
This resource examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheo…
This book examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheorize…
This book explores the impact of media representations of violence during the Vietnam War on people in the U.S.-specifically how images of violence done to and by the Vietnamese were traumatic in ways that deeply affected the American psyche.
This text explores the impact of media representations of violence during the Vietnam War on people in the US. It looks specifically at how images of violence done to and by the Vietnamese were traumatic in ways that deeply affected the American psyche.
