Casualties; Death in Viet Nam; Anguish and Survival in America
Joel Sarchet (author photograph) New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by7 8.5 inches. xxi, [1], 357, [3] pages. Illustrations. Front DJ flap price clipped. Pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by Alan Cranston. Illuminating accounts by the widows, children, and parents of some of the fifty-seven thousand Americans who died in Vietnam offer a significant new dimension to current understanding of the Vietnam War and its impact. The voices of 37 survivors whose family members were killed in Vietnam. Dr. Heather Brandon earned a Ph.D. in psychology and was the Northeast Regional Coordinator for the Veterans Administration's Vet Center counseling program when this work was published. Casualties brings us, in their own words, the voices of thirty-seven survivors, telling of private and public mourning, pride, disillusionment and hope They speak of the daily struggle of living with grief that began as much as two decades previously, and the anguish of learning to live with wounds so deep they may never heal. These stores are full of heroism, sorrows and dreams--and the ways in which people strive to rebuild their individual sense of dignity, and honor after the shattering experience of bereavement in a war as divisive and tragic as the war in Vietnam. Because these man and women have spoke out, we can, perhaps, better understand the toll that war takes on us all, and we discover how many of us, who never left our homes, are veterans, and casualties, of Vietnam. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Vietnam War, Survivors, Danang, Long Binh, Khe Sanh, Quang Tri, Chu Lai, Veterans, Killed in Action, Grief, Bereavement, Disillusment, Honor, Sacrifice
ISBN: 0312123582
[Book #26647]
Price: $45.00