Christian G. Appy’s monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war’s path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides: Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing, inspiring, and revelatory, Patriots is not a chronicle of facts and figures but a vivid human history of the war.
Postal History of American Prisoners of War: World War II, Korea, Vietnam
Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Prisoner of War 2. The International Red Cross 3. Mail Regulations, Germany 4. Prisoner-of-War Camps: Germany 5. Americans in Italian Camps 6. POW Camps – Remainder of Europe 7. Japanese POW Camps 8. Prisoner-of-War Camps in the Philippines 9. Japanese Camps in the Home
