Lullabies for lieutenants: memoir of a Marine forward observer in Vietnam, 1965 - 1966
"This memoir recounts the experiences of a Marine Corps officer. Each chapter describes a specific event, a story of emotion, or a remarkable person. The reader lives the experience alongside the author's memory, gaining a sense of the pulse-pounding contact, surrealism, pathos, humor, and...
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Jefferson, N.C. [u.a.]
McFarland & Co.
2010
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This memoir recounts the experiences of a Marine Corps officer. Each chapter describes a specific event, a story of emotion, or a remarkable person. The reader lives the experience alongside the author's memory, gaining a sense of the pulse-pounding contact, surrealism, pathos, humor, and beauty that defined one of the low points of the American experience"--Provided by publisher |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 210 p. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780786447190 |
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Table of
Contents
Acknowledgments
.
vii
Preface
. 1
Part I: Forward Observer
1.
We Never Promised You a Rose Garden
.7
2.
Landing at Red Beach
. 13
3.
Forward Observer
. 19
4.
Ambush
. 25
5.
Hearts and Minds
. 32
6.
Night Vertical Assault
. 36
7.
Her Majesty
. 42
8.
Surrounded
. 48
9.
A Captain of Marines
. 59
10.
Anger
.65
11.
The Lieutenants
. 70
Part II: Heroes and Goats
12.
A Culture Like No Other
. 89
13.
Okinawa
. 93
14.
Second Battalion, Ninth Marines Headquarters
. 103
15.
Cam
Ne
Burning
.
Ill
16.
The Loser
. 118
17.
Disaster
. 123
18.
Gooks
. 127
19.
Meltdown
. 133
IX
x
Table of Contents
20.
The Disappearance of First Lieutenant James T. Egan, Jr
. 140
21.
Twenty Minutes of Terror: Night Sapper Attack
. 148
22.
Random Chaos
. 156
Part III: Hopes and Dreams
23.
Her
. 171
24.
Short Timer
. 175
25.
Irony
. 180
26.
Residuals: Denial, Anger, and Risk-Taking
. 185
27.
Mao, Ho, and United States Policy
. 197
Glossary
. 201
Index
. 203 |
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