Voices from the Vietnam War
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Voices from the Vietnam War

Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Voices from the Vietnam War

Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans

About this book

The Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural and legal barriers, the oral histories of the Vietnam War currently available in English are predictably one-sided, providing limited insight into the inner workings of the Communist nations that participated in the war. Furthermore, many of these accounts focus on combat experiences rather than the backgrounds, belief systems, and social experiences of interviewees, resulting in an incomplete historiography of the war.

Chinese native Xiaobing Li corrects this oversight in Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans. Li spent seven years gathering hundreds of personal accounts from survivors of the war, accounts that span continents, nationalities, and political affiliations. The twenty-two intimate stories in the book feature the experiences of American, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and North and South Vietnamese veterans, representing the views of both anti-Communist and Communist participants, including Chinese officers of the PLA, a Russian missile-training instructor, and a KGB spy. These narratives humanize and contextualize the war's events while shedding light on aspects of the war previously unknown to Western scholars. Providing fresh perspectives on a long-discussed topic, Voices from the Vietnam War offers a thorough and unique understanding of America's longest war.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Maps
  7. Photographs
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Note on Transliteration
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction
  12. Part One: A Country Divided
  13. Chapter 1: A Buddhist Soldier Defendsa Catholic Government
  14. Chapter 2: Surviving the Bloody Jungle
  15. Chapter 3: Electronic Reconnaissancevs. Guerrillas
  16. Chapter 4: Communist Regulars from the North
  17. Chapter 5: People’s War against Americans
  18. Chapter 6: No Final Victory, No Family Life
  19. Part Two: Hanoi’s Comrades
  20. Chapter 7: Russian Missile Officers in Vietnam
  21. Chapter 8: The Dragon’s Tale
  22. Chapter 9: Chinese Response to the U.S. Rolling Thunder Campaign
  23. Chapter 10: Russian Spies in Hanoi
  24. Part Three: Saigon’s Allies
  25. Chapter 11: Long Days and Endless Nights
  26. Chapter 12: And Then They’re Gone . . .Just Like That
  27. Chapter 13: No John Wayne Movie
  28. Chapter 14: More Than Meets the Eye
  29. Part Four: Doctors and Nurses
  30. Chapter 15: Medevac and Medcap Missions and More
  31. Chapter 16: Drowning Tears with Laughter
  32. Chapter 17: Life and Death of an ARVN Doctor
  33. Chapter 18: A Korean Captain and His Hospital
  34. Part Five: Logistics Support
  35. Chapter 19: “Loggie’s” War
  36. Chapter 20: Support and Survival in Thailand
  37. Chapter 21: Three Great Escapes
  38. Chapter 22: Chinese Railroad Engineering Operations
  39. Conclusion
  40. Notes
  41. Selected Bibliography
  42. Index
  43. Back Cover