Ebook: Bringing it all back home: an oral history of New York City's Vietnam veterans
Author: Napoli Philip F
- Tags: Veteran, Veterans, Vietnam War 1961-1975, Vietnam War 1961-1975--New York (State)--New York, Vietnam War 1961-1975--Veterans--New York (State)--New York, Vietnamkrieg, Interviews, Personal narratives, Biographies, Vietnam War 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews, Vietnam War 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives American, Vietnam War 1961-1975 -- New York (State) -- New York, New York (N.Y.) -- Biography, New York (State) -- New York, USA
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
- City: New York;New York (N.Y.);New York (State);USA
- Edition: 1. ed
- Language: English
- epub
A collection of heartrending oral histories that topples assumptions about the people who served in Vietnam
The Vietnam War was a defining event for a generation of Americans. But for years, misguided and sometimes demeaning clichés about its veterans have proliferated widely. Philip F. Napoli's Bringing It All Back Home strips away the myths and reveals the complex individuals who served in Southeast Asia. Napoli was one of the chief researchers for Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and in the spirit of that enterprise, his oral histories recast our understanding of a war and its legacy.
Napoli introduces a remarkable group of young New Yorkers who went abroad with high hopes only to find a bewildering conflict. We meet a nurse who staged a hunger strike to promote peace while working at a field hospital; a paratrooper whose experiences on the battlefield left him with emotional scars that led to...