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Lieferstatus:	Vorankündigung
Veröffentlichung:	ANGEKÜNDIGT
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
ISBN:	9780786416561
EAN-Code:	9780786416561
Verlag:	Mcfarland & Co Inc
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 150 mm / B 226 mm / D 13 mm
Gewicht:	284 gr
Seiten:	200
Illustration:	16 photographs, 2 maps
Bewertung:	Keine Bewertung vor Veröffentlichung möglich.

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"We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood." John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. Delezen writes of Vietnam as a man humbled by a mysterious country and horrified by acts of brutality. The land was his enemy as much as the Vietnamese soldiers. He vividly describes the three-canopy jungle with birds and monkeys overhead that could be heard but not seen, venomous snakes hiding in trees and relentless bugs that fed on men. He recalls stumbling onto a pit of rotting Vietnamese bodies left behind by American forces, and days when fierce hunger made a bag of plasma seem like an enticing meal. He writes of his fallen comrades and the images of war that still pervade his dreams.