Voices from Vietnam

by Michael E. Stevens (Editor)

Overview

An unforgettable collection of 174 letters and diary entries written by 92 wisconsin men and women who served in Vietnam. Includes a journal kept by Menasha native Frederic Flom on cigarette wrappers during his final 16 days of captivity — the only known diary smuggled out by a Vietnam prisoner of war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870206931
Publisher:	Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication date:	05/20/2014
Series:	Voices of the Wisconsin Past
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	271
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Michael E. Stevens is the State Historic Preservation Officer at the Wisconsin Historical Society. He is editor of the series Voices of the Wisconsin Past,  which also includes Letters from the Front, Women Remember the War, and Remembering the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
1. From Basic Training to Vietnam
2. A Year in Country
3. Combat
4. Why Am I Here?
5. 1968: The Tet Offensive and the Siege of Khe Sanh
6. Prisoners of War
7. Friends and Loved Ones
8. Costs of War
Epilogue
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Speak[s] more accurately and eloquently about the war than the millions of words already published by novelists and pundits." (The Capital Times)

 "A superb book that should have an appeal not just to residents of Wisconsin but to the 2.5 million Americans who served, and to anyone interested, in the Vietnam War." (Indiana Magazine of History)

From the Publisher