Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There by Mark

Description: Nam by Mark Baker * A powerful and time-honoured collection of interviews with the veterans of Vietnam. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Even now something is missing from the history of Vietnam. Behind the burning sense of horror and betrayal the personal stories remain untold. No one has bothered to talk to the men and women who went to Vietnam and fought the war. What happened to boys and girls straight out of school who were plunged from the basketball park into the napalm jungle Who were they fighting for How did conscripts and volunteers live through the war and how can they live with the scars Mark Baker recorded conversations with dozens of Vietnam veterans. NAM is a unique and harrowing collection of those interviews, as raw and shocking as an open wound. This is the story of the human cost of a war that had no survivors, only veterans. Notes * A powerful and time-honoured collection of interviews with the veterans of Vietnam. Author Biography Mark Baker is the author of, amongst other titles, COPS. He lives in the USA. Review The war in the words of dozens of its veterans easily stands with the best descriptive accounts New York Times Book Review Voices we should listen to powerful Washington Post Convincing ... horrifying Newsweek Kirkus US Review With Everything We Had, edited by A1 Santoli (below), this is one of the first two books composed entirely of the words of Vietnam vets - the one that confronts the reader with every type of American atrocity, every form of brutalization, once alleged or reported. Baker purportedly interviewed 150 veterans, including several nurses, none of whom are identified; one passed him along to another, he says, but it is impossible to gauge the range or representativeness of his sampling. Their responses have been chopped up into brief segments, some as short as a couple of paragraphs, and apparently scattered through the books four major sections: Initiation, Operations, War Stories, The World (i.e., Homecoming and Casualties). There is thus a very rough sequential structure; but except in the first section, when we learn something of the veterans backgrounds and how or why they got into the service (usually, some snafu or other), there is very little to distinguish one person, or even one snippet of experience, from another. So the book is in many ways indefensible: a collage of horror stories without context or documentation. No one, of course, would have wanted to put his (or her) name to much of what is said here: "Next I had to start kicking a dead body in the side of the head until part of his brain started coming out of the other side". . . "I used to fight with a couple of guys just to get an ear. . . It was encouraged to cut ears off, to cut the nose off, to cut the guys penis off. A female, you cut her breast off". . . As excerpted, very few of the men express so much as a misgiving (only in the last section does some unease surface); as excerpted, indeed, very few of them appear to think. Bakers remarks, introducting each section, are banal (and not infrequently self-serving). There is a truth, obviously, in the very sameness of the experiences and the attitudes; but there is a much fuller and deeper view of Vietnam in the Santoli collection. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description Even now something is missing from the history of Vietnam. Behind the burning sense of horror and betrayal the personal stories remain untold. No one has bothered to talk to the men and women who went to Vietnam and fought the war. What happened to boys and girls straight out of school who were plunged from the basketball park into the napalm jungle Who were they fighting for How did conscripts and volunteers live through the war and how can they live with the scars Mark Baker recorded conversations with dozens of Vietnam veterans. NAM is a unique and harrowing collection of those interviews, as raw and shocking as an open wound. This is the story of the human cost of a war that had no survivors, only veterans. Review Quote Voices we should listen to powerful Promotional "Headline" * A powerful and time-honoured collection of interviews with the veterans of Vietnam. Description for Sales People Classic collection of Vietnam veterans stories comparable to Michael Herrs DISPATCHES. Details ISBN0349102392 Pages 256 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Series Abacus Books ISBN-10 0349102392 ISBN-13 9780349102399 Format Paperback Imprint Abacus Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Mark Baker DEWEY 959.70430922 Author Mark Baker Media Book Birth 1950 Year 1982 Publication Date 1982-01-01 Language English Subtitle The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 1982-01-01 NZ Release Date 1987-12-31 AU Release Date 1987-12-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1117711;

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