{"product_id":"the-vietnam-experience-9780313301834","title":"The Vietnam Experience","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy examining those works, this book provides readers with a fascinating resource that explores America's ongoing struggle to assess the war and its legacies.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis encyclopedia includes 44 essays, each providing detailed information on an important film, song, or literary work about Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdvisory Board  Preface  After Our War: Conscientious Objectors and Other Draft Resisters  Apocalypse Now: The Vietnam War as Hallucinatory Experience  Armies of the Night: The March on the Pentagon  \"Ballad of the Green Berets\": U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam  The Best and the Brightest: Policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations  Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans: African-Americans and Vietnam  \"Born in the U.S.A.\": Returning Home from the War  Born on the Fourth of July: Disabled Veterans in America  A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Military Advisor John Vann and His Experiences in Vietnam  Casualties of War: Atrocities in Vietnam  Coming Home: Antiwar Vietnam Veterans  The Deer Hunter: The Fall of Saigon  Dispatches: Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive  Fields of Fire: GI View of the Antiwar Movement  Fire in the Lake: Impact of the War on Vietnamese Society  \"Fortunate Son\": Vietnam as a Working-Class War  Friendly Fire: \"Friendly Fire\" Casualties and Stateside Grief  Full Metal Jacket: Lessons of Basic Training  Go Tell the Spartans: U.S. Advisory Effort in Vietnam  Going After Cacciato: Desertion during the Vietnam War  The Green Berets: U.S. Media Coverage of the War  The Hanoi Hilton: American POWs  Hearts and Minds: American Apathy after the U.S. Withdrawal  Home Before Morning: American Nurses in Vietnam  In Country: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial  In Pharaoh's Army: \"Survivor's Guilt\"  In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam: Robert McNamara and the War  The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge Takeover of Cambodia  \"Masters of War\": The Military-Industrial Complex  Meditations in Green: Drug Abuse in Vietnam  \"Ohio\": The Kent State Shootings  \"Okie from Muskogee\": Anthems of the \"Silent Majority\"  Paco's Story: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Vietnam Veterans  Platoon: Decline in U.S. Military Performance in Vietnam: Causes and Consequences  The Quiet American: American Intervention in the French-Viet Minh War  Rambo: First Blood, Part II: The Vietnam War and American Self-Image in the 1980s  The Real War: American Military Strategy and Its Toll on Vietnam's Land and People  A Rumor of War: \"Americanization\" of the War  Song of Napalm: Vietnam Veteran Poetry  Sticks and Bones: Postwar Reintegration into Family Networks  The Things They Carried: The War in Quang Ngai Province  The 13th Valley: \"Humping the Boonies\": Vietnam's Terrain and Climate  \"We Gotta Get Out of This Place\": Rock and Roll Soundtrack to the War  Winners and Losers: Women Correspondents in Vietnam  Other Notable Works About the Vietnam War: Fictional Films, Documentary Films, Songs, Fiction, Nonfiction (Memoirs and Oral Narratives), Poetry, Plays  Index","brand":"ABC-CLIO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767359013207,"sku":"9780313301834","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780313301834.jpg?v=1758713041","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-vietnam-experience-9780313301834","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}