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The long reckoning : a story of war, peace, and redemption in Vietnam
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- ISBN: 9780593534106
- ISBN: 0593534107
- ISBN: 9780593534113
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Physical Description:
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x, 478 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- Part I: War. Going to B -- Of Mountains and Machines -- The Summer of Love -- Socks on an Octopus -- Saddle Up, Cowboys! -- Grunt -- Orphans of Creation -- This Is Not a Practice -- "Tonight You Die, Marine" -- Part II: Peace. Scavengers -- The Smoky Landscape -- Benefit of the Doubt -- Untangling the Tangle -- Bring Our Daddy Home -- The Third Rail -- The Things They Carried Back -- A Vietnamese in Disguise -- Part III: Redemption. Policing the Brass -- Milk That Glowed in the Dark -- The End of Our Exploring -- The Road to Damascus -- Great Loss and Confusion -- Angry Ghosts -- The Worst Thing, the Best Thing -- The Painter, the Sprinter, and the Monk -- Unfinished Business -- Turning the Ho Chi Minh Trail Brown -- The Pocket of Fire -- The End of the Trail -- Epilogue : Hill 674. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Erlanger Branch | 959.70431 B627L 2023 (Text) | 33126025421417 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Independence Branch | 959.70431 B627L 2023 (Text) | 33126025421391 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
This inspirational story follows a small group of veterans, scientists and Quaker-inspired pacifists and their Vietnamese partners as they used their moral authority, scientific and political ingenuity and sheer persistence to heal the horrors left in the wake of the military engagement in Southeast Asia. Illustrations. Maps. - Baker & Taylor
"The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"-- - Random House, Inc.
The moving story of how a small group of peopleâincluding two Vietnam veteransâforced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the ongoing horrorsâagent orange and unexploded munitionsâinflicted on the Vietnamese.
"Fifty years after the last U.S. service member left Vietnam, the scars of that war remain...This [is the] remarkable story of a group of individuals determined to heal those enduring wounds.ââElliot Ackerman, author of The Fifth Act and 2034
The American war in Vietnam has left many long-lasting scars that have not yet been sufficiently examined. The worst of them were inflicted in a tiny area bounded by the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in neighboring Laos. That small region saw the most intense aerial bombing campaign in history, the massive use of toxic chemicals, and the heaviest casualties on both sides.
In The Long Reckoning, George Black recounts the inspirational story of the small cast of charactersâveterans, scientists, and Quaker-inspired pacifists, and their Vietnamese partnersâwho used their moral authority, scientific and political ingenuity, and sheer persistence to attempt to heal the horrors that were left in the wake of the military engagement in Southeast Asia. Their intersecting story is one of reconciliation and personal redemption, embedded in a vivid portrait of Vietnam today, with all its startling collisions between past and present, in which one-time mortal enemies, in the endless shape-shifting of geopolitics, have been transformed into close allies and partners.
The Long Reckoning is being published on the fiftieth anniversary of the day the last American combat soldier left Vietnam.