Vietnam

Dr Andrew Wiest is Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and is also the founding director of the Center for the Study of War and Society. Specializing in the study of World War I and Vietnam, Dr Wiest has served as a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy in the United States Air Force Air War College. Since 1992 Dr Wiest has been active in international education, developing the award-winning Vietnam Study Abroad Program.A widely published author, Wiest’s titles include Vietnam’s Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN (New York University), which won the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award; America and the Vietnam War (Routledge); Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land (Osprey); and Passchendaele and the Royal Navy (Greenwood Press). Additionally Dr Wiest has appeared in and consulted on several historical documentaries for the History Channel, Granada Television, PBS, the BBC, and for Lucasfilm.

• Introduction1 Who We Were2 Drop and Give Me 203 Welcome to Vietnam4 Life and Death in the Nam5 Combat6 Loss7 A World of Hurt8 Changing Attitudes9 Freedom Bird10 Life After NamBibliographyAcknowledgementsExclusive Extract from The Boys of ‘67Index

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