When we walked above the clouds : a memoir of Vietnam / H. Lee Barnes.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2011]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2011وصف:xiii, 300 pages; 22 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780803264809
- 9780803237964
- 0803237960
- DS559.5 .B375 2011
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DS559.5 .B375 2011 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011138254 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DS559.5 .B375 2011 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011138255 |
There is the mythology of the Green Berets, of their clandestine, special operations as celebrated in story and song. And then there is the reality of one soldier's experience, the day-to-day loss and drudgery of a Green Beret such as H. Lee Barnes, whose story conveys the daily grind and quiet desperation behind the polished accounts of military heroics. Barnes tells what it was like to be a Green Beret, first in the Dominican Republic during the civil war of 1965, and then at A-107, Tra Bong, Vietnam. There, he eventually came to serve as the advisor to a Combat Recon Platoon, which consisted chiefly of Montagnard irregulars. Though "nothing extraordinary," as Barnes saw it, his months of simply doing what the mission demanded make for sobering reading: the mundane business of killing rats, cleaning guns, and building bunkers renders the intensity of patrols and attacks all the more harrowing.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page.