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Title: They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 by David Maraniss ISBN: 0-7432-1780-2 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A REAL PAGE-TURNER
Comment: After reading Maraniss' biographies of Bill Clinton and Vince Lombardi, I expected this book to be great, and I was not disappointed. Weaving two narratives together - one dealing with the ambush of American troops in Vietnam, the other one of the first anti-war protests at the University of Wisconsin - Maraniss almost literally puts the reader right in the middle of the action in tumultuous 1967. Each story is riveting, and I was most fascinated by the fact that I was able to identify with nearly everyone in the book, whether they were a freshman protester at the University of Wisconsin or a 20-year old kid fighting in Vietnam. Maraniss' ability to convey each person's motivations and thoughts is the key to this being such a compelling book. While it will certainly be of interest to history buffs, war buffs, ex-hippies and ex-soldiers, this book really is as much about human nature and what motivates us as much as anything else. I wasn't yet born when the action in this book took place, and it was interesting for me to see what America was like 36 years ago. There are certainly many parallels to what is happening in Iraq, the decisions everyday people and people in high places are making ... The epilogue is beautiful, and gets to a central point of the book: as much as the war in Vietnam divided the country, that shared experience can serve as a bridge to bring people together, people who "fought" for America in very different ways ...
Rating: 4
Summary: Where we were...where we're going
Comment: THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT is a episodic book about the moment in our history when, excuse the cliche, the people took back the power. Maraniss crosscuts between the "Black Lion" soldiers in Vietnam, about to walk into a horrible ambush through a combination of bad luck and bad decisions; and the protests against Dow Chemical on the University of Wisconsin campus. We also get glimpses inside the White House as anti-LBJ sentiment reached critical mass, and into the North Vietnamese Army.
The idea of awakening and awareness recurs throughout. College students are radicalized in Wisconsin, while romantic notions of combat are pushed aside in the horrors of war.
The individual stories are most affecting, especially that of a soldier who returns alongside a former enemy to tour the old battlefield. Maraniss is a journalist, and most interested in the samll ways that people's lives were affected by those catalysmic times. Excellent.
Rating: 5
Summary: They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and Americ
Comment: Adult/High School-For 40 years, the Vietnam War, and its effects on American society, has been a popular topic for authors. The best of these books tend to focus on a single aspect of the conflict, a certain group involved, or a specific period of time. In that tradition, Maraniss concentrates on two events that unfolded over two days in October 1967. On the first of those days, the members of the First Division's Black Lions battalion marched into a trap in the jungles of Vietnam and paid for it dearly. On the next, a large student protest at the University of Wisconsin against Dow Chemicals, the makers of napalm, turned into a battle of its own. By picking these moments in time, while looking at events in the U.S. and in Vietnam, the author shows how the war was affecting Americans, not merely with bullets and nightsticks, but with ideas and ideals as well. One might wish that Maraniss had shown a greater willingness to take on the larger questions posed by these two events, but by bringing these disparate occurrences together and placing them in context, he has provided one of the best books to date on the Vietnam War
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Title: Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley ISBN: 0316105848 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward ISBN: 074325547X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 19 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: 1968 : The Year That Rocked the World by MARK KURLANSKY ISBN: 0345455819 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle ISBN: 0871138743 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides by Christian G. Appy ISBN: 067003214X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 22 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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