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Nam Sense: Surviving Vietnam with 101st Airborne Division
Arthur Wiknik Jr.
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Description for Nam Sense: Surviving Vietnam with 101st Airborne Division
Paperback. Surviving Vietnam with 101st Airborne Division. 288 pages, 16 page photo section. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGHA; HBWS2. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight: 396.
Nam Sense is the memoir of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division. Arthur Wiknik was drafted by the army in 1969 at the age of nineteen, promoted to sergeant ‘without ever setting foot in a combat zone’, and sent to Vietnam. He was flown north to Camp Evans, a mixed-unit outpost near Phong Dien, only a few miles from Laos.
Wiknik was then thrown straight into the action: he was the first man in his unit to reach the top of Hamburger Hill during one of the last offensives launched by US forces, and later ... Read more
Nam Sense is the memoir of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division. Arthur Wiknik was drafted by the army in 1969 at the age of nineteen, promoted to sergeant ‘without ever setting foot in a combat zone’, and sent to Vietnam. He was flown north to Camp Evans, a mixed-unit outpost near Phong Dien, only a few miles from Laos.
Wiknik was then thrown straight into the action: he was the first man in his unit to reach the top of Hamburger Hill during one of the last offensives launched by US forces, and later ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781935149095
SKU
V9781935149095
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Ref
99-12
About Arthur Wiknik Jr.
ARTHUR WIKNIK was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968, selected to be trained as an Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) and went to war in Vietnam. He became a combat squad leader and spent a year-long tour fighting for survival. He lives in Connecticut, USA.
Reviews for Nam Sense: Surviving Vietnam with 101st Airborne Division
This memoir has it all. Its powerful prose sears into the reader the pathos of war-the loneliness, hopelessness, fear, anger, loathing of oneself and ones' enemy-while generating laughs, a better understanding of the Vietnam veteran, and a sense of pride in our armed forces.
AdvanceBookReviews.com
Nam Sense is written in an accessible and ironic style, whether describing whores ... Read more
AdvanceBookReviews.com
Nam Sense is written in an accessible and ironic style, whether describing whores ... Read more