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Könyv Looking for a Hero Peter Maslowski

Looking for a Hero

Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War

Szerző: Peter Maslowski, Don Winslow
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: University of Nebraska Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
10 067 Ft
Widely acclaimed as the Vietnam War's most highly decorated soldier, Joe Ronnie Hooper in many ways...

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Szerző
Peter Maslowski, Don Winslow
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2009
oldal
640
EAN
9780803224933
ISBN
0803224931
Enbook ID
04922764
Kiadó
University of Nebraska Press
Súly
975
Méretek
152 x 229 x 36

Teljes leírás

Widely acclaimed as the Vietnam War's most highly decorated soldier, Joe Ronnie Hooper in many ways serves as a symbol for that conflict. His troubled, tempestuous life paralleled the upheavals in American society during the 1960s and 1970s, and his desperate quest to prove his manhood was uncomfortably akin to the macho image projected by three successive presidents in their 'tough' policy in Southeast Asia. Looking for a Hero extracts the real Joe Hooper from the welter of lies and myths that swirl around his story; in doing so, the book uncovers not only the complicated truth about an American hero but also the story of how Hooper's war was lost in Vietnam, not at home. Extensive interviews with friends, fellow soldiers, and family members reveal Hooper as a complex, gifted, and disturbed man. They also expose the flaws in his most famous and treasured accomplishment: earning the Medal of Honor. In the distortions, half-truths, and outright lies that mar Hooper's medal of honor file, authors Peter Maslowski and Don Winslow find a painful reflection of the army's inability to be honest with itself and the American public, with all the dire consequences that this dishonesty ultimately entailed. In the inextricably linked stories of Hooper and the Vietnam War, the nature of that deceit, and of America's defeat, becomes clear. Peter Maslowski is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of several books, including "Armed with Cameras: The American Military Photographers of World War II" and (with Allan R. Millett) "For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America". Don Winslow is the best-selling author of, among other works, "A Cool Breeze on the Underground", which received an Edgar nomination for best first novel.

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