| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 255 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Kamerad; Part I: Blue Collar in New York; The Zeitgeist and My Little World; 1. The Village, Chelsea, and Over the 59th Street Bridge; 2. Big War, Small Boy; 3. Pete the Barber; 4. Teachers; 5. Conversations with Dad; 6. Geopolitics; 7. You There, Personnel; 8. Camp Kilmer; 9. When I Say Squat; Part II: Khaki in Korea; The Zeitgeist and My Little World; 10. Wasn't That Just Yesterday?; 11. Fun and Games at the Replacement Center; 12. Sailing the Bounding Main; 13. Camp Drake; 14. The Last Leg; 15. That First Night on Line |
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16. Rios17. The Gas Cylinder Retaining Pin Assembly, Sir; 18. Listening Post; 19. A Teenager's Theory; 20. Report to the Company Commander; 21. 4 IQ; 22. Chimpo Charlie; 23. Chow Down; 24. Good-bye to All That; Part III: Interludes and Reflections While Safe; The Zeitgeist and My Little World; 25. Volare; 26. Me and JFK; 27. Bist du die Lidwina?; 28. Pumpkins and Cobblestones; 29. Poncho Annie; 30. Deaths and White Rocks; 31. Doesn't Anybody Know How to Play This Game?; 32. Vater Unser; 33. Ski; 34. The American on the Moon; 35. I'll Never Remember You; 36. Kent State |
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37. Uncle Walter, My Boy, and VietnamPart IV: Vietnam: The Men; The Zeitgeist and My Little World; 38. Lee, the Sergeant Major, and Bobby Boyd; 39. BLACKJACK 21: A Long Walk in 1966; 40. Bill Holt; 41. Mr. Fritz; 42. Mad Dog; 43. Heinz; 44. Fat Albert: One-Zero; 45. RT Cookie; 46. Two POWs; 47. Patients & Medicines: Snuffy; 48. Bro John; 49. Chinese Medicine; 50. Lope's Got a Gun; 51. We Gotta Get Outta This Place; 52. Die Junge Burschen; 53. Thank God I Had Yards; 54. Billy B's Silver Star; Part V: Ripples; The Zeitgeist and My Little World; 55. Cool Pops; 56. Welcome to Bonn and Sin Loi |
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57. Mac and Mack58. Sunflowers; 59. I Have German Friends; 60. Mary Asked; 61. Don't You Speak English?; 62. How To Be a Lieutenant General; 63. How Not To Be a Lieutenant General; 64. Many Armies; 65. Contemplating Retirement; 66. Ripples: Tailwind; 67. Postscript; Glossary; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author |
| Summary |
"Henry G. Gole was a BAR man in a rifle squad in the Korean War and a Special Forces officer during two tours in Vietnam. A career soldier with strong academic credential and honed writing skills, Gole's tales personalize the ugly process that was modern industrial and technical war in the second half of the twentieth century. The reader never forgets that human begins are at the center of combat, which has become too often a video game for too many citizens. The result is an honest look at the professional military at war."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gole, Henry G., 1933-
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Gole, Henry G., 1933-
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Gole, Henry G., 1933- fast |
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United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.
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United States. Army fast |
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Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Armed Forces -- Officers
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Soldiers
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435610590 |
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1435610598 |
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9781574888522 |
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1574888528 |
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9781612342917 |
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1612342914 |
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