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Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam - Hardcover - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9781612005997
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Alpha One Sixteen : a Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Case Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / Vietnam War, Military / United States, Military
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- VI, 218 Pages
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A Military Book Club main selection Peter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was assigned to the Alpha Company. Clark gives a visceral, vivid and immediate account of life in the platoon, as he progresses from green recruit to seasoned soldier over the course of a year in the complexities of the Vietnamese conflict. Clark gradually learns the techniques developed by US troops to cope with the daily horrors they encountered, the technical skills needed to fight and survive, and how to deal with the awful reality of civilian casualties. Fighting aside, it rained almost every day and insect bites constantly plagued the soldiers as they moved through dense jungle, muddy rice paddy and sandy roads. From the food they ate (largely canned meatballs, beans and potatoes) to the inventive ways they managed to shower, every aspect of the platoon's lives is explored in this revealing book. The troops even managed to fit in some R&R whilst off-duty in the bars of Tokyo. Alpha One Sixteen follows Clark as he discovers how to cope with the vagaries of the enemy and the daily confusion the troops faced in distinguishing combatants from civilians. The Viet Cong were a largely unseen enemy who fought a guerrilla war, setting traps and landmines everywhere. Clark's vigilance develops as he gets used to 'living in mortal terror,' which a brush with death in a particularly terrifying fire fight does nothing to dispel. As he continues his journey, he chronicles those less fortunate; the heavy toll being taken all around him is powerfully described at the end of each chapter.
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Publisher
Case Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
ISBN-10
1612005993
ISBN-13
9781612005997
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038643146
Product Key Features
Book Title
Alpha One Sixteen : a Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / Vietnam War, Military / United States, Military
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
VI, 218 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E840.5.C57a3 2018
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Clark seems lucky in a way - for one thing he didn't get killed or disabled, which clearly he quite easily could have been. But it also appears that while there, and ever since, he has been able to maintain a certain detachment, and more or less clearly states that he hasn't suffered from any kind of PTSD, unlike his father had experienced since fighting in Europe in WW2. After his Army service, he completed his studies, attended Yale Law School and qualified for the Bar in Massachusetts. Perhaps it is the combination of his trained analytical mind and the apparent lack of any lasting trauma that has resulted in this particularly well-written, detailed and engaging piece of writing., Alpha One Sixteen is a great and necessary addition to the canon of Vietnam War memoirs. It may be hard to believe, but the days are numbered for America's surviving Vietnam War veterans. Like their fellow warriors of America's many conflicts, the memories of Vietnam veterans like Peter Clark need to be heard, studied, and appreciated. Clark and his fellow men of the 16th Infantry Regiment have earned the right to be read by a new generation of Americans., Peter Clark spent nearly a year in Vietnam with the 1st Infantry Division. Now, a half century later, after Yale Law School and many years of public service, he writes magnificently of that youthful experience. In intelligent, articulate and beautifully evocative language he renders an honest, moving and richly nuanced account of what it was like to go to war and then, being wounded, to come home again. Compassion, good sense, and decency permeate every page. An outstanding contribution to the literature of the Vietnam War., Clark presents a detailed account of his day-to-day activities facing the enemy in triple-canopy jungle, rice paddies, and unfriendly villages... The heart of this worthy book... describes what befell him and his fellow infantrymen as they regularly experienced the worst that war can offer., "Thoughtful, provocative memoir of slogging through one of the worst of many bad years of the Vietnam War. Clark, now an attorney in the federal government, signed up for the Army in 1966 as a college kid without much direction in a class of enlistees dominated by young men trying to avoid poverty or jail. There was only one destination, of which the author writes, meaningfully, "while Vietnam wasn't likely to be a good war, it was the one I had." Educated, smart, and contrarian, Clark earned demerits for his lack of religious belief ("I was certainly going to try to be the atheist in the foxhole") but respect for his intelligence. That earned him a not-very-coveted job as a radio operator, a bullet-inviting standout in any landscape for its long antenna and proximity to a senior officer. Clark survived the long odds before finally taking a hit, returning wounded to an "America that I had almost forgotten," filled with people who didn't really want to know about the war. Half a century on, the author tells a nuanced, morally complex story of class division, racial enmity, and the always-looming danger of death. In one memorable episode, he tries to convince a young Vietnamese woman to take cover in a firefight. "The look she gave me," he writes, "was an elegant combination of utter hatred and disdain which held no trace of ambiguity." He was no white knight but the enemy, and an enemy with all the firepower in the world. Veterans will recognize several tropes that the author carefully overturns, too, including the timeworn "recurring GI fable" promising that a short-timer would be posted to base camp to reduce his chances of being killed on the last days of his tour. No such luck, especially for someone who, like Clark, "wanted to be in the infantry, out of ignorance." A worthy entry in the vast library of books devoted to a misbegotten conflict.", This is another fascinating experience of war in Vietnam, and this time tells us the experiences of a young infantryman serving with the US First Infantry Division, the Big Red One, in Vietnam during 1966... Well worth reading for anyone with an interest in the history of the Vietnam War for the US Army., Thoughtful, provocative memoir ... A worthy entry in the vast library of books devoted to a misbegotten conflict., This is one of those books - from a personal perspective anyway - that I had to keep reading. Not just for the account of the fighting but for the gentle humour and humanity that the author displayed.... A damn good book and I would heartily endorse it., An impressively candid, detailed, informative, and emotionally engaging military memoir of one man's experience fighting in Viet Nam.
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2018-275296
Dewey Decimal
959.7043/092
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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