Автор: Klein Joe Название: Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam ISBN: 1451683626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451683622 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 1954.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the author of "Primary Colors," a remarkably sensitive story of a generation ("The New York Times Book Review"): The critically acclaimed true story of five Marines who fought together in a bloody battle during the Vietnam War, barely escaping with their lives, and of what happened when they came home. In 1981, while the country was celebrating the end of the Iran hostage crisis, an unemployed Vietnam veteran named Gary Cooper went berserk with a gun, angry over the jubilant welcome the hostages received in contrast to his own homecoming from Vietnam, and was killed in a fight with police. In what has been called the most eloquent work of nonfiction to emerge from Vietnam since Michael Herr s "Dispatches" ("The New York Times"), Joe Klein tells Cooper s story, as well as the stories of four of the other vets in Cooper s platoon. The story begins with an ambush and a grisly battle in the Que Son Valley in 1967, but "Payback" is less about remembering the war and more about examining its long-term effects on the grunts who fought it. Klein fills in the next fifteen years of these Marines lives after they return home, with the sort of fine and private detail one ordinarily finds only in fiction ("People"). The experiences of these five men capture the struggles of a whole generation of Vietnam veterans and their families. Klein s near-hypnotic account ("Daily News," New York) is, to this day, both a remarkable piece of reporting and some of the most vivid, harrowing, and emotionally honest writing to come out of Vietnam ("The Washington Post Book World")."
Описание: This true story of two decorated combat veterans who find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country is a great look at two of the best veteran organizations going and the incredible humans who make the effort work (Jon Stewart). In "Charlie Mike," a true account that reads like a novel ("Publishers Weekly") and explodes like a thriller ("The Huffington Post"), Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and Jake Wood, larger-than-life war heroes who come home and use their military values to help others. Wounded in Iraq, Navy SEAL Eric Greitens returns home to find that his fellow veterans all want the same thing: to continue to serve their country. He founds The Mission Continues to provide paid public service fellowships for wounded veterans. One of the first fellows is former Marine sergeant Jake Wood, a natural leader who begins Team Rubicon, organizing 9/11 veterans for dangerous disaster relief projects around the world. We do chaos, he says. A deep and compelling exploration of a group of young veterans determined to continue serving after leaving the military ("The Washington Post"), this is a story that hasn t been told before a saga of lives saved, not wasted. The chaos these soldiers face isn t only in the streets of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake or in New York City after Hurricane Sandy it s also in the lives of their fellow veterans. "Charlie Mike" shows how Greitens and Wood draw on the military virtues of discipline and selflessness to guide others towards inner peace and, ultimately, to help build a more vigorous nation."
Автор: Klein, Joe Название: Running Mate, The ISBN: 0385335601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385335607 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1283.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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