Tell It to the Dead: Memories of a War

by Donald Kirk

Book Overview

This work reports on the Vietnam war as seen by the GI in the jungles. It discusses current attitudes, views from Saigon, Hanoi and Phnom Penh, and other locales in the countryside.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563247186
• ISBN13: 9781563247187
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

An honest portrait of an army in retreat

A reporter who believed in getting his boots muddy, Donald Kirk visited various line units of the Americal Division and 101st Airborne during the withdrawal phase of the Vietnam War. His accounts of brave but unmotivated grunts ring true. Kirk also conducted extensive interviews with support troops at major bases like Chu Lai and Da Nang, where morale was even worse than in the field, and his accounts of the drug and racial problems that beset the US Army during the latter years of the war are also fair and accurate.