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Everyman in Vietnam : A Soldier's Journey into the Quagmire

Adas, Michael, 1943- author, Gilch, Joseph J., author

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\"Everyman in Vietnam: A Soldier's Journey into the Quagmire by Michael Adas and Joseph Gilch interweaves a macro perspective of American foreign policy during the war, with the individual-level perspective of one of the many soldiers who lived and died in the \"quagmire.\" This unique perspective is made possible through the personal letters of Private James \"Jimmy\" Gilch, the late uncle of co-author, Joseph Gilch. Throughout his time on the ground in Vietnam, Jimmy sent dozens of letters back to his family in New Jersey, which detailed everything from the brutal, callous nature of basic training to the daily life of a GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Fascinated by these letters from an early age, Joseph Gilch poured over the nearly 80 letters ravenously. A graduate student at Rutgers University, Joseph has been working with Dr. Michael Adas to situate the story of Private Jimmy Gilch into the broader narrative of the United States' involvement in Vietnam. What comes out of this perspective is a truly remarkable and extraordinary picture of one of America's defining wars through the eyes of one of its many soldiers in a generation forever marked by the conflict.\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Gilch, Jimmy, 1945-1966 Correspondence. / United States. Army Biography. / Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Campaigns. / Soldiers United States Biography. / Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Political aspects United States. / Runnemede (N.J.) Biography.
• ISBN: 9780190455873

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS557.7.A435 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE