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Told with a biting humor, Draftee: A High School Teacher Goes to War by David Volk shares an altogether original and incredibly vivid account of the Vietnam experience. At times derisive, yet surprisingly tender the author, a correspondent and combat photographer, introduces a menagerie of crazies and eccentrics—and a few good men. From mutant mutts to donut dollies, this Midwest draftee learned a little about war and a lot about life..
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Activation to embarkation for combat duty in Europe took the Blue Devils only sixteen months, a record in 1943 that was virtually unmatched in World War II..
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Killed In Action is a historical account of the Vietnam Era told through the life of SP4 Stephen H. Warner, an anti-war activist who was drafted in 1969 after finishing his first year at Yale Law School. After induction into the Army, Steve remained bitterly opposed to the Vietnam War. However, when sent to Vietnam as a public information specialist, he repeatedly volunteered to go out into the field to write human interest stories about the combat soldiers. He often expressed a desire to emulate Ernie Pyle, who wrote such stories about the combat soldiers in World War II. Like Ernie Pyle, Steve was killed in action. In February 1971 the vehicle on which he was riding in Quang Tri Province was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, killing Steve and three other American soldiers.

Killed In Action contains 22 photographs taken by Steve Warner during his travels around Vietnam, as well as a selection of his human interest articles..
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This novel takes characters from earlier works in the Route 66 Novel Series farther west than Los Angeles, official destination of the famous highway, Route 66. Mark Landon and Billy Rhodes find the values they grew up on challenged by America's role in Southeast Asia. But elements of their upbringing represented by the Mother Road also sustain them in ways they could never have anticipated..
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An informal and sometimes humorous account of adventures in the U.S. Army during and after the war. Principal focus is on American efforts to denazify and reconstruct German information services following the armistice in Europe. Also describes the author’s training as an undercover agent, life in a combined British-American psychological warfare headquarters, and beginnings of the “cold war” with the Soviet Union.

Readers probably will encounter familiar names in the roster of individuals who figure in the narrative. These may include William Paley, General Lucius Clay, Nicholas Nabokov, Harold Laski, General Robert McClure, Leon Edel, Edward Shils and various people who may not yet be famous but should be. One also meets German citizens—journalists and others—who played a part in reestablishing democratic institutions and a free press in Germany. Not least among these is a stubborn old printer who was intimidated neither by the Nazis nor by an American second lieutenant.

This is a useful information source about a small but important corner of World War II. It’s also a “good read”—something like a letter home that reports noteworthy incidents of everyday life along with developments of historical significance.

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From chickenshit in training to the terror and death of the battlefield, Mr. Fulton recounts his unforgettable memories as a citizen soldier in the Good War. After training as a medic and schooling under the Army Specialized Training Program, he went into combat as a Pfc. Infantry Rifleman. Fighting the Germans in the Vosges Mountains and the Alsace/Lorraine regions of Eastern France, he was wounded in action. After hospitalization in France, England and America, with a U.S. senator’s help, he was saved from being returned overseas as a POW guard. His social life, aside from the Army, revolved around local roller skating rinks. Written in prose and poetry, these stories are the life of a teenage draftee in the U.S. Army during and just after WWII..
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