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absurdity of military bureaucracy
aftermath of service life
American soldiers overseas
antiwar literary voices
Author_W.D. Ehrhart
autobiographical war narrative
battlefield recollections
boot camp experiences
candid barracks life
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counterinsurgency conflict reflections
cultural memory of conflict
dark humor in wartime
disillusionment and return home
draft era perspectives
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eyewitness combat prose
fear and resilience themes
friendship under fire
frontline survival accounts
guerrilla warfare environm
guerrilla warfare environment
historically grounded life writing
human side of warfare
infantry life in Southeast Asia
jungle patrol experiences
letters home atmosphere
literary nonfiction about soldiers
literature of remembrance
memoirs of 1970s veterans
military brotherhood themes
moral ambiguity of combat
oral history style storytelling
personal transformation through war
personal witness to conflict
poignant and unsentimental memoir
postwar adjustment struggles
protest generation reflections
psychological cost of service
raw and unfiltered storytelling
reflective veteran authors
satire amid chaos
soldier' s coming-of-age story
soldier's coming-of-age story
survival and luck narratives
trauma and memory writing
truth-telling war narratives
veteran testimony literature
Vietnam veteran memoir
war and identity formation
working-class soldiers' voices
youth in uniform narrative
Product details
- ISBN 9780870239571
- Weight: 465g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jun 1995
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 1982, John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University, said of W.D. Ehrhart: "As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature." This autobiographical account of the war, the author's first extended prose work, demonstrates Ehrhart's abilities as a writer of prose as well. Vietnam-Perkasie is grim, comical, disturbing, and accurate. The presentation is novelistic—truly, a "page-turner"—but the events are all real, the atmosphere intensely evocative.
