Goodbye Vietnam Book Reviews

AUTHOR
William Broyles
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
204

Goodbye Vietnam by William Broyles Book Summary

In this “essential” memoir, a former marine returns to Vietnam years later to try to make sense of the war (Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead).

When William Broyles Jr. was drafted, he was a twenty-four-year-old student at Oxford University in England, hoping to avoid military service. During his physical exam, however, he realized that he couldn’t let social class or education give him special privileges. He joined the marines, and soon commanded an infantry platoon in the foothills near Da Nang. More than a decade later, Broyles found himself flooded with emotion during the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. He decided to return to Vietnam and confront what he’d been through. Broyles was one of the very first combat veterans to return to the battlefields. No American before or since has gone so deeply into the other side of the war: the enemy side. Broyles interviews dozens of Vietnamese, from the generals who ran the war to the men and women who fought it. He moves from the corridors of power in Hanoi—so low-tech that the plumbing didn’t work—to the jungles and rice paddies where he’d fought. He meets survivors of American B-52 strikes and My Lai, and grieves with a woman whose son was killed by his own platoon. Along the way, Broyles also explores the deep bonds he shared with his own comrades, and the mystery of why men love war even as they hate it. Amidst the landscape of death, his formerly faceless enemies come to life. They had once tried to kill each other, but they are all brothers now.

Previously published as Brothers in Arms, this edition includes a new preface by the author.

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Book Name Goodbye Vietnam
Genre History
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Language English
E-Book Size 2.48 MB

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Goodbye Vietnam. Good narrative. However, I wish the author had balls.

Marine. If you only read one book about the Vietnam experience make it “Goodbye Vietnam”. Author and Marine Corps veteran William Broyles has created a narrative that allows the reader to be transferred back in time and experience the sensation of walking in the boots of young Marines. Taking that journey back in time will afford the reader an opportunity to understand the many levels of conflicts young warriors and the country they represented were required to combat. Broyles is able to captivatedly tell the story of Marines in combat by entwining his experiences in Vietnam with the discoveries he makes on his return visit to the country that forced him to reconcile with his past and choose the path of his future. Along the way we are treated to a roller caster ride of emotion that ranges from laughter to tears of remembrance, leaving the reader at the end of the ride a deeper understanding of the enduring expense of war. Jeff Hiers

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Summary of Goodbye Vietnam by William Broyles

The Goodbye Vietnam book written by William Broyles was published on 02 April 2013, Tuesday in the History category. A total of 204 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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