When we walked above the clouds : a memoir of Vietnam / H. Lee Barnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, H. Lee, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Commando operations--Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Commando operations--United States.

Barnes, H. Lee, 1944-.

Barnes, H. Lee.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is the mythology of the Green Berets, of their clandestine, special operations as celebrated in story and song. And then there is the reality of one soldier's experience, the day-to-day loss and drudgery of a Green Beret such as H. Lee Barnes, whose story conveys the daily grind and quiet desperation behind the polished accounts of military heroics. Barnes tells what it was like to be a Green Beret, first in the Dominican Republic during the civil war of 1965, and then at A-107, Tra Bong, Vietnam. There, he eventually came to serve as the advisor to a Combat Recon Platoon, which consisted chiefly of Montagnard irregulars. Though "nothing extraordinary," as Barnes saw it, his months of simply doing what the mission demanded make for sobering reading: the mundane business of killing rats, cleaning guns, and building bunkers renders the intensity of patrols and attacks all the more harrowing.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; prologue; Acknowledgements; One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six; Seven; Eight; Nine; Ten; Eleven; Twelve; Thirteen; Fourteen; Fifteen; Sixteen; Seventeen; Eighteen; Nineteen; Twenty; Twenty-One; Twenty-Two; Twenty-Three; Twenty-Four; Twenty-Five; Twenty-Six; Twenty-Seven; Twenty-Eight; Twenty-Nine; Thirty; Thirty-One; Thirty-Two; Thirty-Three; Thirty-Four; Thirty-Five; Thirty-Six; Thirty-Seven; Thirty-Eight; Thirty-Nine; Forty; Forty-One; Forty-Two; Forty-Three; Forty-Four; Forty-Five; Forty-Six; Forty-Seven; Forty-Eight; Forty-Nine; Afterword

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613593504

9781280498275

1280498277

9780803237964

0803237960

OCLC:

787866984