A Different Face of War: Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam (Volume 8) (North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series) by Van Straten, James G - 2015-11-15

University of North Texas Press, 2015. Hardcover. As New. Disclaimer:Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UNT Press, 2015. 1st Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine+/Very Good++. This is a very attractive Burgundy Viet Nam War American History Hardback in Near Fine+ condition with a Very Good++ jacket. NO remainder mark, c2015,1st Edition,1st Printing. It is in wonderful condition both inside and out. Very Clean & Very Bright cover. Very nice spine ends. The corner points and edges are very nice. Very tight pages. No names, unmarked. Very clean & bright jacket with very light shelf wear, and light edge wrinkle, Great Book! 497pages. #20242-1223

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Hardback. New. A Different Face of War is a riveting account of one American officer in the Medical Service Corps during the early years of the Vietnam War. Assigned as the senior medical advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps, an area close to the DMZ, James G. Van Straten traveled extensively and interacted with military officers and non-commissioned officers, peasant-class farmers, Buddhist bonzes, shopkeepers, scribes, physicians, nurses, the mentally ill, and even political operatives. He sent his wife daily letters from July 1966 through June 1967, describing in impressive detail his experiences, and those letters became the primary source for his memoir. The author describes with great clarity and poignancy the anguish among the survivors when an American cargo plane in bad weather lands short of the Da Nang Air Base runway on Christmas Eve and crashes into a Vietnamese coastal village, killing more than 100 people and destroying their village; the heart-wrenching… Read More

Univ of North Texas Pr, 2015. Hardcover. New. 576 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.50 inches.