The Long Reckoning
A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 496 pages
"The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Going to B -- Of Mountains and Machines -- The Summer of Love -- Socks on an Octopus -- Saddle Up, Cowboys! -- Grunt -- Orphans of Creation -- This Is Not a Practice -- "Tonight You Die, Marine" -- Scavengers -- The Smoky Landscape -- Benefit of the Doubt -- Untangling the Tangle -- Bring Our Daddy Home -- The Third Rail -- The Things They Carried Back -- A Vietnamese in Disguise -- Policing the Brass -- Milk That Glowed in the Dark -- The End of Our Exploring -- The Road to Damascus -- Great Loss and Confusion -- Angry Ghosts -- The Worst Thing, the Best Thing -- The Painter, the Sprinter, and the Monk -- Unfinished Business -- Turning the Ho Chi Minh Trail Brown -- The Pocket of Fire -- The End of the Trail -Epilogue : Hill 674.
Subjects:
Agent Orange -- Health aspects -- Vietnam.
Agent Orange -- Environmental aspects -- Vietnam.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Health aspects -- Vietnam.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Environmental aspects -- Vietnam.
War victims -- Services for -- Vietnam.
Unexploded ordnance -- Vietnam.
Land mines -- Vietnam.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam.
Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Agent Orange -- Health aspects -- Vietnam.
Agent Orange -- Environmental aspects -- Vietnam.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Health aspects -- Vietnam.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Environmental aspects -- Vietnam.
War victims -- Services for -- Vietnam.
Unexploded ordnance -- Vietnam.
Land mines -- Vietnam.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam.
Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States.
ISBN:
9780593534106
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War Vietnam Bla | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
"This is a Borzoi book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.