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Different Face of War

James G. Van Straten
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      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 pleadings of a teenage girl that her shrapnel-ravaged leg not be amputated; and the anger of an American helicopter pilot who made repeated trips into a hot landing zone to evacuate the wounded, only to have the Vietnamese insist that the dead be given a higher priority.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: James G. Van Straten EAN: 9781574416176 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of North Texas Press,U.S. DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-11-15 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Vietnam, United States of America, USA, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1979, Memoirs, Asian history, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, Specific wars and campaigns, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts

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      After his thirty-year military career ended in 1986, James G. Van Straten moved into academia. In 1990 he was appointed dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA. He and his spouse now reside in Windcrest, Texas.
      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 pleadings of a teenage girl that her shrapnel-ravaged leg not be amputated; and the anger of an American helicopter pilot who made repeated trips into a hot landing zone to evacuate the wounded, only to have the Vietnamese insist that the dead be given a higher priority.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: James G. Van Straten EAN: 9781574416176 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of North Texas Press,U.S. DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-11-15 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Vietnam, United States of America, USA, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1979, Memoirs, Asian history, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, Specific wars and campaigns, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts

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      After his thirty-year military career ended in 1986, James G. Van Straten moved into academia. In 1990 he was appointed dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA. He and his spouse now reside in Windcrest, Texas.

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