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Hile, Norman

 
9781663216892: Keeping Each Other Alive: A Vietnam War Memoir
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ISBN 10: 1663216894 ISBN 13: 9781663216892
Editorial: iUniverse, 2021

Sinopsis

At the height of the Vietnam war, the U.S. Army drafted Norman Hile out of law school, trained him to be an artillery officer, and in August 1970 sent him to serve a one year combat tour in South Vietnam's I Corps, where the war was hottest. "Keeping Each Other Alive" is Hile's memoir of that combat tour. Quoting from letters he wrote home from the field, using photos he personally took of combat operations, and recounting his memories of that unforgettable year in war, Hile describes what it felt like to be an artillery forward observer in the field with an infantry company, and then an aerial observer in light planes and helicopters flying over enemy territory. "Keeping Each Other Alive" is a very personal account of what one soldier endured in a war that had already been lost when he arrived to fight it. Hile recounts the terror of nighttime mortar attacks, sweltering in Vietnam's tropical heat and humidity while carrying a heavy pack, trying to spice up C-rations, surviving a monsoon storm on a mountainside, providing aerial cover for a convoy heading to see Bob Hope's Christmas show, and being one of the first to arrive overhead at Firebase Mary Ann to witness one of the war's worst debacles. Hile's memoir allows the reader to experience not just the conditions that soldiers in the Vietnam war withstood, but also crackles with flashes of insanity, pathos and humor that soldiers in that war were bound to experience while trying to keep themselves and each other alive.

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Norman Hile, retired attorney, served in the US Army from 1968 to 1971, including a combat tour in South Vietnam from August 1970 to June 1971. He received his JD degree from Columbia Law School in 1973 and became a partner at the Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe firm in 1980, leading its Sacramento office for more than twenty years. He lives in Sacramento, California, with his wife, Belinda Beckett. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.

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Editorial
iUniverse
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1663216894
ISBN 13 
9781663216892
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Número de páginas
364
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ISBN 10:  1663216916 ISBN 13:  9781663216915
Editorial: iUniverse, 2021
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