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The Boys of ’67

Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam

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The Boys of ’67

Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam

Description

Bloomsbury presents The Boys of '67 by Andrew Wiest, read by Sam Rushton.

Across the nation in the spring of 1966, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings from Uncle Sam. Some of these men, optimistic and looking to serve their country, joined Charlie Company and trained for service. They deployed together, experiencing the camaraderie, fear, smell, pain, violence, and senseless deaths. And through it all they wrote letters back and forth with the loved ones they'd left behind. Back at home, the families of Charlie Company faced fear, loneliness and uncertainty. As the war came to a close, everyone had irrevocably changed. Some families strove to set the war aside, while others wrestled with darkness as wives stood by their husbands through homelessness, alcoholism, and physical abuse. Some couldn't stand the pain and left the loves of their lives forever. Some reclaimed their loved ones from the brink of oblivion. Some had only memories to cherish.

An emotionally raw and visceral journey through the tragedies, sorrows and triumphs of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, this vibrant novel, adapted from Andrew Wiest's bestselling story The Boys of '67, brings the experiences of the soldiers and families of Charlie Company vividly to life.

Readers are advised that the book contains strong language.

Table of Contents

Preface: Meeting Charlie
Introduction: The Need for Charlie
Prelude: Losing the Best We Had


Chapter 1: Who Was Charlie?
Chapter 2: Training
Chapter 3: To Vietnam and into the Rung Sat
Chapter 4: Into Battle
Chapter 5: The Day Everything Changed
Chapter 6: The Steady Drumbeat of War
Chapter 7: Charlie Transformed, Battlefield Coda, and the Freedom Bird
Chapter 8: Home From War

Glossary
The Men of Charlie Company
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Index

Product details

Published Jul 22 2021
Format Audiobook
Duration 16 hours and 59 minutes
ISBN 9781472852908
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Series General Military
Short code GNM
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Andrew Wiest

Dr Andrew Wiest is University Distinguished Profes…

Narrator

Sam Rushton

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