De Vietnamveteraan
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- 7 uur lezen
Exceedingly honest, personal account of one young man's experience fighting in the Vietnam War.
Ron Kovic Boeken
Deze auteur put uit diepgaande en vaak traumatische ervaringen tijdens de Vietnamoorlog, die hij omzet in krachtige literaire werken. Zijn schrijven onderzoekt de gevolgen van militaire dienst en daaropvolgend activisme, en biedt een scherp perspectief op persoonlijke opoffering en de maatschappelijke impact van conflict. Met zijn proza beoogt hij de gruwelen van oorlog te belichten en dringend te pleiten voor vrede en gerechtigheid.
A Dangerous Country
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- 10 uur lezen
WHEN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD RON KOVIC enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in the fall of 1964, he couldn't foresee that he would return from Vietnam paralyzed and in a wheelchair for life. His best-selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July is an antiwar classic and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Tom Cruise as Kovic. His follow-up, Hurricane Street, chronicled his advocacy for Vietnam veterans' rights, including a seventeen-day hunger strike in the office of the late California senator Alan Cranston. A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy completes Kovic's Vietnam Trilogy, delving deep into his long and often agonizing journey home from war - his physical, sexual, and psychological struggles; his bitterness, loss of faith in God and country, and eventual healing, forgiveness, and spiritual redemption. The book opens with Kovic's never-before-revealed Vietnam diary (July 7, 1967-July 26, 1968). Deeply troubled by the growing antiwar movement in 1967, Kovic decide