Guerrilla warfare

fighters. The American and Australian forces found it difficult to find the Vietcong, as they would live among the South Vietnamese villagers when they weren’t fighting. The Vietcong were skilled guerrilla fighters, which made it hard for the Americans and Australians as instead of conducting counter guerrilla tactics,…

Dwight Zimmerman and Wayne Vansant’s book: The Vietnam War: A Graphic History delivers an amusing account and perception on the Vietnam War in North and South Vietnam, as well as an account in America at this period in time. This book is an exceptional source to teachers, students, and war enthusiasts. The book answers the question of what it remained like to be a citizen living in America at the time of the Vietnam War and what it was like to be a shoulder fighting in this horrid war. Starting…

In the memoir A Long Walk Gone, Ishmael Beah shares his memories of the Sierra Leone war. The war caused many hardships to the citizens of this country. It also caused a loss of innocence. Ishmael Beah embodies the loss of innocence by explaining life’s casualties before and during the war. Before the war broke out in Sierra Leone, Beah’s life was innocent. It is evident when Beah shares that he would dance and sing. Beah says that he loved to learn the verses of “I Know you got Soul by…

Telling a true war story is very hard, most of the time people can't actually recall every detail of their time in the war. In Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried, he goes over what it was like to fight on the front lines overseas in the Vietnam War. The physical and emotional stress and tension of being there, witnessing horrifically dramatic scenes made it very hard to physically remember what had happened there. Telling a war story is an art, you have to paint the images into the…

The Things They Carried Essay In the book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the soldiers carried many things during the war that were linked to the person they were. The story takes place in 1960’s during the Vietnam war, and is a collection of short stories by Tim O’Brien who was drafted into the war in his early twenties. The book is based on events and emotions that affected him during the war, and in the first chapter he writes about all of the things that the men carried in Vietnam.…

The Things They Carried is a non fiction war novel written by Tim O’Brien published in 1990. In this book, Tim O’Brien shares stories about soldiers in the Vietnam War. The soldiers tell about the things they carry with them during the war and why they carried them. They tell each other stories that are both entertaining and emotional. This brings the soldiers closer together making it very traumatic when some of them are killed. Tim O’Brien tells about the horrible things that happen during the…

The things they carried was a group of war stories from tim o'brien's experiences, in the beginning of the story they say specific things of what they all carried but as the story goes on you have to acknowledge what they are carrying not only the physical items but things that they carried mentally. In war many soldiers have things that will get past their mind defence and mess with them turning them crazy or ill. Rat kiley was a medic and was able to help the soldiers when they were injured,…

The legacy of the Chemical Corps is broad and full of many stories of how it played a part in numerous wars such as World War 1, Korean War and etc. These moments in history are the foundation of the corps which makes up the bare essentials of what we live and train by today. Even though with our profound history very few know of it and understand our capabilities. One must first understand that we were created in order to protect and serve against chemicals that not only harm us but as well…

war. Enduring and experiencing this horrifying epidemic was pretty much equal to going through any war in society and the battlefield. This book has many themes from fear, warfare, and primitivity to love, politics, and man and the natural world. The title itself connects to all…

When people hear stories, most of the time they can tell if they are real, but sometimes it can be hard to tell. Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried shows his and the experiences of many other soldiers in the Vietnam War. He describes all the horrible things they see, what they feel, and the impact of the war on them. Along with the memories of war, he also includes the art of writing and the importance of stories. In some of the chapters, O’Brien even writes about events that never…