Land of Frozen Laughter Land of Frozen Laughter

Land of Frozen Laughter

A Community Development Volunteer in the Vietnam War, 1967-1969

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Publisher Description

Written from the viewpoint of a civilian war veteran, Land of Frozen Laughter is the story of John Lewallen’s two years as an International Voluntary Services volunteer in South Vietnam at the height of the war. This book offers a unique, uncensored view of wartime life with US soldiers and the people of Vietnam.

John Lewallen reports the full range of experiences that made him become a lifelong activist in the environmental and peace movements:


• The macabre world of the choppers, bases, bars, and brothels of American Vietnam;
• The brutal 1968 Tet Offensive;
• The Montagnards’ and Chams’ struggle for cultural survival;
• The complex role of a community development volunteer in a wartime environment;
• The glittering parties, frenzied suicidal abandon, and surprising tenderness as Saigon awaits the final communist assault.

Land of Frozen Laughter offers a perspective that complements those of military veterans and gives vivid new life to the written record of a turbulent period in America’s history.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2016
April 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company
SELLER
John Lewallen
SIZE
881.5
KB

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