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DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle presents a unique, fictional montage of the war and postwar experiences of Vietnam support troops. Structurally based on Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, DEROS Vietnam (the acronym stands for "Date Eligible for Return from Over Seas") is a riveting collection of 16 short stories and 16 interlinears about the GIs who battled boredom, racial tensions, the military brass, drugs, alcohol, and occasionally the enemy.
From cooks and correspondents to clerks and comptrollers, DEROS Vietnam distills the essence of life for soldiers in the rear during the war, and later, back home in a divided America. Vietnam veteran Doug Bradley, a former Army journalist who served in the air-conditioned jungle at US Army Headquarters near Saigon in 1970-71, tells these compelling stories with wit, intensity, and empathy. In doing so, he provides a gateway to a Vietnam experience that has been largely ignored, and whose reverberations still echo across America.
Reseñas de la Crítica
The more common experience of war in all branches of the service is that of support. Bullets, beans, and bandages don't get to the grunts by magic. Doug Bradley's stories explore the Vietnam War as experienced by the majority of its veterans. These stories are not about battle, but like all great stories, they are about the battle for the human soul. Bradley is a talented and experienced writer, and he describes that battle with clarity, insight, humor, and great skill. (Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War)
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There are few words
- De Riceball0413 en 09-28-20
De: Traci Chee
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Absolutely American
- Four Years at West Point
- De: David Lipsky
- Narrado por: David Lipsky
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these men and women forward. From the cadet who struggles with every facet of West Point life to those who are decidedly huah, Lipsky shows people facing challenges so daunting and responsibilities so heavy that their transformations are fascinating to watch.
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5 out of 5 stars
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He got it right.
- De Andrew en 05-15-04
De: David Lipsky
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Remember the Ramrods
- An Army Brotherhood in War and Peace
- De: David Bellavia
- Narrado por: David Bellavia
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 167
After fourteen years apart, forty veterans of brutal close-quarters combat, lost souls to a man, were brought back together when one of them, the author, received the Medal of Honor. Their impromptu reunion in June 2019 helped heal them all—and saved more than a few of them too. This is their story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!!
- De Will C en 02-15-24
De: David Bellavia
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From Here to Eternity
- De: James Jones
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 36 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 460
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 376
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 378
Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood...and, possibly, their death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Genius on Every Level
- De aaron en 06-13-13
De: James Jones
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Tuff
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea, Cap'n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone. Shrewdly comical as this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council.
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Larry Us!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-24-23
De: Paul Beatty
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The Last Detail
- A Novel
- De: Darryl Ponicsan
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Unlike other branches of the armed services, the Navy draws its police force from the ranks as temporary duty - Shore Patrol. In this funny, bawdy, moving audiobook set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, Virginia - Billy "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall - are assigned to escort 18-year-old Larry Meadows from Norfolk to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sentence for petty theft. It's good duty, until the two old salts realize the injustice of the sentence and are oddly affected by the naive innocence of their young prisoner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprising ending
- De bella en 09-11-20
De: Darryl Ponicsan
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If I Die in a Combat Zone
- Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
- De: Tim O'Brien
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 229
Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A solid Vietnam war memoir
- De Darwin8u en 04-16-14
De: Tim O'Brien
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Dispatches
- De: Michael Herr
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 171
From its terrifying opening to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All of the reviews are correct.
- De Mark Thoreson en 01-18-22
De: Michael Herr
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Thank You for My Service
- De: Mat Best, Ross Patterson, Nils Parker
- Narrado por: Mat Best
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 14,181
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12,809
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12,751
Members of the military’s special operations branches share a closely guarded secret: They love their jobs. They relish the opportunity to fight. They are thankful for it, even, and hopeful that maybe they’ll get to kill a bunch of bad guys while they’re at it. You don’t necessarily need to thank them for their service - the pleasure is all theirs. In this hilarious and personal memoir, listeners ride shotgun alongside former Army Ranger and private military contractor and current social media phenomenon Mat Best, into the action and its aftermath, both abroad and at home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If Deadpool was a ranger...with less cancer
- De Rick Valkyrie en 08-21-19
De: Mat Best, y otros
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The Hour I First Believed
- A Novel
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 25 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,215
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 854
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 856
When high-school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent all around yarn
- De G. en 01-10-09
De: Wally Lamb
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A Special Providence
- De: Richard Yates
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman, Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape his mother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part, struggles with her own demons as she attempts to realize her dreams of prosperity and success as a sculptor. As Robert goes off to fight in Europe, hoping to become his own man, Richard Yates portrays a soldier in the depths of war striving to live up to his heroic ideals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dark
- De Barbara or Jerold Gendler en 11-30-22
De: Richard Yates
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I'm Staying with My Boys
- The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC
- De: Jim Proser, Jerry Cutter
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 285
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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I'm Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Basilone held off 3000 Japanese troops at Guadalcanal after his 15-member unit was reduced to three men. At Iwo Jima he single-handedly destroyed an enemy blockhouse, allowing his unit to capture an airfield. Minutes later he was killed by an enemy artillery round. He was the only Marine in World War II to have received the Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross, and a Purple Heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Devil Dogs!
- De Skip Drake en 10-25-18
De: Jim Proser, y otros
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Point B
- A Teleportation Love Story
- De: Drew Magary
- Narrado por: Rebecca Soler
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 124
When the corporate monolith PortSys brought porting to the masses, CEO Emilia Kirsch and her son, Jason, accomplished what every other start-up company had failed to deliver. They really did change the world. They reversed climate change. They created a multitrillion-dollar industry out of thin air, curing economic woes across the globe. They made it so that anyone could be anywhere simply by touching a screen...including the man who murdered Sarah Huff. Now, Sarah’s 17-year-old sister, Anna, is determined to hunt the bastard down. But there are a few problems.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sherry Potter’s only got one spell: portkey
- De aaron gilbert en 11-02-20
De: Drew Magary
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Love, Africa
- A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
- De: Jeffrey Gettleman
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past 20 years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling his teenage dream of living in Africa. Love, Africa is the story of how he got there - and of his difficult, winding path toward becoming a good reporter and a better man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book!!!
- De Benjamin en 05-26-17
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Welcome to the Monkey House
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 705
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Vonnegut
- De Michael Carrato en 08-17-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Permanent Midnight
- A Memoir (20th Anniversary Edition)
- De: Jerry Stahl, Nic Sheff - foreword
- Narrado por: Jerry Stahl, Scott Merriman
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
A searing confessional infused with the darkest humor, Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into sobriety. Made into a major motion picture starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Permanent Midnight is revered by critics and an ever-growing cult of devoted fans as one of the most compelling contemporary memoirs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Point deduction for the recording
- De Amazon Customer en 11-21-20
De: Jerry Stahl, y otros
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A Bright Shore
- The Eden Chronicles, Book 1
- De: S.M. Anderson
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 470
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 407
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 406
The West's own governments are giving up, have already lost, or are leading the charge to something else. This doesn't sit well with those who believe in liberty. This is the story of a people who have lost the political fight, they've lost the culture wars, they haven't seen a level playing field in a generation, and they are about to be made serfs. None of that matters. They're leaving....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Take on Dystopian (socialist) Future
- De VaDavid en 08-04-20
De: S.M. Anderson