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DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle presents a unique, fictional montage of the wartime and postwar experiences of Vietnam support troops. Structurally based on Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time, this riveting collection of sixteen short stories and sixteen interlinears portrays the GIs who battled boredom, racial tensions, the military brass, drugs, alcohol--and occasionally the enemy. (The acronym DEROS stands for Date Eligible for Return from Over Seas.) 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 from 1970 to 1971, 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.

About the Author :
Doug Bradley is a Vietnam veteran based in Madison, Wisconsin, who has written extensively about his Vietnam and post-Vietnam experiences. He also has more than thirty years' experience as a communications professional in higher education, principally with the University of Wisconsin. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bradley earned his bachelor of arts in English from Bethany College. He also holds a master of arts degree in English from Washington State University. Bradley was drafted into the US Army in March 1970, and served as an information specialist (journalist) at the Army Hometown News Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and US Army Republic of Vietnam headquarters near Saigon. Following his discharge and tenure in graduate school, Bradley relocated to Madison, where he helped establish Vets House, a storefront, community-based service center for Vietnam veterans. In addition to writing a blog for the Huffington Post, Bradley co-authored We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Music and the Vietnam Experience with Dr. Craig Werner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with an anticipated publication in 2013. The two also co-teach a popular course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison entitled "The Vietnam Era: Music, Media, and Mayhem." Bradley and his wife, Pam Shannon, are the parents of two adult children. DEROS Vietnam is his first book.

Review :
"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 "In prose that is adamantly stark and spare, Doug Bradley shares this impressive collection of stories loosely centered around the rarely told experience of those American vets who served in Vietnam in the rear. That he is able to pack so much punch, emotions and poignancy in short stories that are tightly woven and compact is a true testament to his gift as a writer and storyteller." --Lan Cao, author of Monkey Bridge "The best stories often come late. These DEROS stories from Doug Bradley, a Vietnam scholar who served there more than four decades ago, are among the best I've read. Each story is clear and clean and evocative, looking at the experience from a slightly different angle. The full effect provides a fearful symmetry." --David Maraniss, author of They Marched into Sunlight


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781480401167
  • Publisher: Warriors Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Warriors Publishing Group
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle
  • ISBN-10: 1480401161
  • Publisher Date: 07 Sep 2014
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 216


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