Jack Estes
Autor de A Field of Innocence
Obras de Jack Estes
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 26
- Popularidad
- #495,361
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 12
Estes is from Portland, Oregon the book chronicles his desire to get back home to his fledgling family. He goes to Camp Pendleton where his boot camp instructors leave a lot to be desired. From other memoirs this was not rare. He is then sent off to Vietnam to patrol near the DMZ in 1968. 1968 was accounted one of the bloodiest years of the war and marked the turning point for future US engagement in the White House and Congress. Much of the book recounts his acclimation to the Marines CAPS (Combined Action Program) unit where US military soldiers worked with popular Vietnamese forces to work with and protect South Vietnamese villagers from being eradicated by the Vietcong. Estes, or Jackson for short, was part of a mobile CAPS unit. This book keeps the characters to a minimum but those that do make appearances are memorable. Some are just names but what can you do with a war memoir where part of the narration’s goal is to show that widespread human death is mind-numbing. This is a book by and about US Marines which makes me proud that some have been able to articulate what they have felt as humans and soldiers during a turbulent and traumatic time in American history.… (más)