The War I Survived Was Vietnam

Collected Writings of a Veteran and Antiwar Activist
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4766-6614-3
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

The body of work assembled in this collection falls within the tradition of how wars are remembered, and written of, by their surviving veterans. The War I Survived Was Vietnam, and my writing about it, excepting a few poems, has been confined to the staples of non-fiction: memoir, reporting, criticism and commentary.

Among the articles reproduced here, criticism is by far the dominant voice in which I have processed my post-war reflections. A good deal of this work also ventures into the exploratory realm of the American veteran identity, to include my personal struggle to outdistance the demons of PTSD.

As print has evolved into digital media, my criticism has migrated increasingly to the blogosphere permitting the restrictive boundaries of the book review to blossom over the more far ranging horizons of the essay. Several of these works are of relevance to how the Vietnam experience is being archived by scholars for historical interpretation.

Prior to my career in the writing life, I was a political activist advocating for the welfare of GIs and veterans, notably around the health effects of exposure during active service to deadly radiation and poisonous herbicides. Selected material on these topics has also been included in this collection.

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Über Autor(innen)

As a political activist, Michael Uhl was co-founder of the Safe Return Amnesy Commttee and the GI and veteran advocacy organization, Citizen Soldier. He is a writer by trade. He is a writer and lecturer who lives in Walpole, Maine, USA. He is also book critic whose articles and reviews have appeared in The Nation and The Boston Globe.