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Charlie Company’s Journey Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans Audiobook
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The Boys of ’67 and the War They Left Behind
The experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp—the fear, smell, pain, and camaraderie. Boys were turned into men, men were transformed into soldiers, and then from soldiers to warriors.
These warriors had wives who shared in their transformations. Some marriages were strengthened, while for others men and their families were left emotionally and spiritually battered for years to come.
Focusing in on a singular company’s experience of war and its eventual homecoming, Andrew Wiest discusses the shared experience of combat and both the darkness and resiliency of war’s aftermath.
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“Written with such compelling narratives, you immerse instantly into one family after another. Unlike tales of war that end with a peace treaty, these battles continue decades later with haunting re-occurrence. The victories are for those that overcome.”
— Seattle Book Review
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“A painful yet impressive account of the effects of war on the families left behind.”
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“Wiest writes well and with empathy for what the women went through. This is a novel look at the Vietnam War’s legacy that speaks to the experiences of military families today.”
— Publishers Weekly
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About Andrew Wiest
Andrew Wiest, PhD, is professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and also the founding director of the Center for the Study of War and Society. He was born in Chicago but raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. After attending the University of Southern Mississippi, Dr. Wiest went on to receive his PhD from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1990. Specializing in the study of World War I and Vietnam, Dr. Wiest has served as a visiting senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in the United Kingdom and as a visiting professor in the Department of Warfighting Strategy in the United States Air Force Air War College. Since 1992 he has been active in international education, leading a study abroad program on World War II to London and Normandy each summer and developing the award-winning Vietnam Study Abroad Program. Dr. Wiest has published more than a dozen books on various topics, including Vietnam’s Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN, which won the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award; America and the Vietnam War; Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land; and Passchendaele and the Royal Navy. Additionally Dr. Wiest has appeared in and consulted on several historical documentaries for the History Channel, Granada Television, PBS, the BBC, and Lucasfilm. He lives in Hattiesburg with his family.
About Kevin Kenerly
Kevin Kenerly, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, earned a BA at Olivet College. A longtime member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he has acted in more than twenty seasons, playing dozens of roles.