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Army Nurse Corps Voices from the Vietnam War: Eight Women, One War

Army Nurse Corps Voices from the Vietnam War: Eight Women, One War

Tanner, Janet D.

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History

General Military HistoryGeneral United States HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 3030696162
ISBN13: 9783030696160
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 1 2021
Pages: 259
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book provides an oral history of women who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. It follows the trajectory of eight women's lives from their decision to become nurses, to surgical and evacuation hospitals in Vietnam, and then home to face the consequences of war on their personal and professional lives. It documents their lived experience in Vietnam and explores the memories and personal stories of nurses who treated injured American soldiers, Vietnamese civilians, and the enemy. Their voices reveal the physical and emotional challenges, trauma, contradictions, and lingering effects of war on their lives. Women in the U.S. Army in Vietnam feared the enemy but also sexual violence and harassment: the experiences this book documents also shed light on the extent of historical sexual abuse in the military.

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