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  • What We Can and Can’t Afford
    W.D. Ehrhart
    Bill Ehrhart’s experiences in the Vietnam War have defined his life--first as an enlisted member of a Marine infantry battalion, then as an author, poet and teacher who has spent fifty years explicating the war and its consequences in books, lectures and interviews. In these essays he explores a diverse range of topics. They include gun violence and the Second Amendment, A...
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    57,34 €

  • Passing Time
    W.D. Ehrhart
    From 1969 to 1974 Ehrhart was just passing time. His reentry into the 'world' began with his enrollment as a 21-year-old freshman (and token Vietnam vet) at Swarthmore College. At first simply trying to bury his past, Ehrhart slowly came to understand what happened to him, and why, in Vietnam. Interspersed are flashbacks to the war itself. It is the story of political--and...
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    27,97 €

  • Busted
    W.D. Ehrhart
    This book picks up where Passing Time: A Vietnam Veteran Against the War left off, and completes the trilogy begun with Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir. It begins with the Coast Guard raid on Ehrhart’s oil tanker and ends with the conclusion of his trial for possession of 'controlled substances,' a span of time that corresponds almost exactly with the opening of the...
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    28,54 €

  • Thank You for Your Service
    W D Ehrhart / W.D. Ehrhart
    Fifty-five years in the writing, these are the collected poems of W.D. Ehrhart, one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature. Arranged chronologically, it allows readers to trace the development of a writer whose talents are bound together by the lingering physical, psychological, political and intellectual sensibilities the author first developed as a young enlisted M...
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    42,50 €

  • Dead on a High Hill
    W.D. Ehrhart
    A new collection of Bill Ehrhart’s essays--25 of them, written between 2002 and 2012 on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War failures of American policy-makers to life in 21st century Vietnam; the trenches of the Western Front, the mountains of Korea, the sands of Iraq; from the value of one’s name to the cowardice of Congress; mountain gorillas in Rwanda, the journalist Gl...
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    42,94 €

  • The Madness of It All
    W.D. Ehrhart
    'I cannot begin to count the number of times over the past 37 years that I have wished I had never heard of Vietnam, let alone fought in the Vietnam War. That experience has haunted my days. It has troubled my nights. It has shaped my identity and colored the way I see the world and everything in it'--from the Preface. W.D. Ehrhart, called 'one of the great poets and write...
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    35,40 €

  • Unaccustomed Mercy
    W D Ehrhart
    The poetry of the Vietnam War is a phenomenon unparalleled in American literature--the only conflict to come close to producing anything like it is the American Civil War. Vietnam poets are the most powerful witnesses to the war itself and the most significant voices to impart the impact of the experience upon those who fought there. With commanding authority, every poet in thi...
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    11,30 €