1000 Yard Stare

1000 Yard Stare
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9780811765664
ISBN-13 : 0811765660
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Book Synopsis 1000 Yard Stare by : Marc Waszkiewicz

Download or read book 1000 Yard Stare written by Marc Waszkiewicz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grunt’s-eye view of the Vietnam War through hundreds of personal photos Marc Waszkiewicz served three tours (1967, 1968, 1969) as an artillery forward observer with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam, where he took thousands of photos capturing the beauty, drudgery, hilarity, and horror of the war. 1,000-Yard Stare collects the best of these in a book that presents an unvarnished grunt’s-eye view of the Vietnam War. These are amazing, well-shot photos--most of them color, many of them truly arresting--of Marines in the field, in camp, on base, fighting, patrolling, writing, drinking, carrying on. Some have the feeling of candid snapshots while others are more composed (Waszkiewicz was, and is, an amateur photographer), with subjects ranging from a gunner calculating ranges with pencil and protractor and a chaplain conducting a battlefield mass to grunts smoking illicit substances while pretending to fish and images of barbed wire twisting in the jungle and watchtowers at twilight. Also included are photographs from Waszkiewicz’s postwar decades of coming to terms with his experiences, such as a sequence of poignant photos from The Wall in Washington and his trip back to Vietnam. This is a visual memoir of the war.


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