E-audiobook
My detachment
Record details
- ISBN: (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0739346040
- ISBN: 9780739346044
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2005.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 6:18:34. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 90686 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American Kidder, Tracy |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
"My detachment" is a war story like none you have read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself. Kidder was an ROTC intelligence officer, just months out of college and expecting a stateside assignment, when his orders arrived for Vietnam. He tried to assume command of his detachment, a ragtag band of eight more-or-less ungovernable men charged with reporting on enemy radio locations. He learned not only to lead them but to laugh and drink with them as they shared the boredom, pointlessness, and fear of war. Together, they sought a ghostly enemy and Kidder realized that he would spend his time in Vietnam listening in on battle but never actually experiencing it.
