
Walking Point
From the Ashes of the Vietnam War
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Alan Ross
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Perry A. Ulander
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In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing experiences that shattered his core beliefs, Ulander also captures the camaraderie and humor of his platoon, the hostility between "lifers" and draftees, the physical hardships of reconnaissance missions, and the unrelenting apprehension underlying everyday life. Ultimately he describes the surrendering of social norms and accepted identities that allowed him to glimpse a previously unimagined realm of heightened awareness.
Written after a lifetime of reflection on the nature of war and the effects of violence and domination on the minds and spirits of those forced to practice them, Walking Point offers a powerful narrative for listeners with an interest in the effects of war and violence, American involvement in Vietnam, PTSD, and how trauma can be a catalyst for spiritual transformation. Giving voice to profound insights gained through extreme adversity, Ulander movingly captures the depth of trust and commitment among a group of unwitting warriors who struggled to stay alive and sane in unchartered territory.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Into the Unknown
Chapter 2: The Magic Poncho Liner
Chapter 3: Initiation
Chapter 4: Head On
Chapter 5: The Valley of the Shadow
Chapter 6: Into the Light
Chapter 7: Short Time
Chapter 8: No Time
Chapter 9: Home
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Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat, to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. Soon after the war, Gross wrote down his adventures, while his memory was still fresh with the events. Rattler One-Seven (his call sign) is written as he experienced it, using these notes along with letters written home to accurately preserve the mindset he had while in Vietnam.
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One of the Best Helicopter books I've listened to!
- De Chad en 02-12-14
De: Chuck Gross
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Baptism
- A Vietnam Memoir
- De: Larry Gwin
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
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A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only 23 years old when he arrived in Vietnam in 1965. After a brief stint in the Delta, Gwin was reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in An Khe. There, in the hotly contested Central Highlands, he served almost nine months as executive officer for Alpha Company, 2/7, fighting against crack NVA troops in some of the war's most horrific battles.
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Great story of a front line grunt during Vietnam
- De richard fox en 05-04-16
De: Larry Gwin
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Reluctant Warrior
- A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam
- De: Michael C. Hodgins
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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By the spring of 1970, American troops were ordered to pull out of Vietnam. The Marines of First Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel "Wild Bill" Drumright, were assigned to cover the withdrawal of First Marine Division. The Marines of First RECON Bn operated in teams of six or seven men. Heavily armed, the teams fought a multitude of bitter engagements with a numerically superior and increasingly aggressive enemy. Michael C. Hodgins served in Company C, First RECON Bn (Rein), as a platoon leader. In powerful, graphic prose, he chronicles his experience.
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Gem hidden in plain sight
- De LEE en 01-02-19
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Outlaw Platoon
- Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
- De: Sean Parnell, John Bruning
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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At 24 years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon - a unit that came to be known as the Outlaws - and was tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a mountain valley along Afghanistan's eastern frontier. Parnell and his men assumed they would be facing a ragtag bunch of civilians, but in May 2006 what started out as a routine patrol through the lower mountains of the Hindu Kush became a brutal ambush.
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- De Chris en 04-09-12
De: Sean Parnell, y otros
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Chickenhawk
- De: Robert Mason
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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With more than half a million copies sold, Robert Mason's Chickenhawk is one of the best-selling books ever written about the Vietnam War. Fascinated with flying from a young age, Mason earned his private pilot's license even before graduating high school. He enlisted in the army in 1964 and endured an extremely challenging "weeding out" process in an effort to fly helicopters. Sent to Vietnam, he survived more than 1,000 air combat missions despite the violence and brutality exploding all around him.
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- De richard olson en 08-21-15
De: Robert Mason
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Once a Warrior King
- Memories of an Officer in Vietnam
- De: David Donovan
- Narrado por: Don Sobczak
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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He was a young American soldier - and the most powerful man in a remote rural District of Vietnam.
In the spring of 1969, First Lieutenant David Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam to work as military advisor with village chiefs and local militia to win the war.
But as he was the highest-ranking person in the entire district, his life there was far more complex than anyone could have imagined.
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- De Trucker john en 02-27-14
De: David Donovan
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Boocoo Dinky Dow
- My Short, Crazy Vietnam War
- De: Grady C. Myers, Julie Titone
- Narrado por: Jeffrey S. Fellin
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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Grady Myers was an artistic but aimless teenager in 1968, when, desperate for troops, the U.S. Army overlooked his extreme nearsightedness and transformed him into Hoss, an M-60 machine gunner. His memoir Boocoo Dinky Dow: My Short, Crazy Vietnam War is by turns funny and sobering. Grady recounts his military initiation at Fort Lewis, where there could be a fuzzy line between training and torture.
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a good autobiographical Vietnam War story
- De Midwestbonsai en 06-22-15
De: Grady C. Myers, y otros
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Dead Center
- A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War
- De: Ed Kugler
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there - the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at 17, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966. As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts.
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If not the best certainly tied for the best
- De Rose Dawn Blanton en 08-04-15
De: Ed Kugler
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We Few
- US Special Forces in Vietnam
- De: Nick Brokhausen
- Narrado por: George Spelvin
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
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Is there such a thing as funny war genre ??
- De dax en 11-04-18
De: Nick Brokhausen
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The Killing Zone
- My Life in the Vietnam War
- De: Frederick Downs
- Narrado por: Barry Press
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zone tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant to face lethal danger, to follow orders, and to search for the conviction and then the hope that this war was worth the sacrifice. The book includes a new chapter on what happened to the platoon members when they came home.
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It dont mean nuthin.
- De Jack OBrien en 06-21-17
De: Frederick Downs
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Marine Sniper
- 93 Confirmed Kills
- De: Charles Henderson
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has been only one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legend of Marine lore. He stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy lines. His record has never been matched: 93 confirmed kills. This is his story. Powerful, chilling, and all true.
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history at its best
- De sheridan en 03-27-08
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Blood on the Risers
- An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam
- De: John Leppelman
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 2 h y 1 m
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In three straight years he was a paratrooper, an army seaman, and a LRRP - and he lived to tell about it. As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often it seemed the only way out of the carnage in the central highlands was in a body bag. But Leppelman did get out.
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Missing Chapters
- De James S. en 07-28-18
De: John Leppelman
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Level Zero Heroes
- The Story of U.S. Marine Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan
- De: Michael Golembesky, John R. Bruning
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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In Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold known as Bala Murghab as they conduct special operations in an effort to break the Taliban's grip on the Valley. What started out as a routine mission changed when two 82nd Airborne Paratroopers tragically drowned in the Bala Murghab River while trying to retrieve vital supplies from an air drop that had gone terribly wrong.
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Worst narrator ever
- De Bob M en 07-03-15
De: Michael Golembesky, y otros
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The 13th Valley
- De: John M. Del Vecchio
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 27 h y 24 m
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The 13th Valley follows the terrifying Vietnam combat experiences of James Chelini, a telephone-systems installer who finds himself an infantryman in territory controlled by the North Vietnamese army. Spiraling deeper and deeper into a world of conflict and darkness, this harrowing account of Chelini's plunge and immersion into jungle warfare traces his evolution from a semipacifist to an all-out combat-crazed soldier.
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Could Have Been Brilliant
- De KB2187 en 12-03-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Walking Point
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- Matthew
- 12-28-20
Astonishing and inspiring!
A truly fascinating memoir from a Vietnam soldier whose spirit triumphs beyond any imagination conceivable.
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- Larry Boggs
- 01-27-24
A great Vietnam War Memoire
The author was a part of group of dope head mon conformists. They did their “jobs” as grunts with true courage, but they like all who went just wanted to survive. I especially enjoyed the author’s survival technique. The book has lots of very interesting takes on life, death and the war—the author, and his fellows had their sh— together They were more than friends, more than brothers—they were a oneness according to the author I like that concept I recommend this book highly but if you want glorification or flag waiving skip it
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- Rosemary N Bourgeois
- 12-18-16
Bad transitions
the audio transitions suddenly, there are no pauses between paragraphs and the tone changes at random.
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- Dennis F Rumsey
- 08-25-24
The real drafted grunt
well written for the average guy and I was able to walk in the author's boots. It captured the anger and frustration of a GI trying to survive in a situation where poor leadership was tolerated. I would recommend this book to those who weren't there.
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- Frank B. Smith
- 07-17-19
Memories hurt, forgetting hurts more
This is a moving story of what it's like. It's about the coming to grips with the inhuman horror of war and the brotherhood of fellow soldiers. As a grunt, it spoke to my heart. I know all combat soldiers are conflicted in their feelings of hating the war and loving, and missing the comradery that only develops among men who share everything, because hiding your feelings behind a wall is impossible.
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- mark blankenship
- 09-20-21
I listened to the whole story
I have listened to quite a few books about the Vietnam war. This book gave me a whole new perspective. No real action, but a new perspective on the lives of the Potheads.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-15-21
An intimate journey into the Vietnam ground war
A brave personal expression of the grunts emotional experience without any forced glorification of combat
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-02-22
Story of a drafted pot smoking grunt
These are the types of stories that come from drafted soldiers of long ago. It’s not an interesting book of a true warrior who walked point during missions to locate and terminate the enemy. I would not recommend this book for listening.
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