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Bezig met laden... Stolen Valor (1998)door B. G. Burkett
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 3781. Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, by B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley (read 9 Aug 2003) I read this to follow up on a statement in the book Vietnam Now A Reporter Returns (read 8 June 2003) that several thousand American prisoner GIs went over to the Nazis and fought for them. This book does say that--but it sources a book called World War II Super Facts, by Don McCombs and Fred L. Worth (Warner Books, 1983), page 382. If I find that book will it refer to another secondary source--or to documentary evidence? I found this an amazing book and though it is a right wing book, published by a Dallas publisher, I agreed with most of what the author says. He shows how many alleged Vietnam heroes are fakes, and his thesis is that most Vietnam veterans are normal people, that post traumatic stress claims are often an effort to get money, etc. The book is full of interesting things and seems carefully researched. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"B.G. Burkett, in over ten years of research in the National Archives, filing hundreds of requests for military documents under the Freedom of Information Act, uncovered a massive distortion of history ... [revealing] killers who have fooled the most astute prosecutors and gotten away with murder, phony heroes who have become the object of award-winning documentaries on national network television, and liars and fabricators who have flooded major publishing houses with false tales of heroism which have become best-selling biographies."--Jacket flap. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)959.704History and Geography Asia Southeast Asia Vietnam 1949-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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