The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War

by Maureen Ryan

The lingering aftereffects of the Vietnam War resonate to this day throughout American society: in foreign policy, in attitudes about the military and war generally, and in the contemporary lives of members of the so-called baby boom generation who came of age during the 1960s and early 1970s. While the best-known personal accounts of the war tend to center on the experience of combat, Maureen Ryan's The Other Side of Grief examines the often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558496866
• ISBN13: 9781558496866
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher