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Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans Summary & Study Guide Description
Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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In Bloods, Wallace Terry has compiled the stories of twenty black Vietnam veterans. The stories range in experience from the gruesome to the heart wrenching to the idealized Vietnam of Hollywood. Terry does not interject his voice into any of the stories so that the reader often feels as if they are having coffee with the person relating the story. The language of the soldiers varies from illiterate to well educated and Terry makes no attempt to polish the veterans' words. The book is open, honest, raw, and truthful in its depiction of Vietnam, civil rights, and war in general.
While there is no apparent order to the stories, the reader still gets a sense of cohesiveness. Wallace Terry introduces Reginald "Malik" Edwards first. Malik's experience could be considered a typical war story. He is young, scared and confused. Although he has been trained to kill, the first time he...
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