WAITING FOR AN ARMY TO DIE: THE TRAGEDY OF AGENT ORANGE (SECOND EDITION)

Book ID/图书代码： 12070011B46625

English Summary/英文概要： "I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it," said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange—tells this young vet’s story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American servicemen. During the war, the US sprayed an estimated 12 million gallons of Agent Orange on Vietnam, in order to defoliate close to 5 million acres of its land. "Had anyone predicted that millions of human beings exposed to Agent Orange/dioxin would get sick and die," scholar Fred A. Wilcox writes in the new introduction to his seminal book, "their warnings would have been dismissed as sci-fi fantasy or apocalyptic nonsense." Told in a gripping and compassionate narrative style that travels from the war in Vietnam to the war at home, and through portraits of many of the affected survivors, their families, and the doctors and scientists whose clinical experience and research gave the lie to the government whitewash, Waiting for an Army to Die tells a story that, thirty years later, continues to create new twists and turns for Americans still waiting for justice and an honest account of what happened to them. Vietnam has chosen August 10—the day that the US began spraying Agent Orange on Vietnam—as Agent Orange Day, to commemorate all its citizens who were affected by the deadly chemical. The new second edition of Waiting for an Army to Die will be released upon the third anniversary of this day, in honor of all those whose families have suffered, and continue to suffer, from this tragedy.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： “我在越南死亡，但我毫无知觉”，1978年当一个年轻的越南兽医在一个上午“今日秀”节目上的讲话，令全国各地观众震惊。等待陆军死亡：橙剂的悲剧---关于橙剂效果的有史以来的第一本书---本书讲述了这个年轻兽医的故事，和成千上万的其他前美国军人的故事。在战争期间，美国在越南喷洒了大约1200万加仑的橙剂，使得近500万英亩的土地树木叶子落尽。“曾经有人预言将有数百万人因接触橙剂/二恶英而生病和死亡。”学者弗雷德答：威尔科克斯在其开创性著作前言中写到，“他们的警告会被视为科幻幻想或世界末日的无稽之谈。”文章以一种扣人心弦的和富有同情心的叙事风格，从越南战争到家庭战争在，并通过许多受影响的幸存者、他们的家庭的描写，以及医生和科学家的临床经验和研究来揭示政府的粉饰太平的谎言。《等待一个军队死亡》讲述了这样一个故事：三十年后，持续给美国人带来迂回曲折和不解，仍然在等待发生在他们身上的一起的公正和诚实的评判。越南已选择了8月10日这一天-美国开始在越南喷洒橙剂-作为“橙剂日”，以纪念其所有遭受致命化学品毒害的公民。《等待陆军死亡》新的第二版将在“橙剂日剧”三周年后的这一天发布，借以向那些遭受影响的家庭以及继续遭受这一悲剧的那些人致敬。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：• "关于橙剂主题的权威著作." ---汤姆•海登

• "这本是令人伤感和恐惧的，是不应被忽视的著作。---特雷西•基德尔，《新机器的灵魂》和《山外有山》的作者

• "读过这本书而不感到愤怒和绝望是不可能的，因为橙剂的故事是一个悲剧，不仅影响了越战老兵，还有所有的美国人和他们的后代。" ---周六评论

• "My bible on the issue of Agent Orange." ---Tom Hayden

• "This is a sad and frightening book, and it should not be disregarded." ---Tracy Kidder, author of The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains

• "It is impossible to read this book without feeling outrage and despair, for the story of Agent Orange is a tragedy that affects not only Vietnam veterans, but all Americans and their offspring." ---The Saturday Review

About the Author/作者介绍： 弗雷德•a•威尔科克斯在过去30年间一直在从事有关越南战争的研究、写作和教学课程。作为一个爱荷华作家工作室毕业生,他发表了大量关于化学战争、环保运动、心理健康、创伤、上瘾方面的文章，并作为退伍军人信任的权威和越南战争及其余波的学者出席了100 多个广播和电视节目。他目前在伊萨卡学院任教。

FRED A. WILCOX has been researching, writing about, and teaching courses on the Vietnam War for the past thirty years. An Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, he has published articles on chemical warfare, environmental activism, mental health, trauma, and addiction, and has appeared on 100+ radio and television programs as a trusted authority among veterans and academics alike on the Vietnam War and its aftereffects. He currently teaches at Ithaca College.

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