Double Exposure A Veteran Returns to Vietnam eBook Thomas Davis
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What might a Vietnam combat veteran discover about himself as he revisits the country he fought in forty two years ago? TCDavis, a pastor turned photographer, and former naval adviser to a South Vietnamese junk base, reveals his answer in Double Exposure a memoir of 22 illustrated reflections, both exciting and thought provoking.
Double Exposure A Veteran Returns to Vietnam eBook Thomas Davis
This book was a disappointment in that it was not descriptive enough just an uninformative trip narrative. Maybe it gave the author consolation and reconciliation but as a "book" to be read, it did very little for me. I don't know what I expected but not what was in the book. I did not expect a bloody review of the 'Viet Nam War but I did not connect with the author that much in what he did have to say.. The book just seemed rather "blah". Maybe it will help some other vets however and that would definitely be great. (I served during the Viet Nam era myself and have the greatest respect for fellow service men of the past and of today.)Product details
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Double Exposure A Veteran Returns to Vietnam eBook Thomas Davis Reviews
I'm afraid the book was a little light-weight for me but I understand it is a personal remembrance of some of the author's experiences during the war.
The author's thoughtful reflections are an inspiration not only for fellow soldiers but for anyone wanting to understand a little of how it was for our young men in Viet Nam.
Knowing the author, I was interested in sharing his thoughts about his life. I read the book in one sitting - a testament to its compelling nature. What surfaced as I read was the faith journey of the author using his war experience in Vietnam as the avenue of thought. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, especially those who have had a "war" experience, but I believe its appeal is to anyone who seeks to find spiritual meaning in the events of life regardless of where, when and what they are.
This book is a mesmerizing must-read. I literally could not put the book down and forfeited a night's sleep to finish it. Tom is an authentic, inspiring, and talented author who hypnotically guides you through his Vietnam experiences. This book truly demonstrates that there are many paths to healing and that triumph after tragedy is possible for everyone. I highly recommend this book to anyone whose life has been touched by the Vietnam War, or anyone who is interested in fantastic, captivating stories.
This is a memoir dedicated to relating his healing journey, combining recollections of the author's tiime in Vietnam as a naval advisor, with memories of a recent return trip there. It is an easy read, full of vivid descriptions of the land, and of his feelings. Tom takes us with him, as a newly wed naval officer, then to the current day, as grandfather and newly minted photographer. You are given a taste of what the war was like for him and the conflicts that emerged from the spiritual human who is also a warrior. The book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to have a better understanding of the effects of war on the individual and the healing journey that comes after. I also found it interesting to read about the Vietnam that has emerged from all those years of war, a vibrant and prosperus place. I highly recommend this book.
A fine photographer, Tom Davis aims the camera at his own inner self in this touching, well written, and captivating memoir from a Vietnam Veteran. While Davis writes insightfully about what, as he reminds us, the Vietnamese call "the American war," it is really the sometimes skirmishes and sometimes life threatening engagements within himself that forms the subject matter of this little but lasting book. With disarming honesty, Davis offers his readers a compendium of lessons learned by a young Naval officer, like so many others, displaced from a life-course imagined in college to patrolling Viet Nam rivers in search of an illusive enemy, always threatened by ambush from a largely unseen adversary. The author's first person style takes us along on the patrols, offers us vivid descriptions of outside and inside reality, and enables us to feel his own ambivalence, fear, anger, and frustration. We are invited into intimate relationship with the author as he recounts openly and honestly what he describes as his "conversion experience" that moved his former heady Christian faith to a more heart filled confession of faith--"heart knowing," he calls it. This deeply spiritual experience is purposefully juxtaposed in the narrative with the powerful reality of a warrior's rage that longs for a clear shot at a fleeing Viet Cong, glad to have something clearly in the sights after being shot at so often himself. This strange mixture of feelings that attract and repulse shape Davis' memory and offer shades of gray to what we his readers see. This is a book one can read quickly but is much better savored. This is a book which may not be finished with the reader as soon as the reader is finished with the book. A photographer friend of mine tells me that she finds a spiritual connection with those whom she photographs just at the moment the picture is taken and the subject exposed. Tom Davis' book proves the truth of my friend's observation, with an important additional surprise. Photographing another person or wild life or scenery exposes something erstwhile hidden in those photographed but simultaneously exposes the self composing the photograph as well. Davis says toward the end of the book that he discovered as he embraced photography on the edge of his retirement that he had a knack for composition. He does indeed, as his "Double Exposure A Veteran Returns to Vietnam" so thoughtfully demonstrates.
This book was a disappointment in that it was not descriptive enough just an uninformative trip narrative. Maybe it gave the author consolation and reconciliation but as a "book" to be read, it did very little for me. I don't know what I expected but not what was in the book. I did not expect a bloody review of the 'Viet Nam War but I did not connect with the author that much in what he did have to say.. The book just seemed rather "blah". Maybe it will help some other vets however and that would definitely be great. (I served during the Viet Nam era myself and have the greatest respect for fellow service men of the past and of today.)
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