Origer Tim (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. Page Numbers: N/A. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge. Small tear on bottom of spine. No dust jacket. Nina Berman (Photographs) (illustrator).…

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. Page Numbers: N/A. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge. No dust jacket. Nina Berman (Photographs) (illustrator).…

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. Page Numbers: N/A. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge. No dust jacket. Nina Berman (Photographs) (illustrator).…

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. Page Numbers: N/A. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge. No dust jacket. Nina Berman (Photographs) (illustrator).…

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. Page Numbers: N/A. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge. No dust jacket. Nina Berman (Photographs) (illustrator).…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: new.

Condition: New. pp. 92 Illus.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. pp. 92.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A Purple Heart, the honour given to US soldiers for their wounds, is one that many cling to when faced with the realities of both the return home and their time at war. Accompanying the images are first person interviews with the soldiers as they discuss why they enlisted and their experiences in the second Iraq war, as well as their lives now and the prospect of living as disabled veterans.>The words and photos make for a complex portrait of American youth, their values, their dreams, the lack of opportunity facing them upon high school graduation, and the myths of warfare which informed their decisions to join.One soldier explained that he always wanted to be a hero and thought the military would be fun. He never imagined an RPG attack in Fallujah would leave him a cripple unable to care for a wife and two children. Another described calling the recruiting station after he saw an MTV-style Army commercial on TV. An immigrant from Pakistan, he was given his citizenship following his injury, a fair trade in his mind, a leg for an American passport. Yet another soldier left a crime, drug ridden neighbourhood in Alabama, only to return 100 percent disabled back where he started but now bedridden.The photographs are accompanied by essays from Verlyn Klinkenborg, an author and editorial writer for the New York Times, and Tim Origer, a Vietnam veteran and former Marine who fought in the Tet offensive. He came back a 19 year-old amputee.'I've been a documentary photographer since 1987 working in a dozen countries including Afghanistan, Bosnia, India and Vietnam, but most of my time has been spent traveling the USA trying to understand the American Way of Life.'.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.