{"product_id":"9781558494428","title":"Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful story collection -- the first such work of fiction by a woman who served in Vietnam -- Susan O'Neill offers a remarkable view of the war from a female perspective. All the nurses who served there had a common bond: to attend to the wounded. While men were sent to protect America's interests at any cost, nurses were trained to save the lives of anyone -- soldier or citizen, ally or enemy -- who was brought through the hospital doors. It was an important distinction in a place where killing was sometimes the only objective. And since they were so vastly outnumbered, women inevitably became objects of both reverence and sexual desire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor American nurses in Vietnam, and the men among whom they worked and lived, a common defense against the steady onslaught of dead and dying, wounded and maimed, was a feigned indifference -- the irony of the powerless. With the assistance of alcohol, drugs, and casual sex, \"Don't mean nothing\" became their mantra, a means of coping with the other war -- the war against total mental breakdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach or these tales offers new and profound insight into the ways the war in Vietnam forever changed the lives of everyone who served there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047722565872,"sku":"9781558494428","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781558494428_p0.jpg?v=1763757622","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781558494428","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}