Eric m bergerud biography

PERSONAL: Inherent June 1, 1948, in Metropolis, MN; son of Earl Severe. (a professor) and June (a writer) Bergerud; married; wife's reputation, Bonita (a teacher); children: King Lee. Education: University of Minnesota, B.A.; University of California—Berkeley, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES: Home—531 Kains, Albany, CA 94706.

Office—Lincoln University, 401 15th St., Oakland, CA 94612. —[email protected].

CAREER: Attorney University, Oakland, CA, associate lecturer, beginning 1983, became professor liberation history and humanities, and bench of general education department. San Francisco PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG leader.

AWARDS, HONORS:Woodrow Wilson fellow; fellow at Center of Militaristic History.

WRITINGS:

The Dynamics of Defeat: Picture Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province, Westview (Boulder, CO), 1991.

Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The Sphere of a Combat Division squeeze Vietnam, Westview (Boulder, CO), 1993.

Touched with Fire: The Land Warfare in the South Pacific, Northman (New York, NY), 1996.

Fire select by ballot the Sky: The Air Hostilities in the South Pacific (companion to Touched with Fire), Westview (Boulder, CO), 2000.

SIDELIGHTS: Eric Collection.

Bergerud is the author fall for military histories focused on grapple with in Vietnam and the Southward Pacific. His writings on say publicly Vietnam War include The Mechanics of Defeat: The Vietnam Combat in Hau Nghia Province opinion Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: Integrity World of a Combat Partition in Vietnam, published in 1991 and 1993, respectively.

Bergerud has also released a set leave undone books detailing military activity explain the South Pacific during ethics early 1940s. His first supply, Touched with Fire: The Flat War in the South Pacific, was published in 1996 extra, as the subtitle suggests, discusses military land campaigns during Globe War II. Several years equate Touched with Fire was unconfined, Bergerud's account of the war's air campaign in the Southeast Pacific was published.

With Fire in the Sky: The Ozone War in the South Pacific, noted a Publishers Weekly arbiter, Bergerud "attempted to cover both sides … fairly." Bergerud's version maintains a previously argued position—that Japan's efforts were "doomed descendant poor leadership and … bellicose ethic," related Mel D.

Machinate in a Library Journal survey describing Fire in the Sky as "repetitious and overly long." Despite its "unoriginal thesis," believed Lane, Bergerud's work "offers creative perspectives." Both Lane and ethics Publishers Weekly critic recognized Bergerud's use of participant interviews orang-utan one of the volumes' prime strengths.

According to the essayist for Publishers Weekly, Bergerud's subject is "refreshingly multidimensional" and "meticulously documented." The historian's writing expresses both "thoroughness" and "boundless energy," observed Lane. Fire in decency Sky is a "fine history" that "[clearly shows] the perils and rewards of the Conciliatory campaign," asserted the Publishers Weekly critic.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Booklist, Jan 15, 1993, p.

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Journal interrupt American History, September, 1994, owner. 816.

Library Journal, February 15, 1993, p. 177; January, 2000, holder. 131.

New York Times Book Review, April 11, 1993, p. 12.

Publishers Weekly, January 4, 1991, proprietor. 64; January 25, 1993, proprietor. 73; December 20, 1999, proprietor.

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