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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The multigenerational tale of the Trà̂n family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trà̂n Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not just...
3) The women
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps...
Author
Publisher
Normanby Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This publication represents the ninth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the Marine Corps' participation in the Vietnam War. This particular volume details the final chapter in the Corps' involvement in South-East Asia, including chapters on Cambodia, the refugees, and the recovery of the container ship SS Mayaguez. Although largely written from the perspective of the III Marine Amphibious Force, this volume also describes...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the Vietnam War from many different perspectives including an American soldiers, a nurse, and a Vietnamese refugee."--Provided by publisher.
8) 365 days
Author
Publisher
G. Braziller
Pub. Date
1971
Language
English
Description
Ronald Glasser recounts the experiences he had while serving as a pediatrician at a US Army hospital during the Vietnam War.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck, having been either drafted or enlisted in the military during the Vietnam War, pledge they will come home together, and Morris, a sailor on the USS "Boston," relies on that promise to stay strong while his courage and resolve are tested under attack.
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The author, who spent two years in federal prison for resisting the draft, discusses the impact of the Vietnam War on the nation's conscience and America's need for a reckoning with the truth about what really happened during the Vietnam War years.
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Presents a narrative history of the Vietnam War, features the first-person recollections of American and Vietnamese military and medical personnel, as well as civilians, and includes nearly four hundred photographs, photo-essays on selected topics, and sidebars. Includes interviews on CD.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Provides an international perspective on the Vietnam War, exploring all sides of the conflict, including the United States' involvement from 1965 to 1975, communist motivation, the influence of French colonialism on the Vietnamese revolution, the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, the Tet Offensive, and the aftermath of the war.
17) Vietnam in HD
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the men who came home from the Vietnam War and tried to forget. The men who represent a second silent generation. Covered is the time period from the initial massive troop build-up in 1965 to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Contains never-before-seen color footage transferred to high definition as well as a soundtrack filled with hits from the era.
19) Regret to inform
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Description
Venturing to Vietnam twenty years after her husband was killed in a mortar attack, Barbara Sonneborn finds a mesmerizing landscape filled with psychic remnants of war. Getting beyond the physical and emotional devastation, she talks to those on all sides of the struggle, discovering a common bond in loss and ultimately understanding.
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The Vietnam War has left a deep and lasting impression in American life, from its impact on the men and women who fought in it, to the journalists and photographers who covered it, to the millions of Americans who protested against it or supported it. Thanks to an uncensored press, the world knew and saw more of this war than any in history before or since. The Associated Press made an unprecedented commitment to reporting the conflict: It gathered...
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