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Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

One of the world's best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement. This new edition features the John Lennon/Yoko Ono interview "Power to the People," published for the first time in the US, and an important new introduction. Yoko Ono: Let's face it, the Beatles was twentieth-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to... (more)

The False Peace: 1972-74 (Vietnam Experience)Clark Dougan, David Fulghum, Samuel Lipsman, Stephen Weiss

The False Peace: 1972-74 (Vietnam Experience)

by Samuel Lipsman

From a Chinese City : In the Heart of Peacetime Vietnam

From a Chinese City : In the Heart of Peacetime Vietnam

by Gontran De Poncins, Gontran De Poncins

Gontran de Poncins, a solitary traveler recording with pen and brush the genius of cultures hidden away in remote corners of the world, wrote this journal almost fifty years ago in his walk-up room in the Sun Wah Hotel in Cholon. He chose Cholon, the Chinese riverbank community snuggled up to Saigon, because he suspected the ancient customs of a national culture endure longer in remote colonies than in the ... (more)

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite

by Ann K. Finkbeiner

They call themselves Jason. Their group is a child of the Manhattan Project by way of the cold war, and they have counted among their ranks scientific stars like Freeman Dyson and Murray Gell-Mann, and among their mentors Edward Teller and Hans Bethe. They’ve inherited a mission from the Manhattan Project-to counsel the government on the military uses of pure science-and have gathered every summer since... (more)

Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors

Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors

by Andrea Quynhgiao Nguyen

When author Andrea Nguyen's family was airlifted out of Saigon in 1975, one of the few belongings that her mother hurriedly packed for the journey was her small orange notebook of recipes. Thirty years later, Nguyen has written her own intimate collection of recipes, INTO THE VIETNAMESE KITCHEN, an ambitious debut cookbook that chronicles the food traditions of her native country. Robustly flavored yet... (more)

Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming

Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming

by Jonathan Shay

In his acclaimed book Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay used the Iliad as a prism through which to examine how ancient and modern wars have battered the psychology of the men who fight. Now he turns his attention to the Odyssey, Homer's classic story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the real problems faced by combat veterans reentering civilian society. Drawing on his years of experience working... (more)

A Country Such as This

by James Webb

The innocence the 1950s and turbulence of the 1960s and 70s--years when America reached out and touched the heavens, only to be torn apart by internal conflict and a war in Southeast Asia--provide a dramatic setting for this unforgettable story of three men and the women they love carving a place for themselves in a society where the rules keep changing. Written by bestselling novelist James Webb, it has been... (more)

Life Without Water

by Nancy Peacock

This is the kind of book that you read, love and then give to a friend saying, "You have to read this... In a powerful and acute debut, highly acclaimed author Nancy Peacock gives us a young narrator who is both knowing and innocent, trusting and fearful: a girl named Cedar, who reflects on her childhood in the wake of the Vietnam war. As she and her young mother Sara both come of age, Cedar explores the intense... (more)

Sappers in the Wire

by Keith William Nolan

An account of the costly 1971 surprise attack on Firebase Mary Ann draws on declassified documents and interviews with more than fifty veterans of the 1st Battalion of the 46th Infantry. Reprint.

Little Saigon

by T. Jefferson Parker

In the aftermath of the war in Vietnam, thousands of desperate refugees fled the killing fields for new lives in Southern California. But for those who settled in "Little Saigon," the war never really ended. The latest victim of the continuing struggle is Li Frye, a popular singer whose songs of hope and home have made her a heroine to her people. Ripped from the stage by masked gunmen, she has vanished into the... (more)

DAK TO: AMERICA'S SKY SOLDIERS IN SOUTH VIETNAM'S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS

DAK TO: AMERICA'S SKY SOLDIERS IN SOUTH VIETNAM'S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS

by Edward F. Murphy

For one of Vietnam's bloodiest battles, America brought out its best. Their officers and senior noncoms were drawn from the U.S. Army's elite. They were an all-volunteer paratrooper unit, General William Westmoreland's "fire brigade," dropped from the air wherever the fighting was heaviest. They were the "Sky Soldiers," men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. And during the five months from June to November, 1967,... (more)

Rain of Fire: Air War, 1968-1975 (Vietnam Experience)John Morrocco

Rain of Fire: Air War, 1968-1975 (Vietnam Experience)

by John Morrocco

A Life in a Year: The American Infantryman in Vietnam

A Life in a Year: The American Infantryman in Vietnam

by James R. Ebert

Finally, a book that focuses completely on the life of the "grunt" (Army and Marine riflemen) in Vietnam--from I Corps in the north to IV Corps in the south, and from the early days of 1965 to the days of retreat in 1972. Booklist "Editor's Choice." Photos.

The Soldiers Story, Vietnam In their own wordsRon Steinman

The Soldiers Story, Vietnam In their own words

by Ron Steinman

Their stories are as dangerous as the battles they fought, stunning, plain-spoken recollections that reveal the terror of combat and the perils of a far off war and the folly of government policy.

Fast Movers: America's Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience

Fast Movers: America's Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience

by John Darrell Sherwood

Men of Iron, Birds of Steel The story of the air war in Vietnam is really the story of the jet pilots, the "fast movers" who took on hostile MiGs and surface-to-air missiles to carry the war to the enemy. In this book, author John Sherwood, official historian at the U.S. Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C., draws on more than 300 revealing interviews with these courageous pilots and their crews, offering... (more)

The Art of Southeast Asia: Cambodia Vietnam Thailand Laos Burma Java Bali (World of Art)

The Art of Southeast Asia: Cambodia Vietnam Thailand Laos Burma Java Bali (World of Art)

by Philip S. Rawson

Briefly discusses the history of styles of painting, sculpture, and architecture in the countries of Southeast Asia.

The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

by Kien Nguyen

Kien Nguyen grew up an outsider in his native land. His once prosperous family, thrust into poverty at the dawn of a new political regime, lived among neighbors who treated them as an unwelcome remnant of the colonialist past. Kien himself, a child of mixed race (his father was American), was among the most unwanted. Told with a stark, poetic brilliance, Kien's account of his early years-from the fall of... (more)

After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese (Kodansha Globe)

After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese (Kodansha Globe)

by Lady Borton

A RARE CLOMPSE INTO THE SOUL OF VIT NAM In her deeply moving memoir of Viet Nam, Lady Borton presents the "American war" from the view of the courageous peasants on the ground, underneath the B-52's and Agent Orange-stripped trees. Their extraordinary stories are of a kind we have not heard before: stories of women who smuggled weapons under vats of fish sauce, concocted camouflage from banana leaves, dug... (more)

A Sarong in My Backpack

by Ayun Halliday

Ayun Halliday explores the hi-octane underbelly of the low-budget backpacker lifestyle From drug-induced Apocalypse Now re-enactments in Vietnam, trouble in the red light district in Amsterdam to an unexpected encounter on a camel in Pushkar, Ayun offers an armchair portal on the experience of the shoestring traveller. With a knack for inserting herself in to bizarre situations around the globe, Ayun shares the... (more)

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