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The Beauty of Humanity Movement
by Camilla Gibb
Set in contemporary Vietnam, this is the story of a country undergoing momentous change and the story of how family is defined — not always by bloodlines but by the heart. Tu' is a young tour guide working in Hanoi for a company called New Dawn. While he leads tourists through the city, including American vets on "war tours," he starts to wonder what it is they are seeing of Vietnam —and what they miss entirely.... (more)
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Villa Incognito
by Tom Robbins
Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of a novel that only Tom Robbins could create—a magically crafted work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. But no matter how hard you... (more)
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They Marched Into Sunlight
War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
by David Maraniss
Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967. They Marched Into Sunlight brings that tumultuous time back to life while exploring questions about the meaning of dissent and the official manipulation of truth, issues as relevant today as they were decades ago. In a seamless narrative, Maraniss weaves together the... (more)
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K.I.A. (Army C.I.L. Novels)
by Thomas D. Holland
The Pentagon brass make the designations: AWOL. MIA. KIA. Every soldier with a designation, and no man left behind. And Dr. Kel McKelvey is the man to bring those soldiers home -- from battlefields around the world. When a soldier's remains are found in the Catholic cemetery of Thanh Lay Hamlet outside of the rechristened Ho Chi Minh City, a reluctant Vietnamese government agrees to the repatriation of the body... (more)
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A Rumor of War
by Philip Caputo
When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man’s experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully to today’s students about the larger themes of human conscience, good and evil, and the desperate... (more)
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Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey
by GB Tran
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But even as they... (more)
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Who shot the water buffalo? : a novel
by Ken Babbs
Ken Babbs, famously a Merry Prankster and the best friend and working partner of Ken Kesey, has at last finished his first novel - and the wait was worth it. Lieutenant Tom Huckelbee, leathery as any Texican come crawling out of the sage, and Lieutenant Mike Cochran, loquacious son of an Ohio gangster, make an unlikely pair training to be Marine chopper pilots on their way to Vietnam. The dynamic takes the reader... (more)
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Summer's End
by Audrey Couloumbis
The summer Grace turns thirteen is when everything changes. The Vietnam War is raging, and Grace’s brother, Collin, is drafted. But Collin decides to take a stand and burn his draft card, igniting a war within the family. Grace suddenly finds herself bewildered and angry, thrust into a turbulent political climate. The war is everywhere, and Grace quickly learns that she cannot escape it, no matter how hard... (more)
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Altamont Augie
by Richard Barager
A NATION'S HONOR ... A GENERATION'S POLITICAL SOUL ... LOVE and WAR in the AGE of AQUARIUS A startlingly vivid portrayal of one of the most colorful and turbulent periods in recent American history: the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of two ill-fated college lovers at odds over Vietnam. Their story and the story of their generation spill onto a tableau of some of the era's most iconic settings: the... (more)
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Eleven Bravo (LRRP Rangers Vietnam)
by RW Holmen
A short story of Viet Nam."Eleven Bravo", the opening short story in a series entitled "LRRP Rangers Vietnam", was released on April 6, 2011. The title refers to the Army's 11B designation for the combat infantryman. After a brief scene in Tiger Village of Fort Polk, Louisiana (the primary training center for Vietnam-bound infantry), the story opens as a young soldier arrives in Vietnam while Neil... (more)
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White Lion
by Walter Williams
From an innocent country boy to the jungles of Viet Nam and Africa. A life filled with adventure, danger and death. The emotional rollercoaster of being a soldier doing his job to perhaps crossing the line. The struggle from within to justify his lifestyle to the pulpit of an evangelist. A story of one mans climb from hell to a life much different and his struggle to keep his past life in the past.
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The Dogs of War: The Courage, Love, and Loyalty of Military Working Dogs
by Lisa Rogak
Military working dogs gained widespread attention after one participated in the SEAL Team Six mission that led to Osama bin Laden’s death. Before that, few civilians realized we had dogs serving in combat, let alone that they could parachute from up to 30,000 feet. And as astounding as that is, it’s only one of the many things our four-legged soldiers can do. In this book, Lisa Rogak shows the amazing range of... (more)
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Prowl
LRRP Rangers Vietnam Vols 1-5
by RW Holmen
A series of short stories about the Vietnam War. This is a compilation of volumes 1-5 of LRRP Rangers Vietnam that were previously released separately as "Eleven Bravo", "Here Comes Charlie", "Cat Quiet", "Chasing After Wind", and "Elijah Fire". The LRRPs of Vietnam (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol) were the cavalry scouts of their war, traveling by helicopter rather than mustangs into remote and unfriendly... (more)
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Vietnam
A History
by Stanley Karnow
Provides a comprehensive look at both sides of the Vietnam War through a collection of personal tales and delves into the political and military events in the United States and elsewhere that originally caused the war and the brought it to an end. Reprint. TV tie-in."
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Harry Bosch: Book 1
The Black Echo
by Michael Connelly
Joined with a seductive FBI agent and pitted against enemies in his own department, Detective Harry Bosch must choose between justice and vengeance, as he tracks a killer whose true face will shock him.
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by Michael R. Beschloss (Author)Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965 (Hardcover)
by Michael R. Beschloss (Author)
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Deathmate
by Martin Caidin
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A Bright Shining LieNeil Sheehan
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A Bright Shining Lie
by Neil Sheehan
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A Piece of My Heart
The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam
by Keith Walker
"Records the memories of a war in the words of those women courageous enough to walk into hell." --San Francisco Chronicle
Firefight on Vietnam Brown WaterLynn Salsi
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Firefight on Vietnam Brown Water
by Lynn Salsi