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They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967

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)

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)

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)

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. Reissue.

Into the DMZ: A Battle History of Operation Hickory, May 1967, Vietnam

Into the DMZ: A Battle History of Operation Hickory, May 1967, Vietnam

by Mark A. Cauble

Into The DMZ tells the little-known story of one of the most intense battles of the Vietnam War. It is an account of the courage and endurance of men in combat. The author introduces and concludes this book by examining the battle in context of the Vietna

FIRE IN THE LAKE : The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (LIBRARY OF PULITZER PRIZE CLASSICS)

FIRE IN THE LAKE : The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (LIBRARY OF PULITZER PRIZE CLASSICS)

by Frances Fitzgerald

This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald's own research and travels, takes us inside Vietnam-into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks -and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. With a clarity and authority unrivaled by any book before it or since,... (more)

Frost/Nixon

Behind the Scenes of The Nixon Interview

by David Frost, Robert Zelnick

Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play, Frost/Nixon tells the extraordinary story of how Sir David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career -- and how the series drew larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world.This is Frost's absorbing story of his pursuit of Richard Nixon, and is no less... (more)

Dog Soldiers

by Robert Stone

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and... (more)

Gongs in the night;: Reaching the tribes of French Indo-China,

Gongs in the night;: Reaching the tribes of French Indo-China,

by Mrs. Gordon H. Smith

And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir

by Joan Baez

Folk music legend Joan Baez's disarmingly frank, moving, and warmly funny memoir of her loves, beliefs, and music.

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

by Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain that includes two subsequently... (more)

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler finds it hard to stand and watch.

The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the... (more)

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

by Mitch Albom

A specially produced paperback edition -- with flaps -- of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying... (more)

Sideshow, Revised Edition: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia

Sideshow, Revised Edition: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia

by William Shawcross

In Sideshow, journalist Shawcross presents the first full-scale investigation of the secret and illegal war the United States fought with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973, paving the way for the Khmer Rouge massacres of the mid-70s.

Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965

Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965

by Lyndon B. Johnson

Transcribing, editing, and explaining the most powerful moments from hundreds of hours of newly released LBJ tapes, Michael Beschloss has added another lasting treasure to the American historical record. Reaching for Glory exposes the inner workings of the Johnson presidency from the summer of 1964 through the summer of 1965. From behind the scenes, you will hear Johnson pulling the strings of his presidential... (more)

All Souls' Day

by Bill Morris

A scaldingly hotJanuary day in 1963 is the happiest of Sam Malloy's life, as he watches a mint condition, pink and black 1954 Buick Century being lowered onto the Klong Toey dock in Bangkok, Thailand. The historic 500,000th Buick manufactured in 1954, this is the last of seven originally purchased by Sam's father and six of his neighbors in Levittown, Long Island. Sam has already acquired the other half dozen. And... (more)