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"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit"-- Provided by publisher.
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1983
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The Vietnam Experience, Volume 7 - Richard Milhous Nixon, elected to office on November 5, claiming to have a "secret plan to end the war," knew that his political future could hinge on preventing Johnson's war from becoming Nixon's war. Developments In Southeast Asia, however, seened to belie the the president. They indicated not just more fighting but a widened battle into Cambodia.
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"The multigenerational tale of the Tr© ||n family, set against the backdrop of the Vi|̀|t Nam War. Tr© ||n Di|̀|u 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 H© N|̀|i, her young granddaughter, H¡ʻ¡Łng, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the H|̀| Ch©Ư Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will...
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1986
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The Vietnam Experience, Volume17 - Some of the most vivid reflections of Vietnam came in the remarkable stream of books written by those who fought in or observed the war at close hand. One of those writers is Robert Stone. He covered the combat in 1971. Mr. Stone was invited to write the text for this volume, adding his powerful word images to the portfolio of photographs selected by our picture editors and researchers. Together, they assemble many...
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In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently declassified documents and in-depth interviews, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin tell the remarkable drama that unfolded over the final, heroic hours of the Vietnam War. This closing chapter of the war would become the largest-scale evacuation ever carried out, as improvised by a small unit of Marines, a vast fleet of helicopter pilots flying nonstop missions beyond regulation, and a...
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This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald's own research and travels in Southeast Asia in the era of the Vietnam War, 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 if through Vietnamese eyes. With clarity and authority, Fire in the lake shows how America...
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©1987
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The Vietnam Experience, Volume 22 - The history and experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam, discussing in particular the 1st, 4th, 9th, 23rd, and 25th Infantry Divisions; the 173rd Airborne Brigade; the 199th Infantry Brigade; and the 11th Armored Cavalry
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