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This work depicts the heroic young men of Alpha Company as they carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they...
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Called to investigate when a dead Vietnamese girl is found along a Wyoming highway, Longmire and his deputies have little to go on. Near the crime scene, however, Longmire discovers Virgil White Buffalo, a homeless Indian and Vietnam vet who happens to have the girl's purse. Longmire retrieves a photograph from the purse--a photo that reminds him of his first investigation as a Marine detective in Vietnam. He's sure that the two crimes--separated...
3) Finding Moon
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Tony Hillerman's bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled...
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Billy Bob Holland novels volume 4
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After moving his family west to Montana, Billy Bob Holland, the former Texas Ranger, hung out a shingle for his law practice. But he soon discovers that jail cells have revolving doors and that the government he had sworn to serve may have become his enemy
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1983.
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A chronological narrative by award-winning Associated Press reporter George Esper sets the stage. From the first combat death to the fall of Saigon in 1975 -- the voices of the fighting men are brought to the forefront through personal letters, diaries, tapes, and interviews
10) Up Country
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Paul Brenner novels volume 2
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That DeMille has written a sequel to The General's Daughter comes as no surprise; after all, that's arguably his best-known novel because of the hit film version starring John Travolta. Nor is it surprising that he's set this sequel in Vietnam; returning hero Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, Ret., served two stints there during the war, and DeMille himself not only saw action in Nam but returned in 1997 for an extended visit. What is curious, and...
11) Vietnam diary
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[c1963]
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The first definitive eyewitness account of the combat in Vietnam, this unforgettable, vividly illustrated report records the story of the 14,000 Americans fighting in a new kind of war. Written by one of the most knowledgeable and experienced of America's war correspondents, Vietnam Diary shows how we developed new techniques for resisting wily guerrilla forces. Roaming the whole of war-torn Vietnam, Tregaskis takes his readers on the tense U.S. missions-with...
13) The intruders
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Jake Grafton novels volume 6
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Lieutenant Jake Grafton, the hero of Flight of the Intruder, turns teacher, training Marine aviators on the aircraft carrier, Columbia, and finding them a little too arrogant for his liking. The highlight of the novel comes when Grafton is shot down and captured by pirates.
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[2019]
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"Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at age thirty-seven, with...
15) Northern Lights
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A Vietnam veteran and his brother vie for the same girl, a native of their dwindling Minnesota hometown. They take a disastrous road trip with the men skiing home through the wilderness.
17) Little Saigon
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aChuck Frye discovers betrayal and a trans-Pacific espionage network in Little Saigon, a teeming refugee community in Orange County, California.
19) A Different Pond
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"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--