Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story, Paperback - John Laurence

Reducere. John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from its early days, through the bloody battle of Hue in 1968, to the Cambodian invasion. He was...

DescriptionVietnam War marked a tragic period in U.S. history.High-interest topics, real stories, engaging design and astonishing photos are the bu...

Reducere. The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968, ``an instantly recognizable classic of mil...

Reducere. Paper is a scout dog with the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles". Gravely wounded in a Viet Cong ambush, his leg has been badly shattered by a high ...

Reducere. Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely asso...

The Vietnam War: A History in Documents - Marilyn B. Young, John J. Fitzgerald, A. Tom Grunfeld

Reducere. At the height of the Vietnam war, the U.S. Army drafted Norman Hile out of law school, trained him to be an artillery officer, and in August 1970 s...

Reducere. At the height of the Vietnam war, the U.S. Army drafted Norman Hile out of law school, trained him to be an artillery officer, and in August 1970 s...

The only ant with his own name, Douglas is born into the wonderful Antworld and dreams of one day joining the line to hunt out food. to be read wit...

Reducere. A Memoir: A innocent 18 year old leaves home to join the military during a time of war. He leaves because he can no longer live with the religious ...

Reducere. It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We w...

Reducere. It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We w...

Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to atten...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Michael H. HuntAn essential new resource for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this concise collection of primary s...

Reducere. Sam Walker pulls no punches when he tells his Vietnam War story to college journalism student, Claire Cunningham. As Sam shares his unapologetic an...

Reducere. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, eighty-thousand North Vietnamese and Vietcong combat troops attacked every major city and military base in ...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Mary FarrellIllustration(s): 50 black-and-white and color photographsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. CADILLAC PLATOON is a story of the contrasts, contradictions, and tensions of the late 1960s. Written by a decorated Vietnam veteran, it is a compl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrea PinkneyEach of us has a silent thunder a quiet desire that rumbles from deep-down. For eleven-year-old Summer and he...

Everyone knows the end, but do you know the beginning? It was the war before the war. A time when America needed allies in Southeast Asia to defeat...

Reducere. War is hell so is peace tells one man's story of the realities of a Vietnam veteran's road to peace. Learn how ourVietnam veterans trullcy desire t...

Reducere. Based on Historical Events...How far would America go to stop the communists?French Indochina, 1945 - 1951. After several victories, the French Arm...

DescriptionThis is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans. The year is 1964--early days in South Vietnam-...

DescriptionAmid the twists and turns of her survival to this day, the story of the light cruiser HMS Caroline spans a century and more. This book f...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1967, at age nineteen, John Stillman-refusing to wait for the draft-voluntarily enlisted in the Army to aid his fellow countrymen in ...

Reducere. Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl--a vet...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Malcolm McConnellOn the night of November 9, 1967, Sijan was ejected from his crippled fighter-bomber over the steep mounta...

Ernest C. Brace was a former Marine hero, banished in disgrace from the Corps. In 1965, while working as a civilian pilot in Laos, he was captured ...

In Vol. 2 there are astonishing photos on par with Vol. 1. Besides 165 images, there are search aids for locating former in-country Army helicopter...

"Assesses the lessons learned from this war, and how these lessons have affected American national security policy since"--

Publisher: Vintage CanadaAuthor(s): John BoykoIllustration(s): B&W ON TEXT STOCKNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 211 x 2...

Reducere. What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question--and the answer was a heavy one. In...

DescriptionVery few of the many books about the Vietnam War fully address why the fighting was conducted in such a cruel manner, why it was prolong...

Gripping account of heroism in the face of near certain disaster. Includes first person accounts from the sailors aboard the Marblehead. Written by...

What were the catalysts that motivated Mexican American youth to enlist or readily accept their draft notices in World War II, Korea, or Vietnam? I...

Reducere. IndieFab awardsIn the middle of a dark night off the coast of Vietnam on June 3, 1969, the USS Frank E. Evans is rammed by a ship ten times her siz...

Reducere. Robert M. Givens grew up in the Midwest, graduating in 1966 from Millikin University in his hometown of Decatur, Illinois, and from Indiana Univers...

Reducere. Michael Walsh had enlisted in the Army when he was sixteen years old. He departed shortly after turning seventeen. About a week after turning eight...

Learn about leading figures, important events, interesting facts, and the driving forces that led to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Test your...

Reducere. Explore the Cold War and Get a Deeper Understanding of the Korean and Vietnam WarTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: Korean War: A Captivating...

Reducere. Even the Women Must Fight ""Karen Turner and Phan Thanh Hao have brought scholarship and compassion to a long-neglected aspect of the Vietnam War--...

Explore the Captivating History of the Vietnam War!The Vietnam War represented a watershed not only in American and Vietnamese history but also int...

"Tony Hirashiki was simply one of the best television cameramen to cover the Vietnam War. His soaring video, often acquired only at great personal ...

DescriptionPreserved today as a museum in her namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and w...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sergio MillerIllustration(s): 32-page black and white plate sectionNumber of pages: 528Publication d...

In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionNorman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in milita...