Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War, Paperback - James E. Westheider

DescriptionThe racial tensions that have long plagued American society exist to a much lesser extent in the military where the bond of common pursu...

Reducere. The book you are holding is different than most military histories. It offers a fascinating variety of stories that go beyond the battlefields into...

DescriptionDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaign...

Reducere. DescriptionMost Dangerous is the award-winning nonfiction account of an ordinary man who wielded the most dangerous weapon: the truth. In 1964, Dan...

Reducere. George D. Aiken, a hillside farmer and a liberal Republican Depression-era Governor, rose to national prominence as a leading GOP U. S. Senator and...

Reducere. Harry Truman's administration began searching for an American response to the clash in Indochina between Frech colonialism and Vietminh communism i...

Reducere. Widely acclaimed as the Vietnam War's most highly decorated soldier, Joe Ronnie Hooper in many ways serves as a symbol for that conflict. His troub...

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. DescriptionLearn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was a...

Part of the }Short History{ series, this provides a concise and accessible history of one of the most important conflicts of the 20th century. Comp...

Reducere. From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only...

Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and Nort...

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 ...

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

At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) was equipped with slow, old Korean War-generation fighters--a combina...

Over 40 vivid, eyewitness accounts of the defining conflict of the second half of the twentieth century

Reducere. "Into The Dragon's Jaws" details the exciting adventures and experiences of a young Canadian Red Cross combat casualty surgeon who volunteered to a...

Reducere. Vance Gammons was the Company Commander of the 335th Assault Helicopter Company in an era like no other: the Vietnam War. At the time, none of the ...

Reducere. Among the best books ever written about men in combat, "The Killing Zone" tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant ...

Reducere. An account of the over 450 combat missions flown by the author in the Vietnam War. The author is a highly decorated fighter pilot having been award...

This book follows the historical trajectory of African Americans and their relationship with the Mississippi River dating back to the 1700s and end...

The history of a Tank Destroyer Battalion with an excellent combat record and the place of segregated tank destroyer battalions within the armed fo...

After 50 years of keeping the tormenting memories of the Vietnam War at bay, Robert W. Smith unveils the horrific experiences he lives with daily. ...

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...

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 ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Peter E. DaviesIllustration(s): 20 b/w; 90 colNumber of pages: 96Collection: Combat AircraftPublicat...

Reducere. American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlef...

A diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. It sho...

Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.S. naval strategy in 1967-1968 saw young men fresh out of high school policing the canals and tributaries...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is one of the very best anthologies of poetry to come out of the Vietnam War. The poets here have given their experiences an energy...

President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked...

Publisher: Citadel Press Inc., U.S.Author(s): Michael L. LanningNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 28Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many Af...

Reducere. In 1927, the Chicago Art Institute presented the first major museum exhibition of art by African Americans. Designed to demonstrate the artists' ab...

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 ...

Reducere. Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the t...

Reducere. A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural tra...

Reducere. For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'."...

DescriptionIn his provocative new book, BlackonomicS: The Way To Psychological and Economic Freedom For African Americans, James Clingman disputes ...

The only in-depth study of the relationship between the Union Navy and African Americans during the Civil War.Publisher: The University Press of Ke...

Reducere. African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segr...

DescriptionI published my original "Tales of Ramasun" in February 2012 and moved on to other things like "Mixed Foursome: The Zach Roper Mysteries"...

Reducere. Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the Sout...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...

Reducere. By now the world knows well the exploits of World War II admirals Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and "Bull" Halsey. These brilliant strategists and c...

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade...

To generate African American support for World War II, the government turned to mass media. Kathleen German delves into the dilemma of race and the...

Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem--African American activists promote...