The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam, Paperback - Dana Sachs

In April 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, the U.S. government launched "Operation Babylift, " a highly publicized plan to evacuate nearly thre...

Reducere. This is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering s...

Reducere. In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great una...

Reducere. Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The ...

Reducere. In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and sea...

Reducere. Gunbird Driver is a memoir of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E in Marine Observation Squadron 6. Par...

Reducere. Bright Light is the true story of the author's training as a green beret medical specialist and his service with the top secret MACV SOG. The book ...

There is so much more to the Vietnam War than just the war itself. The Vietnam War was a complicated mixture of events and characters that eventual...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lien-Hang T. NguyenWhile most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanizatio...

Reducere. In January 1966, navy nurse Lieutenant Kay Bauer stepped off a pan am airliner into the stifling heat of Saigon and was issued a camouflage uniform...

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...

Donut Dolly puts you in the Vietnam War face down in the dirt under a sniper attack, inside a helicopter being struck by lightning, at dinner next ...

The Vietnam War was a significant historical event that has had profound implications for international law and state actions. This book brings tog...

Operation Vengeance is colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a breakneck pace. I loved it. -Lynn VincentThe New York Times bestsell...

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. 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'."...

Designed as a practical resource for Christian families and churches, the book empowers and inspires Christians to reform international adoption an...

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influ...

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

Reducere. Two families, open to love--exploring and explaining adoption at birth Leap into a warm-hearted tale about a little squirrel who was adopted at bir...

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

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 ...

DescriptionThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thous...

The inspirational story of how the most injured soldier from the Afghanistan conflict defied all odds by surviving, talking and walking again, and ...

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...

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. 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. On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco ag...

DescriptionWhat was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history -- the Vietnam War? Shooting Vietnam takes...

Preachers Present Arms is the result of many years of research in libraries, religious periodicals (including many obscure ones), newspaper clippin...

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...

Never before published photos of the Vietnam War. Intense, first-hand accounts of combat.

Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far lar...

Twenty-six full-page fun drawings for your child to color that gently reinforce the importance of family, love, permanence and inclusion - in adopt...