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2) The women
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Language
English
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"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps...
Author
Language
English
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A couple brought together and torn apart by the Vietnam War find each other again in California in this saga by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Casey Adams, a dedicated nurse, loses her heart overseas to idealistic officer Mac Carlin, heir to an immense fortune. Then tragedy strikes . . .
Believing that Casey has died in an explosion, Mac returns grief-stricken to San Francisco to a life he never...
Casey Adams, a dedicated nurse, loses her heart overseas to idealistic officer Mac Carlin, heir to an immense fortune. Then tragedy strikes . . .
Believing that Casey has died in an explosion, Mac returns grief-stricken to San Francisco to a life he never...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần̂n Diệu 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 Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (355 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A soldier travels upriver from Vietnam into Cambodia to kill a colonel who has gone mad and is planning unauthorized attacks by his native troops. Features both the original cut and the Redux version.
8) Absolution
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award"--
10) Fallen angels
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Author
Language
English
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With her soldier husband MIA, a dedicated wife and mother learns to adjust in this novel by the bestselling author of Seasons of Her Life.
Sometimes life is handed to you. Sometimes it's taken away without warning. For Kate Starr, her life is now about moving forward, not knowing if her husband has been killed in his tour of duty in Vietnam. Suddenly Kate must raise their two daughters by herself and struggle with the U.S....
Sometimes life is handed to you. Sometimes it's taken away without warning. For Kate Starr, her life is now about moving forward, not knowing if her husband has been killed in his tour of duty in Vietnam. Suddenly Kate must raise their two daughters by herself and struggle with the U.S....
12) The last hunter
Publisher
Code Red
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the grisly suicide of his shellshocked friend, Captain Harry Morris accepts one final mission: to go behind enemy lines and destroy a Viet Cong radio tower broadcasting anti-American propaganda to US troops.
13) The deer hunter
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (184 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends, whose lives are irrevocably changed by a tour of duty in Vietnam. The film is renowned for the Russian roulette scenes.
14) Love and honor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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When young soldier Dalton Joiner finds out that his girlfriend Jane back home has dumped him, he vows to sneak out of Vietnam during his one-week leave to win her back. His best friend Mickey Wright will do anything to help his buddy out, as long as there might be a few girls along the way. In just seven days they must get to the States, change Jane's mind and make it back to the war without getting caught.
"Everybody learns something about the illusion...
15) Sweet Sunday
Author
Language
English
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Description
1969 is a time of turmoil and murder for a New York PI in this “twisty, sometimes terrifying” novel from the author of the acclaimed Inspector Troy Novels (Kirkus Reviews).
New York PI Turner Raines is a has-been—and the things he has been include a broken civil rights worker, a second-rate lawyer, and a tenth-rate yippie reporter. But in 1969, as the USA is about to land a man on the...
New York PI Turner Raines is a has-been—and the things he has been include a broken civil rights worker, a second-rate lawyer, and a tenth-rate yippie reporter. But in 1969, as the USA is about to land a man on the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Author
Publisher
Yorkshire Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvi, 395 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a story of the Vietnam War and four young Marines. It's about fighting and killing. Compassion and love, however, are defining parts of the story. The story personalizes what war does to those who fight it and what they do to survive it. Enduring and caring relationships forged in combat are as much a part of their survival, maybe more, as their combat skills. While the book is fiction, the majority is based on actual battles and personal...
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English
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A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has
19) Patrol
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24x29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A frightened American soldier faces combat in the lush forests of Vietnam.
20) Chase
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (approximately 240 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society is sick, the mad are sane and persecution is a killer's game.
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