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81) Cowboy: The Interpreter Who Became a Soldier, a Warlord, and One More Casualty of Our War in Vietnam
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Cowboy was handsome, flamboyant, courageous, clever, and cruel. He got his nickname from the Green Berets who worked with him in the Highlands of South Vietnam in the 1960s. "You've got to take the bad with the good," one Special Forces captain explained. "And Cowboy is a good interpreter." But he soon fired the interpreter because prisoners did not fare well when Cowboy was around.And in the end, Cowboy was murdered by his own side, the Montagnard...
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Approximately 80% of those who bore the brunt of combat in Vietnam, young, non-career men in the Army and Marines, were from working class or impoverished backgrounds. To get at their stories, Appy interviewed about 100 Vietnam veterans, mostly in veteran 'rap group' weekly meetings, from a variety of backgrounds (volunteers and draftees, right wing and left wing).
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Born August 1944, shortly before the end of WWII, Jerry was always, fascinated by rumors of peace and prosperity. Unfortunately, he had siblings and cousins that constantly cracked him on the head and stole his allowance. He entered elementary school (called grade school in the old days) and soon found many friends, that also, cracked him on the head and stole his money. He led a life of poverty so severe he couldn't even afford, a camera to take...
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This is my story as an American Indian leaving the reservation, enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1967 and going to war in Vietnam as so many other American Indians did. The Indians came from all the nations. We enlisted to become warriors like so many of our ancestors. As a young Indian boy who had never left the reservation before. I saw many similarities to my home, in this strange and beautiful country in the trees, the creeks, and the rivers. These...
86) A Long Way Home
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When Ben lands in Oakland, California, after one year in the Vietnam War, he decides to take a slow journey across America to ease back into "the world." Joining another Vietnam vet, the pair leave California in an old bread truck headed for Boston. Along the way, they reflect on episodes that occurred in Vietnam, help some stranded students, attend anti-war rallies, meet other veterans of the war, and, ultimately, must deal with the sad consequences...
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The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America's worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame--from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam's surrender on 30 April 1975--has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing...
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Ashen Skies of Vietnam begins in 1965, early in the Vietnam War. Capt. Clay Evans is an Air Force pilot with ten years of loyal service. His squadron has transferred from its stateside base to Saigon for a one-year tour of duty, the culmination of many long deployments that destroyed his marriage. His adversary is the war and, in a related way, his superior, Major Frick. Clay and his close-knit crew fly the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, a multi-purpose,...
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Based on official U.S. Army records, these eyewitness chronicles of seven horrific battles offer an unparalleled glimpse of the day-to-day reality of the Vietnam conflict. From a fierce fight on the banks of the Ia Drang River in November 1965 to a May '68 gunship mission, these highly charged reports convey the heroism and horror of modern warfare. Each of these compelling narratives reflects events that took place throughout Vietnam after American...
91) God's Love
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Ruth E. Sheets, author of From Darkness to Light, presents God's Love. This novel portrays the pain and tragedy that occurs to military persons and their families due to war.
Ruth is a registered nurse and has worked with the physically and mentally afflicted. She is a minister and has assisted in prison ministry.
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THE FIRST TUNNEL RATS. This is the thrilling, hilarious and inspiring true story of a ragtag band of Aussie Army Engineers who redefined the word heroes ... and reinvented larrikin too. Among the first Australians to fight in Vietnam, they faced death every day defusing Viet Cong booby traps-then partied all night in a casino they'd built in secret. They led hundreds of American troops to safety, but fought US military police to a standstill in the...
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The popular conception of the Vietnam War focuses on the ground war-the soldiers and grunts who humped along jungle trails and fought the Vietcong face to face-but an important part of the war was waged in the skies over Southeast Asia, and indeed many of the war's most well-known figures were pilots, from John McCain and James Stockdale to the unknown men who unleashed napalm hell and who carried out Curtis LeMay's "bomb them into the Stone Age"...
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Here is the triumphant sequel to Robert Mason's bestselling account of his service as a chopper pilot in Vietnam. Chickenawk: Back in the World is a moving, no-holds-barred post-Vietnam memoir that reveals the war's shattering legacy in the heart and mind of a returning vet. When Robert Mason's first book was published in 1983, it was hailed as one of the finest personal evocations of Vietnam ever to appear in print. In fact, Chickenhawk is still...
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This is the first time that those in direct command of Delta Company have shared their memories of the most significant battle fought by Australians in Vietnam, the Battle of Long Tan. They describe the experiences that brought them to Vietnam, and how Company commander Harry Smith drove Delta Company to become one of the most outstanding units in the Australian forces.
Each platoon played a crucial role in Delta Company's survival. The artillery's...
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Behind-enemy-lines stories of elite Marines in Vietnam
Force Recon companies were the eyes and ears of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Classified as special operations capable, Force Recon Marines ventured into the enemy's backyard to conduct reconnaissance and launched deliberate strikes against the enemy. Lanning and Stubbe blend analysis and you-are-there stories of Force Recon in action to create the definitive account of Recon Marines.
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Explora la Fascinante Historia de la Guerra de Vietnam
La Guerra de Vietnam representó un hito no solo en la historia estadounidense y vietnamita, sino también a nivel internacional. No fue solo una batalla entre dos naciones, sino entre dos ideologías, dos estrategias militares y una lucha por los corazones y las mentes de dos poblaciones nacionales muy diferentes.
Pocos conflictos en la historia global simbolizan tanto como Vietnam. Desde la...
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In 1967, John Strunk is a newly minted 19-year-old Marine with a 10th grade education, little self-esteem, and no particular understanding of what he is doing in Vietnam. His memoir is an unvarnished account of his personal experiences as part of a Marine Regiment, which over several months repeatedly clashed, buckle-to-buckle, with the 2nd North Vietnam Army 2nd Division, neither side willing to give up control of the strategic valley, no matter...
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