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221) The Green Berets
Series
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
222) Forrest Gump
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Forrest, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him. Six Academy Awards Including Best Picture; ABC News & People's Greatest Film Character.
223) On blood road
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
January, 1968. When Taylor Sorenson's mother drags him to Saigon to visit his dad-- who's stationed at the US embassy-- Taylor is bored out of his skull. During an embassy dinner the rebellious teen sneaks out to see the Tet celebrations in the city, and is captured by the North Vietnamese Army. Realizing he could be an important bargaining chip, the NVA want to move Taylor to the North. The only way there is the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a series of dangerous...
224) War & watermelon
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As the summer of 1969 turns to fall in their New Jersey town, twelve-year-old Brody plays football in his first year at junior high while his older brother's protest of the war in Vietnam causes tension with their father.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Alisak, Prany, and Noi--three orphans united by devastating loss - must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky....
Author
Series
CMH pub volume 70-23
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
An influential Army leader records his views of recent Army history with particular emphasis on the war in Vietnam and the Steadfast reorganization.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain...
229) Skins: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Fed up with the crime, alcoholism and drugs all round him, an Indian policeman turns avenger. The protagonist is Rudy Yellow Shirt, a Sioux, and the setting is the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota where Crazy Horse, "the last free Indian" fought and died. By the author of Vortex of Indian Fevers.
230) Spider Bones
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Originally published: New York : Scribner, 2010. Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan investigates the death of a man who appears to have died while engaged in a bizarre sexual act and who was originally declared dead four decades earlier.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Delta Force: When a US passenger place is seized by vicious hijackers and taken to Beirut, the President calls in the Delta Force - a crack team of commando's - who rescue the hostages. Invasion USA: A ragtime army of terrorist mercenaries led by Soviet agent Rostov catches America unprepared and makes her a war zone from sea to shining sea. Only one man can stem the rising tide of violence and free the American people from the tyranny of the streets...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Flowers is only in his late thirties, but he's been around the block a few times, and he doesn't think much can surprise him anymore. He's wrong. It's a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if your're keeping count) when the phone rings. It's Lucas Davenport. There's a body in Stillwater, two shots to the head, found near a veterans' memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth....
233) Big bad love
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Leon is a Vietnam veteran who is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol. Yet even when Leon manages to catch up on alimony and child support payments, things in his life seem to decline further, until a sudden tragedy catches him off guard.
234) Vietnam in HD
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the men who came home from the Vietnam War and tried to forget. The men who represent a second silent generation. Covered is the time period from the initial massive troop build-up in 1965 to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Contains never-before-seen color footage transferred to high definition as well as a soundtrack filled with hits from the era.
236) The war
Pub. Date
�1999
Language
English
Description
It's Mississippi, the summer of 1970, and two children are determined to build the ultimate treehouse with their friends, while their father, a newly returned Vietnam vet, has equally high hopes to rebuild his life.
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