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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a poignant memoir of love and war, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents the journal of her fiancé, a dedicated career soldier killed in Iraq, in which he records the events of the war, his grief over losing men in battle, and advice to his infant son on every aspect of life.
70) A rumor of war
Author
Publisher
Picador, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern historys ugliest wars, he returned homephysically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone.A Rumor of War is far more than one soldiers story. Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered Americas indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hellgate Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Apoignant, often humorous, recollection of the siege of Khe Sanh - a pivotal turning point in the American war in Vietnam. Under constant bombardment from the enemy, Michael Archer and his cadre of young Marines - Orr, Pig, Old Woman and Savage, just to name a few - managed to survive and, in the process, learn about manhood, sacrifice and the darkest recesses of fear and loneliness. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Author
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A collaboration between Lucy Rose Fischer and her late brother, The Journalist tells the story of Jerry Rose, a young journalist and photographer who exposed the secret beginnings of America’s Vietnam War in the early 1960s. He interviewed Vietnamese villagers, embedded himself with soldiers, and wrote the first major article about American troops fighting in Vietnam.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Berets who come together to save a former comrade—and 500 other Afghans—being targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. In April, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The message: Get Nezam out of Afghanistan now. Nezam was part of the Afghan National Army’s first group of American-trained commandos. He passed...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Includes over 150 images recording the career of Ernie Pyle from childhood to Ie Shima. Out of the foxholes he shared with them, and from his own heart straight to the folks back home, comes Ernie Pyle's story of our soldiers' first big campaign abroad. He takes you to live with them on the great adventure of their lives, and tells you the thousands of little things you want to know about how they are living this
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Too often the ordeals of participants on both sides of the Vietnam War have been interpreted by others journalists, historians, even generals. In an invaluable corrective, John Prados, one of our leading interpreters of the Vietnam War, opens a window into the visceral firsthand experiences of those on the ground in Vietnam. His carefully chosen and thoughtfully introduced anthology gathers the voices in narrative and poetry of men and women; Americans...
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The wives of veterans who served in Charlie Company, a unit that fought in the Vietnam War, describe the drastic changes that occurred in their husbands and in their marriage as their families struggled to overcome the traumas of the war.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A cross between A Few Good Men and American Sniper, this is the true story of an elite Marine special operations unit bombed by an IED and shot at during an Afghanistan ambush. The Marine Commandos were falsely accused of gunning down innocent Afghan civilians following the ambush. The unit's leader, Maj. Fred Galvin, was summarily relieved of duty and his unit was booted from the combat zone. They were condemned by everyone, from the Afghan president...
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