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Although Major Craig Lowell becomes involved with other military officers' wives between wars from 1958 to 1961, he is willing to fight honorably with his colleagues against the foreign enemy.

Examines the critical events that took place in the fall of 1967, from the ambush of an American battalion by the Viet Cong that led to skepticism of whether the Vietnamese conflict was winnable, to the first violent anti-war demonstration on a campus in Wisconsin.

"Part EVAC hospital, part USO entertainment center--this outpost of craziness and compassion introduces us to the Vietnam War through the eyes of the women who served there"--Container.

Bob Lee Swagger, also known as "Bob the Nailer," must face his deadliest foe from Vietnam, only this time it is not his own life at risk, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

Explores the life of a military nurse in Vietnam who is given an amulet with strange powers. A former military nurse in Vietnam, Scarborough here presents a mostly realistic novel of Army nurse Kathleen McCulley's coming of age. Her tour of duty at China Beach puts the young woman from Kansas through the usual mixture of empathy for the Vietnamese and anger at the indifference or outright racism of army personnel. The unanticipated twist is a hallucinatory...

Profiles Marine Carlos Hathcock, an ace marksman, whose missions during the Vietnam War included assassinating a North Vietnamese.

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.

Arlo Guthrie seeks out his friends in a commune and encounters events that help him avoid the draft and the Vietnam war.