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"In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer--Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real life--dramatically...
43) Uncommon valor
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Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"For over ten years, [Colonel Jason] Rhodes has been living a nightmare searching for his son who is listed as "missing in action" in Vietnam. After useless appeals to the government for information, Rhodes takes matters into his own hands. With financial backing of a Texas oil tycoon ... and the help of his son's five Marine buddies, Rhodes prepares to carry out a daring mission. After weeks of grueling training, the courageous veterans leave for...
Author
Publisher
Fortis
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"The author and every male member of his immediate family served in the Vietnam war. In 1988, his older brother, Elmo, died from Agent Orange-related cancers linked to his service as a Swift Boat commander during the Vietnam war. In a bitter irony, it was the actions of his father, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., in ordering the spraying of Agent Orange when he commanded all US naval forces in Vietnam that sealed his brother's fate. People react differently...
45) The Green Berets
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Warner Home Video
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A cynical reporter who is opposed to the Vietnam War is sent to cover the conflict and assigned to tag along with a group of Green Berets. Led by the tough-as-nails Col. Mike Kirby, the team is given a top-secret mission to sneak behind enemy lines and kidnap an important Viet Cong commander. Along the way, the reporter learns to respect why America is involved in the war and helps to save the life of a war orphan whose life has been destroyed by...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through literature, film, monuments, memorials, museums, and landscapes...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The multigenerational tale of the Trà̂n family, set against the backdrop of the Vit Nam War. Trà̂n Diu 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 Ni, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the H Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not just her beloved...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
192 p. ; 24 cm.
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The author reminisces about his life, in a profile of a young man coming of age during the Vietnam war, chronicling his experiences as a former ROTC intelligence officer in command of a group of enlisted men on assignment in Vietnam.
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Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
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"It's 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first female correspondents on assignment in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter. Son is a Vietnamese photographer anxious to get his work into the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war from combat missions to the workings of field hospitals. Then one November morning, narrowly escaping death during an ambush, Susan and Son find themselves...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 24 cm
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"Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain under the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert?s own...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 355 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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This duel feature includes Apocalypse Now (1979) and Apocalypse Now Redux (2001), plus over 2 hours of new bonus materials, including commentaries, rare, unseen footage and more!
Author
Publisher
Check Six Books
Pub. Date
©2016
Physical Desc
274 pages
Description
"Fast Eddie Tells It Like It WasWhat's it like to fight an unwinnable war in the air? What was the F-4 Phantom like to fly? How does Mach 2 feel? What happens when the Bad Guys are shooting at you? How do you kick an adrenaline addiction? In this Amazon bestseller, Lt/Col Ed "Fast Eddie" Cobleigh shares his deeply personal account of a fighter pilot's combat tours, ones filled with moral choices and political idiocies offset by the thrill of flying...
55) Dogfight
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River Phoenix and Lili Taylor star in a bittersweet story about losinginnocence and discovering love. In November 1963, four young marines inSan Francisco celebrate their last night before leaving to fight inVietnam with a "dogfight," a competition in which the man who brings theugliest date wins. Handsome Eddie Birdlace (Phoenix) convinces Rose(Taylor) to accompany him on a date--but he doesn't tell her she is partof the dogfight. Despite the pain...
56) Danger close
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
August 18, 1966 South Vietnam, for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his company of 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,000 battle-hardened Viet Cong. With their ammunition running out, each man begins to search for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.
60) The deer hunter
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Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress.
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