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1) Vietnam War
Author
Series
Description
Traces the history of the Asian war that killed over 58,000 Americans, discussing the causes and effects, leaders, major battles, guerrilla warfare, aerial bombing, weaponry, peace negotiations, and lessons learned.
3) Platoon
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows young Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself.
5) Platoon
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (120 min.) : blu-ray, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An emotional look at the war in Vietnam, seen through the eyes of a young soldier who discovers that the Viet Cong are not the only enemies he has to fight.
6) Finding moon
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
ix, 319 p. ; 25 cm.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major...
9) The aviators
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 8
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (793 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1964.The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its new style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics and men who can use them. Overnight, it seems, the U. S. Army must scramble to create its first-ever Air Assault Division. As the hostilities increase, the warriors and the women who love them are swept into the struggle, their personal and professional lives twisting and intertwining as they race against time
11) The Vietnam War
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (approximately 18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xviii, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Lomperis writes a combination memoir, history, and political analysis of the war, providing insight into how it was waged from the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) boardrooms of Saigon. He served as an intelligence officer at the MACV, as a rear echelon soldier, applying Washington policy to the battlefield, and ended his time in country as civilian intelligence liaison officer until 1973.
14) Pioneer girl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Discovering a family heirloom that her mother may have received from Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lee Lien explores the tenuous connection between her ancestors and the famous pioneer author only to discover a trail of clues that lead to fateful encounters.
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The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans to finally secure him The Congressional Medal of Honor...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Journey deep behind battle lines to experience a different side of the Vietnam War--the side seen only through the lenses of North Vietnam photographers. Renowned British photojournalist Tim Page travels back to the land where he nearly lost his life to meet with North Vietnamese war photographers, revealing remarkable, never-before-seen photos and personal stories long hidden by time and tragedy.
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"Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They're young, they're radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even want to take the fight to America. The Swedes treat them like pop stars--but the CIA is determined to stop all that. It's a job for the deep-cover men of Operation Chaos and their allies--agents who know how to infiltrate organizations and destroy them...
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Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 5
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Description
Deep in the heart of Dixie for a weeklong NASCAR event, Bob Lee Swagger, protagonist of the "New York Times"-bestselling "Point of Impact," returns in this explosively gritty thrill ride as he metes justice out to those who targeted his reporter-daughter.
20) The lotus eaters
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
389 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
A novel that follows an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.
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