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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"In an enthralling book, Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman provides a succinct account of perhaps the most puzzling and contentious of America?s wars. Describing how a superpower caught up in Cold War politics became increasingly enmeshed in a conflict over 8,000 miles away, he then explains why twenty years later an exit was so difficult. In words and photographs he chronicles the unfolding events in Vietnam and at home as increasing numbers of young...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a North Vietnamese infantryman. In a series of flashbacks, as he buries the dead following a battle, the narrator recounts his 10 years of service, the comrades he lost and the way the war ruined the love of hislife. The author is a veteran of the NVA's Glorious 27th Youth Brigade, a 500-man unit from which only 10 men survived. He lives in Hanoi.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit"--
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
First-hand accounts of U.S. Veterans' experiences during the Vietnam War matched with in-country archival film footage, audio recordings and personal photos. Using innovative tactics like helicopter warfare, U.S. soldiers fought bloody battles at Ia Drang River Valley, Dak To and the Iron Triangle and undertook large-scale operations such as Cedar Falls and Junction City.
7) 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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
10) The sympathizer
Author
Formats
Description
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
11) 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.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
896 pages cm
Description
"Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
From a celebrated military historian, a powerful account of the most pivotal year of the Vietnam War-the cataclysm that forever changed America.
15) The Green Berets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Description
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
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
192 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
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.
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...
20) 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...
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