Vietnam Saga

Vietnam Saga is a very personal story of Stan Corvin's often perilous times in the US Army as a two-tour combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam. It is a true-life story of soldiers who fought for freedom and often for their very lives. Vietnam Saga is also a story about the meaning of life. Standing back from his war experience, Stan reflects on his ever-present faith and how it carried him through this challenging period of his life.

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War. 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...

In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of emperors, rebels, priests, and colonizers left complicated legacies in this remarkable country. Periods of Chinese, French, and Japanese rule reshaped and modernized Vietnam, but so too did the colonial enterprises of the Vietnamese themselves as they extended their influence southward from the Red River Delta.

In 1960s Kentucky, Susanna Braden’s caught between protecting her younger siblings from her mother’s perniciousness and other lurking dangers, and battling the growing love she feels for her best friend, Calvin. But when family secrets emerge that threaten to destroy her carefully cultivated illusion of safety and Calvin is deployed to Vietnam, Susanna is forced to reexamine the concepts of love, honor, and forgiveness — and it just may be the key to redemption for them all. Four-time award winner A WHISPER OF SMOKE delivers a coming-of-age love story that is rich and deeply sensitive...

In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America's war in Vietnam. The book's central theme is that America's leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for the realities of the region. Karnow elucidates the decision-making process in Washington and Asia and recounts the political and military events that occurred after the Americans arrived in Vietnam.

As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon. For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Finally, a Vietnam novel that honors Mexican American service and sacrifice." San Benito, Texas, 1970. Lottery number 216. One year in hell. One promise to keep. Roberto "Beto" Garza is nineteen years old when the draft notice arrives—wedged between a Sears catalog and his mother's magazine, delivered by a mailman who knows his father. Number 216 isn't safe. Isn't certain death. Just suspended animation while the government decides his fate. Three weeks later, he's married to María Delgado with a baby on the way and orders to report to Fort Polk. Firebase Echo. Radio ...

The Full Circle for Mick is a sweeping historical family saga that spans continents, war,and generatiions, blending history, war, and spirtituality into one unforgetable journey. From the early 1900s China to post-World War Two mimigration to Australia and into the Vietnam War, this story follows the Kramer family across three generations. bound by duty, faith, and the search for redemption, their paths interwine with an unexpected legacy of Buddhism and healing. When Mick Kramer lies about his age to serve with the Australian infantry in Vietnam, he unknowingly steps into a cycle that ...

Drawing on hundreds of accounts by soldiers, politicians, aid workers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people, Paul Ham reconstructs for the first time the full history of our longest military campaign. From the commitment to engage, through the fight over conscription and the rise of the anti - war movement, to the tactics and horror of the battlefi eld, Ham exhumes the truth about this politicians' war - which sealed the fate of 50,000 Australian servicemen and women.

Not all secrets are revealed; some stay hidden forever. In 1968, an unpopular war threatened to change the world forever. Nick and Holly head north, determined to find amnesty in Canada. They meet a former lawyer named Ben and experience many things—love, friendship, marriage, politics, and a baby — in Ben’s Magical Midnight Garden. Joni Mitchell sang, “We’ve got to find our way back to the Garden.” The Garden still calls. Take the journey, find your way back, and uncover a secret never meant to be revealed.

Haunted caves; an obese opportunistic warlord; strange voices ... As the war rages on, John Powers and his fellow pilgrims cross paths with a menacing obese warlord and his scheming assistant, with devastating consequences, and encounter haunted caves with iron doors and endless branches that lead to unknown destinations in time and space. Meanwhile, the voices continue to harangue John and pilgrim Bai Meiying to produce a son. Are the voices real? Why are they so insistent that John and Meiying have a child? Is John truly schizophrenic? Are the caves actually haunted? Who–or what–is ...

Vietnam - There & Back: A Combat Medic's Chronicle is a candid account of the time when Jim Purtell and several other combat vets found themselves conducting operations in the jungles of Vietnam during and after the Tet Offensive. Purtell describes in gritty detail what it was like to live and fight with an infantry company only to return to anti-Vietnam sentiment so strong that he and his fellow veterans felt nobody cared about them or the sacrifices they made.

Stephanie Hamilton wants to change the world. Her friends are singing protest songs and marching on city hall to end the Vietnam war, but Stephanie thinks working within the system can achieve more. When Her father Eliot Hamilton becomes ill and she is thrust into the Idaho State Legislature to fill his seat she is determined to make her mark with a housing subsidy bill—a stance that puts her into direct conflict with Attorney General Carlton Sperlin, grandson of the man who wanted to marry her beloved grandmother Kathryn. But Stephanie, also like her grandmother, is engaged to a charming...

In 1969, two sisters from rural Việt Nam leave their parents’ home and travel to the bustling city of Sài Gòn. Soon their lives are swept up in the unstoppable flames of a war that is blazing through their country. They begin working as ‘bar girls’ in one of the drinking dens frequented by American GIs, forced to accept that survival now might mean compromising the values they once treasured. Decades later, two men wander through the streets and marketplaces of a very different Sài Gòn.

Brian Vincent was born a Cajun and raised in the swamps and bayous of South Louisiana, where hunting and fishing were commonplace, and integrity and diligence were more than spoken virtues. An avid reader, Brian was enthralled with stories of love and war where warriors overcame formidable odds and prevailed. The conflict between Laos and Vietnam was the perfect opportunity where he could test his mettle against an oppressor bent on killing innocent people who wanted peace and were willing to fight for it. The path was through the Marines and then Air America. Brian entered the fray of love...

Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down. A Catalog of Birds is the story of a family and a community confronted with a loss of innocence and wounds that may never heal. The legacy of war and its destruction of nature is seared onto the memories of a small American town.

Der erste Jugendroman über Vietnam. Amerika-Experte Thomas Jeier hat einen bewegenden Antikriegsroman und eine berührende Geschichte von Freundschaft und Liebe geschrieben. Amerika, 1969: Auf dem Höhepunkt des Vietnam-Kriegs geht die junge Linda Corman als Krankenschwester nach Vietnam. Im Dschungel lernt sie die Grauen des Krieges aus nächster Nähe kennen. Ihre beste Freundin Debbie bleibt in den USA und protestiert mit Hunderttausenden gegen das rücksichtslose Vorgehen der US-Armee in Vietnam.

Un paese in guerra. Una famiglia divisa. Una storia indimenticabile di coraggio e speranza. Dal loro rifugio sulle montagne, la piccola Huong e sua nonna Dieu Lan sentono il rombo dei bombardieri americani e scorgono il bagliore degli incendi che stanno devastando Hanoi. Fino a quel momento, per Huong la guerra è stata l'ombra che ha risucchiato i suoi genitori, e adesso quell'ombra sta avvolgendo anche lei e la nonna. Tornate in città, scoprono che la loro casa è completamente distrutta, eppure non si scoraggiano e decidono di ricostruirla, mattone dopo mattone.

BAC SI: A NOVEL is the epic saga of love and war, in that place and time we call Vietnam. Navy Lieutenant Thomas Staffieri grew up in a gritty, multi-ethnic,steel town. He learned many things growing up there, but he could never imagine that he would take some of those things with him so many years later, and to so many different places. He learned languages, and found that he had a real knack for them. This language ability served him well in his field of psychology, but also propelled him into a situation which brought him into a moral conflict.....WAR. As a Navy Psychologist, he was ...