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.

Project Bloodborn: The Complete Series A government experiment gone wrong. A Vietnam vet turned werewolf. A mission for redemption. Ded Brenner is on the run, cursed to become a deadly beast every month. But when he discovers a town under the thumb of a brutal drug kingpin, he embraces his savage nature to protect the innocent. As his past closes in, the line between man and monster blurs, and every battle brings him closer to losing his humanity. Dive into the Project Bloodborn series, where supernatural vengeance meets high-octane action. All 10 pulse-pounding books in one thrilling ...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 quest to conceive the next Chosen One. . . . Michael Powers escapes the mental institution and finds himself reunited with a mysterious Mongolian woman and the magical cave that contains portals to other spacetime dimensions. Via these portals, he journeys through time to relive the past and contemplate the future. The survival of the new species continues to hang in the balance as Michael is directed by the voices to find another with his special genes and conceive a new Chosen One. But what will this union produce? Did he murder the three psychiatrists? Will he escape his pursuers or be...

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...

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.

The voices in his head have a new demand ... A 21st-century mental facility. Michael Powers, now institutionalized, descends into the abyss of what he believes is schizophrenia. He experiences odd psychotic episodes that cause him to question whether he is a murderer–or still a young soldier in Vietnam–or whether he is even alive. Worse, the voices have a new demand. What do the voices want? What is real? Did Michael cause the strange things that are happening to his consulting psychiatrists? And will his perceived madness destroy the new species before it has a chance to take root? The...

After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight. In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers resettle in the UK and confront their new identities as refugees, first in camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a London plagued by social inequality and anti-immigrant sentiment.

A skeleton waits in a tunnel; a fortress is besieged; a goddess argues with a god. . . War-torn Vietnam in the 1960’s and a group of American soldiers is trapped in an abandoned French fortress during a raging monsoon. North Vietnamese soldiers seek to retrieve a strange goddess statue from the fortress. Michael Powers, one of the trapped soldiers, hears the same voices that plagued his father, John. Is the fortress haunted? Why does a skeleton wait in the tunnel beneath the fortress? What are the tapping sounds that come from the goddess statue, and why do the North Vietnamese want the ...

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 ...

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.

It began as a simple idea, the retelling of the four of us from Indiana’s musical adventures in the wild and chaotic West Coast of the mid-1960s for friends and family. It turned into a memoir of our story as seen and experienced through my eyes, and–in the end, it became what it had always been--A LOVE STORY. ENCHANTED, BOOK 2 OF THINGS WE LOST IN THE NIGHT CONCLUDES A FAST-MOVING, ROMANCE-FILLED SAGA based on true events of a young singer and his friends search for success in the 1960s music business of California and Las Vegas - if you liked Daisy Jones and the Six, and books from ...

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.

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 ...

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.