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.

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...

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.

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 both...

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...

Twenty-one years. One courtyard. One lit window. On a cold October night in Boston, a man sits in a brick courtyard with a guitar across his knees. He plays three chords — the only three he ever learned — and watches the third-floor window for any sign that the woman inside remembers them. Michael Moran has been searching since 1969. For Elizabeth, the girl he ran away with at sixteen and lost to silence and war. For Daniel, the blind son he left as an infant and has spent fifteen years trying to find. For James — the other twin, raised by strangers, whose trail has only just become ...

He earned his silver bars in the blood and mud of Cambodia. Now, they want him to build the ultimate weapon. Fans of authentic, high-stakes military fiction will be swept away by this epic sequel to They Were Once Soldiers: A-team 718. Masterfully blending raw combat action with deep, character-driven drama, Carl delivers a stunning portrait of wartime leadership, legacy, and love. A Soldier Born from Fire When Joshua Blackfoot took charge of a crumbling outpost during an NVA onslaught, he wasn't trying to be a hero—he was trying to keep his men alive. His raw tactical brilliance earned ...

His father had been pausing in the living room every morning for fifty-six years. Before his coffee. Before anything. Standing in front of the photograph on the mantle — a young soldier with his helmet pushed back and a grin that was just his face — acknowledging the absence of a man who had been twenty years old forever. Danny Callahan. Panel 27W. Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C. James Callahan has spent his entire life shaped by a grief that was never his to carry. His father's brother died in Quang Tri Province in March of 1969, and the loss hollowed something out of the ...

¿Cómo reconstruir una vida cuando la guerra lo ha roto todo? Nueva York, 1945. Drake Knox regresa del Pacífico convertido en un hombre que apenas reconoce… y en un padre que tendrá que aprender a serlo. Manuela, su esposa, se aferra a su hijo Nick mientras lucha por sostener una familia que empieza a resquebrajarse bajo el peso del miedo, los silencios y las heridas invisibles. Pero la guerra no termina al volver a casa. Entre Inglaterra y Estados Unidos, los Knox y los Johnson se verán arrastrados por décadas de cambios, injusticias y decisiones que lo pondrán todo en juego. ...

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.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "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 ...

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 ...

They weren’t killers. But when you’re painted into a corner, survival demands a reckoning. California, 1968. The country is tearing itself apart over the Vietnam War. For one gentle young draft dodger and his pregnant girlfriend, the only hope for a future is a desperate, midnight flight toward the Canadian border. But the road north runs straight through a small California town ruled by a monster. The local sheriff is a sadistic military castoff with a badge, a rope, and a horrifying secret: he hunts draft evaders for sport, hangs them in his cells, and writes it off as suicide. To him...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Toronto Books Awards Finalist for the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction Finalist for the Hilary Weston-Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction An inventive memoir about one family’s escape from Vietnam and the father’s mysterious disappearance along...

In November 1965, in the Ia Drang Valley, Sergeant Corwin Adair makes a decision that costs a nineteen year old private his life. That night he starts a letter home explaining it. He never finishes deciding whether to send it. Forty four years later, his grandson Milo is holding a besieged patrol base in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, with a radio operator who shares the name of his grandfather's own RTO, a coincidence that unsettles him more than he can explain. When Milo's grandmother finally mails him the sealed letter she has kept, unopened, for eight years, he has to decide what it means...

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.

Some inheritances come with a question attached. July 1964. Tom Dryden carries a cardboard suitcase through the gates of the United States Naval Academy and into the machinery that will remake him. He also carries his father's Navy Cross citation — folded along its creases, and never quite adding up. Joseph Dryden died in a training accident off the Virginia coast in 1959. The medal was for something else, something earlier, something no one in the family will explain. Over four years — Plebe Summer, the Herndon climb, the conduct boards and the ring dances — Tom learns to read the ...