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 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.

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Woodland, California, 1966. Two boys decide to enlist. Two women decide to hold on. Danny Kowalski knows every tree in his family's forty-acre walnut orchard — the Hartleys his grandfather planted, the Eurekas he pruned with his father before dawn, the old Franquette on the southwest corner that hasn't produced in forty-five years but no one has the heart to pull. The orchard is his future. Karen, the rice farmer's daughter who knows his hands better than he does, is the rest of it. Then the draft numbers come over the radio. Forty-nine thousand men in August alone. Danny and his best ...

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...

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...

¿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. ...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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...

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.

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...