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Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When an American pilot goes down, the Pararescue forces go into action. For decades they have risked their lives to bring their countrymen home. This story features all the key elements of their dangerous jobs: high risk, inventive solutions, and a successful outcome. Inside, read about the people who parachute into danger . . . to bring people back alive! Sometimes a job is so tough, so dangerous, and so important that a singular group of people...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Foreword by Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense and Senator from Nebraska.
Adaptable. Cunning. Ferocious. Fearless. The Indochinese tiger is just one of the formidable predators roaming Vietnam's jungle. In 1966 a small band of US Special Forces soldiers--most especially Bennie Adkins--spent four grueling days facing down the "tiger" among them.
While the rain and mist of an early March moved over the valley, then-Sergeant First Class Bennie...
63) On blood road
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Taylor is a rebellious teenager with a habit of sneaking out to hang with his anti-war friends, so in January 1968 his mother drags him off to Saigon where his father is attached to the United States embassy; bored (and still rebellious) Taylor sneaks out of the embassy to watch the Tet celebrations, just as the war erupts all over Vietnam and there he is captured by the North Vietnamese Army and sent North as a prisoner and hostage--and during the...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The multigenerational tale of the Tr̀ân family, set against the backdrop of the Vîẹt Nam War. Tr̀ân Dịêu 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 Ṇôi, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Ĥò Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not...
67) Dien Bien Phu
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Describes the historical background, events, and aftermath of the 1954 battle at Dien Bien Phu, which led to the end of the first Indochina War.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"In this lush, lyrical, and marvelously evocative novel, Catherine Texier takes a mystery from her family's past and draws from it a portrait of a remarkable woman - her great-grandmother Victorine. A young schoolteacher in a quiet province in France, Victorine had married and had two children. But when she falls desperately in love, she makes a startling choice, leaving her family for her lover and a new life in Indochina." "On a single day in 1940,...
71) Bronze drum
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gather around, children of Chu Dien, and be brave. For even to listen to the story of the Trung Sisters is, in these troubled times, a dangerous act. In 40 CE, in the Au Lac region of ancient Vietnam, two daughters of a Vietnamese Lord fill their days training, studying, and trying to stay true to Vietnamese traditions. While Trung Trac is disciplined and wise, always excelling in her duty, Trung Nhi is fierce and free spirited, more concerned with...
72) My Lai
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of what happened in the Vietnamese village My Lai on March 16, 1968, drawing on recently discovered audio recordings and new interviews with participants, eye witnesses, and investigators.
74) Free-fire zone
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents' expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman of color on a Bachelor-esque reality TV show; and Trieu, a budding writer, is determined...
Author
Publisher
Regnery History, an imprint of Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1967, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot James Shively was shot down over North Vietnam. After ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief aircraft, he landed in a rice paddy and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. For the next six years, Shively endured brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy in Hanoi prison camps. Back home his girlfriend moved on and married another man. Bound in iron stocks at the Hanoi Hilton, unable to get home to his loved...
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Lam, her brothers, and other ethnic Chinese flee Vietnam in 1979, embarking on a long and perilous journey toward a refugee camp, where Lam finds new hope and happiness. Includes historical notes, glossary, and pronunciation guide.
80) Rambo III
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Rambo battles Russians invading Afghanistan. Includes deleted scenes, audio commentary with Sylvester Stallone and more.
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