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63) After This
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice McDermotts powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live. While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution,...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"James M. Carter analyzes how the United States ended up fighting a large-scale war that wrecked the countryside, generated a flood of refugees, and brought about catastrophic economic distortions, results that actually further undermined the larger U.S. goal of building a viable state. Carter argues that well before the Tet Offensive shocked the viewing public in late January 1968, the campaign in southern Vietnam had completely failed and, furthermore,...
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...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. And in this stirring chronicle, Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Philip Caputo writes about our country's most controversial war -- the Vietnam War -- for young readers. From the first stirrings of unrest in Vietnam under French colonial rule, to American intervention, to the battle at Hamburger Hill, to the Tet Offensive, to...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In this book the author argues that 1965, not 1968, was the most transformative year of the 1960s, discussing attacks on civil rights demonstrators, increased African American militancy, the Watts riots, anti-war protests, and a growing national pessimism. At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and...
70) The Colonels
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 4
Publisher
Jove Books
Language
English
Description
Returning from the mine-laden fields of combat in the Far East, Paul T. Hanrahan is promoted to full colonel and assigned to command the U.S. Army Special Warfare School, where his men train for a new war on the beaches of Cuba.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A biography of an Olympic gold medalist, the former heavyweight champion...and one of the most influential people of our time. His style changed boxing. His attitude shook the world.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The TV series about the Vietnam War focuses on a single platoon of young U.S. soldiers. Full of thrilling combat action, this show portrays the dramatic human side of the war. In this second season, the fresh-faced recruits are becoming battle-weary fighters whose personal battles are just beginning amidst the daily grind of warfare.
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Full of photos, music, and figures of the time, this is the masterful story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times.
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
This book provides a brief and manageable collection of the most important documents on U.S. policymaking in the Vietnam War between 1950 and 1968. Edited by the foremost Vietnam historian, this supplementary text can be used in conjunction with any history of the Vietnam war--Herring's own America's Longest War, for example.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation; Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c.2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
In October 1967, history turned a corner. In a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable. On a campus in Wisconsin, a student protest against the war spiraled out of control, marking the first time that a campus anti-war demonstration had turned violent. This "American Experience" film collects the first-person stories of American and Viet Cong...
Author
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the Tet Offensive in January and February 1968, Lyndon Johnson announced the cessation of bombing against North Vietnam and America's determination to seek peace. As negotiations began in Paris, most Americans believed the war was winding down and, indeed, almost over. Yet, ironically, the year that followed the Tet Offensive saw the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War. Now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of that bloodiest year, Ronald...
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