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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-485) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: Tie-In Edition by Le Ly Hayslip Publisher Comments It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. The youngest of six children in a close-knit... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Lai: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by James S Olson Publisher Comments The massacre at My Lai on March 16, 1968 continues to haunt students of the Vietnam War as a moment that challenges notions of American virtue. James Olson and Randy Roberts have combed unpublished testimony and gather a collection of eyewitness accounts... (read more) List Price $19.20 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia by Bill Hendon Publisher Comments THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars by Andrew X Pham Publisher Comments From Andrew X. Pham, the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala, a sons searing memoir of his Vietnamese fathers experiences over the course of three wars. The Philadelphia Inquirer hailed Andrew Phams debut, Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars by Andrew X Pham Publisher Comments Once wealthy landowners, Thong Van Pham’s family was shattered by the tumultuous events of the twentieth century: the festering French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Vietnam War. Told in dazzling... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vietnam, Now : a Reporter Returns (02 Edition) by David Lamb Publisher Comments When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace : the Diary of Dang Thuy Tram (07 Edition) by Dang Thuy Tram Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Girl in the Picture : the Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War (99 Edition) by Denise Chong Publisher Comments The world will never forget the 1972 Pulitizer Prize-winning photograph of nine-year-old Kim Phuc, running naked in terror after a napalm strike in Vietnam. Denise Chong now presents the timely and sensitive story of the "napalm girl" as she struggles to... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars by Andrew X. Pham Publisher Comments A searing memoir by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala offers a portrait of his father's experiences over the course of three wars--the French occupation of Indochina, the World War II Japanese invasion, and the Vietnam War--as he captures... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns by David Lamb Publisher Comments Vietnam is run by one of the world's last communist governments, but great changes are sweeping the country. It is moving, if with caution and fear, toward a free-market economy. It is slowly lifting many of the civil restrictions that burden its 80... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram by Thy Trâm Đặng Publisher Comments Written between 1968 and 1970, the posthumously discovered diary of a young female North Vietnamese doctor, killed by American forces not far from where she worked, offers a poignant account of her devotion to family and country, the horrors of war, her... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit by Van Huy Nguyen Publisher Comments A vivid, accessible portrait of contemporary Vietnam through texts and complementary photographs that dispute the stereotypic images we have of this dynamic and diverse country.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Earth and Water: Encounters in Viet Nam by Edith Shillue Publisher Comments An American woman reflects on her experiences as a teacher in Viet Nam Too young to have direct memory of the Viet Nam War, Edith Shillue went to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in September 1993 from her native Massachusetts to begin work as a university... (read more) List Price $19.96 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Vietnam: Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton Publisher Comments The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Vietnam, past and Present by D. R. SarDesai Publisher Comments Recent U.S. military interventions in Kosovo and Iraq have stirred public memories of the long and costly Vietnam conflict. Scholars and strategists, military leaders and media continue to raise questions such as what motivated the Vietnamese to wage a... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price: $36.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited by Craig Barber and Craig Nordstrom Publisher Comments After serving in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine, photographer Craig Barber returns twenty-eight years later to a country first seen in combat. Haunted by witnessed atrocities, Barber carries his memories of war back to Vietnam to quiet his ghosts. In the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Down with Colonialism! (Revolutions) by Chi Minh Ho Publisher Comments Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, having defeated Japanese and French colonialist became a hate figure of the USA during the Vietnam War. Anti-globalization activist Walden Bello shows why Ho... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Gift of Barbed Wire: America's Allies Abandoned in South Vietnam by Robert S. McKelvey Publisher Comments A Gift of Barbed Wire is a searing look at the lives of South Vietnamese officials and their families left behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975. A former Marine who served in Vietnam, Robert McKelvey went on to practice psychiatry and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam by Fred A Wilcox Publisher Comments Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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