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Dispatches
by Michael Herr  
Publisher Comments "He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre...
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
by Thuy Tram Dang 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...
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I Little Slave: A Prison Memoir from Communist Laos
by Bounsang Khamkeo Synopsis Seized by the Laotian communists in the wake of the 1975 revolution, Bounsang Khamkeo survived more than seven years in prison under extremely harsh conditions before he was finally released during the communist thaw of the 1980s. Told with dignity and...
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The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War (Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures)
by David L Anderson Synopsis More than a quarter of a century after the last Marine Corps Huey left the American embassy in Saigon, the lessons and legacies of the most divisive war in twentieth-century American history are as hotly debated as ever. Why did successive...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick Krakatoa is the eloquent narrative of the cataclysmic destruction in 1883 of the volcanic island of the same name. Killing nearly 40,000 people (mostly from the resultant tsunamis), this violent eruption was "the most violent explosion ever...
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Myth of Inevitable Us Defeat in Vietnam
by C Dale Walton Synopsis This volume offers a dispassionate strategic examination of the Vietnam conflict that challenges the conventional wisdom that South Vietnam could not survive as an independent non-communist entity over the long term regardless of how the United States...
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Vietnam: Four American Perspectives: Lectures
by George S. Mcgovern Publisher Comments This collection of speeches delivered in 1987 presents the widely diverging opinions of four influenza] men: an eminent politician, a professional soldier, a government consultant, and a distinguished scholar. The first contributor, Senator George S...
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
Publisher Comments From a childhood survivor of Cambodia's brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit. Until the age of five, Lounge Ung...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The...
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The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta 1930-1975 (Pacific Basin Institute Book)
by David W. P. Elliott Book News Annotation This is a substantially pared-down version of Elliot's original 1584-page study published in 2002 by M.E. Sharpe. Chiding his fellow historians for producing tome after tome of American-centric histories of the war in Vietnam, Elliot (government...
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Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War, by Thirty Three American Soldiers Who ...
by Al Santoli Publisher Comments Here is an oral history of the Vietnam War by thirty-three American soldiers who fought it. A 1983 American Book Award nominee....
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The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on the Run in Laos
by Kenny Wayne Fields Book News Annotation Fields, a retired attack pilot, recounts his experience on a combat mission during the Vietnam War and the subsequent rescue after he was shot down. He uses radio logs, after-action reports, and interviews with those involved to describe the events of...
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Indonesian Destinies
by Theodore Friend Publisher Comments �How can such a gentle people as we are be so murderous?� a prominent Indonesian asks. That question�and the mysteries of the archipelago�s vast contradictions�haunt Theodore Friend�s remarkable work, a narrative of...
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The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966
by Robert J. Topmiller Synopsis During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices?including self-immolation?to try to end the fighting. They hoped to fashion a neutralist government to broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans. In...
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Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954-1955
by Robert B., Jr. Frankum Synopsis Very little has been written about the U.S. Navy in Vietnam in the immediate post-Korean War era, nor has the magnitude of American participation in the resettlement of Vietnam refugees following the 1954 Geneva Conference been explored. Beginning in the...
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The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma
by Thant Myint-u Publisher Comments What do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma& #8217; s past tell us about its present and even its future? For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts...
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East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese Resistance
by Constancio Pinto Synopsis The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the principal international spokesperson for the Timorese independence movement, Jose Ramos-Horta and to Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, the spiritual leader of most of the people of East Timor. The Nobel citation honored...
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Vietnam : Past and Present (4TH 05 Edition)
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...
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Dutch-Vietnamese Relations, Tonkin 1637-1700 (Tanap Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interactio)
by Hoang Anh Tuan Book News Annotation The world economy had come to a crisis point. China was suffering a major political and dynastic change. Japan closed its doors to contact with the west. It remained for the Vietnamese kingdom of Tonkin to supply silk to the European market, and it...
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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
by Philip Short Publisher Comments “The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative . . . [Short] is excellent at coining pithy summations of political motives that ring humanly true.”—The New York Times Book Review (front page) &...
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