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1) The women
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Read-Alikes for The Women
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Read-Alikes for The Women
Description
"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the reader from the marshy swamps of the Mekong Delta to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from the corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon to the Nixon White...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
WHEN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD RON KOVIC enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1964, he couldn't foresee that he would return from Vietnam paralyzed and in a wheelchair for life. His best-selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July became an antiwar classic and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Tom Cruise as Kovic. His follow-up, Hurricane Street, chronicled his advocacy for Vietnam veterans' rights. A Dangerous Country: An American...
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Vietnam War was a complicated and controversial conflict, and readers take a focused look at this chapter in world history through the lens of the military technology used in this war. From the advent of assault rifles to the use of chemical weapons, many of these technological advances have spurred heated debates over time, but readers discover the facts about them in an unbiased way. In addition, photographs of helicopters, planes, and other...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Drawn Swords showcases the rise and fall of South Vietnam. This book highlights the South Vietnamese effort to build and defend their country, while weaving in the policy decisions made in Washington and Hanoi that signifcantly influenced the course of the war. A huge historical gap exists in understanding the motivations and policies of the Saigon government, mainly due to old ideological blinders, misinformation, and outright lies. By providing...
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Both personal memoir and political history, this book recounts the decisions that fully embroiled the United States in the Vietnam War. Trueheart chronicles the ways in which the breakdown between his godfather, Frederick Nolting, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, and his father, William Trueheart, second in command at the embassy, led to the breakdown of U.S.-South Vietnamese relations and a violent coup three weeks before President Kennedy was...
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