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Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century In The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests, Amy……続きを見る

O relato mais detalhado, original e humano de um conflito de proporções épicas e resultados catastróficos Cristalizada como um dos conflitos armados mais emblemáticos da história moderna e uma conse……続きを見る

The Beauty That Remains charts the author's escape from communist Vietnam, her stay in a Malaysian refugee camp, and her first years in Australia, with all the drama and the hilarity of a bumbling y……続きを見る

‘Life is a bit like a patchwork quilt. You have to make the best quilt you can with the fabrics you have, not the ones you might have wished for.’ Danny McBride knew full well he would one day marry……続きを見る

"Magnificently researched, brilliantly written, Lethal Tides is immensely entertaining and reads like an action novel. Catherine Musemeche has brought to life the incredible work of the scientists a……続きを見る

This is a natural sequel of the first book, It starts from the Tet offensive and goes right to the demilitarization period and the homecoming of the troops. This book has a different protagonist; ho……続きを見る

LE livre définitif sur l'histoire de l'Indochine française. L'histoire de l'Indochine française est bien connue : elle commence avec la conquête, dès 1858, de la Cochinchine, puis du Cambodge, du To……続きを見る

Conventional wisdom holds that the US Army in Vietnam, thrust into an unconventional war where occupying terrain was a meaningless measure of success, depended on body counts as its sole measure of ……続きを見る

In the spring of 1968, a group of Catholic antiwar activists barged into a draft board in suburban Baltimore, stole hundreds of Selective Service records, and burned the documents in a fire fueled b……続きを見る

In early 1966, Dr. Guy Clark received orders to go to Vietnam, and upon arrival that June was assigned to be a flight surgeon at Cam Ranh Bay Air Force Base, on the South China Sea. Thus began a yea……続きを見る

An advisor to the South Vietnamese Navy Mobile Riverine Forces in 1970-1971, U.S. Navy Commander Richard Kirtley was tasked with helping implement Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization"--the rapid drawd……続きを見る

Volume II: Aftermath, continues Once We Flew: The Memoir of a US Army Helicopter Pilot and a Life with PTSD, Volume I. The author, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Joe Sepesy is no longer operating as an exp……続きを見る

Stan Bishop is a retired United States Air Force colonel and decorated Vietnam War veteran combat pilot. Recollections are his second book; his first book was entitled, "Recollections: Memories from……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la guerra de Vietnam, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá: • Des……続きを見る

Imperialism has long been the subject of sharp debates. Now Tom O'Lincoln offers an original study of Australia's ruthless participation in the imperialist system. Left analysts have often accused A……続きを見る

The Viet Nam War ended nearly half a century ago. This book--part history, part travelogue--reveals the war's legacy, still very much alive, in the places where it was fought and in the memories and……続きを見る

As visitors to Washington, D.C., celebrated the glorious spring of the 1972 Cherry Blossom Festival, tensions inside the U. S. Capitol were rising. Across the globe, in the jungles of Vietnam, an un……続きを見る

In 1958, a helicopter flew across a March sky, bringing wonderment to an eight-year-old boy. Eleven years later, that wonderment became reality as the young man enlisted and completed the US Army’s ……続きを見る

From the author of A Captain's Duty, the New York Times best-selling account of Captain Phillips, comes the untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the ent……続きを見る

The definitive collection of nonfictionーfrom war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writingーfrom the “legend of American letters” (Vanity Fair) Robert Stone was a singular A……続きを見る

For the Vietnam "police action', the way the world was seen, shaped and understood was irretrievably changed by war. In his humorous and moving memoir, Ted George gives voice to the experience that ……続きを見る

Tales from a Mountain City is a blend of history and memoir told by a young Vietnamese girl growing up during the last years of the war and the communist regime. This is a poignant account of the in……続きを見る

A soulful, generation-defining non-fiction collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestsel……続きを見る

A strike pattern is a signature of violence carved into the landーbomb craters or fragments of explosives left behind, forgotten. In Strike Patterns, poet and anthropologist Leah Zani journeys to a ……続きを見る

Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family a……続きを見る

In a 1965 letter toNewsweek, French writer and academic Bernard Fall (1926–67) staked a claim as the ‘Number One Realist’ on the Vietnam War. This is the first book to study the thought of this over……続きを見る

This study explodes prevailing myths about the Phoenix Program, the CIA's top-secret effort to destroy the Viet Cong by neutralizing its “civilian” leaders. Drawing on recently declassified document……続きを見る

September 1945, the Japanese have formally surrendered. An American OSS Agent lies bloodied in the streets of Saigon, killed during heavy fighting between recently released French soldiers and Vietn……続きを見る

An authentic account of combat with an airborne company in the waterlogged rice paddies and demanding jungles of South Vietnam. Share the experiences of fighting men under punishing conditions, extr……続きを見る

This is a fact-based look at the composition of the battalion, its assigned missions and how those missions were carried out in support of U.S. military operations out of Thai based units against co……続きを見る