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2) The women
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Pub. Date
2024
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Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances 'Frankie' McGrath 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 path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced...
3) Dust child
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Pub. Date
2023
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In 1969, two sisters from rural Vi?t Nam leave their parents' home and travel to the bustling city of Sỉ Gṇ. Soon their lives are swept up in the unstoppable flames of a war that is blazing through their country. They begin working as 'bar girls' in one of the drinking dens frequented by American GIs, forced to accept that survival now might mean compromising the values they once treasured. Decades later, two men wander through the streets and...
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Oneworld
Pub. Date
2022
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Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge. 1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father, and is forever changed by the experience. 2011: Twenty-five years later, a young, unhappy Vietnamese-American named Winnie disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. The fates of both...
5) Vietnam
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DK Eyewitness Travel
Pub. Date
2023
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Discover Vietnam with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this beautiful country before you've even packed your case - step back in time in the imperial City of Hue, explore stunning islands, beaches and national parks, and take an excursion to the awe-inspiring Angkor Wat in neighbouring Cambodia.
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1947, French Indochina. Since her mother's death, 18-year-old, half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk shop in the Vietnamese quarter of Hanoi. But the area is teeming with militant rebels who want to end French rule, by any means possible. For the first time, Nicole is awakened to the corruption...
7) Dust child
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Oneworld
Pub. Date
2023
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In 1969, two sisters from rural Viet Nam leave their parents' home and travel to the bustling city of Sai Gon. Soon their lives are swept up in the unstoppable flames of a war that is blazing through their country. They begin working as 'bar girls' in one of the drinking dens frequented by American GIs, forced to accept that survival now might mean compromising the values they once treasured. Decades later, two men wander through the streets and marketplaces...
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It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong....
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Clipper Audio
Pub. Date
2015
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In this concise history of the origins of the Vietnam War, Dr David Anderson examines the events that led to one of the most controversial wars the US has ever known and succinctly explains, for a new generation, why this conflict still matters today.
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Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2021
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This is the definitive story of one of the longest and most controversial conflicts in US history. Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative history of the Vietnam War examines the key figures and events of the conflict, and its lasting effects on the world. Combining compelling text with maps and archive photography, this volume is an all-encompassing showcase of every aspect of the fighting and the wider political...
11) Tripwire
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Jack Reacher volume 3
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Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, former military policeman Jack Reacher is not pleased when Costello, a private detective, starts asking questions about him. When Costello is found dead, Reacher knows that he is in serious trouble.
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Ebury
Pub. Date
2006
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'Vietnam' features accounts of 135 men and women that span the history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. It allows us to see what this war meant to people on various sides - Americans and Vietnamese, generals and guerillas, policy makers and protesters.
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2017
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By January 1968, despite an influx of half a million American troops, the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, announced a new phase of the war in which 'the end begins to come into view'. The North Vietnamese had different ideas. In mid-1967, the leadership in Hanoi had started planning an offensive intended to win the war in a single stroke. Part military action and part...
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Hodder
Pub. Date
2011
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From the bestselling master of suspense comes a collection of five linked stories shadowed by the American experience in Vietnam. The title story is about a group of men who become addicted to hearts - and learn a lesson about humanity they'll never forget.
17) Bitter sun
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The Borough Press
Pub. Date
2018
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'The Dry' meets 'Stand by Me' and 'True Detective' in this tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it. In the heatwave summer of 1971, four kids find a body by a lake and set out to solve a murder. But they dig too deep and ask too many questions. Larson is a town reeling in the wake of the Vietnam draft, where the unrelenting heat ruins the harvest, and the people teeter on the edge of ruin. As...
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John Murray
Pub. Date
2013
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Christina Noble's story is one of bravery and resilience in the face of deprivation and abuse. Her childhood in the Dublin slums barely merits the name. Christina's hope lay in a determination to work among the bui doi, the street children of Vietnam. This was the starting point for the most extraordinary part of her story.
20) Wandering souls
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4th Estate
Pub. Date
2023
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Not long after the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh and Minh embark on a perilous boat journey to Hong Kong. Their parents and four younger siblings make the crossing in another vessel, but as weeks go by it becomes clear that only one party has survived. Anh, Thanh and Minh suddenly find themselves alone in the world, without family or home. They travel on, navigating refugee camps and resettlement centres until, by a twist...