The youngest of four children and the only girl, Vi was given a name that meant 'precious, tiny one,' destined to be cosseted and protected, the family's little treasure. Daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father...
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Author:Thúy, KimSummary: -
Author:Pedersen, DanSummary:The founder of the US Navy Fighter Weapons School, "Topgun," shares the untold inside story of how he and eight other pilots revolutionized aerial combat and created a center for excellence and leadership, in a book timed to coincide...
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Author:Jack HigginsSummary:Surviving a helicopter crash, Ellis Jackson is taken prisoner in Vietnam and placed in a special camp designed specifically for brainwashing. His beautiful Chinese "instructor", Madame NY, seduces him into confusion, but...
- Author:Rufus, RobSummary:
During the tumultuous year of 1968, four teens are drawn together: Ronnie Bingham, who is grieving his brother's death in Vietnam; Milo, Ronnie's bookish best friend; Ramrod, a star athlete who is secretly avoiding the draft; and Hana,...
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Author:Steinman, RonSummary:Personal accounts of the Vietnam war from veterans.
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Author:Mai, Nguyen Phan QueSummary:With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set...
- Author:Levinson, BarrySummary:
Baltimore in 1966 is a quiet, blue-collar town. But all that is about to change for one group of young men. Bobby drops out of law school during his final year. Neil heads for the war in Vietnam, but goes AWOL and comes home as an...
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Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:Josh knows he’s riding recklessly when he knocks down an old man on a logging road. But he is shocked when the old man walks into the forest with his dirt bike. A week without his beloved bike motivates Josh to hike into the woods to...
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Vietnam verteran Allen Carmichael has lived on the fringe of society since the war, rescuing abused children from hostile environments and placing them with foster families. Now in California, he comes to the aid of 12-year-old Jamie,...
- Author:Lakin, C. S.Summary:
At the height of the Vietnam War in 1971, Jake Abrams is desperate to leave his oppressive home in Colorado and begin a new life in college in LA, but his dreams are waylaid when he meets Leah, an antiwar protester who pushes him into...
- Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
Following a late-night phone call from his associate Lucas Davenport, Flowers is thrust back into the world of homicide investigation. A dead body has turned up with a lemon stuffed in its mouth--just like the corpse authorities found...
- Author:King, StephenSummary:
Full of danger, full of suspense and full of heart these are five interconnected narratives, each rooted in the sixties and each haunted by the Vietnam War.
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Author:HILLERMAN, TonySummary:It is 1973 and Malcolm Mathias, known as Moon, is devastated to learn of his brother's death in a helicopter crash in Cambodia. Moon travels to Asia to sort out his brother's affairs and soon finds himself being pursued by a...
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Author:Wright, James EdwardSummary:This book recounts the experiences of the young Americans who fought in Vietnam and of families who grieved those who did not return. By 1969 nearly half of the junior enlisted men who died in Vietnam were draftees. Their median age was...
- Author:Herr, MichaelSummary:
A documentation of the day-to-day realities of the war in Vietnam experienced by men on patrol, under siege at Khe Sanh, strapped into helicopters, and faced with continuing nightmares after their return to the United States.
- Author:Brown, LarrySummary:
Presents a Vietnam war story that probes the long-term effects of combat on two veterans.
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Author:Townley, AlvinSummary:Alvin Townley takes listeners back to the Vietnam War to tell the story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives...
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Author:Hahn, Mary DowningSummary:Fourteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed, homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban library, though the man makes it clear he wants to be left alone.
- Author:Grooms, AnthonySummary:
When Walter Burke's army buddy dies in a blood-soaked Vietnamese jungle, Walter finds himself writing a letter to the young man's parents. But as he struggles to put words on paper, all the trauma of his years growing up middle class...
- Author:McNamara, CraigSummary:
Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late 60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy's Secretary of...
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