Acclaimed as one of the most important novels of the Vietnam War, Year of the Monkey takes us not only into the savage jungles where death waits in every paddyfield and triple canopy, but into the apocalyptic world of political...
Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Author:Argo, RonaldSummary:
- Author:Vu, Caroline, Steenhout, IvanSummary:
Ce roman choc raconte la vie tumultueuse d’une famille nord-vietnamienne ballottée par les caprices de l’Histoire et aux prises avec sa propre folie. À travers un récit teinté d’humour, on découvre les aventures rocambolesques d’un clan...
- Author:Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk, Ho, VanSummary:
After the Vietnam War, a young girl is left behind in the care of her grandmother when the rest of her family flees the new communist regime by boat. Once settled in North America, her parents will send for her; but in the meantime, Van...
- Author:Hannah, KristinSummary:
From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women - at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When...
- Author:Boot, MaxSummary:
In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908- 1987), the man said to be...
- Author:Eskens, AllenSummary:
An ordinary writing assignment for a college English class brings Joe face-to-face with a dying Vietnam veteran, who is also a convicted murderer.
- Author:DeMille, NelsonSummary:
On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger a US POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns a place called Mrs. Ivanova's Charm...
- Author:Reichs, KathySummary:
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan investigates the death of a man who appears to have died while engaged in a bizarre sexual act and who was originally declared dead four decades earlier.
- Author:Bowden, TimSummary:
For over twenty years journalist Neil Davis covered the conflicts in South-East Asia.
- Author:Campbell, HarlenSummary:
High on a mountain above Albuquerque lives a man who's a throwback to the outlaw heroes of the Old West. Rainbow Porter lives on the edge, watches his back, and occasionally drops into the valley below to lend a hand to those in trouble...
- Author:Marlantes, KarlSummary:
A young marine in Vietnam has big ambitions to command a company, but two other soldiers stand in his way. Then, as he experiences the cost of combat, he begins to see the terrible results of his ambition.
- Author:Mason, Bobbie Ann.Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Issy and her newly single mother, Caroline Evans, are struggling to find their way alone, as well as together. At thirty-eight, with little money and all the responsibility for the two of them, Caroline is coming to...
- Author:Thúy, KimSummary:
In the midst of war, an ordinary miracle : an abandoned baby tenderly cared for by a young boy living on the streets of Saigon. The boy is Louis, the child of a long-gone American soldier. Louis calls the baby em Hồng, em meaning...
- Author:Maclear, Michael, Fetherling, George, Gaffen, FredSummary:
The Vietnam War was a regional conflict that turned into an epic confrontation between ideologies, leaving deep scars on the psyches of nations that fought and long-lasting physical damage to Vietnam itself. The three books in this...
- Author:Brown, LarrySummary:
Presents a Vietnam war story that probes the long-term effects of combat on two veterans.
- Author:Mattison, AliceSummary:
Decades ago in Brooklyn, three girls demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and each followed a distinct path into adulthood. Helen became a violent revolutionary. Val wrote a controversial book, Bright Morning of Pain, which was...
- Author:Fletcher, CrystalSummary:
Three women, three countries, three stories—the destinies of a Thai in prison for murdering her husband, a Cambodian longing for a child, and a Laotian Hmong refugee are threaded together by the tears leftover from the Vietnam War. Each...
- Author:Bailey, BethSummary:
By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in United States history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in...
- Author:Sprague, DebbieSummary:
Combat-related PTSD and its effects on families that support wounded warriors is a growing concern throughout the world. This is a topic that few truly understand, and even fewer know how to help and support the veterans and families...
- Author:Woods, Randall BennettSummary:
World War II commando, Cold War spy, and CIA director under presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest...