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1) Absolution
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer "on loan" to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the "wretchedness" she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with...
Author
Publisher
Coleche Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Courage in the face of overwhelming odds. Courage that defined the generation of men who fought in Vietnam. These marines were special. Surrounded. Outnumbered. Out of ammunition. Never defeated and, in the end, victorious. Lions of Medina is the true, first hand, gritty and gutsy account of marines fighting for themselves and their comrades. The book follows the Marines and Navy Corpsmen of Charlie Company, First Marines, First Marine Division in...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"Jim Lindsay's The Sniper reveals, for the first time ever, the story of the deadliest sniper in Marine Corps history, Chuck Mawhinney, who served in the Vietnam war at age 18-written with his full cooperation and participation. Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney is a United States Marine who holds the Corps' record for the most confirmed sniper kills (and the second most of any US service member in history), having recorded 103 confirmed kills in 16 months...
6) Last flight
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
"On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon's surrender to the North Vietnamese Army. Kristen Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of the decision to flee from the perspective of someone eight years old; Playing a game of space-explorers to protect herself and her sister's eyes from tear gas; sneaking...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Hà arrived in Alabama as a refugee from the Vietnam War, she was sure she'd never get used to this strange land. But in just two years she has made friends, earning A's at school, and has found a sense of belonging.
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