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4) The berets
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
1985
Description
They were the chosen ones and the ones who chose to be the best. Never before had the United States given so select a group of fighting men such punishing preparation. Now they were heading for their ultimate test of skill and nerve and sacrifice, in a war unlike any they or their country had ever fought before in a land that most of America still knew nothing about. Vietnam.
11) The great alone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
16) Bitterroot
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.
Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke's novel features Billy Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based lawyer, who has come to Big Sky Country for some fishing and ends...
18) Message from Nam
Author
Description
Set against the background of the war in Vietnam, this novel follows the life of journalist Paxton Andrews in Saigon, where she becomes an acclaimed war correspondent before returning to the U.S.A., her life irrovocable changed by her experiences.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
c1984
Description
On April 30, 1975, Saigon and the government of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam, ending - for American military forces - exactly twenty-five year of courageous but unavailing struggle. This is not the story of how America became embroiled in a conflict in a small country half-way around the globe, nor of why our armed forces remained there so long after the futility of our efforts became obvious to many. It is the story...
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