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1) The women
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words "Women can be heroes, too," impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America" --
2) Absolution
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
xvi, 267 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Landing Zones brings to life the dramatic, gripping, and often painful stories of twenty-four Vietnam Veterans from the American South. The men and women interviewed here represent a remarkable range of experience, including a marine rifleman, a helicopter pilot, an army nurse, a prisoner of war, a riverboat gunner, and the commanding general William Westmoreland. Skillfully interviewed by James R. Wilson, a journalist and Army press officer in Vietnam,...
4) War! what is it good for?: Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 343 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
[Dianna Good Sky]
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 146 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up, I knew two things to be true: My dad was a drunk. Being an Indian was complicated. Dad tried to teach us the language, the culture, what it meant to be Ojibwe. But no one wants to learn from a drunken Indian, least of all, me. Then, in the winter of 1980, my dad nearly died. When he awoke, everything changed. This is his story. Warrior Spirit Rising is the inspiring true account of Dianna's dad, Gene, as told through her eyes. Her dad...
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