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: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: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: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: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...