Hue 1968

Hue 1968
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Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Total Pages : 676
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ISBN-10 : 9780802189240
ISBN-13 : 0802189245
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Hue 1968 by : Mark Bowden

The author of Black Hawk Down vividly recounts a pivotal Vietnam War battle in this New York Times bestseller: “An extraordinary feat of journalism”. —Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal In Hue 1968, Mark Bowden presents a detailed, day-by-day reconstruction of the most critical battle of the Tet Offensive. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched attacks across South Vietnam. The lynchpin of this campaign was the capture of Hue, Vietnam’s intellectual and cultural capital. 10,000 troops descended from hidden camps and surged across the city, taking everything but two small military outposts. American commanders refused to believe the size and scope of the siege, ordering small companies of marines against thousands of entrenched enemy troops. After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city block by block, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II. With unprecedented access to war archives in the United States and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through multiple viewpoints. Played out over 24 days and ultimately costing 10,000 lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the entire war. When it ended, the American debate was never again about winning, only about how to leave. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction

U.S. Marines in Vietnam

U.S. Marines in Vietnam
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433050744691
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis U.S. Marines in Vietnam by : Charles Richard Smith

U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965

U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965
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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages : 666
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ISBN-10 : 9781787200838
ISBN-13 : 1787200833
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965 by : Dr. Jack Shulimson

This is the second volume in a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War. This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat units were committed to the conflict. The narrative traces the landing of the nearly 5,000-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and its transformation into the ΙII Marine Amphibious Force, which by the end of the year contained over 38,000 Marines. During this period, the Marines established three enclaves in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, and their mission expanded from defense of the Da Nang Airbase to a balanced strategy involving base defense, offensive operations, and pacification. This volume continues to treat the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese armed forces but in less detail than its predecessor volume, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1964; The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era.

Military Geography for Professionals and the Public

Military Geography for Professionals and the Public
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Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages : 462
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ISBN-10 : 9781574881806
ISBN-13 : 1574881809
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Military Geography for Professionals and the Public by : John M. Collins

An examination of geography's critical effects on battles throughout the ages

Where Am I Wearing?

Where Am I Wearing?
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000122572724
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Where Am I Wearing? by : Kelsey Timmerman

A journalist travels to Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Honduras, and back to the U.S. to trace the origins of our clothes.

Parallax Visions

Parallax Visions
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0822329247
ISBN-13 : 9780822329244
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Parallax Visions by : Bruce Cumings

Collection of essays by Cumings on the complex problems of political economy and ideology, power and culture in East and Northeast Asia, providing an understanding of the United States's role in these regions and the consequences for subsequent policy mak

The General Stud-book

The General Stud-book
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 676
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:555065461
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The General Stud-book by :

On the Noodle Road

On the Noodle Road
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9781101616192
ISBN-13 : 1101616199
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis On the Noodle Road by : Jen Lin-Liu

A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love. As a newlywed traveling in Italy, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked back in China, where she’d lived for more than a decade. Who really invented the noodle? she wondered, like many before her. But also: How had food and culture moved along the Silk Road, the ancient trade route linking Asia to Europe—and what could still be felt of those long-ago migrations? With her new husband’s blessing, she set out to discover the connections, both historical and personal, eating a path through western China and on into Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, and across the Mediterranean. The journey takes Lin-Liu into the private kitchens where the headscarves come off and women not only knead and simmer but also confess and confide. The thin rounds of dough stuffed with meat that are dumplings in Beijing evolve into manti in Turkey—their tiny size the measure of a bride’s worth—and end as tortellini in Italy. And as she stirs and samples, listening to the women talk about their lives and longings, Lin-Liu gains a new appreciation of her own marriage, learning to savor the sweetness of love freely chosen.