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Author |
: Daniel P. Bolger |
Publisher |
: Da Capo Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2017-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780306903243 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0306903245 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Year of War by : Daniel P. Bolger
Two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step--one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war--a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.
Author |
: Joe Haldeman |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 2014-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781497692459 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1497692458 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis War Year by : Joe Haldeman
A tour of duty through the worst that the world has to offer Before his time as a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before penning multiple Nebula and Hugo Award–winning novels and stories, Joe Haldeman was a soldier in Vietnam, an experience that changed him and colored much of what he has written. War Year is Haldeman’s first novel and his first attempt to describe what he saw in Vietnam and give insight into what happened for the benefit of those who weren’t there. The minimalist War Year follows the life of John Farmer, a combat engineer, over the course of a year in Vietnam. John undergoes training, and then, along with his fellow soldiers, does whatever it takes to survive in unforgiving conditions. Powerful and affecting, War Year reaches its highest peaks as it describes with enduring truth the sights and experiences of what it was like to be in the humid jungles of Vietnam in 1968. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Author |
: Craig DiLouie |
Publisher |
: Orbit |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2019-08-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316525251 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316525251 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our War by : Craig DiLouie
On the battlefields of America, even our children will have to fight. In his most powerful novel to date, acclaimed author Craig DiLouie presents a near future in which America is entrenched in civil war. After his impeachment, the president of the United States refuses to leave office, and the country erupts into a fractured and violent war. Orphaned by the fighting and looking for a home, 10-year-old Hannah Miller joins a citizen militia in a besieged Indianapolis. In the Free Women militia, Hannah finds a makeshift family. They'll teach her how to survive. They'll give her hope. And they'll show her how to use a gun. "An instant classic that will join the ranks of dystopian futures that at times feel all too real." - Nicholas Sansbury Smith, USA Today Bestselling Author
Author |
: Dan Blakeley |
Publisher |
: Ballast Books |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2021-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1733428097 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781733428095 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Twenty Year War by : Dan Blakeley
Author |
: Susan Meissner |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2020-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780451492166 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0451492161 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Year of the War by : Susan Meissner
From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowa—aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity. The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences. But when the Sontag family is exchanged for American prisoners behind enemy lines in Germany, Elise will face head-on the person the war desires to make of her. In that devastating crucible she must discover if she has the will to rise above prejudice and hatred and re-claim her own destiny, or disappear into the image others have cast upon her. The Last Year of the War tells a little-known story of World War II with great resonance for our own times and challenges the very notion of who we are when who we’ve always been is called into question.
Author |
: Lewis Sorley |
Publisher |
: HMH |
Total Pages |
: 547 |
Release |
: 1999-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547417455 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547417454 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Better War by : Lewis Sorley
“A comprehensive and long-overdue examination of the immediate post–Tet offensive years [from a] first-rate historian.” —The New York Times Book Review Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing from thousands of hours of previously unavailable (and still classified) tape-recorded meetings between the highest levels of the American military command in Vietnam, A Better War is an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these final years. Through his exclusive access to authoritative materials, award-winning historian Lewis Sorley highlights the dramatic differences in conception, conduct, and—at least for a time—results between the early and later years of the war. Among his most important findings is that while the war was being lost at the peace table and in the U.S. Congress, the soldiers were winning on the ground. Meticulously researched and movingly told, A Better War sheds new light on the Vietnam War.
Author |
: Bruce Palmer |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813128528 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813128528 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The 25-year War by : Bruce Palmer
Author |
: Jonathan Cohn |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2021-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250270948 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250270944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ten Year War by : Jonathan Cohn
Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists. The Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another, for better or worse, and become the defining political fight of our time. In The Ten Year War, veteran journalist Jonathan Cohn offers the compelling, authoritative history of how the law came to be, why it looks like it does, and what it’s meant for average Americans. Drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews, plus private diaries, emails and memos, The Ten Year War takes readers to Capitol Hill and to town hall meetings, inside the West Wing and, eventually, into Trump Tower, as the nation's most powerful leaders try to reconcile pragmatism and idealism, self-interest and the public good, and ultimately two very different visions for what the country should look like. At the heart of the book is the decades-old argument over what’s wrong with American health care and how to fix it. But the battle over healthcare was always about more than policy. The Ten Year War offers a deeper examination of how our governing institutions, the media and the two parties have evolved, and the dysfunction those changes have left in their wake.
Author |
: Alan Axelrod |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1402790252 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781402790256 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Real History of the Vietnam War by : Alan Axelrod
"Examines the history of Vietnam leading up to the war, investigates the reasons for the conflict, looks at the war's escalation and progression (or lack thereof), and explores its repercussions then and now"--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Michael Maclear |
Publisher |
: Methuen |
Total Pages |
: 492 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0423005804 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780423005806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vietnam by : Michael Maclear