Alaska, 1974. Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed. For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the...

You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. American women—American wives—have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they...

One night at Elaine's, Stone Barrington -- back in Manhattan after chasing down the bad guys in the Caribbean -- meets Barton Cabot, older brother of his sometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot. Barton's career in army intelligence is even more top secret than his brother's, but he's suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence. Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockfull of state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch...

Flowers is only in his late thirties, but heś been around the block a few times, and he doesnt́ think much can surprise him anymore. Heś wrong. Itś a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if youŕe keeping count), when the phone rings. Itś Lucas Davenport. Thereś a body in Stillwater--two shots to the head, found near a veteranś memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth....

The killer lies in wait, silently watching as a man and his family ride horses under the Idaho sun. Suddenly the shot rings out. a woman screams. Horse hooves thunder. And Bob Lee Swagger is jolted by a sound he knows all too well. Once he has the Marine Corps' most freared sniper. Now Swagger--husband, father, hero--is fighting to protect his wife and daughter . . . from the one shooter in the world who is as good as he is.

In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

A Vietnam veteran back at home in New York City finds himself losing his grip on reality as he sees visions of demons and his dead son.

Dramatic portrayal of a reclusive war vet and his 17 year old niece as they struggle to heal the wounds of Vietnam.

This is the story of Skip Sands--spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly,...

"An exploration of the Vietnam War from many different perspectives including an American soldier's, a nurse, and a Vietnamese refugee."--Provided by publisher.