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Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c1999, c1978
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
336 p.
Language
English
Description
Captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked this strangest of wars. Reality and fantasy merge in this fictional account of one private's sudden decision to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. Will Cacciato make it all the way? Or will he be yet another casualty of a conflict that seems to have no end?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
vi, 278 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a forthright and piercing account of one soldierś participation in the War in Vietnam. Grounded in facts but still full of humor, it is a tale that follows a young man from Colorado through the horrors of war and beyond.
Series
Criterion collection volume 156
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Examines the American consciousness that led to involvement in Vietnam. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland; former Secretary of Defense, Clark Clifford; Senator William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; and Daniel Ellsberg.
8) Time to hunt
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Paul Brenner novels volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
706 p. : map (on endpapers) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paul Brenner, forced to retire from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, embarks upon a path of lies, secrets, and betrayals when he is called back into service to uncover the truth about a thirty-year-old murder case that occurred during the Vietnam War.
Author
Series
Folly Island volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
383 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Allen Carmichael is a man, himself much wounded by life, who rescues abused women and their children, protects them, and finds them safe shelter. In Keeping Watch, he rescues twelve year-old Jaimie O'Connell and takes him to safety, only afterward beginning to wonder if the child is as innocent as he appears.
15) Finding moon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moon Mathias embarks on a journey of personal discovery when he goes to the Republic of Vietnam during the last days of the war, to find a niece whose existence he has just discovered.
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