Passage to Vietnam
Author: Rick Smolan
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
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Operation Passage to Freedom
Author: Ronald Bruce Frankum
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780896726086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVery little has been written about the U.S. Navy in Vietnam in the immediate post-Korean War era, nor has the magnitude of American participation in the resettlement of Vietnam refugees following the 1954 Geneva Conference been explored. Beginning in the fall of 1954, U.S. Navy ships, as a part of Task Force 90, helped to relocate thousands of displaced North Vietnamese to South Vietnam following the separation of the nation at the 17th parallel. What those sailors accomplished during the three hundred days of Operation Passage to Freedom forever changed the lives of more than 310,000 Vietnamese who traveled on their ships. In Operation Passage to Freedom Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. recounts the events surrounding this enormous humanitarian evacuation that was the American military's first major involvement with the Vietnamese people. Based on archival research and interviews with more than forty sailors who participated in Task Force 90, Operation Passage to Freedom illuminates a mission that has been all but forgotten and also explores how the initial humanitarian involvement of the United States in Vietnam eventually led to massive military involvement in the 1960s and 1970s.
Northern Passage
Author: John Hagan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001-05-31
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780674004719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 50,000 Americans migrated to Canada during the Vietnam War. Hagan, himself a member of the exodus, searched declassified government files, consulted previously unopened resistance organization archives and contemporary oral histories, and interviewed American war resisters settled in Toronto to learn how they made the momentous decision.
Passage to Vietnam/Book and Cd-Rom
Author: Rick Smolan
Publisher: Against All Odds Productions & Melcher Media
Published: 1995-04
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781885559012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cave
Author: Tim Krabbe
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2003-05-16
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0374529167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stunning psychological thriller about friship, drugs, and murder from the author of The Vanishing. Egon Wagter and Axel van de Graaf met when they were both fourteen and on vacation in Belgium. Axel is fascinating, filled with an amoral energy by which the more prudent, less adventurous Egon is both mesmerized and repelled. Even as a teen, Axel has a strange power over those around him. He defies authority, seduces women, breaks the law. Axel chooses Egon as a friend, a friendship that somehow ures over time and ends up determining Egon's fate. During his university studies, Egon frequents Axel's house in Amsterdam, where there is a party every night and women fill the rooms. Though Egon chooses geology over Axel's life of avarice and drug dealing, he remains intrigued by his friend's conviction that the only law that counts is the law he makes himself. Egon believes that Axel is a demonic figure who tempts others only because he knows they want to be tempted. By the time he is in his forties, Egon finds himself divorced and with few professional prospects. He turns for help to Axel, who sends him to Ratanakiri, a fictional country in Southeast Asia. Axel gives Egon a suitcase to deliver-and Egon never returns. Utterly compelling and resonant, The Cave is an unforgettable story of betrayal in the spirit of Tim Krabbé's remarkable first novel, The Vanishing.
Sigh, Gone
Author: Phuc Tran
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1250194725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. Appealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat, Running with Scissors, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Displaced and The Refugees, Sigh, Gone explores one man’s bewildering experiences of abuse, racism, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the ‘80s, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature, and in the subculture of punk rock, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes—and ultimately saves—him.
Crosshairs on the Kill Zone
Author: Charles W. Sasser
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2004-07-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1416503625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the jungles of Vietnam to the unforgiving deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, one breed of soldier has achieved legendary status in the arena of combat—the sniper. From the authors of the classic sniper chronicle One Shot-One Kill comes a new generation of true tales from some of the most expert and deadly marksmen in the world. Meet Adelbert Waldron II, whose 109 confirmed kills in Vietnam made him the most successful sniper in American military history, and Tom "Moose" Ferran, who coined the term "Fetch!", whereupon the infantry would retrieve the sniper's dead quarry. Also included are stories from snipers in Beirut, the Bosnian conflict, and both wars with Iraq—including the feat of Sergeants Joshua Hamblin and Owen Mulder, who took down thirty-two enemy soldiers in a single day outside Baghdad in 2003. The military sniper has evolved into one of the most dangerous and highly-skilled warrior professions. They suffer through weather, terrain, and enemy action, lay unmoving for days on end, and take out their targets with unerring accuracy—proving that the deadliest weapon in any battle, anywhere in the world, is a single well-aimed shot.
Vietnam Memoirs
Author: J Robert Falabella
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1612514502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA U.S. Army chaplain for the 25th Infantry Division recounts his experiences sharing the hardships and dangers that made up the daily routine of a combat soldier in Vietnam. Chaplain Falabella, decorated for his bravery under fire, offers eyewitness accounts of search-and-destroy missions, night ambushes, helicopter assaults, and a multi-hour fire fight during the first TET Offensive. The chaplain's memoir persuasively captures the emotions of his men—the anxiety and loneliness—and the effect of the climate and terrain on the mind, body, and spirit. His descriptions of waiting for approaching attacks and visits to the field hospitals are particularly memorable. Running through the narrative are Falabella's observations on the conduct of the war and his efforts to make certain these combat soldiers are never forgotten.
Bound for Vietnam
Author: Lydia Laube
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781862544628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrown off course by a chance conversation on the Trans-Siberian Express, Lydia Laube, author of Behind the Veil: An Australian Nurse in Saudi Arabia and Slowboat to Mongolia heads for the hills of South China in search of a passage to Vietnam. Exiting China by pedal power, and entering Vietnam on a motor bike, she careers through the weird and wonderful world of Vietnam to produce this look at a unique landscape and culture.
Passage to Vietnam/Cd-Rom
Author: Against All Odds Productions
Publisher: Against All Odds Productions & Melcher Media
Published: 1995-03-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781885559029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe creator of the Day in the Life photography series takes users on assignment with the world's best photojournalists as they create an intimate portrait of today's Vietnam, 20 years after the end of the war.
