After the Vietnam War ground to a bloody halt, long after the boys were officially sent home, evidence remained that over 2,000 American soldiers were still missing in Southeast Asia. In this shocking expose, journalist Nigel Cawthorne examines the evidence -- from CIA documents and Pentagon files to the streets of Hanoi.
Cawthorne has cracked open the biggest cover-up since the Watergate scandal. The freelance journalist uses CIA documents and Pentagon files to reveal that the U.S. government deliberately withheld crucial information about American soldiers still missing in Vietnam. Photos.
This comprehensive review of the gulag system instituted in communist Vietnam explores the three-pronged approach that was used to convert the rebellious South into a full-fledged communist country after 1975. This book attempts to retrace the path of these imprisoned people from the last months of the war to their escape from Vietnam and explores the emotions that gripped them throughout their stay in the camps. Individual reactions to the camps varied depending on philosophical, emotional and moral beliefs. This reconstruction of those years serves as a memoir for all who were incarcerated in the bamboo gulags.
Providing definitive answers to the POW/MIA mystery, an authoritative investigation into an enduring controversy reveals shocking information from secret Vietnamese archives about MIA and POW cases, including photographs and material obtained from Operation Swamp Ranger. “Enthralling and fast-paced, yet encyclopedic in scope,” says Major General John K. Singlaub, U.S. Army.
I don't like to pack too much into an ordinary day and this one had already been pretty eventful - two arguments with women, a fight in a pub, a warning from the Old Bill and a fiasco at auction that lost me an exquisite antique Japanese firefly cage. The trouble was, somebody wanted that little gem even more than I did. It was the key that would unlock a secret they'd to anything to keep under wraps, even murder. If only they could only have gone about their dirty deeds without involving me or my friends, they might have got away with it all, but when the master craftsman bravely trying to teach me the art of gadrooning fell foul of them and paid for it with his life, they had me to deal with . . .
Tom O'Kell is a special soul who, unknowingly, stands between the Devil and His quest for Eternal Infinity. The Devil will do anything in His power to destroy Tom and anyone else who dares to stand in His way. Join Tom and his cousins, Emily and Jake, as they accidentally journey into The Otherworld via the beat of The Shaman's Drum. Who will be taken to the Land Of Nightmares by the sabre-toothed fairies, The Narcons? Can they overcome the demonic Bildrogs and Miradons as they cross The Graveyard Of The Damned? Will Gildrude, Magmuk and Humphag make a nauseating stew out of their flesh and bones? Can they save The Chosen One? Tremble at these and other monsters in this first Tom O'Kell adventure. Tom O'Kell the little boy with a big heart. Remember to check under your bed and leave the light on. You never know what is lurking in the dark corners of your mind.
This book crtitically examines the reciprocal relationship between creativity and the built environment and features leading voices from across the world in a debate on originating, learning, modifying, and plagiarizing creativities within the built environment. The Companion includes contributions from architecture, design, planning, construction, real estate, economics, urban studies, geography, sociology, and public policies. Contributors review the current field and proposes new conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, and directions for research, policy, and practice. Chapters are organised into five sections, each drawing on cross-disciplinary insights and debates: Section I connects creativity, productivity, and economic growth and examines how our built environment stimulates or intimidates human imaginations. Section II addresses how hard environments are fabricated with social, cultural, and institutional meanings, and how these evolve in different times and settings. Section III discusses activities that directly and indirectly shape the material development of a built environment, its environmental sustainability, space utility, and place identity. Section IV illustrates how technologies and innovations are used in building and strengthening an intelligent, real-time, responsive urban agenda. Section V examines governance opportunities and challenges at the interface between creativity and built environment. An important resource for scholars and students in the fields of urban planning and development, urban studies, environmental sustainability, human geography, sociology, and public policy.