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Criminals Drama Fugitives from justice Drama United States Vietnam War (1961-1975) Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Drama Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Juvenile literature Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Personal narratives, American Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Veterans Drama WomenKeenan, Sheila
Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013
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Summary: This book explores the causes of and events leading to the Vietnam War. Easy-to-read, engaging text discusses major battles and key figures of the war and the technology and weapons used during the war. Through primary source quotes, readers will discover the experiences of soldiers and people on the home front. Readers will learn what impact the Vietnam War had on US history and the country's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.704 GITSummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAINicholson, Thom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Summary: "Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They're young, they're radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even want to take the fight to America. The Swedes treat them like pop stars--but the CIA is determined to stop all that. It's a job for the deep-cover men of Operation Chaos and their allies--agents who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 SWESummary: Based on the true story of Ron Kovic, a young man who volunteered for the Vietnam War, was wounded, and returned paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He later became a new voice for those disenchanted with the war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BORSummary: When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESAtwood, Kathryn J.
Summary: Readers are introduced to courageous women and girls who risked their lives through their involvement in the conflict in Vietnam. These women served in dangerous roles as medics, journalists, resisters, and revolutionaries. Through their varied experiences and perspectives, young readers gain insight into the many facets of this tragic and complex conflict.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 ATWPyle, Richard.
Summary: Relates the circumstances behind the deaths of four combat photographers in 1971 when their helicopter was shot down over Laos, and the efforts to locate the crash site and the photographers' remains twenty-seven years later.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 PYLJones, Howard
Summary: "In this raw, searing new narrative account, Howard Jones reopens the case of My Lai by examining individual accounts of both victims and soldiers through extensive archival and original research. Jones evokes the horror of the event itself, the attempt to suppress it, as well as the response to Calley's sentence and the seemingly unanswerable question of whether he had merely been following...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 JONWagner, Sarah E.
Summary: Nearly 1,600 Americans who took part in the Vietnam War are still missing and presumed dead. Sarah Wagner tells the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. Today's forensic science can identify remains from mere traces, raising expectations for repatriation and forcing a new reckoning with the toll of America's most fraught war.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 WAGSummary: Heroic, daring and more than just a little colorful, The A-Team is a brave band of brothers who will stop at nothing to get the bad guys. Pile into that famous black van for another season of adventure with Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. as they fight for justice against criminals, while staying one step ahead of their archenemy, Colonel Decker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AChant, Christopher
Summary: The Vietnam War constitutes a defining moment in modern history. Starting from a time soon after the Japanese surrender in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, and lasting to the North Vietnamese conquest of South Vietnam in 1975 to re-create a unified Vietnamese state, the war pitted the Communists of Vietnam, against a number of opponents. Those included first the French and second the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 959.7 CHACooke, Tim
Summary: "Approaches the topic of the Vietnam War from the perspective of soldiers fighting in it"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.7 COOProchnau, William W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 PROStanton, Doug
Summary: A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 959.7 STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 959.7 STASummary: They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECarlock, Chuck
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Pub. Group 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 CARSummary: The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural, and social liberation. Looking through the lens of television, this production weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960s in America, sketching a portrait of this remarkable decade that is both entertaining and illuminating.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2015
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIXSummary: Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends, whose lives are irrevocably changed by a tour of duty in Vietnam. The film is renowned for the Russian roulette scenes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2012
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 CASFirme, Tom
Summary: "Learn about the history of the Vietnam War (1957-1975) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.7 FIRDelany, Dana.
Summary: Follows the daily lives of doctors, nurses, soldiers, and others stationed at an American base during the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014