Talty, Stephan

Summary: The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him. At the height of the Vietnam War, few...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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Mann, Robert

Summary: America's Descent into Vietnam, Given by Dr. JamesE. Archer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 MAN

Gitlin, Marty

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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Moyar, Mark

Summary: "Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many new insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2006

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Hastings, Max

Summary: "Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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Summary: Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FOR

DiConsiglio, John

Summary: "Book about the three days in Vietnam"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.704 DIC

Graham, J. M. (James M.)

Summary: "Arizona Moon describes a fictional no-name operation in Vietnam's infamous Arizona Territory and Golf's 1st platoon of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines operating west of the Tu Bon River in Quang Nam Province. The story centers on a squad leader, Corporal Raymond Strader, and an Apache Native American, L/Cpl Noche Gonshayee. Strader has only three days until his thirteen month tour of duty ends,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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McDermott, Alice

Summary: 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 balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC MCD

Nguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai

Summary: "An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NGU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Nguyen

Contents: Tìn ta như lửa đơm hoa / Carol Kim -- Sống cho nhau / Hùng Cường & Mai Lệ Huyền -- Mộng về quê / Duy Quang & Thái Hiền -- Nếu mình còn yêu nhau / Thanh Vũ -- Lý luận tình yêu / Connie Kim -- Phố đêm / Hóa Tấu -- Mùa xuân gửi em / Phượng Mai -- Diễm xưa / Khánh Ly -- Căn nhà ngoại ô / Kim Loan -- Đoàn người lữ thứ / Thanh Thúy & Văn Thanh, Hoàng Liêm & Thanh Mai -- Đêm cuối cùng / Kiều...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Saigon Supersound 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN SAI

Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

Summary: "Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HO

Phương, Tâm.

Contents: Có Nhớ Đêm Nào(2:59 min) -- Buồn 18(3:09 min) -- 20-40(3:07 min) -- Anh Đâu Em Đó(3:18 min) -- Nếu Có Xa Nhau(3:58 min) -- Phút Say Mơ(3:28 min) -- Đêm Huyền Diệu(3:26 min) -- Nhịp Đàn Vui(2:53 min) -- Ai?(2:41 min) -- Vẫn Yêu Hoà(2:34 min) -- Ngày Phép Của Lính(3:10 min) -- Lá Thư(3:38 min) -- Đôi Tám(2:56 min) -- Thần Tượng(3:21 min) -- Nhớ Mình Anh Thôi(2:50 min) -- 60 Năm(3:05 min) -- Tình...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sublime Frequencies 2021

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Goscha, Christopher E.

Summary: "On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power-and win. After nearly a decade of war, the country that had been forged in the crucible of the Indochina War had achieved a victory unseen in any other movement for national liberation. In The Road to Dien Bien Phu, historian Christopher Goscha...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 GOS

Krans, Angela Pham

Summary: "Follows young Mai and her mother's perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa--who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRA

Hayasaki, Erika

Summary: "Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HAY

Henzel, Cynthia Kennedy

Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Vietnamese immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HEN