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United States United States History 1961-1969 United States History 1969- United States Politics and government 1969-1974 Vietnam History 1945-1975 Vietnam War (1961-1975) Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Vietnam War, 1961-1975 History Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States War Psychological aspectsChant, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 959.7 CHAKarnow, Stanley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 959.704 KarnoSummary: In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc Vi 2Summary: In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc Vi 1Summary: In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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3 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VIECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VIE NOT RATEDO'Connor, Jim
Summary: "Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the Civil Rights Movement. Five US presidents were convinced that American troops could end a war in the small, divided country of Vietnam and stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. But they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.704 OCOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JT US Hist What O'ConnorBurkett, B.G. (Bernard Gary)
Summary: Military documents reveal decades of deceit about the Vietnam War and myths perpetuated by the mainstream media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verity Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 BURPhillips, Rufus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 PHISummary: Half a century since it officially began, America is still trying to come to terms with the Vietnam War and its monstrous effects. This stunning commemorative documentary exposes the war as it was, from the background, to the battleground, with a detailed look at the many military units that were deployed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creation Films & Entertainment Radio 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc AmTurse, Nick.
Summary: Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 TURSummary: In the final weeks of the Vietnam War, American servicemen and others begin the difficult mission of evacuating as many friends, family members and South Vietnamese collaborators as possible before Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LASSummary: The words 'My Lai' are seared into our memories of the Vietnam War, but few know what really happened in the small Vietnamese village on March 16, 1968. Now, drawing on 400 hours of recently discovered audio recordings and new interviews with participants, eye witnesses, and investigators, the complete story can finally be told about one of the most shocking atrocities in modern times, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYFreeman, Gregory A.
Summary: In the vein of Crimson Tide, with action pulled straight from a high seas thriller, this is the exciting story of a mutiny that the U.S. Navy denies to this day. In 1972, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin when many of the five thousand men cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the unpopular war rioted -- or, as Freeman claims, mutinied. Most disturbingly,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 FRESheinkin, Steve
Summary: Presents the story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 959.7 SHESummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Sweet, Matthew
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 SWESummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2015
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIXStanton, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 STACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars StantonSummary: The untold story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war in Vietnam. This movie profiles an event that profoundly impacted American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from memory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SIRSheinkin, Steve.
Summary: "The story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 959.7 SHESeahorn, Janet J.
Summary: The author writes from his experience as a young army officer in Vietnam who served with the Dauntless Black Lions of the 1st Infantry Division. His spouse and co-author describes her perspective as a wife and mother who has lived the past thirty years with a veteran who suffers from the physical, and more specifically, the mental scars of combat. You will become familiar with how PTSD...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Team Pursuits 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.8521 SEARoberts, Lawrence
Summary: "A cinematic history of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 ROBMichel, Marshall L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 MICBlack, George
Summary: "The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023