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In the tradition of Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" and James Jones's "The Thin Red Line," Marlantes tells the powerful and compelling story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood.
83) Rescue dawn
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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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.
84) Love and honor
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2013.
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English
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After being dumped by his girlfriend, a solider returns home from Vietnam and tries to win her back.
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2012.
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Presented are some of America's best war films that feature a comprehensive set on the U.S. Marines in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. These are the original films as they were shot and feature real war footage documentaries that have been preserved by the National Archives of the United States.
88) Bitterroot
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[2001]
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English
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When Billy Bob Holland visits his old friend Doc Voss, he finds himself caught up in a horrific tragedy. Doc's daughter has been brutally attacked by bikers, and the ring leader, Lamar Ellison, walks free when the DNA samples 'get lost'. Then Ellison is burned alive and Doc is arrested. So much for Billy Bob's vacation - Doc needs a lawyer, and fast. And that's not all. Newly released killer Wyatt Dixon has tracked Billy Bob to Montana, bent on avenging...
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2018.
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During the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Van wakes up one morning to find that her mother, her sisters Loan and Lan, and her brother Tuan are gone. They have escaped the new communist regime that has taken over Ho Chi Minh City for freedom in the West. Four-year-old Van is too young - and her grandmother is too old - for such a dangerous journey by boat, so the two have been left behind. Once settled in North America, her parents will eventually be...
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[1967]
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English
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The escalation of U.S. forces under the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Vietnam War led to worldwide protests against the war. Martin Luther King Jr. spearheaded thousands of protests to march to the United Nations (UN) in New York, while thousands of others joined a similar protest in San Francisco.
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[1965]
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English
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The escalation of U.S. military forces in Vietnam by President Lyndon B. Johnson elicited a wave of antiwar protests across the country. While many of these protests were waged by college students who were against the draft, older Americans also joined in these demonstrations.
93) Finding Jack
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[2011]
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Joining the flagging war effort in Vietnam after losing his young family in a tragic accident, Fletcher Carson rescues a wounded yellow Labrador during a mission and faces a difficult choice when the government refuses to transport military dogs back home.
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[2015]
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English
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The Vietnam War was the first "television war." Night after night, the evening news broadcast the conflict into living rooms across America. As the country watched coverage of the fighting, Dick Cavett's late night talk show featured thoughtful conversations and debate about the war from all sides of the political spectrum, and revealed the public's growing unrest with Vietnam and the rise of strife at home. DICK CAVETT'S VIETNAM reexamines the conflict...
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[2007]
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In the sixties and early seventies, hundreds of young men from Collin County, Texas left their homes in answer to the call for the fight for freedom on the other side of the world. Twenty-one of those brave men did not return. These are their stories.
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[2021]
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English
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"When Mindy announces that she is returning to Vietnam to find her birthmother, it inspires her father, mother, and sister to recall the events of her adoption at the end of the Vietnam War during Operation Baby Lift. In this beautiful time-slip story, Mindy's family reexamines what it means to grow together beyond genetic code"--
99) I, sniper
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Special Agent Nick Memphis enlists the help of retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy involving the deaths of four famed '60s radicals--a conspiracy that would require the highest level of warcraft by the most superb special operations professionals.
100) Tomorrow's promise
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It happened the way attraction happens best: suddenly, passionately, uncontrollably, and unforgettably. Thousands of feet above the ground on a crowded flight to Washington, D.C., radio personality Keely Williams felt the irresistible pull of handsome congressman Dax Devereaux. They were speaking at the same congressional hearing about Vietnam soldiers listed as MIA. Tragically, Keely's husband was among the missing soldiers.
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