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"In the spring of 1967, Tom Haines received his bachelor's degree in one hand and his draft notice in the other. With a wicked sense of humor and appreciation for the absurd, SNAFU: my Vietnam vacation of 1969, chronicles his journey from basic infantry training at Fort Dix to joining Remington's Raiders in Pleiku and An Khe, Vietnam."--Back cover

In 1960, when I first entered college, war was the furthest thing from my mind. John Kennedy had been elected President of the USA and I was focused on simply enjoying college and some day, perhaps, going to law school. Little did I realize on August 2, 1964, that the U.S. destroyer Maddox in exchanging shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin would result in my being sent to Vietnam to support our war effort. How did I get there? What happened to me in that country? What followed thereafter? Read 50 short tales that tell the story. Donald Strauss has had a 34 year career as an executive in Fortune 100 companies. He has also taught graduate school programs in Human Resources & Career Management for over 25 years. Additionally, he has been a career consultant and was Co-Director of a non-profit retirement planning firm. His degrees are from NYU and the University of Illinois.

And Then SPARKS flew studies 70 former students from South Park High School who lost their lives in service while assigned to air units.

Silent Spring - Deadly Autumn of the Vietnam War (SSDAVW) may have been written too late to help aging Vietnam veterans with their toxic exposures and many diverse illnesses, but it's not too late to help future generations of military personnel from encountering the same fate. SSDAVW is a surreal voyage into everything the US government hasn't told you about the Vietnam War and doesn't want you to know. It's a book that cuts through to the heart of the circumstances and deadly chemicals used throughout that war.This book is more than a memoir; it's an investigative journey into the conditions US service personnel served under, and the scars we carried with us for decades. The unfortunate truth is, as soldiers, we were expendable in Vietnam, and our soldiers will be expendable in the future if we do nothing to help protect our next generation of warriors!

"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story - a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge secret codes with bravery, chutzpah and style. Honestly, I couldn't put it down."- Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Factory Man"Exhilarating and inspiring."- Elaine Showalter, Washington Post The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington-and Hanoi-to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves "feminists," but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands' freedom-and to account for missing military men-by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone's must-read list.

Vietnamese cooking is a wonder. It is a classic experience. It is worth trying out. However, it is worthy of note that it is not the simplest of tasks, especially for someone who is not from the country. That should do little to curb your interest in this cooking adventure though. This does not make it impossible; you will only need some help. This cookbook is the perfect help you need. It contains more than 25 delectable Vietnamese food recipes. And it is designed to equip you with the knowledge of these meals and how to make them as you turn the pages. Also, there is no way you can possibly make a bland meal with this cookbook because its content is designed to help you make your meals more delicious that you had imagined. Everything you have read up to this point sounds exciting, doesn't it? You can now go to the next page and get started on this cookbook's content. Oh, wait. You will need to buy this cookbook before you can do that. All right, why don't you do that now?

If you think cooking Vietnamese dishes is extremely hard, you have to think again. You have to think about what you have been doing wrong, and if you have everything you need. You might get the right ingredients, but do you have the right cookbook? Now, that you need is within your reach. "Homemade Vietnamese Recipes Cookbook: Glimpse the Amazing World of Vietnamese Cooking" will take you on a journey and open your eyes to a brand new cuisine world you were oblivious to. Now, you have something that would ensure that you get your Vietnamese meal exactly the way you want it the next time you want to try it out. And the best part? Everything happens in your home. On the surface, this is a cookbook. But it is more than that; it is your ticket to journey through a realm filled with the promise of amazing tastes. This cookbook will give you a glimpse of Vietnam and their popular and exquisite dishes. Are you ready to have fun? Grab this cookbook - it is the only ticket you need.

Positioning statement: The untold story of the FBI informants who penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labeled threats to the internal security of the United States. Sales points: Tells the story of FBI informants in Communist groups in America in the 60s and 70s Uses newly released FBI documents to uncover significant information about various suspected FBI informants The follow up to their groundbreaking 2015 book, Heavy Radicals. Topical in light of recent US Government leaks and FBI cover-ups Synopsis: Sometime in the late fall/early winter of 1962, a document began circulating among members of the Communist Party USA based in the Chicago area, titled ''Whither the Party of Lenin.'' It was signed ''The Ad Hoc Committee for Scientific Socialist Line.'' This was not the work of factionally inclined CP comrades, but rather something springing from the counter-intelligence imagination of the FBI. A Threat of the First Magnitude tells the story of the FBI's fake Maoist organization, The Ad Hoc Committee for a Scientific Socialist Line, and the informants the FBI used to penetrate the highest levels of the Communist Party USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labelled threats to the internal security of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. As once again the FBI is thrust into the spotlight of US politics, A Threat of a First Magnitude offers a view of the historic inner-workings of the Bureau's counterintelligence operations - from generating ''''fake news'''' and the utilization of ''''sensitive intelligence methods'''' to the handling of ''''reliable sources'''' - that matches or exceeds the sophistication of any contenders.

The author recounts his personal experiences and those of his fellow HMM-262 Marine Aviators who flew CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters in Phu Bai, South Vietnam from 1969-1970.

"The story of a Marine overseas and his girl back home in New York. Their letters encompass a first hand look at the Vietnam War and the love forged during a year apart ... The journey toward this book began 50 years ago, with the hundreds of letters Mac and I wrote to each other. While packing for a cross-country move, I opened the box containing those letters and rediscovered the people we were then. Memories flooded back. I shared the stories with friends. Family members convinced me to use these letters as the foundation for a book, which would tell our story and relay a history of 1968-1970 from a first hand perspective. I was able to access information from Mac's USMC records and other research sources, which helped me to better understand the things he'd alluded to in his letters. It was like putting together the pieces of a puzzle. Facts, time and perspective joined to give me a bigger, clearer picture of those eventful years. I've learned that life must be lived forward, but understood by looking back.'--

"BATTLEFIELD 44" is offered in three volumes covering successive periods of the 1st Battalion, 52nd Infantry's deployment to Vietnam: - Volume I - October 26, 1967 through April 20, 1969; - Volume II - April 21, 1969 through June 30, 1970; - Volume III - July 1, 1970 through October 10, 1971. Each volume contains written accounts and photos from veterans of the Battalion, as well as Army newspaper articles of the periods covered, and the comlete set of the Battalion Tactical Operations Center Daily Journal entries, recording detailed actions of the units and soldiers. Veterans of the Battalion will be able to trace the events related to their service while in Vietnam.

"BATTLEFIELD 44" is offered in three volumes covering successive periods of the 1st Battalion, 52nd Infantry's deployment to Vietnam: - Volume I - October 26, 1967 through April 20, 1969; - Volume II - April 21, 1969 through June 30, 1970; - Volume III - July 1, 1970 through October 10, 1971. Each volume contains written accounts and photos from veterans of the Battalion, as well as Army newspaper articles of the periods covered, and the comlete set of the Battalion Tactical Operations Center Daily Journal entries, recording detailed actions of the units and soldiers. Veterans of the Battalion will be able to trace the events related to their service while in Vietnam.

SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS’ AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers shares the powerful account of an American army platoon fighting for survival during the Vietnam War in “an important book….not just a battle story—it’s also about the home front” (The Today show).On January 31, 1968, as many as 100,000 guerilla fighters and soldiers in the North Vietnamese Army attacked thirty-six cities throughout South Vietnam, hoping to dislodge American forces during one of the vital turning points of the Vietnam War. Alongside other young American soldiers in an Army reconnaissance platoon (Echo Company, 1/501) of the 101st Airborne Division, Stanley Parker, the nineteen-year-old son of a Texan ironworker, was suddenly thrust into savage combat, having been in-country only a few weeks. As Stan and his platoon-mates, many of whom had enlisted in the Army, eager to become paratroopers, moved from hot zone to hot zone, the extreme physical and mental stresses of Echo Company’s day-to-day existence, involving ambushes and attacks, grueling machine-gun battles, and impossibly dangerous rescues of wounded comrades, pushed them all to their limits and forged them into a lifelong brotherhood. The war became their fight for survival. When they came home, some encountered a bitterly divided country that didn’t understand what they had survived. Returning to the small farms, beach towns, and big cities where they grew up, many of the men in the platoon fell silent, knowing that few of their countrymen wanted to hear the stories they lived to tell—until now. Based on interviews, personal letters, and Army after-action reports, The Odyssey of Echo Company recounts the searing tale of wartime service and homecoming of ordinary young American men in an extraordinary time and confirms Doug Stanton’s prominence as an unparalleled storyteller of our age.

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The United States Army was ill-prepared to engage in a major conflict in Vietnam. This was the consequence of President Lyndon Johnson deciding that the National Guard and the Reserves would not be called up to support the war effort. Army contingency planning for any major conflict was based on the call up of the National Guard and the Reserves. Not being authorized to do so increased exponentially the difficulties in meeting the requirements to fight the war in Vietnam. Between 1965 and 1968 the United States Army almost doubled in size. Who were the additional personnel? Privates fresh out of basic training and second lieutenants fresh out of OCS, ROTC, or West Point. Improvising a War is the story of how the Army General Staff coped with this challenge to meet the forces requested by the Army headquarters in Vietnam and approved by the Secretary of Defense. The author arrived for duty in the Pentagon two days after the first major combat units (1st Infantry Division, 1st Air Cavalry Division) departed for Vietnam and after the creation of the Committee for Unit Deployments to Vietnam on the same day. One day later he became the Representative of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel on this Committee. The responsibility of this committee was to ensure that the units requested and approved were sent to Vietnam on their scheduled dates. Improvising a War recounts how the committee accomplished its mission (not always successfully) with particular emphasis on the personnel challenges. -- Back cover.

Author Linh Nguyen has been cooking Vietnamese food since she can remember. Her culinary style draws upon inspiration she's found everywhere--from the recipes of her childhood in the countryside to the local street food vendors in Hanoi and the culinary diversity of New York City. From her current home in Hãòoi An, Linh has created Lemongrass, Ginger and Mint Vietnamese Cookbook--a collection of easy-to-follow recipes that hold true to the roots of Vietnamese cooking. In this Vietnamese cookbook, you'll enjoy the straightforward simplicity that comes from years of homegrown expertise.--Adapted from back of book.

Drafted in the middle of the Vietnam War, Niel Hancock shipped out from Oakland as the Flower Children were converging on San Francisco and arrived in Saigon in time for the cataclysmic Tet offensive of 1968. "Old Dime Box Stories" is the saga of his wide-ranging, lifelong quest for meaning, his memories ever cycling between a remembered Vietnam and the West Texas-New Mexico borderland where he grew up, equidistant from Alamagordo, where the first atom bomb was tested in 1945, and Roswell, where the UFO crashed in 1947. These mythic events of his boyhood tipped him off that there was more to reality than meets the eye, and lengthy road trips on his Harley-Davidson gave him time to think. Recollecting the foolishness and practical wisdom of a wide range of off-beat characters he has met on the journey, he realizes that all along, even in the chilling heat of war, he has seen signs pointing him onto the Road to the Sacred Mountain, his destination all along.