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This New York Times bestseller details the author's life story-from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate. Kovic served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War. He was paralyzed from his chest down in combat in 1968 and has been in a wheelchair ever since. Includes a new introduction by the author.
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Most history-minded Americans have discussed the Vietnam War, becoming familiar, at the very least, with the names of such pivotal events as the Siege of Khe Sanh, the Tet Offensive, and the Fall of Saigon. But to grasp the full impact of this agonizing conflict, the human costs of an infernal war that raged for ten years and took more than 58,000 American lives, one must hear about it from the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who experienced the fighting...
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Former Marine and television news producer J.D. Johannes traveled to Iraq with his old Marine Corps unit to produce syndicated TV news reports for local stations. From those reports comes a view of the war that only the grunts who operate outside the wire experience. From a dust-up with Al Qaida outside Abu Ghraib, to a night raid on the home of an insurgent leader, you will see what the Marines saw and hear the story in their own words of why they...
11) Muse of fire
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"A documentary on the National Endowment for the Arts project Operation homecoming: writing the wartime experience."--Container.
20) Code Talker
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A retired Marine and Navajo Indian describes his experiences as one of 29 top-secret code talkers during World War II and how his life growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation prepared him for his service. 30,000 first printing.
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