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Book Romancing Vietnam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Justin Wintle
  • Publisher : Signal Books
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781904955153
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Romancing Vietnam written by Justin Wintle and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Vietnam War finally ended in April 1975 with the communist capture of Saigon, Vietnam itself became a closed country, out of bounds to western travellers and journalists. By 1989, however, such was Vietnams economic plight that the government decided the time had come to open its doors again, albeit most gingerly. By a stroke of good fortune Justin Wintle became the first writer from the West to be allowed to journey around the whole of Vietnam. This is Justin Wintles classic account of what he found in postwar Vietnam, and how, for three months, he played cat and mouse with those charged with keeping him in line, while developing a profound love for more ordinary Vietnamese and the astonishing landscapes they inhabit.

Book Over the Moat

Download or read book Over the Moat written by James Sullivan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1992, James Sullivan travels to Vietnam to bicycle from Saigon to Hanoi. "Over the Moat" is the story of Sullivan's efforts to win a woman's favor while immersing himself in Vietnamese culture, of kindly insinuating himself in her colorful and warm family, and of learning how to create a common language based on love and understanding.

Book 100 Days in Vietnam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lt Col Joseph F Tallon
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-06-15
  • ISBN : 9781646632558
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book 100 Days in Vietnam written by Lt Col Joseph F Tallon and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As American troops continue their steady exodus on the last day of their ground war in Vietnam, Lieutenant Joe Tallon is shot down by an enemy missile. Forced to eject at a dangerously low altitude from their OV-1 Mohawk, Joe and his tactical observer, Specialist-5 Daniel Richards, land in the flaming wreckage. Lieutenant Tallon survives but Specialist Richards does not. Stateside, Lieutenant Tallon begins to heal and proceed with his life-but the loss of his tactical observer is never far from his mind. Forty years later, Joe embarks on a quest to bring recognition to the sacrifice of Daniel Richards and secure a Purple Heart for his family. Painstakingly recreated from wartime letters and remembrances and contextualized by contemporary news accounts, 100 Days in Vietnam is a collaboration between Joe and his son Matt-also an Army veteran. Here we experience the war through the emotions of the man who survived it: the drudgery and monotony of airfield life, the heartache of a newlywed missing his wife, the terror of combat missions, the agony of injury and rehabilitation, and the bittersweet relief from the completion of his final mission to bring recognition to his fallen comrade.

Book The Wind Whispers War

Download or read book The Wind Whispers War written by kgcummings and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 1960’s... America had elected the youngest President in U.S. history. "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" was the challenge issued to young and old alike. Nightly news brought rioting and violence into our homes, either supporting or opposing Black civil rights. Through the miracle of television, taped footage showed our President being killed, then TV broadcast it’s first live murder days later. The peanut butter and jelly sandwich days of the 1950’s were gone forever. World events, and pop culture had repercussions on the lives of the people you knew, your family, your friends, and your neighbors. Passion grows the moment Airman Jeffrey "Mad Dog" Madison gazes into the eyes of young, naïve Beth Campbell. As war threatens, this sensuous Historic Romance vividly details life. Step back in time as the Myth of Camelot is transformed into the Reality of Life.

Book Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam

Download or read book Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam written by Lisa Drummond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from a relatively closed society with a centrally planned economy, to a rapidly urbanising one with a global outlook. These changes have been the catalyst for an exciting ferment of activity in popular culture. This volume contains contributions from scholars engaged in the most up-to-date social research in Vietnam, as well as some of Vietnam's most popular cultural producers who are forging new ways of imagining the present whilst at the same time engaging actively in reinterpreting the past. The diverse ways that Vietnam is culturally and socially negotiating the future are examined as the book addresses issues of indigenisation of cultural influences, ambivalence surrounding change, and the consistent blurring of boundaries between informal, non-state cultural activities and formal institutional structures in the evolution of a civil society in Vietnam.

Book For the Love of Vietnam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Huong Keenleyside
  • Publisher : Janus Book Publishers
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781857566031
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book For the Love of Vietnam written by Huong Keenleyside and published by Janus Book Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the Vietnam War and based on the true story of the author's uncle, the story follows Agent 022 on his deadly mission to infiltrate South Vietnam. With the help of Mrs. Tam and Little Lien, he assumes the identity of Police Lieutenant Tu. Integrating seamlessly into South Vietnamese society, Lieutenant Tu gains higher social esteem and access to top-secret information. To keep up his disguise, he is forced to marry Nicole, the beautiful daughter of a French landowner. Morally torn between love and guilt for his first wife back in North Vietnam, he struggles with his increasing feelings for his new wife and family. Told from a perspective sympathetic to North Vietnam, this unique manifesto highlights the simple quality of North Vietnamese life, and the hardships they faced during the war years.

Book The Quiet American

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  • Author : Graham Greene
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2018-03-13
  • ISBN : 1504052544
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Quiet American written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).

Book America Loves China  A Romance Novel

Download or read book America Loves China A Romance Novel written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Captured by Love

Download or read book Captured by Love written by Lee Ellis and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience 20 Romance Stories of Top Gun POWs ​Captured by Love shares the real love stories of 20 Vietnam War POWs. Some had wives who started a movement that changed American foreign policy. Others came home and had to start over, while five single men met the loves of their lives. Despite their unique differences, all these couples have been happily married 40 to 65 years. You’ll be swept up into some extraordinary tales such as: • Carole boldly gave her husband’s POW-MIA bracelet to John Wayne—he wore it for years! • Pan Am stewardess Suzy wore a bracelet for POW Bill Bailey, whom she did not know. But she prayed for him daily, and miraculously met and married him when he came home. • After eight years in prison, one POW said to his wife in his first phone call upon his release, “Hi Jane. It’s Tarzan.” You will laugh and cry when you learn why. Former POW Lee Ellis and love expert Greg Godek take you on a dramatic journey of faithfulness, passion, excitement, resilience, and practical love lessons from these couples.

Book Tourism in Southeast Asia

Download or read book Tourism in Southeast Asia written by Michael Hitchcock and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism in Southeast Asia provides an up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development and associated issues in one of the world's most dynamic tourism destinations. The volume takes a close look at many of the challenges facing Southeast Asian tourism at a critical stage of transition and transformation and following a recent series of crises and disasters. Building on and advancing the path-breaking Tourism in South-East Asia, produced by the same editors in 1993, it adopts a multidisciplinary approach and includes contributions from some of the leading researchers on tourism in Southeast Asia, presenting a number of fresh perspectives.

Book Dear America

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  • Author : Bernard Edelman
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2002-06-04
  • ISBN : 9780393323047
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Dear America written by Bernard Edelman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-06-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 25 years after the official end of the Vietnam War, "Dear America" allows readers to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served there. Excerpt in "Time" magazine.

Book The Heritage of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Gegner
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2011-08-16
  • ISBN : 1136673830
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book The Heritage of War written by Martin Gegner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts, highlighting the modes by which governments, communities, and individuals claim validity for their own experiences of war, and the meanings they attach to them. From colonizing violence in South America to the United States’ Civil War, the Second World War on three continents, genocide in Rwanda and continuing divisions in Europe and the Middle East, these studies bring us closer to the very processes of heritage production. The Heritage of War uncovers the histories of heritage: it charts the constant social and political construction of heritage sites over time, by a series of different agents, and explores the continuous reworking of meaning into the present. What are the forces of contingency, agency and political power that produce, define and sustain the heritage of war? How do particular versions of the past and particular identities gain legitimacy, while others are marginalised? In this book contributors explore the active work by which heritage is produced and reproduced in a series of case studies of memorialization, battlefield preservation, tourism development, private remembering and urban reconstruction. These are the acts of making sense of war; they are acts that continue long after violent conflict itself has ended.

Book Romance and the Yellow Peril

Download or read book Romance and the Yellow Peril written by Gina Marchetti and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-02-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love, and model marriage are powerfully evident in American cinema. The author begins with a discussion of D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms, then considers later films such as Shanghai Express, Madame Butterfly, and the recurring geisha movies. She also includes some fascinating "forgotten" films that have been overlooked by critics until now. Marchetti brings the theoretical perspective of recent writing on race, ethnicity, and gender to her analyses of film and television and argues persuasively that these media help to perpetuate social and racial inequality in America. Noting how social norms and taboos have been simultaneously set and broken by Hollywood filmmakers, she discusses the "orientalist" tensions underlying the construction of American cultural identity. Her book will be certain to interest readers in film, Asian, women's, and cultural studies.

Book The IndoChina Chronicles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phil Karber
  • Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
  • Release : 2007-01-12
  • ISBN : 9814435414
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The IndoChina Chronicles written by Phil Karber and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wonderlust

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephanie Rae
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-01-25
  • ISBN : 9781981512478
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book Wonderlust written by Stephanie Rae and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all those who wonder . . . are lost. Do you ever feel a tugging in your soul to travel? A longing in your heart for places you've never been to and people you haven't met yet? Living in wonder brought a solo female backpacker from a cold winter in Chicago to a magical journey through Vietnam. By listening to the tugging in her soul and letting intuition and wonderlust guide her adventure in Southeast Asia, she returned with the self-discovery of liberation and empowerment. During these travels, she reawakened love in a charming town near the sea, found courage on top of a mountain overlooking hundreds of islands, and discovered passionate romance deep in the lush Vietnamese mountains. Her path continually crossed with perfect strangers who became close friends and teachers; and serendipity brought her a lover unexpectedly, at first glance. Wonderlust shows the beauty of solo travel: that you are never really alone. The ones who are supposed to cross your path always do, and your life is forever enriched. You will see how flirting with wonder and intuition can catapult you bravely into the unknown and on adventures beyond your wildest dreams.

Book Cultivating The Mind Of Love  EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition

Download or read book Cultivating The Mind Of Love EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fatal Romance

Download or read book Fatal Romance written by Lisa Pulitzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-07-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatal Romance is the shocking true story of the romance novelist who dreamed of the happiness she wrote of - only to die at the hands of the man she loved.