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Distant war

recollections of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

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An edition of Distant war (2009)

Distant war

recollections of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

1st ed.

by

  • 1 Want to read

Is a compilation of eighteen years of the author's reportage on American involvement in Indochina, telling of those who were there and what they suffered, how most survived and how they overcame adversity. Profiles ground grunts, and those who experienced the war from behind the lines, including doctors who served in Vietnam, pilots who flew for the noted and notorious, mysterious CIA-operated airline Air America, and journalists who covered the war in the jungles alongside the troops who fought the war. Even Wheel of Fortune game show host Pat Sajak, and the gracious and beautiful Vietnamese actress Kieu Chinh (Joy Luck Club, What's Cooking, Hamburger Hill, etc.) have chapters in this book.

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Merriam Press
Language
English
Pages
258

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Subjects

Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Personal narratives, Influence, Journalism, History, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, Laos, history, Cambodia, history, War and society

Places

Indochina, Vietnam

Times

1975-
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2009, Merriam Press
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Table of Contents

Doctors in a war zone : the ultimate training ground
Wounded four times and still proud : Major Jim Morris
A gold-plated mission
Indomitable spirit at the Hanoi Hilton : Vice-Admiral James Bond Stockdale
Everything is okay now : Nick Ut
From AFVN to Wheel of Fortune : Pat Sajak
$100, a Leica, and a one-way ticket to Saigon : Catherine Leroy
Air America : the truth
If the walls of the Continental could talk
When art and life blur : Kieu Chinh
Cambodia revisited
Bringing the war home : requiem
Standing by their men : donut dollies
Q&A time with Steve Stibbens
Lest we ever forget : the POWs
Chopper chums reunite : pilot association remembers Vietnam's good times
Heaven helped them : Oliver Stone and Le Hy Haislip
Back to the present
Canada just lost track of something : Vietnam vets from north of the 49th parallel
Dog tags take the long road home : David and Kurt Arnold
Unfriendly skies for Air Vietnam
So long Bob : orbit for Bob Hope
Burying the hatchet : Nguyen Ngoc Hung
Shadow of war : Cherie Clark
A sheperd in Laos : Bishop Jean Khamse Vithavong
Radio Japan manager is tuned in to Vietnam : Masaki Yuasa
Serving with distinction
on four legs! Dogs in Vietnam
The longest yards : the mountain people
The long journey of Bounlieng Philavong
Big trouble in little Siagon
He hated war but loved the work : a Q&A with Allen Cates.

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Bennington, Vt
Series
Military monograph -- 27, Military history monograph series (Bennington, Vt.)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
959.70430922
Library of Congress
DS559.5 .Y33 2009, DS559.5 .Y33 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
258 p.
Number of pages
258

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Open Library
OL31153141M
Internet Archive
distantwarrecoll0000yabl
ISBN 10
0557084830, 0557084415
ISBN 13
9780557084838, 9780557084418
LCCN
2010280241
OCLC/WorldCat
550598225

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