Vietnam War | Vietnam War
Jul.19.2012
I contributed to this anthology the piece "Hemingway, Maugham and Me," an account of the hard life of upcountry Thai girls working in a massage parlor in Bangkok, during the Vietnam War.This is the second volume in the First of the Year series edited by New York City-based,...
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Dec.11.2011
Two Southern soldiers, recently back from Vietnam, struggle to resume their lives amid dangerous and deep-rooted prejudice
Thomas Laidlaw returns home from Vietnam with nothing much in mind but to tend his acreage, live apart, and get lost in the roots music he grew up with. Laidlaw’s childhood...
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Dec.09.2011
I served in Peace Corps in Thailand during the Vietnam War, and contributed a piece to this anthology describing my nights spent at the notorious Mosquito Bar in Bangkok, trying to write the Great American novel. "Even The Smallest Crab Has Teeth: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories...
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Aug.02.2011
Alex Salim McKensie, a war baby of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, is adopted by the McKensies, an American family that has lost their only son in Vietnam. Years later, Alex falls in love with Sangeeta Rai, but their happiness is threatened when the enigma of his birth casts a dark shadow...
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Aug.02.2011
Former award-winning Vietnam and Cambodian War correspondent Jacques Leslie returns with his wife to Phnom Penh and Saigon for a reunion of journalists who covered the conflicts, and finds that the old war zones still have the power to evoke trauma.
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Nov.11.2010
In the final days of a falling Saigon, The Lotus Eaters unfolds the story of three remarkable photographers brought together under the impossible umbrella of war: Helen Adams, a once-naïve ingénue whose ambition conflicts with her desire over the course of the fighting; Linh, the...
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Jun.09.2010
Hell in An Loc: The 1972 Easter Invasion and the Battle That Saved South Viet Nam is a unique military history, written primarily to tell the story of a critical battle from the South Vietnamese point of view. Four years after the Tet offensive, the North Vietnamese army initiated a furious assault...
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Jun.08.2010
DC PI Al Pennyback is approached by an old man asking for help. He claims there is some kind of conspiracy and an old wrong that must be put right. Before he can tell Al what its all about, he's found dead in front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Al then finds himself in the middle of a...
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Jan.15.2010
In the final days of a falling Saigon,The Lotus Eaters unfolds the story of three remarkable photographers brought together under the impossible umbrella of war: Helen Adams, a once-naïve ingénue whose ambition conflicts with her desire over the course of the fighting; Linh, the mysterious...
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Dec.14.2009
In this sequel to – HALO – by D. J. Stephens - The year is 1965 - Jeff Barkil leads a six man team of highly trained special service operatives on a mission – Code Name –“Tarnished Halo” to terminate two of the Golden Triangles top drug lords. The problem, the drug lords are to be attending a...
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