Related Books

Vietnam: The War Zone Dictionary in Their Own Words
Language: en
Pages: 630
Authors: Sharon O. Lightholder
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-19 - Publisher: Albedo Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

VIETNAM - THE WAR ZONE DICTIONARY IN THEIR OWN WORDS is the first reference to combine the official terms formally adopted by the United States Department of De
As Good as a Fire
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Sharon O. Lightholder
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-09 - Publisher: Outskirts Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When Peg Ryan has a chance to join her Marine fighter pilot husband in Tsingtao, China in 1947, she jumps at it. After their separation during World War II and
Words of the Vietnam War
Language: en
Pages: 626
Authors: Gregory R. Clark
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Cu Chi, (body bag), Shit-hook (Chinook helicopter), dink (Vietnamese slang for a G.I.), slope (G.I. slang for a Vietnamese), hose (kill), boom-boom (what's done
The Soldiers' Story
Language: en
Pages: 403
Authors: Ron Steinman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-01 - Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Veteran journalist Ron Steinman gathers candid reminiscences from seventy-six men (including Senator John McCain) who lived through the brutalities of combat in
Vietnam War Slang
Language: en
Pages: 365
Authors: Tom Dalzell
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-25 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration’s escalation of American military involv