Saigon Illinois

Author : Paul Hoover
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480456934
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saigon, Illinois written by Paul Hoover and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVDIVThe story of how one man wound up fighting the Vietnam War from a Chicago hospital/div Young slacker Jim Holder wants no part of the draft, the army, or Vietnam. So he registers as a conscientious objector and gets ready for alternative service. He’s assigned to work as a unit manager at a downtown Chicago medical center, worlds apart from his rural roots. A wild assortment of patients and colleagues awaits him at Metropolitan Hospital. As Jim’s life swings from the chaos of his job to the fervor of a revolutionary moment, he balances his beliefs with the everyday business of life and death.DIV In this richly comic novel, Paul Hoover crystallizes the strange days of the conflict in Vietnam with a memorable cast of characters./div/div/div

Author : Paul Hoover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788899970116
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saigon, Illinois written by Paul Hoover and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.4R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment: January 25, Chicago, Ill.; January 26, Los Angeles, Calif written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W.D. Ehrhart
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487747
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Vietnam written by W.D. Ehrhart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three powerful, moving, angry and wise essays published over a period of 15 years on subjects ranging from South Africa to Central America, the United States to the Soviet Union, all bound together by the lingering physical, psychological, political and intellectual sensibilities the author first developed as a young enlisted Marine during the Vietnam war. Four of the essays deal with Ehrhart’s second return to Vietnam in 1990.

Author : Ringnalda, Donald
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617030987
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War written by Ringnalda, Donald and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Hurt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252018503
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Illinois written by James Hurt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia D. Norland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501749749
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saigon Sisters written by Patricia D. Norland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saigon Sisters offers the narratives of a group of privileged women who were immersed in a French lycée and later rebelled and fought for independence, starting with France's occupation of Vietnam and continuing through US involvement and life after war ends in 1975. Tracing the lives of nine women, The Saigon Sisters reveals these women's stories as they forsook safety and comfort to struggle for independence, and describes how they adapted to life in the jungle, whether facing bombing raids, malaria, deadly snakes, or other trials. How did they juggle double lives working for the resistance in Saigon? How could they endure having to rely on family members to raise their own children? Why, after being sent to study abroad by anxious parents, did several women choose to return to serve their country? How could they bear open-ended separation from their husbands? How did they cope with sending their children to villages to escape the bombings of Hanoi? In spite of the maelstrom of war, how did they forge careers? And how, in spite of dislocation and distrust following the end of the war in 1975, did these women find each other and rekindle their friendships? Patricia D. Norland answers these questions and more in this powerful and personal approach to history.

Author : Erica Allen-Kim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477323015
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Little Saigon written by Erica Allen-Kim and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons,” in America’s built environment. In the final days before the fall of Saigon in 1975, 125,000 Vietnamese who were evacuated or who made their own way out of the country resettled in the United States. Finding themselves in unfamiliar places yet still connected in exile, these refugees began building their own communities as memorials to a lost homeland. Known both officially and unofficially as Little Saigons, these built landscapes offer space for everyday activities as well as the staging of cultural heritage and political events. Building Little Saigon examines nearly fifty years of city building by Vietnamese Americans—who number over 2.2 million today. Author Erica Allen-Kim highlights architecture and planning ideas adapted by the Vietnamese communities who, in turn, have influenced planning policies and mainstream practices. Allen-Kim traveled to ten Little Saigons in the United States to visit archives, buildings, and public art and to converse with developers, community planners, artists, business owners, and Vietnam veterans. By examining everyday buildings—who made them and what they mean for those who know them—Building Little Saigon shows us the complexities of migration unfolding across lifetimes and generations.

Author : Jinx Coleman Broussard
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080715055X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Foreign Correspondents written by Jinx Coleman Broussard and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of African Americans who have served as foreign correspondents from the mid-1800s to the present.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: