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A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam

10 best books like A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam (Keith Walker): Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II, Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans, The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story, And a Hard Rain Fell, Four Hours in My Lai, Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy, And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II, The Women Who Wrote the War

Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
AuthorEmily Yellin
ISBN0743245164
Our Mothers' War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates...
Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There
AuthorMark Baker
ISBN0815411227
Numerous people who experienced the Vietnam War firsthand share their stories in this oral history. Men and women, officers and draftees, prowar and antiwar veterans, all give personal accounts of the bloodshed they witnessed, and the horrifying circumstances they survived. Grunts recount losing...
Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
AuthorAndrew Lam
ISBN1597140201
Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his life-long struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general,...
Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
AuthorWallace Terry
ISBN0345311973
"Simply the most powerful and moving book that has emerged on this topic." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other, BLOODS features twenty black men who tell the story of how...
The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story
AuthorJohn Laurence
ISBN1586481606
Winner of the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Award

John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from its early days, through the bloody battle of Hue in 1968, to the Cambodian invasion. He was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war, however, the traumatic...
And a Hard Rain Fell
AuthorJohn Ketwig
I didn't set out to write a book. It was 1982, fourteen years after I had last set foot in Vietnam, and thirteen years after I returned to The World. I had a family and a career. I'd never written more than an occasional letter to the editor in my life. My twisted insides had spawned ulcers. The nightmares were...
Four Hours in My Lai
AuthorMichael Bilton
ISBN0140177094
Unarmed men, women and children lined up in a ditch and machine-gunned. Women raped in their homes which were then set on fire. A whole village annihilated, over 500 people in four hours. German Nazi's in Russia in 1942? No. American GI's in Vietnam in 1968. Under orders, with the chain of command intact,...
Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy
AuthorJohn P. Eaton
ISBN0393036979
First published in 1986, revised and expanded in 1995, this book has been called "the definitive history" of the Titanic. Continuing interest in the ill-fated vessel has been heightened in recent years by the dramatic events including the discovery of the wreck, new speculation on the Californian's...
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
AuthorEvelyn M. Monahan
In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic...
The Women Who Wrote the War
AuthorNancy Caldwell Sorel
ISBN0060958391
They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; from San Francisco and points east. They left comfortable homes and safe sourroundings for combat-zone duty. They were women war correspondants, bringing to the battlefields of World War II a fresh perspective, reporting what they witnessed...
Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles
AuthorWilliam Prochnau
ISBN0679772650
Once Upon a Distance War tells the stories of such young Vietnam war correspondents as Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett, and David Halberstam, providing a riveting chronicle of high adventure and brutal slapstick, gallantry and cynicism, as well as a vital addition to the history they shaped. "Prochnau...
Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
AuthorKirsten Holmstedt
ISBN0811702677
In Iraq, the front line is everywhere... and everywhere in Iraq, women in the US military fight. More than 155,000 of them have served in Iraq since 2003-4 times the number of women sent to Desert Storm in 1991 - and more than 430 have been wounded and over 70 killed, almost twice the number of US military...
Hell Hath No Fury: True Stories of Women at War from Antiquity to Iraq
AuthorRosalind Miles
ISBN0307346374
An engaging collection that uncovers injustices in history and overturns misconceptions about the role of women in war

When you think of war, you think of men, right? Not so fast. In Hell Hath No Fury, Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross prove that although many of their stories have been erased or...
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
AuthorBernard Edelman
ISBN0393323048
Nearly forty years after the official end of the Vietnam War, Dear America allows us to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served in Vietnam. In this collection of more than 200 letters, they share their first impressions of the rigors of life in the bush, their longing for...
Home Before Morning
AuthorLynda Van Devanter
ISBN1558492984
Lynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she...
365 Days
AuthorRonald J. Glasser
ISBN0807615277
In this gripping account of the human cost of the Vietnam War, Ron Glasser offers an unparalleled description of the horror endured daily by those on the front lines. "The stories I have tried to tell here are true, " says Glasser in his foreword. "Those that happened in Japan I was part of; the rest are from...
Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
AuthorChristian G. Appy
ISBN0142004499
"Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." -Chicago Tribune

Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135...
The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War
AuthorStewart O'Nan
ISBN0385491182
An extraordinary selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry.

This authoritative and accessible volume includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, photography, and...
She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea
AuthorJoan Druett
ISBN0684856913
Long before women had the right to vote, earn money, or have lives of their own, "she captains" -- bold women distinguished for courageous enterprise on the high seas -- thrilled and terrorized their shipmates, performed acts of valor, and pirated with the best of their male counterparts. From the warrior...
12, 20 And 5: A Doctor's Year in Vietnam
AuthorJohn A. Parrish
ISBN0553260294
I suspect just about everyone reading this will have seen one or more episodes of MASH. Add much blood, gore, and horror and you'll have a fair idea of this book. Parrish was drafted, as were most physicians his age, during Vietnam as their skills, such as they were, were in high demand. ("The alternatives...
Five Years To Freedom
AuthorJames N. Rowe
ISBN0345314603
When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.
In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the...
Last Men Out: The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
AuthorBob Drury
ISBN1439161011
The monsoon winds swirling up from the South China Sea had doubled in magnitude as Marine Staff Sergeant Mike Sullivan stood on the roof of the American Embassy, watching North Vietnamese artillery pound Saigon's airport. It was late in the afternoon of April 29, 1975, and for the past eight days the...
The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam
AuthorDana Sachs
ISBN1580051006
In this heartfelt memoir, Dana Sachs takes the reader on a sensual and textured voyage to a country most Americans think about only in terms of war. A finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award, this deftly written narrative reveals how Sachs settled in with slick, warmhearted Tung and his quietly...
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