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Books : Reference : Foreign Languages : Languages : Vietnamese
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2 Cassettes, 2 hrs. abridged
Read by Jimmy Starace
THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE.
"Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to ten seconds after a firefight began. Johnnie was only eighteen when he got there, at the height of the bloody Tet Offensive at Hue, and he quickly realized the grim statistic held a chilling truth.
The Marines who fought and bled and died were ordinary men, many still teenagers, but the selfless bravery they showed day after day in a nightmarish jungle war made them true heroes. This new edition of Guns Up!, filled with photographs and updated information about those harrowing battles, also contains the real names of these extraordinary warriors and details of their lives after the war. The book's continuing success is a tribute to the raw courage and sacrifice of the United States Marines.
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As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.
For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the men in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not escape or deny. Peter Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit who would confont his fate in Da Nang. Ralph Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in Saigon since the beginning. He knew Vietnam and the war inside out. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chi tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and it seemed nothing could touch him. Sergeant Tony Campobello had come to Vietnam from the streets of New York to vent a rage that had followed him all the way to Saigon.
For seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column from the front before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again.
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Author Larry Chambers vividly describes the guts and courage it took to pass the though volunteer-only training program in Nha Tarng to be part of the 5th Special Forces Recondo School, the hair-raising graduation mission to scout out, locate, and out-guerilla the NVA. Here is an unforgettable account that follows Chambers and the Rangers every step of the way--from joining, going through Recondo, and finally leading his own team on white-knuckle missions through the jungle hell of Vietnam.
From the Paperback edition.
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Two cassettes, 2 hrs.
Read by Dan Leslie
DIARY OF AN AIRBORNE RANGER: A LRRP'S YEAR IN THE COMBAT ZONE is unique in the literature of the Army in Vietnam. For security reasons, U.S. soldiers arriving in Vietnam were forbidden to keep diaries, but Frank Johnson decided that the events occuring around him deserved to be recorded for posterity.
Written by a 19-year-old American soldier during his eventful year in combat, his journal unveils the thoughts, emotions, and actions of a young warrior in all their innocence and honesty. It is a rare look at a soldier's perspective of military life as it unfolds around him in the combat zone. During his year of combat, he wrote vividly about the mundane and the traumatic events he lived and observed, sending each page home to his mother as he completed it. Now, after thirty years in a shoebox, DIARY OF AN AIRBORNE RANGER has been resurrected for all to share. It is perhaps the most accurate story of Lurps at war yet to appear in print.
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This is a thoroughly modern and accessible course in Hindi. The author is a highly respected scholar and teacher of the Indic languages. Hindi script and Romanized script is taught.
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Minutes after 2 A.M. on November 21, 1970, more than one hundred U.S. war planes shattered the dark calm of the skies over Hanoi. Their mission: rescue sixty-one American POWs from Son Tay prison. Less than thirty minutes later, the raid was over, but no Americans had been rescued. The prisoners had been moved from Son Tay four and a half months earlier and that wasn’t all. Part of the raiding force landed at the wrong compound, a “school” bristling with enemy soldiers, but the soldiers weren’t Vietnamese . . .
Replete with fascinating insights into the workings of high-level intelligence and military command, The Raid is Benjamin Schemmer’s unvarnished account of the courageous mission that was quickly labeled an intelligence failure by Congress and a Pentagon blunder by the world press. Determined to ferret out the truth, Schemmer uncovers one of the CIA’s most carefully guarded secrets. From the planning and live-fire rehearsals to the explosive reactions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff watching the drama unfold to the aftermath as the White House and Pentagon struggled for damage control, Schemmer tackles the tough questions. What really happened during the twenty-seven minutes the raiders spent on the ground? Did the CIA know the whole time that the Americans were gone? Had the Agency in fact been responsible for the POWs being moved? And perhaps most intriguing, why was the rescue—though it never freed a single prisoner—not a failure after all?
From the Paperback edition.
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With his national religious bestseller Living Buddha, Living Christ, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh won the hearts of a wide new following of Americans, spanning many religious faiths. Who is this beloved teacher that Thomas Merton called "the monk who sees beyond life and death"? On Call Me by My True Names, listeners will have an opportunity to find out, in two rare and intimate personal meetings with Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Two Cassettes, 2 hrs.
Read by Robert O'Keefe
December 1967: Richard Burns had just arrived in Vietnam as part of the fourteen-man 101st Pathfinder Detachment. Within just one month, during a holiday called Tet, the Communists would launch the largest single attack of the war--and he would be right in the thick of it. . . .
In Vietnam, Richard Burns operated in live-or-die situations, risking his life so that other men could keep theirs. As a Pathfinder--all too often alone in the middle of a hot LZ--he guided in helicopters disembarking troops, directed medevacs to retrieve the wounded, and organized extractions. As well as parachuting into areas and supervising the clearing of landing zones, Pathfinders acted as air-traffic controllers, keeping call signs, frequencies, and aircraft locations in their heads as they orchestrated takeoffs and landings, often under heavy enemy fire.
From Bien Hoa to Song Be to the deadly A Shau Valley, Burns recounts the battles that won him the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and numerous other decorations. This is the first and only book by a Pathfinder in Vietnam . . . or anywhere else.
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In January 1968, the 26th Marine Regiment was ordered to a place in the far northwest corner of South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. John Corbett, an untested replacement in a clean, green uniform, and his fellow leathernecks were responsible for building and defending the combat base, and holding positions on the strategic hills overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail as it crossed into Laos and South Vietnam from nearby North Vietnam.
Only days after Corbett arrived at Khe Sanh, some twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base, outnumbering the American Marines seven to one. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the deadliest fights of the Vietnam War—and one of the greatest battles in military history.
Private First Class Corbett, an “ammo humper” in an 81mm mortar section, made do with little or no sleep for days on end. The enemy bombarded the base incessantly, and Corbett’s mortars returned the fire, day and night. Extremes of heat, cold, and fog added to the misery, as did all manner of wounds and injuries too minor to justify evacuation from frontline positions. The emotional toll was tremendous as the Marines saw their friends suffer and die every day of the siege. Corbett relates these experiences through the eyes of an eighteen year old but with the mind and maturity of a man now in his fifties. His story of life, death, and growing up on the front lines at Khe Sanh speaks for all of the Marines caught up in the epic siege of the Vietnam War.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Compact Thai, a stand-alone 10-lesson (5 hours) program, teaches beginning language strategies for essential communication and traveling needs, plus culture Notes.
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Quick & Simple Vietnamese includes the first 8 lessons from the Pimsleur Vietnamese I, 30-Unit program. 4 hours. Effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.
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Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s imagination. In this searing, inspiring memoir, Black recounts how he devoted himself, body and soul, to his proud service as an elite U. S. Army Ranger in Korea and Vietnam—and what those years have taught him about himself, his country, and our future.
Born at the start of the Great Depression, Black grew up on a farm at a time of great hardship but also tremendous national determination. He was a kid who toughened up fast, who learned the hard way to rely on his strength and his wits, who saw the country go to war with Germany and Japan and wept because he was too young to serve. As soon as the army would take him, Black enlisted. And as soon as he could muscle his way in, he became a Ranger.
As a private first class in the 82d Airborne Division headquarters, Black withstood the humiliations of enlisted service in the peacetime brown-shoe army. When the Korean War began, he volunteered and trained to be an Airborne Ranger. In Korea, this young warrior, his mind and body bursting with the lusts of adolescence, grew up fast, literally in the line of fire. In clean, vivid prose, Black describes the hell of giving his all for a country that lacked the political resolve to give its all to a war against the North Koreans and the Chinese.
If Korea was frustrating, Vietnam was maddening. The heart of this book is devoted to the years of action that Black saw in Long An Province starting in 1967. Black writes of the perplexity of collaborating with South Vietnamese officers whose culture and motives he never fully understood; he conjures up the sudden shock of the Tet Offensive and the daily horror of seeing fellow soldiers and innocent civilians slaughtered—sometimes by stray bullets, often by carelessness or treachery. Vietnam challenged everything Black had come to believe in and left him totally unprepared for the hostility he would face when he returned to a war-weary America.
Written with extraordinary candor and passion, A Ranger Born is the memoir of a man who dedicated the best of his life to everything that is great and enduring about America. At once intimate in its revelations and universal in its themes, it is a book with profound relevance to our own troubled time in history.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Hayslip's childhood was dominated by devastating violence and the realities of war. A haunting memoir of the Vietnam War and the basis for Oliver Stone's film Heaven & Earth. 2 cassettes.
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Speech of educated people in Ho Chi Minh city, with an appendix on Northern Dialect.
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Originally published by Yale University Press, 1970. Reissued by Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 1984. 3rd printing 1991. 451 pages. (Oversized) This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-5542
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Modern Persian begins with the teaching of the Persian alphabet. It aims to provide the student with the necessary skills for social interaction, as well as a basis for the study of modern literature. The course consists of seventeen units and favours teaching by communicative and contextual learning. Most units begin with a reading exercise used to introduce an item of grammar and new vocabulary, followed by explanations and drill exercises aimed at consolidating the student's understanding. Complete with Persian-English vocabulary to all the exercises and tape recordings, this is an up-to-date textbook which can be used both by teachers or individuals wishing to learn Persian independently.
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In their Own Words Vietnam8 personal Accounts on 8 Cassettes
It was a conflict as controversial as it was calamitous, with the dubious distinction of being the first ware ever fought on television. But beyond the images of battle-ravaged Vietnam lie exploits of some of the war’s elite Allied mavericks, recounted here In their Own Words. With you-are-there narration by the men who were actually were, this 8-cassette suite reveals the precise and riveting preparation for, and aftermath of, clandestine missions. Relive the exploits of the Tunnel Rats, those American soldiers, armed with nothing but a pistol and a flashlight, responsible for disarming underground booby-traps, and the Wild Weasels, an outrageous cowboy corps of pilots, initially with a 100% casualty rate whose job was to invite enemy fire. With over six hours of personal and poignant recollection by allied troops ranging from the horrifyingly overwhelmed combat medic, to the protagonist of the Bat 21 Rescue, the In Their Own Words: Vietnam collection is an audio treasury which brings to a life a time of unprecedented valor.
Tape 1: Forward Observers
Brian Thacker and Barney Barnum, often alone, served as point men to the allied forces, scouting and securing vulnerable vantage points
Tape 2: Forward Air Controllers
William Platt and Bill Townsley were specialists at flying low and slow, in single-engine, unarmed aircraft over enemy territory.
Tape 3: The Bat 21 Rescue
On April 2nd, 1972 Gene Hambleton was shot down over enemy territory and eluded capture for six days. His exploits became the basis for the feature film, Bat 21
Tape 4: Wild Weasels
Bill Sparks, Mike Gilroy, Tom Wilson, and Jerry Hoblit were among the Wild Blue Yahoo’s who defied early 100% failure rates to openly engage their planes in cat-and-mouse exercises with enemy missiles.
Tape 5: Studies and Observations Group (SOG)
JD Bath and Bill Deacy recruited Vietnamese operatives, and attempted to extract prisoners of war, as members of a clandestine joint-service task force
Tape 6: Snipers
Chuck Mawhinney served as a tenacious Marine Corps marksman, once eliminating 16 enemy soldiers crossing a river
Tape 7: Tunnel Rats
CW Bowman, Gerry Schooler, and Art Tejeda spent hours – even days – scurrying through the enemy’s intricate network of underground passageways dismantling booby-traps
Tape 8: Medics
Future Senator Max Cleland lost three limbs when a grenade exploded in his hand; his life was save by four beleaguered field medics
Also available from Topics, In Their Own Words: WWII and the European Theater and War On Radio – The Pacific and European Theaters