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  • Perilous Bounty

    The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It

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    New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and former farmer Tom Philpott.More than a decade after Michael Pollan's game-changing The Omnivore's Dilemma transformed the conversation about what we eat, a combination of global diet trends and corporate ... Leer más

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  • Glory Denied

    The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War

    de Tom Philpott ...
    Now hailed as a classic, one of the most unforgettable and heartbreaking books ever written about the Vietnam War.Glory Denied is the harrowing and heroic story of Floyd "Jim" Thompson, captured in March 1964, who became the longest-held prisoner of war in American history. Tom Philpott juxtaposes Thompson’s capture, torture, and multiple escape attempts with the trials of his young wife, Alyce, ... Leer más

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    Perilous Bounty

    The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It

    de Tom Philpott ...
    Narrado por Eric Meyers ...

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    Bloomsbury presents Perilous Bounty by Tom Philpott, read by Eric Meyers.New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn unsettling journey into the disaster-bound American food system, and an exploration of possible solutions, from leading food politics commentator and former farmer Tom Philpott.More than a decade after Michael Pollan's game-changing The Omnivore's Dilemma transformed the ... Leer más

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  • Not Your Ordinary Vietnam War Stories

    de Jim Pepper ...
    After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1969 I was commissioned as an officer in the Marines. I served an interesting tour of duty in Southeast Asia in 1972, during which time I was in and out of six different countriesincluding Vietnam. A greenhorn lieutenant when I landed, I was eventually promoted to captain. Because of my God given take charge personality and a few very junior ... Leer más

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  • Semper Fi: Vietnam

    From Da Nang to the DMZ, Marine Corps Campaigns, 1965-1975

    From their early days in 1965 when the order of the day was to drive the insurgent Viet Cong from the villages around Da Nang to the final, dramatic evacuation of Saigon ten years later, Semper Fi—Vietnam relates the whole gutsy, glorious saga of the Marines in Vietnam in stark, riveting detail.Acclimating to their strange new surroundings occupied the Marines’ first few weeks in South Vietnam. . ... Leer más

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  • Guns Up!

    A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War

    de Johnnie Clark ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Hamburger Hill

    The Brutal Battle for Dong Ap Bia: May 11-20, 1969

    The battle for Ap Bia Mountain (Hill 937), was one of the fiercest of the entire Vietnam War. On May 10, 1969, Army, Marine Corps, and ARVN forces kicked off Operation Apache Snow. It was finally time to clean out the notorious A Shau Valley. The next day, elements of the 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles, made initial contact with NVA forces on the lower reaches of Hill 937.The ten ... Leer más

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  • To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam

    Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these “rotor heads” saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen did not return home. Tom A. Johnson flew the UH-1 “Iroquois” — better known as the “Huey” — in the 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion of the First ... Leer más

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  • Dak To

    America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands

    de Edward Murphy ...
    **“Excellent . . . honest and realistic . . . Edward Murphy’s meticulous research is unflawed and his writing style is novel-like.”—San Antonio Express-News“A no-holds barred account . . . highly recommended.”—Military magazine**In June 1967, General William Westmoreland sent the 173d Airborne Brigade to Dak To, a mountainous region in the deadly Central Highlands. Here the 173d found itself ... Leer más

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  • Warriors

    An Infantryman's Memoir of Vietnam

    On the ground, in the air, and behind the lines, grunts made life-and-death decisions every day—and endured the worst stress of their young lives.It was the tumultuous year 1968, and Robert Tonsetic was Rifle Company commander of the 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry in Vietnam. He took over a group of grunts demoralized by defeat but determined to get even. Through the legendary Tet and May Offensives ... Leer más

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  • 11C1p

    Eleven Charlie One Papa

    This is the report of an American Paratrooper, Infantry, boots on the ground, in Viet Nam in the mid 1960s. It is not a romanticized, sanitized, fantasized Hollywood version of ground combat. It is a description of life on the ground for your military grandfathers, fathers, uncles and brothers. When they returned from Viet Nam, this is not what they talked about. It was too painful, too raw, too ... Leer más

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    Officially the war in Laos did not exist – both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the south, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from the air. The Ravens were the pilots, all volunteers, who flew through heavy groundfire to identify ... Leer más

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