An honourable exit
£9.99Ãric Vuillard turns his forensic, darkly humorous eye to the build-up to the war in Vietnam – skewering French and later US politics to show the prelude to the end of the colonial period.
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An honourable exit
£14.99Ãric Vuillard turns his forensic, darkly humorous eye to the build-up to the war in Vietnam – skewering French and later US politics to show the prelude to the end of the colonial period.
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The Mountains Sing
£8.99An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family’s battle to survive
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League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to
£8.99On 12th February, 1973, 116 men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives. These women, who formed The National League of Families, had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands’ freedom – and to account for missing military men – by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. This is their story.
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