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1	We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in V more books like this by H Moore add to wishlist This compelling account of two major engagements in Vietnam's la Drang Valley in November 1965 is written by the man who commanded the battalion that was involved and by a war correspondent who was there. Both spent years interviewing soldiers who made it through and families of those lost in battle. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream more books like this by Hunter S Thompson add to wishlist A classic of American journalism from the aftermath of the '60s, Hunter S. Thompson's FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, the chronicle of his life on the road and on drugs, was originally published serially in Rolling Stone in 1971. Dubbing himself a "Gonzo journalist," Thompson devoted his entire career to defining that term as a reporter whose ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Hell's Angels; a strange and terrible saga more books like this by Hunter S. Thompson add to wishlist Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their language,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber. see all copies from $2.16! new only from $8.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Half of a Yellow Sun more books like this by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie add to wishlist From the award-winning author of "Purple Hibiscus" comes this masterly, haunting new novel, in which Adichie recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $8.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam more books like this by Gordon M Goldstein add to wishlist 'I had a part in a great failure. I made mistakes of perception, recommendation and execution. If I have learned anything I should share it'. These are not words that Americans ever expected to hear from McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. But in the last years of his life, Bundy - the ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $12.26! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Old School more books like this by Tobias Wolff add to wishlist The author of the genre-defining memoir "This Boy's Life" now gives readers his first novel--at once a celebration of literature and delicate hymn to a lost innocence of American life and art. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam more books like this by Lewis Sorley add to wishlist While the bulk of books on the Vietnam War chart its slow escalation, this in-depth analysis illuminates the later years of America's involvement in the war. Sorley, a war veteran and military history writer, focuses on the years after 1968's Tet Offensive, relying heavily on notes taken from over 400 classified tapes recorded in Saigon between ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $9.97! \| SVS
8	Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today more books like this by Tom Brokaw (Read by) add to wishlist With the bestseller "The Greatest Generation," Brokaw defined for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, the veteran newsman takes readers into the tumultuous decade of the 1960s--a decade of turbulence and change. Illustrated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Patron Saint of Liars more books like this by Ann Patchett add to wishlist A first novel set in St. Elizabeth's, a Kentucky home for unwed mothers run by nuns. Rose Clinton turns up there, pregnant but by no means unwed, and fleeing from her life by means of a series of lies. She learns to cook from elderly Sister Evangeline, and ends up marrying Son, the handyman, who narrates the second section of the novel, describing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	She's Come Undone more books like this by Wally Lamb add to wishlist In his first novel, Wally Lamb creates a heroine--Dolores Price--who survives family insanity, rape, abuse, obesity, and the death of loved ones, emerging at the end as a strong, tough woman whose life is moving toward hope and salvation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East more books like this by Michael B Oren, PH.D. add to wishlist In 1967 the future of the state of Israel was far from certain. But with its swift and stunning military victory against an Arab coalition led by Egypt in the Six Day War, Israel not only preserved its existence but redrew the map of the region, with fateful consequences. The Camp David Accords, the assassinations of Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin, ... see all copies from $3.61! new only from $10.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America more books like this by Rick Perlstein add to wishlist Heralded by stunning reviews, Perlstein's best-selling NIXONLAND begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots - one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater seemed to have heralded a permanent liberal consensus. The next year scores of liberals were ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam more books like this by Cynthia Kadohata add to wishlist The 2005 Newbery Medal-winning author of "Kira-Kira" returns with this action-packed glimpse into the Vietnam War, as seen through the eyes of a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy, and her handler, a young soldier who thinks he's not tough enough for war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood more books like this by Alexandra Fuller add to wishlist Raised in Rhodesia during the Rhodesian War (1971-1979), this memoirist expresses the violence of African politics and the African landscape from her perspective as a white citizen born in England. Insects, landmines, leopards, and terrorists imprint this coming-of-age story. A New York Times Notable Book of 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 more books like this by Taylor Branch add to wishlist Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, rise to greatness and illuminates the courage, the deals, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history. Winner of the National Book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	In Cold Blood more books like this by Truman Capote add to wishlist Truman Capote's masterpiece, IN COLD BLOOD, a sterling early example of the New Journalism, was part of an evolving genre that filtered events both big and small through the writer's own experiences and feelings. IN COLD BLOOD is the intensely researched story of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who brutally murdered them on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 more books like this by Brian Floca add to wishlist Simply told, grandly shown, here is the flight of "Apollo 11." Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts, clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the ROAR of rockets, and the silence of the Moon. ... see all copies from $9.85! new only from $9.85! \| SVS
18 view cover	If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home more books like this by Tim O'Brien add to wishlist Novelist O'Brien's first book is a harrowing portrait of an infantry soldier's life in Vietnam. see all copies from $2.77! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK more books like this by Lamar Waldron, Thom Hartmann add to wishlist Historians, conspiracy theorists, director Oliver Stone, and the general public have long speculated on the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. Was it payback--or blowback--for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 or the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962? Was the Mafia involved? Or the CIA? Did the Warren Commission Report ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| first editions
20 view cover	Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam more books like this by H R McMaster, M.A., Ph.D. add to wishlist A thoroughly documented account of how Lyndon B. Johnson and his principal advisers turned the problem of Vietnam into a full-scale American war, written by a distinguished army officer (decorated for bravery in Operation Desert Storm) and West Point instructor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Right Stuff more books like this by Tom James Wolfe add to wishlist Much of Tom Wolfe's compelling story of the first astronauts--Grissom, Conrad, Glenn, and others--focuses on Chuck Yeager, the brave test pilot who first broke the sound barrier and flew in subspace. While never an astronaut, Yeager epitomized the character and qualities Wolfe saw in the astronauts of the Mercury program. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis more books like this by Graham T Allison add to wishlist One of the most influental political science works written in the post World War II era, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a unique and fascinating examination of the pivotal event of the cold Cold War. Not simply revised, but completely re-written, the Second Edition of this classic text is a fresh reinterpretation of the theories ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.31! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Electric Kool Aid Acid Test more books like this by Tom James Wolfe add to wishlist Tom Wolfe's THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST is one of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, revolutionizing the way the reporters wrote about the world. This seminal work of the New Journalism, a style which explored the writer's own experience of the journey rather than merely reporting the bare facts, was written in a mind ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Special Ops more books like this by W E B Griffin add to wishlist An elite U.S. special forces team goes to the Congo to prevent a Che Guevara-backed Communist revolution. Griffin's novel is based on Guevara's actual attempt to infiltrate Africa. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Girl Interrupted more books like this by Susanna Kaysen add to wishlist Susanna Kaysen entered a psychiatric institution when she was 18 for an extended rest. In GIRL, INTERRUPTED, she writes about this period of her life, revealing not only the intricacies of the mind, as observed in herself and her ward-mates, but also the intricacies of the institution. This memoir has touched many people and, in 1999, was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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