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The Long Coming Home from Vietnam
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Bruce K. Berger
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Bruce Berger, the author, finally came home 50 years after the Vietnam war when his memories crystallized into the 34 poems in this chapbook. He shipped to Vietnam as an infantryman in 1970 but was assigned most of the year to the Casualty Branch of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Eagle, near Phu Bai.
As “next-of-kin” editor, he wrote hundreds of sympathy letters to grieving families back home for loss of their soldier, and sometimes helped gather fallen brothers on battle grounds to begin their long journeys home.
Through this lens, his poems evoke an overwhelming sense of loss on many fronts: the brave American soldiers who gave their lives in the long war; a village of South Vietnamese widows; the thousands of bui doi, innocent but reviled half-breed (Amerasian) children; the empty afterness of battle grounds and burials; the long, deadly reach of Agent Orange and PTSD into veterans’ lives still today; and the thunderous silence of missing parades back home. Writing these poems brought him home.
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You better love a cliffhanger
- De Kindle Customer en 11-30-20
De: Daniel Arenson
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A Grain of Wheat
- De: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of Kenya's Great
- De Afro History fan en 07-31-19
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Orange World and Other Stories
- De: Karen Russell
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In “Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a 2,000-year-old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors”, two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. Plus much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wild Ride
- De Georgia en 02-07-20
De: Karen Russell
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Saving My Enemy
- How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other and Later Forged a Friendship that Saved Their Lives
- De: Bob Welch
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 90
Saving My Enemy is the touching true story of two soldiers on opposite sides of WWII whose unlikely friendship, forged in their 80s, dissolves six decades of guilt and shame that had pushed both men to despair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our story!
- De Marianne McNally en 04-27-21
De: Bob Welch
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If I Die in a Combat Zone
- Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
- De: Tim O'Brien
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A solid Vietnam war memoir
- De Darwin8u en 04-16-14
De: Tim O'Brien
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We Want Our Bodies Back
- Poems
- De: Jessica Care Moore
- Narrado por: Jessica Care Moore
- Duración: 2 h y 1 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 23
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Over the past two decades, Jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both Black women’s creative and intellectual power, and express the pain, sadness, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just beautiful.
- De @oil_house_ (IG) en 02-25-21
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At Night All Blood Is Black
- A Novel
- De: David Diop, Anna Moschovakis - translator
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man’s Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa’s mind as he comes to see this refusal as a cruel moment of cowardice.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Compelling story, poor narration
- De Shauna en 07-10-21
De: David Diop, y otros
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40 Thieves on Saipan
- The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles
- De: Joseph Tachovsky, Cynthia Kraack
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,147
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,053
Behind enemy lines on the island of Saipan - where firing a gun could mean instant discovery and death - the 40 Thieves killed in silence during the grueling battle for Saipan, the D-Day of the Pacific.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredibly written, incredibly told!
- De licensedtorock en 09-05-20
De: Joseph Tachovsky, y otros
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Leaves of Grass
- De: Walt Whitman
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 18 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 148
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One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves of Grass is his masterpiece, written in a pure, uninhibited style, combining sensual and mystical sensibilities. Its bold, joyous voice, its expansive optimism, and its transcendental vision made it uniquely American.
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4 out of 5 stars
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No chapters! Can't skip to a particular poem :(
- De April Antoniou en 02-08-13
De: Walt Whitman
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Utopia 58
- De: Daniel Arenson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 81
Imagine a perfect society. A world with no racism, sexism, or ageism. A utopia. In Utopia 58, everyone is equal. Everyone must be equal. Too beautiful? A mask will hide that pretty face. Too tall? We'll saw your legs down to size. Too male or female? The surgeon's knife will fix that. Too smart? A buzzer in your skull will drown out all that pesky thinking. You will be equal. Like it or not. Utopia 58, built atop the ruins of North America, created perfect harmony. A society with no race, gender, or age. Pure equality. KB209 was born into this utopia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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totally spellbinding
- De Southern girl en 08-27-19
De: Daniel Arenson
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Dispatches
- De: Michael Herr
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 235
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From its terrifying opening to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All of the reviews are correct.
- De Mark Thoreson en 01-18-22
De: Michael Herr
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Mother Tongue
- De: Demetria Martinez
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
A nameless El Salvadoran man, fleeing torture and imprisonment, arrives in the United States - his only hope for asylum. The American woman who has volunteered to help him is searching for something to add meaning to her life. When these two lonely people meet, their haunting relationship fulfills their hearts' desires, but it also gives life to their darkest dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Story
- De Alexa :3 en 09-26-24
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Blaze of Light
- The Inspiring True Story of Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor Recipient
- De: Marcus Brotherton
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 115
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After dawn the siege began. It was April 1, 1970, and Army Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch knew the odds were stacked against their survival. Some 10,000 enemy soldiers sought to obliterate the 12 American Special Forces troops and 400 indigenous fighters who stood fast to defend 2,300 women and children inside the village of Dak Seang. For his valor and selflessness during the ruthless siege, Beikirch would be awarded a Medal of Honor, the nation's highest and most prestigious military decoration.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hope for the future
- De Michael L. Jernigan en 04-09-20
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To Hell and Back
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- De: Charles Pellegrino
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 108
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To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Pica-Don
- De Tad Davis en 09-07-20
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Eye of the Tiger
- Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam
- De: John Edmund Delezen
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,055
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John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. His memoir begins when he enlisted in the Marine Corps and was sent to Vietnam in March of 1967. He volunteered for the Third Force Recon Company, whose job it was to locate and infiltrate enemy lines undetected and map their locations and learn details of their status. The duty was often painful both physically and mentally. He was stricken with malaria in November of 1967, wounded by a grenade in February of 1968, and hit by a bullet later that summer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a bit flowery for combat stories
- De Amazon Customer en 06-18-20
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Indestructible
- The Unforgettable Memoir of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima
- De: Jack H. Lucas, D.K. Drum
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 79
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On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on Iwo Jima - one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific theater in World War II - Private Jack Lucas, who was only 17, and three other Marines engaged in a close-proximity firefight with Japanese soldiers. When two enemy grenades landed in their trench, Lucas jumped on one and pulled the other under his body to save the lives of his comrades. Lucas was blown into the air as his body was torn apart by 250 entrance wounds. He was so severely wounded that his team left him for dead. Miraculously, he survived.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Really About Iwo Jima
- De Barbara en 02-25-21
De: Jack H. Lucas, y otros
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A Lush and Seething Hell
- Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
- De: John Hornor Jacobs
- Narrado por: Almarie Guerra, MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 432
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The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales - both never-before-published in print or audio - that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition. Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great idea, tarnished by modern politics
- De Phil en 04-28-21
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Fields of Fire
- De: James Webb
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 17 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 971
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 858
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 854
They each had their reasons for being a soldier. They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo - Death Before Dishonor - before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts of family heroes. They were three young men from different worlds plunged into a white-hot, murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon in the An Hoa Basin, 1969. They had no way of knowing what awaited them. Nothing could have prepared them for the madness to come. And in the heat and horror of battle they took on new identities, took on each other, and were each reborn in fields of fire....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome Read! of course I am Prejudiced
- De Autoteacher en 07-30-15
De: James Webb