vietnam

" 'Independence, Freedom, and Happiness' is Vietnam's motto. Uncover the country's landscapes from its plateaus to Ho Chi Minh City. Then learn more about Vietnam's history, languages, cultures, and more"--.

"Children will get an inside look at Vietnam's vibrant culture, while learning through ... hands-on games, songs, and activities!"--Provided by publisher.

Young Mai and her mother embark on a long, perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa, who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family.

" 'Independence, Freedom, and Happiness' is Vietnam's motto. Uncover the country's landscapes from its plateaus to Ho Chi Minh City. Then learn more about Vietnam's history, languages, cultures, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.

A young girl named Chang dreams of growing up to become a widldlife conservationist, ignoring people who warn her that it wouldn't be a good career. Out in the jungle, Chang meets Sorya, a timid little sun bear who has been captured and then escaped, but has adopted domesticated habits. Chang determines to return Sorya to her rightful place in the wild.

Discusses the history of America's involvement in Vietnam, exploring the deployment of combat ground troops at Da Nang in 1965 to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.

". . . tells the story from the Japanese surrender in 1945 through America's involvement in the French Indochina War and the initial advisory missions that followed. It describes how these missions gradually grew in both scope and scale, and how America became ever more committed to the region, especially following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, which led to the first bombing missions over North Vietnam. It finishes at the climax of one of those operations, Rolling Thunder, and just prior to the first commitment of US ground forces to the war in Vietnam in the spring of 1965"--Amazon.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

"Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle"--OCLC.