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August 26th, 2010
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Not the wars to end all war novels
THE extraordinary life and tragic death of Karen Woo reads like a particularly poignant novel.
Reenactment #9: Pulp Fiction
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Good Morning Vietnam [VHS] $1.49 Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog) directed this comedy-drama about an Armed Forces Radio disc jockey (Robin Williams) whose manic, hilarious delivery from a studio in 1965 Saigon gives U.S. troops in the field a morale boost (while upsetting military brass). Based on the real-life experiences of deejay Adrian Cronauer, the film is actually more concept than story: put Williams in front of a microphone … |
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Apocalypse Now $27.97 In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came on… |
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Going Upriver – The Long War of John Kerry $0.01 Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry begins by juxtaposing beautiful images of Vietnam with horrific images of the Vietnam War. But though its depiction of the war is vivid–and the accounts of 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry’s heroism, told by the men who served with him, are plain and free of hyperbole–it’s his actions after he came back to the U.S. that stand out in this docum… |
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The Things They Carried $7.96 “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing–these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice…. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.” A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and t… |
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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War $10.25 BRAND NEW 2010 HARDBACK EDITION. SOME SHELFWEAR MARKS. OVERSTOCK MARK…. |
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A Rumor of War $7.49 When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man’s experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully to today’s students about the larger themes of human conscience, good and evil,… |