vietnam

Provides insights into the lives of people in Vietnam through a visit with two Vietnamese children and their families.

A memoir of Le Ly Hayslip in which she recalls her experiences during the Vietnam War as a young spy for the Viet Cong, and tells of her return to her country and family twenty years after escaping to America.

Discusses POWs in the Vietnam War, with photographs, including how soldiers and pilots were captured, the treatment they received, and the conditions within the Hanoi Hilton, such as torture and sleep deprivation, and covers improvements made after the death of Ho Chi Minh before the first release of a prisoner in 1973.

A little man tricks the ferocious tiger into letting himself be tied to a tree on the premise that the man would give him some of his wisdom, in a fable that tells how the tiger got his stripes.

As a storm sweeps in, Tinh's father tells him to tie up their fishing boat but the storm scares him and he runs away, but when the damage to the boat is discovered, Tinh realizes what he must do.

John Kelly tries to juggle two assignments helping a friend and rescuing a group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp.

Spotlights some of the rare, previously unknown creatures that inhabit Vietnam's jungles and chronicles the efforts of researchers and conservationists to document these creatures and prevent them from becoming extinct. Also considers the impact of the Vietnam War on rare animal populations in the region.

This book tells the story of a boy and his father who endure danger and difficulties when they escape by boat from Vietnam, spend days at sea, and then months in refugee camps before making their way to the United States.