vietnam war

Told from multiple viewpoints, high school Junior Jenny of Philadelphia spends a semester at a Quaker boarding school in Sheffield, England, near where her brother is avoiding the Vietnam draft, and where everyone carries close-held secrets.

stories about the soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.

Take the tumultuous journey from Valley Forge in 1777 to Vietnam in 1975. The journey begins with The Chicken Thief Soldier who was killed at Valley Forge, and it continues with the modern Chicken Thief Soldier, who grows up in Valley Forge and fights in Vietnam. It is the story of two friends who take this journey together. As they overcome major conflicts in high school and then even greater conflicts in Vietnam, they demonstrate the great strength of youth and the value of friendship in a complex, dangerous, and ever-changing world.

Examines twentieth-century American politics, economics, society, and culture decade by decade, including the experiences of women, indigenous peoples, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Fifteen-year-old Joanne, raised in San Francisco's Haight District, becomes involved with Martin, a hippy, and various aspects of the late 1960s cultural revolution despite her middle-class upbringing.

Everything in thirteen-year-old Nicky Martini's world is changing and when his older brother is sent to Vietnam, Nicky decides to lead a crusade to bring stickball back to the neighborhood and return to the good old days.

Traces the Vietnam War's path through both the United States and Vietnam from its inception as a conflict, escalating to a war, and then to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Ultimately the Vietnam War took the lives of three million people and this book explores what the war meant to all those involved, from generals, enlisted men, and policy makers to protesters, CIA operatives, journalists and doctors.