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The long reckoning : a story of war, peace, and redemption in Vietnam / George Black.
Van Pelt Library DS559.8.C5 B53 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, George, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agent Orange--Health aspects--Vietnam.
- Agent Orange.
- Agent Orange--Environmental aspects--Vietnam.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Health aspects--Vietnam.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Environmental aspects--Vietnam.
- War victims--Services for--Vietnam.
- War victims.
- Unexploded ordnance--Vietnam.
- Unexploded ordnance.
- Land mines--Vietnam.
- Land mines.
- Agent Orange--Health aspects.
- Diplomatic relations.
- War victims--Services for.
- United States--Foreign relations--Vietnam.
- United States.
- Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States.
- Vietnam.
- Physical Description:
- x, 478 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Story of war, peace, and redemption in Vietnam
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
- Summary:
- "The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I War
- 1. Going to B
- 2. Of Mountains and Machines
- 3. The Summer of Love
- 4. Socks on an Octopus
- 5. "Saddle Up, Cowboys!"
- 6. Grunt
- 7. Orphans of Creation
- 8. "This Is Not a Practice"
- 9. "Tonight You Die, Marine"
- pt. II Peace
- 10. Scavengers
- 11. The Smoky Landscape
- 12. Benefit of the Doubt
- 13. Untangling the Tangle
- 14. "Bring Our Daddy Home"
- 15. The Third Rail
- 16. The Things They Carried Back
- 17. A Vietnamese in Disguise
- pt. III Redemption
- 18. Policing the Brass
- 19. Milk That Glowed in the Dark
- 20. The End of Our Exploring
- 21. The Road to Damascus
- 22. Great Loss and Confusion
- 23. Angry Ghosts
- 24. The Worst Thing, the Best Thing
- 25. The Painter, the Sprinter, and the Monk
- 26. Unfinished Business
- 27. Turning the Ho Chi Minh Trail Brown
- 28. The Pocket of Fire
- 29. The End of the Trail.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Black, George, 1949- Long reckoning
- ISBN:
- 9780593534106
- 0593534107
- OCLC:
- 1334719478
- Publisher Number:
- 99993393739
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