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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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