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Hard Sleeper, a novel of old and new China by Jennifer Scheel Bushman

Shark's Fins and Millet by Ilona Ralf Sues

China on Stage: An American Actress in the People's Republic by Lois Wheeler Snow

National Geographic Index, 1888-1946 by National Geographic Society

Republican China: Nationalism, War, and the Rise of Communism 1911-1949 (China Reader, Vol 2) by Franz Schurmann

Conversations with the Enemy; The Story of PFC Robert Garwood by Winston Stephen Groom

South Vietnam: Nation Under Stress by Robert. Scigliano

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Currently readingThe Viet Kieu in America: Personal Accounts of Postwar Immigrants from Vietnam by Nghia M. Vo
By Hook or By Crook by David Crystal

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Flying from the Black Hole: The B-52 Navigator-bombardiers of Vietnam by Robert O. Harder

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The Son Tay Raid: American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) by John Gargus

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Vietnam above the Treetops: A Forward Air Controller Reports by John F Flanagan

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How Language Works by David Crystal

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The Viet Kieu in America: Personal Accounts of Postwar Immigrants from Vietnam by Nghia M. Vo

Hi Gary,
Here are some links to CIA documents relative to the Vietnam War. It looks like some of the items were just declassified earlier this year.
LamSon

http://www.foia.cia.gov/nic_vietnam_coll...

http://www.foia.cia.gov/airAmerica.asp

http://www.foia.cia.gov/vietnam.asp

posted by LamSon at 3:15 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2009

Gary, I highly recommend A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey, by Quang X Pham. Because you're interested in Vietnam. I read it a couple years ago and found it fascinating. Lent it to my parish priest, who really related as he made it out of country about the same time Pham did and went thru the same camps, etc. Have a great holiday wknd. - Tim

posted by TimBazzett at 8:24 pm (EST) on May 21, 2009

Hi, Gary - I lived Odenton for 21 yrs back when I was still working. Retired now and writing my memoirs. My own Vietnam era/Cold War memoir is SOLDIER BOY. Info at RatholeBooks.com or Amazon. Write me, okay? - Tim

posted by TimBazzett at 10:13 am (EST) on May 13, 2009

OUTSTANDING resource! Thanks

posted by LamSon at 7:23 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2009

I hope we are not the last, but you are probably correct. People do not seem interested in commiting the time to books. Why read 200 pages when you can Google?!

posted by LamSon at 3:40 pm (EST) on Dec 1, 2008

Ah, I can see that the National Agriculture library probably doesn't have a huge collection of CJK materials, alas.

posted by Katya0133 at 3:09 pm (EST) on Nov 19, 2008

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