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Voices from Vietnam

by Barry Denenberg

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What it was like to be in Vietnam, told mostly in excerpts from letters by soldiers.

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Barry Denenberg

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YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection – 1996)

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Genres: Nonfiction, Teen
DDC/MDS: 959.704 — History & geography History of Asia Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam Vietnam 1949-
LCC: DS559.5 .D46 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Southeast Asia French Indochina Vietnam. Annam Vietnamese Conflict
BISAC: JNF JUVENILE NONFICTION General

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 5
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Published: 1995
Genres: Nonfiction, Teen
DDC/MDS: 959.704
LCC: DS559.5 .D46

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