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  • The Girl from Tam Hiep

    A Novel from the War

    by John W. Conroy ...
    It's part love story, part war story…a growing up story…with the US Army in the mid Sixties during the American war in Viet Nam. Pvt. Bill Collins lives on the fringe of Long Binh, the worlds largest base camp that's 20 miles or so north of Saigon. He's a participant in the 'Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll' war of legend. Sex is everywhere, booze is everywhere, and danger is everywhere. However, Tam ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Embedded Ones

    Viet Nam - Iraq - Afghanistan

    by John W Conroy ...
    Private Bill Collins did not make it back to Viet Nam after his discharge from the US Army in the late Sixties to take up a career in journalism. Life interfered. However, he was back with the US Army in that capacity in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early 2000s. He befriends a group of young journalists, among them Stars and Stripes reporter Jess Wagner as well as the beautiful and talented Dae ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Disillusioned

    The 'Nam'...From Both Sides

    by John W. Conroy ...
    It's Edward Winslow's first trip to the North… Hanoi…where he reconnects with an old friend from the waning days of a long ago war. His memories are of the past, in the days leading up to the Fall of Da Nang to the Communist North in March of 1975. The cast of characters include the few American advisors left over from an earlier time…the women they're involved with or seek to be involved with ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Girl from Tam Hiep

    A Novel from the War

    by John W. Conroy ...
    It's part love story, part war story…a growing up story…with the US Army in the mid Sixties during the American war in Viet Nam. Pvt. Bill Collins lives on the fringe of Long Binh, the worlds largest base camp that's 20 miles or so north of Saigon. He's a participant in the 'Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll' war of legend. Sex is everywhere, booze is everywhere, and danger is everywhere. However, Tam ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seymour

    by Theresa W. Conroy ...
    Series series Images of America
    Early in its history, Seymour was a thriving Native American fishing community along the banks and falls of the Naugatuck River. As European settlers arrived, agriculture dominated the landscape. During the early days of the Industrial Revolution, Seymour flourished as a manufacturing community, and its products were in demand throughout the world. The first woolen mill in the United States was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights

    by Dennis B. Downey, James W. Conroy ...
    Series series Keystone Books
    Conceived in the era of eugenics as a solution to what was termed the “problem of the feeble-minded,” state-operated institutions subjected people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to a life of compulsory incarceration. One of nearly 300 such facilities in the United States, Pennhurst State School and Hospital was initially hailed as a “model institution” but was later revealed to ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Bernie Sanders and the Boundaries of Reform

    Socialism in Burlington

    by W. Conroy ...
    Series series Conflicts In Urban & Regional
    Today, Bernie Sanders is a household name, a wildly popular presidential candidate and an icon for progressive Democrats in the United States. But back in the 1980s, this “democratic socialist”—though some folks would prefer the term “social democrat”—was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, where his administration attempted radical reforms. Some efforts were successful, but when a waterfront deal ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • In Public Houses

    Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts

    by David W. Conroy ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In this study of the role of taverns in the development of Massachusetts society, David Conroy brings into focus a vital and controversial but little-understood facet of public life during the colonial era. Concentrating on the Boston area, he reveals a popular culture at odds with Puritan social ideals, one that contributed to the transformation of Massachusetts into a republican society. Public ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

    My Life in the Vietnam War

    by Frederick Downs Jr. ...
    “The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”—Army TimesAmong the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zone tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant to face lethal danger, to follow orders, and to search for the conviction and then the hope that this war was worth the sacrifice. The book includes a new chapter ... Read more

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  • 15 Months in SOG

    A Warrior's Tour

    by Thom Nicholson ...
    "When we cross the border: no ID, and it's kiss yourself good-bye if Charlie gets ahold of you."In Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command's Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) fielded small recon teams in areas infested with VC and NVA. Because SOG operations suffered extraordinary casualties, they required extraordinary soldiers. So when Capt. Thom Nicholson arrived at Command and Control ... Read more

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  • Pucker Factor 10: Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam

    Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam

    by James Joyce ...
    "In 1963…there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, that by raising my hand I would be going to war in Vietnam and that I would see things, hear things and do things that most people cannot imagine."--James Joyce. The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His ... Read more

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  • Snake Pilot

    by Randy R. Zahn ...
    Based on audiotapes he recorded during the war and sent home to his family, Randy ZahnÆs Snake Pilot recounts his experiences flying AH-1 Cobra helicopters during the Vietnam War. First deployed in Vietnam in 1967 and loaded with a formidable arsenal of weaponry, the Cobra was the first helicopter designed from inception as an attack aircraft. It dramatically changed the nature of the war in ... Read more

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