Vietnam Young

Der erste Jugendroman über Vietnam. Amerika-Experte Thomas Jeier hat einen bewegenden Antikriegsroman und eine berührende Geschichte von Freundschaft und Liebe geschrieben. Amerika, 1969: Auf dem Höhepunkt des Vietnam-Kriegs geht die junge Linda Corman als Krankenschwester nach Vietnam. Im Dschungel lernt sie die Grauen des Krieges aus nächster Nähe kennen. Ihre beste Freundin Debbie bleibt in den USA und protestiert mit Hunderttausenden gegen das rücksichtslose Vorgehen der US-Armee in Vietnam.

"Narrators Carolina Do and VyVy Nguyen delight listeners as two foodie teens who fall in love in Vietnam in this sweet sapphic YA romance."—AudioFile In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vietnam and they spend the semester unraveling...

Bob Kerrey grew up outside Lincoln, Nebraska, in the 1950s, and in his trademark style - serious, sometimes wry - he tells of his journey from that heartland to the dangers of Vietnam, to the hospitals where he recovered from his grievous injuries, and finally to the Nixon White House where he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous safety in a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where a greedy relative called Small Auntie offers her a place to stay—but her hospitality isn’t free. With her father’s words echoing in her ears, Mai endures the hardships of the camp, which are tempered only by her dreams of being sponsored by her uncle for entry into America.

Ánh's New Word: A Story About Learning a New Language features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun! A child living in a Vietnamese refugee camp learns their first word in English with a little help from their teacher and grandmother in this heart-warming picture book based...

It didn't seem possible. Four college students shot dead May 4, 1970, by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War. The shootings at Kent State University would shock the nation and spark a mass student strike across the country, the only one in U.S. history.