Vietnam Saga

Vietnam Saga is a very personal story of Stan Corvin's often perilous times in the US Army as a two-tour combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam. It is a true-life story of soldiers who fought for freedom and often for their very lives. Vietnam Saga is also a story about the meaning of life. Standing back from his war experience, Stan reflects on his ever-present faith and how it carried him through this challenging period of his life.

After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight. In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers resettle in the UK and confront their new identities as refugees, first in camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a London plagued by social inequality and anti-immigrant sentiment.

Dieses praktische Hörbuch nimmt Sie an die Hand und entführt Sie ins Land der Fee und des Drachen. Erfahrene Kommunikationswissenschaftler stellen Ihnen einfach, kurz und alltagsnah die landestypischen Mentalitäten vor und wie diese das Verhalten der Vietnamesen prägen. Sie erklären Ihnen die üblichen Umgangsformen, zeigen Potenziale für Missverständnisse auf und wie man sie clever löst. Alles ist klar strukturiert und konsequent am Alltag orientiert.

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.

It's 1978 and the whole country, exhausted from the twin traumas of Vietnam and Watergate, is suffering from a massive hangover. Chucky O'Malley knows how the country feels; approaching fifty, he finds himself in the grip of a debilitating midlife crisis. As he travels the world, from the Vatican, where a new pope is to be selected, to Jimmy Carter's White House, where an overwhelmed president struggles to find a cure for his nation's malaise, Chucky searches for a way to renew his weary spirit.

A small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the pocket of his coat. In order to understand this heartbreaking and indefensible decision, the story must return to the moment, decades earlier, when Vollie Frade, almost on a whim, enlists in the US Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rural Iowan parents, Vollie puts in motion an unimaginable chain of events that sees him go to work for insidious people with intentions he cannot yet grasp.

Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down. A Catalog of Birds is the story of a family and a community confronted with a loss of innocence and wounds that may never heal. The legacy of war and its destruction of nature is seared onto the memories of a small American town.

"Cohé nennen wir den Vogel auf Martinique. Seine Federn sind schwarz und blutgefleckt. Er bevölkert unser Leben wie ein Phantom, denn man kann ihm nicht auflauern, weil er sich kein Nest baut, sondern seine Eier in den Schoß der Erde legt. Deshalb nennen ihn unsere Zauberer auch Vogel der Finsternis, der im Flug die Seelen der Sterbenden auffängt, um sich daran zu laben. Wenn ein Kämpfer auf dem Schlachtfeld stirbt, kann der Cohé seinen letzten Atem erhaschen und ihn seinem Meister wiederbringen."

Un paese in guerra. Una famiglia divisa. Una storia indimenticabile di coraggio e speranza. Dal loro rifugio sulle montagne, la piccola Huong e sua nonna Dieu Lan sentono il rombo dei bombardieri americani e scorgono il bagliore degli incendi che stanno devastando Hanoi. Fino a quel momento, per Huong la guerra è stata l'ombra che ha risucchiato i suoi genitori, e adesso quell'ombra sta avvolgendo anche lei e la nonna. Tornate in città, scoprono che la loro casa è completamente distrutta, eppure non si scoraggiano e decidono di ricostruirla, mattone dopo mattone.