36 Results for : paddies
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2013min
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the US in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the 1968 Tet Offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and also much less familiar miniatures such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh’s warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people.Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom 40 died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings, and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price for the Northerners’ victory in privation and oppression. Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bar girls, and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, and Huey pilots from Arkansas.No past volume has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings’ fans know so well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this struggle with so many lessons for the 21st century ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Max Hastings, Peter Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007805/bk_harp_007805_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
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The Nam Within , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 526min
The Nam Within, by Leonard Reese, is a narrative nonfiction memoir that speaks to veterans from all wars and others who deal with PTSD, depression, and the feeling that they may be "going crazy," and their families and friends, so that they can see that survival is possible and that they are not alone, despite the battle scars that keep rising to the surface long after the physical combat ceases. "I did the best that I could to tell my story with all of the truth that I have within me. Almost fifty years have passed since my thirteen-month tour of duty in Vietnam from 1969-1970. I still see some of those images as clearly as if they were happenings within a blink-of-an-eye past. While others, partially confused and shaking like a pile of pick-up-sticks awaiting the next attempt at success or tragedy, arrive within the shadows of the night, blurred and weighted by the evening's dew. Incorrect names and misplaced trails, rice paddies, and small areas of high ground dot these pages as if they were paint sprayed across canvas. Yet, in my mind's eye they are accurate and certain in their descriptions, and even more clearly, in their grip upon my scarred soul. Please know that these lines are much less about the fight than they are about the emotions of the men who did the fighting. We were more than just sand-box warriors moving from one pile of windblown up-turned-bucket encampments to the next moment's instant rebirth, within a new pack of forest green plastic men preparing for counter attack or ambush. It is the feel for the war as it happened, and continues to happen, to this one man trapped within his memories, and that, I pray, might open at least one lone person's eyes, or increase a loved one's ability to understand his self-imposed blindness. I want you to experience the loss of self that many like myself went through so that you might more accurately understand the ghosts that continue to walk a kill-radius in front or behind." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas P Dunker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136184/bk_acx0_136184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
- Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
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Stuff Irish People Love
Stuff Irish People Love - The Definitive Guide to the Unique Passions of the Paddies: ab 7.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
- Price: 7.99 EUR excl. shipping
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Monk's War: An 18 Year Old Marine's Story from the Rice Paddies
Monk's War: An 18 Year Old Marine's Story from the Rice Paddies: ab 6.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
- Price: 6.99 EUR excl. shipping
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Pesticide Risk Assessment in Rice Paddies: Theory and Practice
Pesticide Risk Assessment in Rice Paddies: Theory and Practice: ab 194.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
- Price: 194.99 EUR excl. shipping
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Burger Wender - aus hochwertigem Edelstahl
Perfekt zum Wenden von Burger Paddies. Auch Spiegeleier und anderes Grillgut kann einfach und schnell angehoben und gewendet werden. Ideal auch für das Zubereiten auf einer Plancha.- Shop: odax
- Price: 26.69 EUR excl. shipping
