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5 Brothers In Arms

by Raymond C. Heimbuch

Non-fiction, History, Memoir, World War II

List: $19.99

Special discount $15.00 plus $2.00 Shipping

This book starts with our becoming POW's, with a brief flash back telling how we got there, then goes on to tell about my POW life, and as each of my brothers who is not already mentioned joins the service, he gets a separate chapter telling his war experience, and goes on to tell what happens to each of them up until the present time.  Essentially it tells what we did during the war and then what we did up until the present time.

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"This is a true story about our ordeal as POWs.  Ray’s sharp memory tells the story of our starvation and suffering as Japanese POWs.  Our friendship is one reason we did survive by helping each other, especially on the “Hell Ships” from Mindanao to Japan, a horrific journey of ninety-two days.  Ours was not to reason why – ours was to do or die." - Bob Dowding, Japanese POW,  Author: A few Survived.

"I’ve known Ray and George Heimbuch since 1941, while assigned to the 5^th Air Base Group.  This relationship has lasted to today.  It was interrupted in May 1942 when the unit was surrendered to Japanese forces in the Philippines. We shared similar experiences in POW camps until our liberation in 1945. Afterward we stayed in the Air Force, got married, and raised families.  At Survivor Reunions we share experiences, good and bad.  Memories fade, but the tales get better. May our memories of the footlocker fifth remain with us forever."  --  Walt Regehr, another survivor!

PURCHASE INFO:

To purchase, send check, payable to Ray Heimbuch,  (X No. books X $15.00, plus $2.00) to:  Ray Heimbuch, 1314 Estates Drive, Fairfield, CA  94533.

 

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Angel's Wing: A Year in the Skies of Vietnam

by Joseph R. Finch

Non-Fiction, Vietnam, Memoir

$16.95

Angel’s Wing is Joe Finch’s account of the year he spent with A Company, the “Little Bears” during the Vietnam War. His story is raw and authentic, unflinching in its honesty. Sometimes his tale is humorous. Sometimes it’s tragic. Whether he writes of a preposterous moment or of brutality and death, his personal account is powerful. If you weren’t there, at times his experiences in Vietnam are hard to imagine: the blood, the noise, the smells.  At other times, you will open your eyes in wonder at the dedication that the young men fighting there demonstrated.

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"The Angel's Wing was a "very bad place" to the helicopter pilots of Viet Nam but to the men on the ground the "Angels" were the pilots themselves. For the pilots it was the hotly contested no-mans land along the Cambodian border. To those soldiers on the ground who were injured or hungry or needing support, the helicopter units like the "Little Bears" and so many others, were the Angels who came upon "rotary" wings. The book is also a story of the soldiers in those helicopters who made the rules up as they went. They learned as they lived and died." -- LTC Hugh L. Mills, jr. scout pilot, Viet Nam
 

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Bring Cup, Plate, & Spoon

By Betsy Herold Heimke

Memoir

$15.95

When Betsy Herold was 12 years old, Japanese soldiers came to her home in the Philippines and took her entire family prisoner.  Bring Cup, Plate, & Spoon is the story of how she grew up in a series of civilian internment camps on Luzonn.  In the final climatic moments of World War II, Betsy and her family were eye witnesses to the Battle of Manila from their cells in the infamous Bilibid Prison. Charming and informative at the same time.

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MWSA Review

Chum Water

by Hodge Wood

Memoir

$15.95

Hodge Wood was a handsome young man at the height of his physical prowess when he broke his neck in a car wreck.  Chum Water is the inspiring story of Hodge's struggle to rediscover movement, life and love in the years after the accident.

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“Hodge Wood’s book, Chum Water, can only be described as an incredible and riveting account of a young man who, at the peak of his physical ability, faced life-altering adversities and survival following a tragic vehicle accident that damaged his spinal cord and left him paralyzed.  Chum Water is a beautiful, fascinating and, at times, humorous portrayal of Hodge’s uncanny fortitude to escape total dependency on others through conquering disabilities in his ‘new life’ and becoming an occupational therapist dedicated to helping and giving hope to others.  A must read for everyone!” ~ Lloyd A. King, award-winning author of, “From ‘Nam With Love - An Infantry Soldier’s Vietnam” … poetic war stories about combat. 

"With Hodge’s calm, stoic demeanor, it’s hard to imagine all that this young man went through to become the role model that he is today.  Truth is stranger than fiction, which is clearly demonstrated in Chum Water.   Can’t wait for the sequel." ~ Sharon Sanderson, MPH, OTR/L, FAOTA, Professor Emeritus, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, and President, Oklahoma Occupational Therapy Association

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Coyote Jack: Drawing meaning from Life and Vietnam

by Jack Lyndon Thomas

Hard Cover, Color Photos, Maps

Non-fiction, Memoir, Art/Photography, Vietnam

$28.95

Coyote Jack overlays a fascinating exposition of life and death in the most enigmatic of American conflicts with an individual's struggle to free himself from the enemy that stands ready to thwart a full and authentic life.  Through Jack, we live in sandbag bunkers, bathe out of wells, and dodge booby traps, as he learns the privations and landmines of his personal life are as complex as the clashing cultures and divisive politics that created, and ended the war in Vietnam.

Thomas was an Infantry Lieutenant who lived and fought with South Vietnamese Regional and Popular Forces.

REVIEWS:

"A Soldier's Trip Through War and Peace…This book is a very interesting confluence of personal combat experience, difficult family dynamics, and the pain of unresolved emotions and questions of purpose told by an articulate and complex man… The remainder of the book, concentrating on his participation as a leader of Mobile Advisory Team III-56, attached to the Regional Forces/Popular Forces in Hau Nghia Province, is a slow but steady revelation of how Jack becomes disillusioned with the war, yet is proud of what he and his team are trying to do for the people of Viet Nam. The dangers, conflicts, frustrations and successes meld into an entertaining read; not full of "shoot `em up" combat stories, but rich with the dynamics of men in conflict..." - Lawrence Mayes

"An Important, Relevant Memoir of a Viet Nam Veteran …I particularly enjoyed the profound poems and statements that introduced each chapter. Part II of the book with Maps and beautiful colored photographs awakened all my senses to the culture, the country, and the people who impacted the life of young Jack Lyndon Thomas through his Viet Nam experience… Thomas is a gifted, creative, and articulate …" - Richard R. Blake

"A soldier returns to Viet Nam…The treasure of "Coyote Jack" lies in his telling of the small details of Vietnam life. The author's narrative - not his fanciful descriptions - but the straightforward stories bring the people and places alive. Appealing children, stoic adults, terrible deprivations, horrific accidents, humidity and mud, and ever-present danger - the listing for this rich account could be long indeed, and altogether it allows the country and its people to become very real…" - Marcelline 'Marcy' Burns, Reader Views www.readerviews.com

"A journey into the past ...Vietnam haunted the author for over thirty years. This memoir is about his journey back to Vietnam to visit the battlefields he had once known so intimately."- Arnold Howard

PURCHASE INFO: 

Signed Copy from JackLyndonThomas@comcast.net for $31.95 including S&H via Paypal

Also available via Barnes & Noble Online & Amazon

www.lyndonjacks.com

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MWSA Review

Fire Mission: The World of Nam -- a Marine's Story

by Earl J. Gorman

Non-fiction

Publisher- Red Desert Press (Clarendon Hills),

Retail $19.95; a 30% discount for members

A Marine’s memoir of a life-changing 2007 adventure back to Vietnam with a medical mission team that weaves in his 1965-66 combat experiences. Against all odds, the author searched for his two Vietnamese friends. The therapy derived from the reconciliation work and his successful reunion (after 41 years) with his friends, closed the mental wounds of his war experience. The monkey was off his back! A deadly Viet Cong sapper attack as well as episodes from Operation Hastings are featured combat stories.

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The Ghosts of Thua Thien

by John A. Nesser

McFarland

$29.95

Drafted in October 1968, John A. Nesser left behind his wife and young son to fight in the controversial Vietnam War. Like many in his generation, he was deeply at odds with himself over the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, instilled with a strong sense of duty to his country but uncertain about its mission and his role in it.

Nesser was deployed to the Ashau Valley, site of some of the war’s heaviest fighting, and served eight months as an infantry rifleman before transferring to become a door gunner for a Chinook helicopter. In this stirring memoir, he recalls in detail the exhausting missions in the mountainous jungle, the terror of walking into an ambush, the dull-edged anxiety that filled quiet days, and the steady fear of being shot out of the sky. The accounts are richly illustrated with Nesser’s own photographs of the military firebases and aircraft, the landscapes, and the people he encountered.

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“I knew John Nesser for years, and never knew him. I read his book. Now I will never forget. He wrote many years after his Vietnam experience and he has forgotten much. But his heart has not. John’s story of adventure (for adventure it was) is as poignant now (in the days of the Iraq debacle and its aftermath) as it was the day he returned to the world. John was a soldier once. Part of him will never be anything else”—Henry Shovic, author of When There’s Only You: Safe Living for Women.

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Highest Traditions: Memories of War

By Tony Lazzarini

Memoir

$18.95

This is the author's memories of his two years in Vietnam serving as a helicopter door gunner in a UH-1D (Huey) helicopter. He flew over 250 missions between April, 1966 and November 1967 with the 25th Aviation "A" Company LITTLE BEARS.

REVIEWS: 

"Lazzarini does an outstanding job!" - MilitaryReadingList.com

"Touching and thrilling at the same time." - Heartland Reviews

"Best memoir 2004" - RebeccaReads.com

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Lucky Enough

By Eddie Beesley

Memoir

Book: $12.95

CD: $15.00

In August, 1965, Marine Corporal Eddie Beesley stepped on a landmine near Chu Lai in Vietnam.  The resulting explosion changes his life forever.  Lucky Enough is the inspiring story of how Eddie dealt with the most terrible moment of his life. 

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Eddie Beesley not only puts you there  but makes you feel proud to be an American." -- Tony Orlando

"Outstanding account of his Viet Nam experience.  How it affected his life and how he has positively dealt with it." --  Sgt Grit, Don Whitton

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The Making of a Soldier

Lt. Col. George Powers

History, Memoir, Vietnam

$15.80

The Making of a Soldier  is the life story of a man who believed, from his youth that he was gifted as a soldier to rise to the highest rank as a Commissioned Officer; who volunteered to learn his craft through Ranger School, Airborne School, and the John F. Kennedy Warfare School,  eventually becoming a Master Parachutist; who was called upon to serve thirty months in combat in Vietnam as an Infantry Officer; whose life was dramatically changed by encountering  his God in flight above the Delta en-route from Can Tho to Saigon in an Air America aircraft. God spoke to him in an unmistakably direct, though inaudible voice, an invitation to change the focus of his life career. The book seeks to show how God is at work developing many of us into spiritual soldiers, warriors who are invited to serve in His Army, often with far less prestige and fame than is experienced in the military services. And amazingly, as the author discovered, God uses much of the lessons learned by the military in a parallel spiritual application to advance His Kingdom on the earth.

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Our Walk with God

By Tibor & Julia Anne Bierbaum

Memoir, Vietnam, Cold War

$24.95

REVIEWS:

From the Hungarian Revolution to Viet Nam as a Special Forces Officer, follow Major Tibor Bierbaum and his wife through war and beyond. “Tibor remind us that freedom is our heritage and also our responsibility to maintain”  --Jim Stewart, MWSA.

“Our Walk with God is a love story of God and country. It is a story of inspiration, courage, faith, and most of all, love” -- Michelle Converset, Fort Wayne Lutheran

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See the Dragon: One Wolfhound's Vietnam Story

by Don Arndt

History, Non-Fiction, Memoir, Vietnam

Paper back…..19.95

Hard Back……26.95

This is the memories of a drafted Midwest farm boy’s tour in 1966 Vietnam. The author recalls his service with the 27^th Infantry Wolfhounds of the 25^th Division and the search for his buddies four decades after the war.

 Reviews:

"I highly recommend this book to anyone studying the Vietnam War or whose family or friends were part of the valorous unit known as the 25th Infantry Division “Wolfhounds.” - Tony Lazzarini, President, Military Writers Society of America

"Incredible book. I couldn't put the thing down." - SGT Brian Feild, 1st Cavalry Division

"If you were there, "See the Dragon" will take you back. If you weren't, it will take you there." - Guy B. Hinton, Vietnam 1968-69

"I can hardly put into words what I felt about what I read." - CPT Patrick F. Field, 4ID(M)

 "A book that any Vietnam Veteran can relate to. Very moving. - John Babbitt, Vietnam  1967-68

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