Mission Improbable Vietnam

Author : Nancy Nau Sullivan
Publisher : Light Messages Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611534290

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Mission Improbable:Vietnam by Nancy Nau Sullivan Pdf

It's 2003, nearly 30 years after the Vietnam War...Blanche “Bang” Murninghan is sitting on the dock of the Peel ‘n Eat Pier on Santa Maria Island, sipping an excellent draft and wiggling her fishing pole after an elusive sheepshead. It's hot out and the sun is shining. She doesn't see the woman eyeing her from the fishing hut—not until she appears at Blanche's side and forever disrupts Blanche's peaceful idyll in this quiet Gulf coast town.The woman is Jean McMahon and she needs Blanche's help—her amateur sleuthing skills have become local legend after she helped solve the murder of a friend and dodge some drug-dealing land developers. Jean needs a good dose of that Blanche determination and doggedness. It's not a simple favor Jean asks. Will Blanche go to Vietnam with her and look for Jean's mother?It's as if Jean has ripped a new hole in Blanche's heart. Her father was killed in Vietnam, and she's never gotten much history from her beloved grandmother and mother on the subject. Jean's request grows on her. Blanche wants the truth...Blanche and Jean don't stop once they land in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, and ex-pat “Stick” Dahlkamp makes sure of that. They pick up the search together. The three cross the rice paddies on Stick's Honda Dream to Ben Tre and My Tho, old stomping grounds for Stick, a former Ninth Infantry Division Riverine and now bar owner of the popular, The Follies. He's got friends in jungle towns who might help, and indeed they do. And don't. Blanche begins to wonder if he's running them off the road.They trace Jean's mother's steps around South Vietnam, to where she met Hank McMahon, an infantry scout with the old Americal division. They meet more than one shady character who thinks it better to let things lie, deep and peaceful, just the way that they were after the horror of war passed. But Blanche's stubbornness beats down the door. She is looking for Jean's mother, and following her father's trail. He left without a trace. Or did he? Does anyone?

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814722230

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The British and the Vietnam War by Nicholas Tarling Pdf

During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vietnam and to help bring about peace. The thinking that lay behind these endeavours was often insightful and it is hard to argue that the attempt was not worth making, but the British government was able to exert little, if any, influence on a power with which it believed it had, and needed, a special relationship. Drawing on little-used papers in the British archives, Nicholas Tarling describes the making of Britain’s Vietnam policy during a period when any compromise proposed by London was likely to be seen in Washington as suggestive of defeat, and attempts to involve Moscow in the process over-estimated the USSR’s influence on a Hanoi determined on reunification.

Author : Lee Clarke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226109410

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Mission Improbable by Lee Clarke Pdf

How does the U.S. Post Office plan to deliver mail after atomic Armageddon? How do oil industry executives intend to collect 10 million gallons of oil spilled in the Gulf of Alaska? How do regulators try to convince people that everyone can be evacuated from congested Long Island after a nuclear power plant destroys itself? Lee Clarke enters the world of managers and experts to find out how governments and corporations plan for massive disaster when they have no clue as to how to go about it. He argues that managers create plans that are "fantasy documents," rhetorical tools that are used to convince audiences that experts are in charge and that all is well. Provocative and written for a general audience, Mission Improbable makes the case that society would be safer, smarter, and fairer if organizations would admit their limitations.

Author : Ted Osius
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978825178

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Nothing Is Impossible by Ted Osius Pdf

Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives. Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation’s extraordinary renaissance. With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing Is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.

Author : Cengiz Çandar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498587518

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Turkey’s Mission Impossible by Cengiz Çandar Pdf

This is a work of excavation of the modern history of Turkey, with the Kurdish question at its center, unearthed and exposed in Çandar’s captivating narrative. The founding of a Turkish nation-state in Asia Minor brought with it the denial of the distinct Kurdish identity in its midst, giving birth to an intractable problem that led to intermittent Kurdish revolts and culminated in the enduring insurgency of the PKK. The Kurdish question is perceived as a mortal threat for the survival of Turkey. The author weaves a fascinating account of the encounter between Turkey and the Kurds in historical perspective with special emphasis on failed peace processes. Providing a unique historical record of the authoritarian, centralist and ultra-nationalist—rather than Islamist—nature of the Turkish state rooted in the last decades of the Ottoman period and finally manifested in Erdoğan’s “New Turkey,” Çandar challenges stereotyped and conventional views on the Turkey of today and tomorrow. Turkey’s Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds combines scholarly research with the memoirs of a participant observer, richly revealing the author’s first-hand knowledge of developments acquired over a lifetime devoted to the resolution of perhaps the most complex problem of the Middle East.

Author : Nancy Nau Sullivan
Publisher : Light Messages Publishing
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611535303

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The Blanche Murninghan Mysteries Boxed Set by Nancy Nau Sullivan Pdf

Fans of Jana Deleon's Miss Fortune Mystery series and Tonya Kappes A Camper and Criminals Cozy series will fall hard for the colorful characters and exciting misadventures in the Blanche Murningnan Mysteries, now available in a convenient three-in-one boxed set. Saving Tuna Street After Blanche "Bang" Murninghan's grandmother left her a cabin on Tuna Street, life starts looking up for the part-time journalist. But when a development company moves in from Chicago, Blanche must fight tooth and nail to keep her new-found inheritance. Matters only worsen when her friend is found murdered in the parking lot of the nearby marina. The harder Blanche pushes against the source of trouble, the more she is sucked into the vortex of greed, murder, drug runners, and kidnapping (hers). Trouble Down Mexico Way When Blanche “ Bang” Murninghan visits an exhibit of ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico City, she sees that all is not ancient. One of the mummies has a pink hair clip embedded in its hay-like do, and the texture of the skin is not quite right. Blanche digs for answers and gets tangled in the mystery of the mummy at the Palacio Nacional, a murder with more complexity than anyone at the museum expected. Mission Improbable: Vietnam Blanche's amateur sleuthing skills have become local legend, and Jean McMahon needs her help. It' s not a simple favor Jean asks: Will Blanche go to Vietnam with her and look for Jean' s mother? As they trace Jean' s mother' s steps, they meet more than one shady character who thinks it better to let things lie. Against her better judgment, Blanche beats down the doors of the past. She is looking for Jean' s mother and following her father' s trail. He left without a trace. Or did he? Does anyone? These cozy mysteries are perfect, light-hearted, world-traveling fun from the comfort of your own couch.

Author : Dale Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136339875

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The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam by Dale Walton Pdf

This book offers a dispassionate strategic examination of the Vietnam conflict that challenges the conventional wisdom that South Vietnam could not survive as an independent non-communist entity over the long term regardless of how the United States conducted its military- political effort in Indochina.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : CUB:U183019692563

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Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ralph R. Covell
Publisher : Hope Publishing House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0932727352

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Mission Impossible by Ralph R. Covell Pdf

Author : S. D. M. Carpenter
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1502373262

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Mission Vietnam by S. D. M. Carpenter Pdf

Follow the adventures of Major Rick Travis and his hand picked team of six highly skilled former Special Operations Group personnel. Hardened vets one and all, their civilian lives leave them empty of the sheer adrenaline and excitement of living. Without knowing what the mission will be, but longing for renewed excitement they each readily accept Rick Travis' invite out of loyalty, respect, and a brotherly bond. Witness the birth of the team that will become known as the Lords of Destruction.Mission Vietnam will transport you with them back to a time and place, to the war most Americans wanted no part of. Live through some of the atrocities and heartaches our Vets experienced.For the Vietnam vets: Yes you saw it! You lived it! It was real! Your demons are brought into the light of day. You weren't crazy! This book will validate to some, the many horrendous and long repressed realities of the war. Hopefully, it will also give some measure of release and relief to troubled souls. For those who were fortunate enough not to have participated, it gives a glimpse into the stark realities experienced by those who did!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789290797173

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Afghanistan: Mission Impossible? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pierre Asselin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520287495

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Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Pierre Asselin Pdf

"Using new and largely inaccessible Vietnamese sources as well as French, British, Canadian and American archives, Pierre Asselin sheds valuable light on Hanoi's path to war. Step by step the narrative makes Hanoi's revolutionary strategy from the end of the French Indochina War to the start of the Anti-American Resistance Struggle for Reunification and National Salvation (the Vietnam War) transparent. The book reveals how North Vietnamese leaders moved from a cautious policy emphasizing nonviolent political and diplomatic struggle to a far riskier pursuit of military victory"--

Author : Neil L. Jamieson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520201576

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Understanding Vietnam by Neil L. Jamieson Pdf

Winner of the Outstanding Academic Book, American Library Association, 1994

Author : Max Boot
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871409430

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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam by Max Boot Pdf

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography) A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War. Praised as a “superb scholarly achievement” (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot’s role as a “master chronicler” (Washington Times) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and never-before-seen documents, Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908–1987) from historical ignominy to “restore a sense of proportion” to this “political Svengali, or ‘Lawrence of Asia’ ”(The New Yorker). Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, pioneered a “hearts and minds” diplomacy, first in the Philippines and then in Vietnam. Bringing a tragic complexity to Lansdale and a nuanced analysis to his visionary foreign policy, Boot suggests Vietnam could have been different had we only listened. With contemporary reverberations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, The Road Not Taken is a “judicious and absorbing” (New York Times Book Review) biography of lasting historical consequence.

Author : Nancy Nau Sullivan
Publisher : Light Messages Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611533767

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Trouble Down Mexico Way by Nancy Nau Sullivan Pdf

Trouble has a way of finding Blanche Murninghan... When Blanche “Bang” Murninghan visits an exhibit of ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico City, she sees that all is not ancient. One of the mummies has a pink hair clip embedded in its haylike do, and the texture of the skin is not quite right. Blanche, a part-time journalist, starts to dig for answers and gets tangled in the mystery of the mummy at the Palacio Nacional.Her cousin and traveling companion, Haasi Hakla, aids and abets and puts the reins on Blanche. All the while, the two eat and drink their way across the city, following one hunch after another with a cast of colorful characters that include a prescient elderly chilanga, an amiable overworked detective, and a stunning doctor of shady deeds. The cousins are willing to risk kidnapping and attempted murder to get at the truth, but first, Blanche stops for another excellent beer and Haasi delights in one more taco al pastor. Trouble Down Mexico Way is the second book in the Blanche Murninghan cozy mystery series. Each of the books can be read as a stand-alone. Foreword Reviews is in love with the "spunky heroine" and Kirkus Reviews says, "There's a reason Blanche Murninghan's cousin Jack calls her 'Bang.' When she gets mad, it's an event to rival a Santa Maria Island sunset and it happens about as often." Fans of Jana Deleon's Miss Fortune Mystery series and Tonya Kappes A Camper and Criminals Cozy series will fall hard for the colorful characters and exciting misadventures in the Blanche Murningnan Mysteries.