The Man From The East (1961)

Mann grad honored for Navy service
I firmly believe the highest respect and honor a citizen can give to his or her country is to serve in its military. America has not used the draft since 1973, so all members of the our military have volunteered for their respective branches of service. Recently, Dean Larson, a retired Navy captain, was inducted into Purdue University’s Tri-Service Hall of Fame in West Lafayette. Larson was born …
Crossing the GDR border

Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina $85.00 Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict are recorded as missing or having been killed. This book is a memorial to those men and women, and in many cases it includes the last photographs they took. Horst Faas and Tim Page, two photographers who worked and were wounded in Viet...

Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir $4.02 "The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion."A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three years old when he arrived in Vietnam in 1965. After a brief stint in the Delta, Gwin was reassigned to the 1s...

Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War $5.14 In February 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over “neutral” Laos in territory controlled by Pathet Lao guerrillas and North Vietnamese regulars. After his capture, the German-born Dengler proved to be no ordinary prisoner. Already a legend in the navy for his unique escape skills, which he had demonstrated during survival training in the California desert, he found himself caught in a...