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Homecoming
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Bob Greene
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

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Vietnam veterans recount what happened to them upon their return to the U.S.
Homecomings
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Yoshikuni Igarashi
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-06 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas returned home. Heeding the
Soldier from the War Returning
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Thomas Childers
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called "Good War." The Greatest Generation, we're told by Tom Brokaw an
Tribe
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Pages: 103
Authors: Sebastian Junger
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-24 - Publisher: Hachette UK

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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern
Odysseus in America
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Jonathan Shay
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that tra