The fall of Saigon in 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War-more than fifty years later, its memory is already fading, although its cultural impact remains. Beginning in the mid-1950s with the Republic of South Vietnam in a civil war with North Vietnam over communism, the United States's military commitment rose to half a million soldiers, ......
Mississippi Conviction: Betrayal, Brotherhood, and the Fall of the Klan recounts a remarkable and underreported story of conscience, courage, and moral reckoning at the height of the civil rights era in Mississippi. On Father's Day, June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan after ......
Mississippi Conviction: Betrayal, Brotherhood, and the Fall of the Klan recounts a remarkable and underreported story of conscience, courage, and moral reckoning at the height of the civil rights era in Mississippi. On Father's Day, June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan after ......
The powerful true story of a parent's unflagging battle on behalf of a beloved son struggling with PTSD, mental illness, and addiction and a family who bore the burdens of war for decades. In January 1969, angry after a fight with his father, nineteen-year-old Doug Johnson-in what will be a fateful choice-decides to enlist in the Army. Once in ......
Featuring Pink Floyd's iconic album covers, posters, singles bags, band photographs, booklet pages and the rough artwork that evolved into some of the most recognisable designs in music history, this paperback edition of Mind Over Matter presents the complete body of material, including 32 pages of artwork created for reissues since 2007. Storm ......
A Young Fighter Pilot's Diary of the US Navy Air War in Vietnam, 1964-1965
I'm Alive is the compelling diary of Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG) Errol F. Reilly, a 26-year-old Navy fighter pilot, written aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea during his first Vietnam combat cruise. In writing that is colorful, perceptive, and, at times, both humorous and heartbreaking, Reilly chronicles his daily experiences "living, ......
Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle, 1948-1966
During the postwar period of 1948-56, over 400,000 Jews from the Middle East and Asia immigrated to the newly established state of Israel. By the end of the 1950s, Mizrahim, also known as "Oriental Jewry," represented the ethnic majority of the Israeli Jewish population. Despite their large numbers, Mizrahim were considered outsiders because of ......
Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World
The Ultimate Protest: Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World examines how the most unlikely of war correspondents, Malcolm W. Browne, became the only Western reporter to capture Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc’s horrific self-immolation on June 11, 1963. Quang Duc made his ......
As 1968 dawns, the once King of rock'n'roll faces cultural oblivion. While elsewhere the Sixties are swinging, for Elvis they're sinking- in terrible films, drug addiction, paranoia, religious mania and the mercenary wiles of his psychopathic manager. In the words of the hip young director assigned to his first TV special, Elvis' reputation was ......
