Ride the thunder : a Vietnam War story of honor and triumph / by Richard Botkin.
Record details
- ISBN: 193507105X
- ISBN: 9781935071051
- Physical Description: xxxiv, 652 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : WND Books, [2009]
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-630) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Chapter 1 Red Tide 1 -- Chapter 2 Drawing the Bamboo Curtain 15 -- Chapter 3 Captain Ripley-Lima Six 37 -- Chapter 4 Suicide Squeeze 49 -- Chapter 5 Lima Company Moves Out 67 -- Chapter 6 Ripley's Raiders 87 -- Chapter 7 Little Bit of Heaven...and then Straight Back to Hell 99 -- Chapter 8 End of the Beginning 109 -- Chapter 9 1968 Beginning of the End 117 -- Chapter 10 Tet Offensive Opening Rounds 139 -- Chapter 11 Hearts and Minds at Home 155 -- Chapter 12 Forward Observer with Bravo 1/26 165 -- Chapter 13 My Lai 175 -- Chapter 14 Back to Vietnam 187 -- Chapter 15 Back in the States 203 -- Chapter 16 Going Back Over 215 -- Chapter 17 King Kong Lives! 225 -- Chapter 18 "Talk, Fight. Talk, Fight." 237 -- Chapter 19 Easter Offensive 251 -- Chapter 20 One Link in the Chain 259 -- Chapter 21 Their Finest Hour 269 -- Chapter 22 "No Place for a Nice Jewish Boy..." 281 -- Chapter 23 Easter Morning at Dong Ha 301 -- Chapter 24 Easter Morning in Saigon 313 -- Chapter 25 High Noon at Dong Ha 325 -- Chapter 26 Ripley at the Bridge 337 -- Chapter 27 A Four-Hour Eternity 355 -- Chapter 28 Ongoing View from Dong Ha 375 -- Chapter 29 "We're about to be Bombed!" 397 -- Chapter 30 Lonely Bull 413 -- Chapter 31 Turley Faces MACV 429 -- Chapter 32 Ongoing Action at Dong Ha 439 -- Chapter 33 Second Lieutenant Nguyen Luong 453 -- Chapter 34 Going Home 469 -- Chapter 35 "Cease Fire" 483 -- Chapter 36 Operation Homecoming 499 -- Chapter 37 Operation Frequent Wind 517 -- Chapter 38 Fall of Saigon 533 -- Chapter 39 Reeducation 549 -- Chapter 40 Binh Survives the Bamboo Gulag 565 -- Chapter 41 American Dreams 579 -- Chapter 42 Binh the American 591.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 959.7043 BOT (Text) | 36015000695102 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hudson (Fontana) | 959.704 BOT (Text) | 39493106022926 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Newport | HISTORY ASIA VIETNAM BOTKI (Text) | 34208203800973 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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