How does consciousness navigate aging, memory, and the physical friction of urban living? In Place in the World, Robert Flanagan delivers incisive, compressed prose poems that examine what it means to grow older across changing landscapes of mind and body.Flanagan observes daily existence with razor-sharp cadence, moving between fleeting city encounters, hospital rooms, and internal reckonings. Each piece confronts the erosion of time, familial duty, and e...

In tight, compact words that resemble an unravelling DNA code of life, poet Robert Flanagan comtemplates mortality in his latest collection. Flanagan's poetry is essential, incantatory, and almost shamanistic in its ability to cast spells that transport the reader to invaluable inner worlds.

This book is where that effort has taken me. My feeling is that this is a valid and true picture of what could have happened in that period, between 1948 and 1957: the loves, the tragedies, war, friendships and antipathies; I’ve incorporated it all.

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Dragon Bait is book II in a trilogy, threelinked and contiguous novels whichfeature the same common primarycharacters and venues throughout acontinuing story. Use of fl ash-back orback story reversions to earlier times/places is common, allowing introductionof relevant but minor swatches ofinformation and perspective.Book I, Involuntary Tour, published in2009, was set in Bad Aibling, Germany,in 1968, Viet Nam in ...

BAPTISM BY FIREChris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack Viet cong and NVA troops in the notorious Iron Triangle and along the treacherous Cambodian border near Tay Ninh.Patrols, ambu...

The New York Times BestsellerSidney Hillman Foundation Award Winner"Heartbreaking, terrifying, and enraging. It belongs to the literature of men at war." —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe 40th anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—with a new foreword by Kevin Powers. The Pulitzer Prize-wi...

After spending a year in Germany as a security guard with the 50th Ordnance Company, Curtis Gay went to Viet Nam as a Private First Class. Six months later he was a Sergeant in the 25th Infantry Division and experienced some of the most intense fighting of the war. This book is his story.Curtis spent a year as a Drill Sergeant at Fort Dix, New Jersey before leaving the Army in 1968. After a long career in the electrical industry, he is retired and lives in Durham, North Carolina wi...

**A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried"One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam."—Minneapolis Star and Tribune**Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman...

In early February of 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive, Private First Class Gregory V. Short arrived in Vietnam as an eighteen-year-old U.S. Marine. Amid all of the confusion and destruction, he began his tour of duty as an 81mm mortarman with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, which was stationed at Con Thien near the DMZ. While living in horrendous conditions reminiscent of the trenches in World War I, his unit was cut off and constantly being bombarded by the North Vietna...

Novella - Four stories, one poem, and Background on CTF-117 taken from the author's personal experiences during his tour of duty as a River Rat with the Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam. Plus, four other stories that reflect the trials and tribulations of those of us who served during this contentious time in history.It has been 37 years and he still cannot forget. You would think after all this time he could put these thoughts and emotions aside and g...

In Vietnamese the word is “Ma.” It means “Ghost.” That’s the name the enemy gave their deadliest, most dangerous, and most elusive sniper the Viet Cong had working for them with an incredibly high number of kills during the Vietnam War. His trademark was his elusiveness. By night or by day he came, targeted the unwary and then disappeared. His world was any rugged terrain that gave him cover, with fast running streams winding through steaming jungles of growth so thick you crawled to get t...