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The Father of All Things by Tom Bissell

The Father of All Things

A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam

by Tom Bissell
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  • Mar 6, 2007, 432 pages
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  • Mar 2008, 432 pages
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FARE THEE WELL! AND IF FOREVER,
STILL, FOR EVER FARE THEE WELL."

Excerpted from The Father of All Things by Tom Bissell Copyright © 2007 by Tom Bissell. Excerpted by permission of Pantheon, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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  A Short History of Vietnam Since 1975

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