The question at the heart of Alice McDermott's latest book is - what do you sacrifice in order to do something good for someone else? The author's answer is told through the story of Tricia, a young ...

War is often erroneously understood as a purely masculine arena. But women have always played indispensable roles in battle, even if they’ve been historically relegated to the sidelines—and the ...

On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the nearly 20-year Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam ...

Fifty years ago, 2-year-old Phan Kim Phuong was handed up into a military aircraft, her future a near-complete blank save one truth: She would not grow up in Vietnam. Saigon was falling to the North ...

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