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In Love and War

by Jim Stockdale, Sybil Stockdale · 1984

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A unique American chronicle of a navy family's life during the Vietnam war years, this widely acclaimed memoir has been updated to include an outspoken account of the Stockdale's experiences in the seventeen years since Jim's release from a Hanoi prison.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thisleadershipleadershipMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of this
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war and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of this
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military historymilitary historyMore like thisLess of this
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1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of thisVietnamVietnamMore like thisLess of this
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adult

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