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[Free Kindle eBook] Vietnam War Helicopter Art: U.S. Army Rotor Aircraft. Was $26. 5/5 Rating

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One ebook today but quiet an interesting one

Straight 5/5 star with 26 ratings

Great gift for Vietnam Veterans. They will surely appreciate this eBook.

  • Hundreds of unique color photos showing how soldiers decorated their helicopters during the Vietnam War
  • Elaborate, colorful, and often comical nose art inspired by Sixties and Seventies pop culture, music, cartoons and comics, psychedelia, and politics, as well as sex and booze
  • Features Hueys, Chinooks, and more
  • Artwork captures a slice of the Vietnam experience
  • Will appeal to Vietnam veterans, modelers, and history buffs

Ill also add this one:

Ancient Norse, Celtic and Brito-Saxon board games played by Vikings and others since before 400 A.D. - Eleven different Tafl variant boards, pieces and rules and simple strategies explained, with diagrams. Five board sizes; 7x7, 9x9, 11x11, 13x13, and 19x19 explained.

Games taught in this book include the Scottish Ard Ri, Irish Brandubh and Fitchneal, Welsh Gwyddbwyll and two variants of Tawlbwyrdd, Sapmi Tablut, three variants of Viking Hnefatafl, and the gorgeous and gigantic Alea Evangelii.

Discussions on cultural importance, history, and rule variants as well as easy information how to make a simple game set to play on, with the intention of providing encouragement for all to keep well this rich heritage of games - a real, solid, tangible connection to our ancestors and our history, which no computer screen fantasy can truly provide.

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  • Thx OP, should be a interesting read!

  • +1

    Great gift for Vietnam Veterans.

    Relevant pic
    http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/030/111/a4o…

    • -1

      OMG* the flashbacks. The flashbacks!

      That's pretty much how i felt this morning…

      Hey - Jesus is there too! With his crown of thorns! Yeah!

      * First time use of 'OMG' eva.

    • How?

  • -4

    A shameful war of Uncle Sam.

    • -1

      We were there too buddy…

      The Lord Jesus Christ moves in mysterious ways, sometimes packing an M60.

  • any pictures of a channel 7 chopper and some cold feet?

  • quiet an interesting one

    a quiet ebook sounds like my thing

    • I hope it's not an audio book!

  • -1

    Thanks OP. Captured! Rendition to Egypt executed.

  • wow..thats specific

  • Says i already have it. Has this come up before?

  • And here was me thinking that Norse people were too busy killing Celtic people to play board games.

  • -1

    Wow. Massive savings of $27. Wait..$27 for an ebook? That's double the price of the printed edition? Hmmmm.. that's not right. Presumably the $27 price was put up just prior to this 'deal' being announced.

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