The Longest Way Home: Jake, Harry and Robert

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Three U.S. servicemen from three different branches of the service find themselves stranded at the very last minute of the last day of the U.S./North Vietnam conflict.Jake, a special forces sergeant, Harry, a dedicated weapons specialist of the Marine Corps and Robert, an Air Force engineer trained in helicopters, find each other after being abandoned by the U.S after the fighting.They come together with only one objective, to find their way through Laos with the help of the Montagnard tribal people of the area, back to the friendly territory of Thailand.It follows their constant fear and fights with the Viet Cong, the North Vietnam regular soldiers up the Ho Chi Minh Trail. For the five years of very trying times and adventure to finally reaching their goal. Without knowing just how they could make their way to freedom, their only choice was The Longest Way Home.

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Conversations with Robert Graves (Literary Conversations)

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Though he lived most of his life in the remote village of Deya on the island of Mallorca, Robert Graves (1895--1985) was conversant with the most important issues of this century and was acquainted with many of the most powerful people. Jorge Luis Borges called him "a soul above." Graves wrote almost restlessly on subjects of great diversity: myths of the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Celts; modern science and economics; contemporary society and culture as well as of ancient Greece and Rome, of Celtic Wales and Ireland, of the time of Milton, and of the American Revolution.

He was a poet of great fame, a celebrated writer of historical novels, and the man who imprinted the name and identity of the White Goddess upon the cultural language. His translations of Latin classics have been applauded; his recastings of Biblical and Persian texts attracted irascible attention from scholars.

Throughout his long and productive life, whether he was talking with Virginia Woolf, Peter Quenell, Jorge Luis Borges, Alan Sillitoe, Edwin Newman, or Gina Lollobrigida, the voice of Graves remained clear and distinct--attracting and repelling a variety of interviewers with its surety. His Books-

Goodbye to All That; The White Goddess; I, Claudius; and King Jesus-preserve his literary art. The conversations in this collection keep alive his presence and passion.

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