{"product_id":"never-vanquished-a-novel-of-the-vietnam-war-paperback","title":"Never Vanquished: A Novel of the Vietnam War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe went back to Vietnam to finish a war. He stayed to fight a different one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is January 1972, and the United States is walking away from Vietnam. Captain DeAndre Washington - Silver Stars, Purple Heart, third tour - is not. Assigned as an advisor to the 11th Battalion of the South Vietnamese Rangers near Kon Tum, he lands expecting a year of paperwork, radios, and restraint. What he finds instead is a country in free fall, a South Vietnamese command rotten with corruption and ethnic hatred, and a people the world is about to forget: the Jarai.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Montagnards - the \"Dega\" - are the Christian hill tribes of the Central Highlands. They fought and bled for the Americans. They are despised by the Vietnamese on both sides of the war. And DeAndre, a first-generation college graduate from segregated Georgia, understands them at a level he never expected. When he falls in love with Chel - a Jarai woman of uncommon strength - the arc of his life bends away from the Army and toward a cause Washington has already decided to abandon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the siege of Kon Tum during the 1972 Easter Offensive, to a staged \"capture\" that lets him vanish into the jungle, to his years with FULRO - the Dega resistance army hunted across three countries - \u003cem\u003eNever Vanquished\u003c\/em\u003e follows DeAndre and Chel across three decades of love, war, exile, and faith. It sweeps from Vietnamese longhouses to Cambodian jungle camps to the Montagnard refugee community of North Carolina, and finally back to the highlands where the fight was never truly finished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside this novel: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA decorated Black officer's unlikely second life as a tribal warrior in a war America pretends is over\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA tender, hard-won cross-cultural romance set against genocide and occupation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe true-to-history story of FULRO, the Jarai, and the missionary families who stood with them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Battle of Kon Tum, the fall of Saigon, and the bitter decades that followed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe resettlement of Montagnard refugees in North Carolina - and the fight that followed them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from history and shaped by the author's two tours as an infantry officer in Vietnam and years of friendship with the Montagnard people, \u003cem\u003eNever Vanquished\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel for readers of \u003cem\u003eMatterhorn\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Bright Shining Lie\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/em\u003e - a story of honor, love, and the allies America left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Our goal is to rid the mountains of all Kinh.\" - Captain DeAndre Washington, FULRO\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe war ended. Their war didn't.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 326\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52111397093671,"sku":"9781961505582","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/2079\/7223\/files\/WJdH4a0pTZ9781961505582.webp?v=1789704369","url":"https:\/\/theluminousbookshop.com\/es\/products\/never-vanquished-a-novel-of-the-vietnam-war-paperback","provider":"The Luminous Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}