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The Vietnam Zippo: 1933-1975
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by:
Fiorella, Jim
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Publisher:
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Published: September 1998
ISBN: 0764305948
Format:Hardcover
Pages:187
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Book Description
About the Author
Author Jim Fiorella is an avid Zippo collector, freelance writer, and photographer who lives in New York.
Book Description
More than 700 striking photographs and a detailed text about Zippo cigarette lighters, their history
and current values, as well as the Viet Nam War comprise this important new book. It provides not only photographs of authentic and counterfeit Zippos and the factory's own art work, but also a concise outline of the War, lists of U.S. and Vietnamese
ship and boat names that did duty in Viet Nam, definitions of naval abbreviations, South Vietnamese waterways and geographic names, Allied in-country units, and a comprehensive dictionary translating important Vietnamese military terms so that old Zippo
lighters can be interpreted today. Singularly, this book holds tremendous appeal to an extremely broad audience. Lighter collectors will see a wide variety of rare and common Zippos. Photographers and artists interested in the Viet Nam War and its images
will see powerful action photos. Viet Nam War and general military collectors and historians will find factual information organized in a quickly accessible form. Political historians and Sixties and Seventies collectors will find ideas and objects to
delight their interests. All will want this unique and striking book for their libraries.
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