Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Inside the Crosshairs
Snipers in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
"The American sniper could be regarded as the greatest all-around rifleman the world has ever known. . . ."
At the start of the war in Vietnam, the United States had no snipers; by the end of the war, Marine and army precision marksmen had killed more than 10,000 NVA and VC soldiers--the...
From Chicago to Vietnam
A Memoir of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
"In the early hours of January 31, 1968, eighty-thousand North Vietnamese and Vietcong combat troops attacked every major city and military base in South Vietnam. The perimeter of the massive Saigon Airbase, Tan Son Nhut, was breached, and fighting raged all morning. Both gritty and intimate,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication tells the exciting stories of fighter pilots and their missions and weapons in the decade after the Vietnam War. Colonel Anderegg's book is likely to please anyone with an interest in fighter...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book traces more than 40 years of active service by Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115. Since its commissioning in July 1943, the squadron has evolved from a group of wartime beginners in SNJ-4 planes to today's...
Fighting Shadows in Vietnam
A Combat Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
In this memoir, set as deeply in his mind as in the Southeast Asian jungle, a young American soldier embarks on a journey to a war that, for him, will never be over. The world was a playground for Mickey, a naïve Irish American kid bored with his life. His father served in World War II, his brother...
The Air Force Way of War
U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the next eleven days, sixteen of these planes were shot down and another four suffered heavy damage. These losses soon proved so devastating that Strategic Air Command...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication provides a detailed history of the Air Force role in Operation Ranch Hand, which saw eighteen million gallons of chemicals sprayed on an estimated twenty percent of South Vietnam's jungles,...
by Major Brandon L. DeWind
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The end of the Cold War did not bring about the grand peace that was hoped for during four decades. Instead, the world has become more dangerous, with multiple complex problems. Military institutions worldwide must learn to adapt to the ever-changing face of the threat to fight the Global War on Terror....
Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second
A Critical and Thematic Analysis of 360 Films About the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Beginning in 1948 with Paramount’s Saigon and Universal’s Rogue’s Regiment, Hollywood has produced hundreds of features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict. With the exception of The Green Berets (1968), few were designed to rally Americans to the cause as earlier...
The Madness of It All
Essays on War, Literature and American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
“I cannot begin to count the number of times over the past 37 years that I have wished I had never heard of Vietnam, let alone fought in the Vietnam War. That experience has haunted my days. It has troubled my nights. It has shaped my identity and colored the way I see the world and everything in...
Bringing It All Back Home
An Oral History of New York City's Vietnam Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A collection of heartrending oral histories that topples assumptions about the people who served in Vietnam
The Vietnam War was a defining event for a generation of Americans. But for years, misguided and sometimes demeaning clichés about its veterans have proliferated widely. Philip F. Napoli's...
Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam
Words from the Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The South African and Vietnam Wars provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s. In contrast, the letters and diaries of Australian soldiers written while on the South African and Vietnam...
Ia Drang 1965
The Struggle for Vietnam’s Pleiku Province
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2020
The Pleiku campaign of October–November 1965 was a major event in the Vietnam War, and it is usually regarded as the first substantial battle between the US Army and the People's Army of Vietnam. The brigade-sized actions involving elements of the US 1st Cavalry Division at Landing Zones X-Ray and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this excellent book by the U.S. Army provides a unique view of an important MASH unit forward deployed medical team from World War I through the Iraqi Freedom campaign.Chapter One - World War I * Chapter Two - World...