Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Hell No
The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Why those who protested the Vietnam War must be honored, remembered, and appreciated “Hell no” was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history—the effort to end the Vietnam War, which included thousands of veterans. The movement was divided among radicals, revolutionaries,...
The World Looked Away
Vietnam After the War
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
What happened to the people who remained in the former South Vietnam after the war ended in April 1975? Few of us know.
The war-weary United States had turned its attention away from the region, and the Communist leadership closed Vietnam to Western journalists.
For more than a decade,...
Light at the End of the Tunnel
A Vietnam War Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Of all of the wars in which the U.S. has been engaged, none has been as divisive as the conflict in Vietnam. The repercussions of this unsettling episode in American history still resonate in our society. Although it ended more than 30 years ago, the Vietnam War continues to fascinate and trouble...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
This is the second edition of a superb report on convoy ambushes in the Korean and Vietnam war. It has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
This is the first book dedicated to the study of convoy ambushes. It chronicles the lessons of both wars...
A Ranger Born
A Memoir of Combat and Valor from Korea to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the...
Lessons in Disaster
McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, drawing on the insights and reassessments of one of the war's architects
"I had a part in a great failure. I made mistakes of perception, recommendation and execution. If I have learned anything I should share...
The Girl in the Picture
The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.
This...
by T. E. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The B-57 Canberra was the first jet-powered American attack aircraft committed to the Vietnam War. Involved in day-to-day interdiction missions as well as in classified "black†? missions and a starring role in Operation Rolling Thunder; the B-57 evolved to become one of the most valuable weapons...
They Called It Naked Fanny
Helicopter Rescue Missions During the Early Years of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
During the early years of the Vietnam War, several small cadres of men served their country and their fellow comrades-in-arms from a remote airbase cut out of the jungles of northeast Thailand. The base was named Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, but the men assigned there had a special name...
by Don Pratt, Lee Blair
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
This collection of some 200 anecdotes emanating from the war in Vietnam presents a realistic picture of the ups and downs of American's Best serving a tour in Vietnam. A potpourri of booze, sex, satire, humor, and, of course, not to be forgotten, fire-fights with "Charlie," and death.
Author’s...
Working-Class War
American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially,...
The Boys of ’67
Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In the spring of 1966, while the war in Vietnam was still popular, the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up. Across the nation, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings...
The Odyssey of Echo Company
The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS’ AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers shares the powerful account of an American army platoon fighting for survival...
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by General Donn A. Starry
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 1 chart, 17 maps, 6 diagrams and 38 illustrations]
“The generally unsuccessful experience of French armored forces in Southeast Asia from the end of World War II to 1954 convinced American military men that armored units could not be employed in Vietnam.
“It was not until 1967, however,...