Vietnam War category: 1155 books
The Vietnam Years
From the Jungle to the Australian Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Vietnam War was the longest and most divisive war in our history. Almost 60,000 Australians served and more than 500 were killed. At home, thousands protested against the war and conscription and hundreds were sent to jail. THE VIETNAM YEARS is the story of both sides of that war, from the vicious...
Midair
An Epic Tale of Survival and a Mission That Might Have Ended the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Midair is a true account of one of the most remarkable tales of survival in the history of aviation – a midair collision at 30,000 feet by two bomb-laden B-52s over a category 5 super typhoon above the South China Sea during the outset of the Vietnam War.
Authored by Craig K. Collins, the...
Vietnam Today
A Guide to a Nation at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
"Pulsating with energy and steeped in dreams."
Vietnam stands at a crossroads. Located in the geographical center of Southeast Asia, Vietnam is a complex mixture of the ancient and the modern. A Soviet-style legacy contrasts with an emerging Western-style market economy. Vietnam is...
Bloody Sixteen
The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey’s gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany’s three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16). Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated bombing campaign against North Vietnam,...
Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars
Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2008
Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The life and career of Air Force General Jerome F. O'Malley is described in remarkable, vivid detail in this biography written by his friends and associates, Patrick and Aloysius Casey. This storyline addresses the only question mark on O’Malley’s career—the Lavelle raids of February 1972. Using...
Vietnam's Forgotten Army
Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
2009 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography
Vietnam’s Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN chronicles the lives of Pham Van Dinh and Tran Ngoc Hue, two of the brightest young stars in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Both men fought with valor...
The Vietnam War
A Documentary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America’s conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights into both American and Vietnamese experiences.
Includes substantial...
Collision Over Vietnam
A Fighter Pilot's Story of Surviving the ARC Light One Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
On June 18, 1965, thirty B-52s took part in the first Strategic Air Command B-52 bombing mission in Vietnam, a mission that, if carried out successfully, might have halted the war in its tracks. Before two of the aircraft could deliver their payload, they collided midair, killing eight men as both...
by Albert Palazzo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
From 1962 to 1972 Australia joined the United States in fighting a communist inspired insurgency war in the jungles of South Vietnam against infiltrators who sought to overthrow the local government. Over 50000 Australians served in Vietnam 519 lost their lives and the conflict ended ignominiously in...
A Name on a Wall
Two Men, Two Wars, Two Destinies
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
An unusual coincidence occurred early one morning at the most visited war memorial in the United States as a shaft of sunlight hit one of the 58,282 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The name was Larry Byford.
So begins a unique personal journey to discover the story of the name on the...
US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam
Military Innovation and Institutional Failure, 1961-63
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This volume examines US Army Special Forces efforts to mobilize and train indigenous minorities in Vietnam.
Christopher K. Ives shows how before the Second Indochina War, the Republic of Vietnam had begun to falter under the burden of an increasingly successful insurgency. The dominant American...
Sharkbait
A Flight Surgeon's Odyssey in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
In early 1966, Dr. Guy Clark received orders to go to Vietnam, and upon arrival that June was assigned to be a flight surgeon at Cam Ranh Bay Air Force Base, on the South China Sea. Thus began a year-long assignment that would find Clark flying more than ninety bombing missions over Vietnam in the...
The Vietnam War
The History of America's Conflict in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
The Vietnam War was the bloodiest and one of the most fascinating conflicts in the history of warfare. It began with America pouring massive military aid upon the South Vietnamese in an attempt to thwart a Communist takeover, and culminated in the "peace with honour" withdrawal by the Nixon...