Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Locked Up With God
My Best Thirteen Speeches, With Forward By Bud Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The title of this book reflects that it is a book about being locked up with God. This happened to me during the Vietnam War. I was an American prisoner of war - P.O.W. I spent over five years in a prison, and there I was with God and only God besides a few cellmates. This is mainly a book of the speeches...
by Jerome J. Jackson, Constance Emerson Crooker
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Private E-1 Jerome Jackson’s letters, hurriedly handwritten on muddy paper to his mother from jungles and sandbag bunkers, tell the true, first person, contemporary account of a combat medic, rich with the details of how soldiers survived day to day in a life-threatening landscape. They reveal Doc’s...
The Psychology of Strategy
Exploring Rationality in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne draws on the study of psychology to examine strategic behaviour during...
Kill Anything That Moves
The Real American War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by "a few bad apples."...
by Wiest, Andrew and McNab, Chris
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
The Vietnam War is a timely account of the 6,000-day conflict in Southeast Asia. The book begins with the history of South East Asia during World War II, before discussing the French involvement in the First Indochina War, and the subsequent drawing-in of the United States and its allies, Australia and...
My Detachment
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes...
Sisterhood of War
Minnesota Women in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
In January 1966, navy nurse Lieutenant Kay Bauer stepped off a pan am airliner into the stifling heat of Saigon and was issued a camouflage uniform, boots, and a rifle. "What am I supposed to do with this?" she said of the weapon. "I'm a nurse."
Bauer was one of approximately...
American Soldiers
Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
**Richard W. Leopold Prize
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award**
Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning, and despair. This was certainly true for twentieth-century...
by Andrew Wiest
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Vietnam War was arguably the most important event, or series of events, of the "American Century." America entered the brutal conflict certain of its Cold War doctrines and certain of its moral mission to save the world from the advance of communism. As this book explains, however, the...
War in Our Wake
The Untold Story of the Last American Military Presence of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Three days after the last Marine Corps helicopter lifted off from Saigon, the author and his Navy shipmates became the very last American military presence of the Vietnam War. This is their untold story, the important final chapter in the history of that wars bitter end.
When, as a newly commissioned...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication offers the reader an exciting and exacting history of the evolution of combat search and rescue in America's longest and most grueling war: the conflict in Southeast Asia.Chapter 1...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Vietnam War remains one of the most contentious events in American history. This book is a collection of essays that seeks to examine the current state of scholarship on the war and its aftermath. It is divided into five sections which address American presidents and the war, the conduct of the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this study is a theoretical and historical exploration of the role and relevance of airpower in counterinsurgency (COIN). Despite an overwhelming material advantage in airpower and the popular belief that this provides...
New Perceptions of the Vietnam War
Essays on the War, the South Vietnamese Experience, the Diaspora and the Continuing Impact
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The effects of the War outside present-day Vietnam are ongoing. Substantial Vietnamese communities in countries that participated in the conflict are contributing to renewed interpretations of it. This collection of new essays explores changes in perceptions of the war and the Vietnamese diaspora,...