Vietnam War category: 1155 books
The Tet Effect
Intelligence and the Public Perception of War
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
A close examination of the role of intelligence in shaping America’s perception of the Vietnam War, looking closely at the intelligence leadership and decision process.
In 1967, intelligence was called upon to bolster support for the Vietnam War and allowed America’s leaders to portray...
Confronting the War Machine
Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Shedding light on a misunderstood form of opposition to the Vietnam War, Michael Foley tells the story of draft resistance, the cutting edge of the antiwar movement at the height of the war's escalation. Unlike so-called draft dodgers, who left the country or manipulated deferments, draft resisters...
SEAL Warrior
Death in the Dark: Vietnam 1968--1972
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
During the Vietnam era, many of the U.S. Navy SEALs (SEa, Air, Land commandos) never filed for a Purple Heart unless they were severely wounded. Thomas H. Keith, Master Chief, SEAL Team 2, is living proof. He carries a piece of shrapnel behind one lung, a reminder of the day he called in 40 mm mortar...
by Ronald J. Glasser, MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
National Book Award Finalist: The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of an army doctor—“a book of great emotional impact” (The New York Times).
In 1968, as a serviceman in the Vietnam War, Dr. Ronald Glasser was sent to Japan to work at the US Army hospital at Camp Zama. It was the...
Mekong First Light
An Infantry Platoon Leader in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Before we got to Vietnam, the troops all thought you would be the first lieutenant killed, and in the end, you were the only one left. We were all wrong. You were the best.”
—Sgt. Lonnie “Tallman” Caldwell
December, 1966: Platoon leader Lt. Joseph Callaway had just turned twenty-three...
The Rise and Fall of an American Army
U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1963-1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“THE MEN WHO SACRIFICED FOR THEIR COUNTRY ARE RIGHTFULLY HERALDED . . . This is an honest book–one well worth reading. . . . Stanton has laid his claim to the historian’s ranks by providing his reader with well-documented, interpretive assessments.”
–Parameters
The Vietnam War remains...
Palace Cobra
A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Palace Cobra picks up where Ed Rasimus's critically acclaimed When Thunder Rolled left off. Now he's flying the F-4 Phantom and the attitude is still there.
In the waning days of the Vietnam War, Rasimus and his fellow pilots were determined that they were not going be the last to die in a conflict...
Pucker Factor 10: Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2003
"In 1963…there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, that by raising my hand I would be going to war in Vietnam and that I would see things, hear things and do things that most people cannot imagine."--James Joyce. The author was drawn...
Flying Through Midnight
A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Riveting, novelistic, and startlingly candid, John T. Halliday's combat memoir begins in 1970, when Halliday has just landed in the middle of the Vietnam War, primed to begin his assignment with the 606th Special Operations Squadron. But there's a catch: He's stationed in a kind of no-man's-land....
by Tom A. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these “rotor heads” saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen did not return home. Tom A. Johnson flew the...
Secrets
A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
The true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post
In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers - a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam - to...
Chickenhawk: Back in the World
Life After Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Here is the triumphant sequel to Robert Mason's bestselling account of his service as a chopper pilot in Vietnam. Chickenawk: Back in the World is a moving, no-holds-barred post-Vietnam memoir that reveals the war's shattering legacy in the heart and mind of a returning vet. When Robert Mason's first...
by Thomas Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
"The Mad Fragger and Me: Leading an Infantry Rifle Platoon in Vietnam" descibes the true experiences of a U.S. soldier, through his military training and troop duty, culminating in a 1970-1971 tour as an Infantry Platoon Leader in Vietnam.
Former 1st Lieutenant Tom Dolan takes the reader...
by Peter Mersky
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The Skyhawk was involved in Vietnam from the very beginning, including the first offensive operations in 1963 into Laos, and the Pierce Arrow operations immediately following the Tonkin Gulf Incident of August 1964. Navy and Marine Corps A-4s quickly established a presence in south-east Asia participating...