Vietnam War category: 1155 books
by Reg Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Written in British English, The Vietnam War explores the long and costly civil war pitting South Vietnamese and U.S. forces against communist guerrillas and North Vietnamese troops.
by Lt.-Col. Peter J. Schifferle
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This monograph analyzes the effectiveness of operational campaign design during the initial US ground combat in the Vietnam War. The focus is on the linkage of national strategic ends with military means and ways from the Spring of 1965 through the results of the la Drang battles of November 1965....
ARVN
Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Choice Outstanding Title
Scorned by allies and enemies alike, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was one of the most maligned fighting forces in modern history. Cobbled together by U.S. advisers from the remnants of the French-inspired Vietnamese National Army, it was effectively pushed...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The major purpose of this book is to point out that for a variety of reasons, conciliatory approaches—accommodative measures— have too often been avoided by the United States and, if used,...
Speedy
The Story of One Mexican in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Many years after fighting in the Vietnam War, Elizalde decided to write this book which was dormant in his subconscious all that time. Not everyone in the war fought the frontlines of battle as it is depicted in the movies. Instead, many of them provided support services to the Infantry and the Marines...
Full Throttle
True Stories of Vietnam Air Combat Told by the Men Who Lived It
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Airmen in Vietnam weren't above the hell of war-but they went beyond the call of duty.
It was America's longest, most withering war, as hellish in the air as it was on the ground. But little has been told of the airmen who fought, who died, who lived and dared to remember...until now. Three...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Like many other new technologies, the use of airpower in war has gone through many changes as military leaders struggle to maximize its potential. Airpower assets have the unique capability to operate in all parts of an area of operations (AO) unrestricted by terrain and enemy fielded forces. This...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
This study examines the development of the U.S. military's approach to landmine warfare, from its earliest beginnings in the first half of the 1800s to the modern era. It addresses...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this military publication explores in depth America's military involvement in East and Southeast Asia.The choice of topic for the Ninth Military History Symposium was based on the observation that comparatively...
A Different Face of War
Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
A Different Face of War is a riveting account of a Medical Service Corps officer’s activities during the early years of the Vietnam War. Assigned as the senior medical advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps, an area close to the DMZ, James G. Van Straten traveled extensively and...
Saving Bravo
The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and risked capture by both the North Vietnamese and the Soviets. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner...
Before the Quagmire
American Intervention in Laos, 1954-1961
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In the decade preceding the first U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threats posed by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the...
Semper Fi: Vietnam
From Da Nang to the DMZ, Marine Corps Campaigns, 1965-1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From their early days in 1965 when the order of the day was to drive the insurgent Viet Cong from the villages around Da Nang to the final, dramatic evacuation of Saigon ten years later, Semper Fi—Vietnam relates the whole gutsy, glorious saga of the Marines in Vietnam in stark, riveting detail.
Acclimating...
Vietnam Medal of Honor Heroes
Expanded and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
More than 100 compelling, true stories of personal heroism and valor– in a special expanded edition honoring courage in the face of war
Here are dramatic accounts of the fearless actions that earned American soldiers in Vietnam our highest military distinction–the Medal of Honor. Edward...