Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Black Virgin Mountain
A Return to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
In 1967 Larry Heinemann was sent to Vietnam as an ordinary soldier. It was the most horrific year of his life, truly altering him—and his family—forever. In his powerful memoir, Heinemann returns to Vietnam, riding the train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city and confronting the memories of his war...
by Andrew Forbes, David Henley
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
There can be few people in the world that do not know the name, location and recent history of Vietnam. Yet beyond the period of US involvement in what Americans call the 'Vietnam War' how much is really known?
Almost no Vietnamese bear a grudge against the USA, but this is less true for China,...
The Phoenix Program
America's Use of Terror in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
“This shocking expose of the CIA operation aimed at destroying the Vietcong infrastructure thoroughly conveys the hideousness of the Vietnam War” (Publishers Weekly).
In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America’s Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of...
Company of Heroes
A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
There are many broad studies of the Vietnam War, but this work offers an insight into the harrowing experiences of just a small number of men from a single unit, deep in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia. Its focus is the remarkable account of a Medal of Honor recipient Leslie Sabo Jr., whose brave...
Diary of an Airborne Ranger
A LRRP's Year in the Combat Zone
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Perhaps the most accurate story of LRRPs at war
ever to appear in print!
When Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was nineteen, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others--but with two important differences: Johnson volunteered for the elite L Company Rangers of the...
USN F-4 Phantom II vs VPAF MiG-17/19
Vietnam 1965–73
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Vietnam War placed unexpected demands upon American military forces and equipment.The principal US naval fighter, the McDonnell F-4 Phantom, had originally been designed to defend the Fleet from air attack at long range. However, its tremendous power and bomb-carrying capacity made it an obvious...
by H.D Graham
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
This book is a collection of fascinating short stories, photos, and documents furnished by the heroic and courageous men that served as air or ground crew members in Vietnam. The chopper units were located throughout Vietnam. During the course of the war, we lost at least 5,139 helicopter air crew...
by Jeff Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2001
"It came with no warning pop. Compressed into a fraction of a second was the shrill, expanding screech of the approaching round and the explosion that rocked the hilltop. The players, sitting Indian-style at a game of back-alley bridge, were torn to pieces. It happened in the blink of an eye. August...
At the Crossroads of Justice
My Lai and Son Thang—American Atrocities in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Vietnam is remembered as the war that divided a nation and scarred a generation. While the vast majority of American personnel in Vietnam served honorably, a few highly publicized atrocities tarnished the reputation of the military. In At the Crossroads of Justice: My Lai and Son ThangAmerican Atrocities...
Never Without Heroes
Marine Third Reconnaissance Battalion in Vietnam, 1965-70
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
FOUR CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR,
THIRTEEN NAVAL CROSSES,
SEVENTY-TWO SILVER STARS . . .
In four and a half years in Vietnam, the Marines of the Third Reconnaissance Battalion repeatedly penetrated North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries by foot and by helicopter to find enemy forces, learn the...
by H. D. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
This book is a collection of fascinating short stories, photos, and documents furnished by the heroic and courageous men that served as air or ground crew members in Vietnam. The chopper units were located throughout Vietnam. During the course of the war, we lost at least 5,139 helicopter air crew...
The Longest Rescue
The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
While serving as a crew chief aboard a U.S. Air Force Rescue helicopter, Airman First Class William A. Robinson was shot down and captured in Ha Tinh Province, North Vietnam, on September 20, 1965. After a brief stint at the "Hanoi Hilton," Robinson endured 2,703 days in multiple North Vietnamese...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This book reveals the evolving US, Viet Cong and NVA tactics at battalion level and below throughout the Vietnam War. Beginning with a description of the terrain, climate and the unique nature of operations in this theatre of war, the author, a Vietnam veteran himself, goes on to explain how unit...
The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam
Unparalleled and Unequaled
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Of all the military assignments in Vietnam, perhaps none was more challenging than the defense of the Mekong River Delta region. Operating deep within the Viet Cong--controlled Delta, the 9th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army was charged with protecting the area and its population against Communist...