Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Rethinking Camelot is a thorough analysis of John F. Kennedy's role in the U/S. invasion of Vietnam and a probing reflection on the elite political culture that allowed and encouraged the Cold War. In it, Chomsky dismisses effort to resurrect Camelot-an attractive American myth portraying JFK as a...
by Thomas L. Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2003
Tom Reilly idolized his older brother, Ron. After their parentsÆ unexpected early deaths, Ron protected his younger brother and taught him the ways of the world. Ron was a charismatic and worldly career soldier, and his kid brother thought of him as a mentor and hero. In July 1970, Ron died halfway...
This Is What Hell Looks Like
Life as a Bomb Disposal Specialist During the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
From 1967-1971, Stuart Steinberg served in the U.S. Army as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist. In January 1968, he was sent to Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, where chemical and biological weaponry was stockpiled, staying there until July 1968. Steinberg was involved in helping to clean up...
Brotherhood in Combat
How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segregation in the U.S. armed forces did not officially end until President Harry Truman issued an executive order in 1948. What followed, at home and in the...
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S....
by John W. Flores
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
At the age of 21, Marine Sergeant Freddy Gonzalez was killed during the Tet Offensive in Hue City, Vietnam. For his actions defending his platoon that day, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Later, in 1996, in honor of his actions a U.S. Navy warship, the USS Gonzalez, was named after him....
Cauldron of Resistance
Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely condemned as fraudulent, and provided substantial...
Armoured Warfare in the Vietnam War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and North and South Vietnam over 30 years were far more armoured in nature than typically thought of. By skilful use of imagery and descriptive text he describes...
Eye of the Tiger
Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood.” John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. His memoir begins...
by Peter Mersky
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird's first operational test came in the autumn of 1962 when its overflights of Cuba alerted the world...
Britain and the Wars in Vietnam
The Supply of Troops, Arms and Intelligence, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Britain’s peacekeeping role in Southeast Asia after World War II was clear enough but the purpose of the Commonwealth in the region later became shadowy. British involvement in the wars fought in Vietnam between 1946 and 1975 has been the subject of a number of books—most of which focus on the...
by Robert Wall
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This Personal Account of my Life after the Vietnam War and LIVES of others whom I met and made my life livable to this point in 2015. During the war in Vietnam, I NEVER expected to be alive at this moment in history, and to ENJOY THE FRUITS OF LIFE that GOD has utterly provided me. I GIVE HIM ALL THE GLORY!
by H. D. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
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 aircrew...
The US Marine Corps in the Vietnam War
III Marine Amphibious Force 1965–75
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
III Marine Amphibious Force was conceived as a division command for a small Marine Corps commitment to Vietnam. Within four years it had grown to a reinforced corps of two divisions, an air wing, and the division-sized Force Logistics Command. This organization was unique in Marine Corps history in...