Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Scrappy
Memoir of a U.S. Fighter Pilot in Korea and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
From World War II to high above the Earth to Vietnam, this memoir tells the story of fighter pilot Howard C. “Scrappy” Johnson. Beginning with his early years in Knoxville, Tennessee, the book follows Johnson through his career at the University of Louisville and his enlistment as an Air Force...
Da Nang Diary
A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
“[An] intimate account of a Forward Air Controller working with the Special Forces on their secret operations in South Vietnam and Laos . . . Don’t miss it!” (John Prados, author of Storm Over Leyte).
Originally published in 1991, this classic work has now been revised and updated with...
Cammie Up!: Memoir of a Recon Marine in Vietnam, 1967-1968
Memoir of a Recon Marine in Vietnam, 1967-1968
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
In this Marine combat memoir, Steve Johnson recounts his service in Vietnam from April 1967 to May 1968. Only 17 when he enlisted in 1964, Johnson deployed to Vietnam with the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, and his tour included such now famous locations as Phu Bai, Khe Sanh, Nha...
Tours of Duty
The Best Vietnam War Stories from the Men Who Served
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW posts—stories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war. Raw, often gut-wrenching, sometimes funny, these war stories...
by Major Stanley A. Newell
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This monograph is a personal account of the author’s experiences as a prisoner of war. Major Newell was a 19-year old Army Enlisted Infantry man when captured in South Vietnam in 1967. His purpose is to provide his first impressions upon capture, relate his experiences, and provide lessons learned....
We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young
Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: A “powerful and epic story . . . the best account of infantry combat I have ever read” (Col. David Hackworth, author of About Face).
In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped...
Walking Point
From the Ashes of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing experiences...
by Gregory L. Vistica
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
On the night of February 25, 1969, an inexperienced, 25-year-old lieutenant, Bob Kerrey, led a commando raid on an isolated hamlet called Thanh Phong in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. While witnesses and official records give varying accounts, one thing is certain: around midnight, Kerrey and his men killed...
Behind Enemy Lines: An Australian Sas Soldier In Vietnam
An Australian SAS soldier in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
A compelling personal account of a young SAS soldier's experiences in Vietnam. Another urging hiss from behind me-okay hold onto your horses, I'm going. Five to ten paces takes me over the track, and now I scan the creek ahead trying to peer through the underbrush, to detect signs of enemy presence....
A War Away
An American Woman in Vietnam, 1967-1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Tess Johnston has spent her life seeking adventure and excitement and she had plenty of that in Germany before the Wall came down and in China for more than thirty years. But the pinnacle of her experiences was seven years in Vietnam, 1967-74, during the war, where she found even Saigon too tame and...
The Lucky Few
The Fall of Saigon and the Rescue Mission of the USS Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
As the Vietnam War reached its tragic climax in the last days of April 1975, a task force of U.S. Navy ships cruised off South Vietnam's coast. Their mission was to support the evacuation of American embassy personnel and military advisers from Saigon as well as to secure the safety of the South Vietnamese...
by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
This book provides detailed information about how US Army units were organised and operated in America's longest war. Vietnam Special Forces veteran Gordon L Rottman examines the different types of infantry battalions and the units that supported them, their training and organisation down to platoon...
Valley of Death
The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would...
by Frances FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review)
This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years...