Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Operation Linebacker II 1972
The B-52s are sent to Hanoi
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
After the failed April 1972 invasion of South Vietnam and the heavy US tactical bombing raids in the Hanoi area, the North Vietnamese agreed to return to the Paris peace talks, yet very quickly these negotiations stalled.
In an attempt to end the war quickly and 'persuade' the North Vietnamese...
by George Trowbridge
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In Striking Eight Bells, George Trowbridge recounts his journey from the Midwest to a warship in the Gulf of Tonkin during the closing months of the Vietnam War. Choosing to enlist in the Navy at 19, versus being drafted into the military, Trowbridge left a wife and newborn son in the States as he...
Aid Under Fire
Nation Building and the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In the aftermath of World War II, as longstanding empires collapsed and former colonies struggled for independence, the United States employed new diplomatic tools to counter unprecedented challenges to its interests across the globe. Among the most important new foreign policy strategies was development...
Vietnam I'm Going !
Letters from a Young Wac in Vietnam to Her Mother
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Vietnam - Im Going! is the story of a young WAC assigned to Vietnam. It starts with her excitement upon receiving orders and continues with a detailed description of daily living in a combat zone. Readers will be able to follow her through the year while experiencing life as she experienced it from...
Writing the War
My Ten Months in the Jungles, Streets and Paddies of South Vietnam, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
The author of this Vietnam War memoir was drafted in November 1966 just before completion of his Ph.D. work in French history and entered the army, age 26, in February 1967. He arrived in Vietnam in April 1968. Serving as both pointman and sniper, he experienced six weeks of frontline duty, averaging...
The Vietnam Lobby
The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955-1975
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Established in 1955 as a private advocacy group, the American Friends of Vietnam worked to influence U.S. attitudes and policies toward Vietnam for nearly two decades. AFV members wrote articles, gave speeches, sponsored aid drives, and forged ties with journalists, academics, and government officials...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Decolonization after the Second World War provides many historical examples for the study and examination of the concept of strategic culture. Based upon similarities in strategic culture...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Despite the prevalence of irregular wars, the U.S. Army must also be prepared for the possibility of a high-intensity conventional war. The training required for this...
America at War since 1945
Politics and Diplomacy in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Focusing primarily on politics and foreign policy, America at War since 1945 analyzes America's involvement in its several wars since the end of World War II. The main questions asked are: How did the U.S. become involved in these wars? How were the wars conducted? And how did the U.S. get out of...
Toxic War
The Story of Agent Orange
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
The war in Vietnam, spanning more than twenty years, was one of the most divisive conflicts ever to envelop the United States, and its complexity and consequences did not end with the fall of Saigon in 1975. As Peter Sills demonstrates in Toxic War, veterans faced a new enemy beyond post-traumatic...
by Captivating History
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Explora la Fascinante Historia de la Guerra de Vietnam
La Guerra de Vietnam representó un hito no solo en la historia estadounidense y vietnamita, sino también a nivel internacional. No fue solo una batalla entre dos naciones, sino entre dos ideologías, dos estrategias militares y una lucha...
Mourning Headband for Hue
An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
“An intimate―and disturbing―account of war at its most brutal, told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom.” —Publishers Weekly
Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives...
Dickey Chapelle Under Fire
Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
"It was dawn before I fell asleep, and later in the morning I was only half-awake as I fed a fresh sheet of paper into the typewriter and began to copy the notes from the previous day out of my book. But I wasn't too weary to type the date line firmly as if I'd been writing date lines all my...
More Than A Memory
Reflections of Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A Conflict that Shaped A Generation
Four decades on, the legacy of American involvement in the Viet Nam War still looms large in the lives of the veterans who experienced it first hand. This new anthology of poems, stories, and essays looks at the war through the lens of both past and present...