Vietnam War category: 1155 books
by Major Marilynn K. Lietz
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This study examines the reasons why the North Vietnamese launched a general offensive during the Tet holiday of 1968. Based on events of the previous year, conditions did not appear favorable for the North Vietnamese to undertake such a massive and risky operation. Several reasons accounted for this...
by Zalin Grant
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2005
"The Right Stuff without the hype, Yeager without the ego."—Washington Post Book World
"While the jet-jockey competitiveness, the undercurrent of fear, the victories and foul-ups of jet sweeps have been described many times, few such chronicles have done it so grippingly and...
The War Within
America's Battle Over Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam is a painfully engrossing and popularly written account of how the battle on the home front ended America’s least popular war. This absorbing narrative, hailed by critics of every persuasion, is the fruit of over a decade’s worth of research: the...
Replacing France
The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
Using recently released archival materials from the United States and Europe, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s. Acting on their conviction that American...
A Saigon Journal
Inside Television's First War
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
A Saigon Journal, Inside Television’s First War, recounts Ron Steinman’s tenure as bureau chief for NBC News in Saigon. It is an intimate and deeply personal recounting of many of the Vietnam War’s most difficult and harrowing days. These include the huge American buildup of troops, the famous...
City Fights
Selected Histories of Urban Combat from World War II to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Urban terrain will likely be the predominant battlefield of future wars.”
As September 11 and Somalia proved, hostile forces are now engaging America differently, avoiding open combat with our enormous military, striking at our civic centers or dragging us into theirs. But urban warfare...
by Col. Hoang Ngoc Lung
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes over 10 maps and illustrations
This monograph forms part of the Indochina Monograph series written by senior military personnel from the former Army of the Republic of Vietnam who served against the northern communist invasion.
“During the war years, the Republic of Vietnam...
Lessons in Leadership
My Life in the US Army from World War II to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
John R. Deane Jr. (1919--2013) was born with all the advantages a man needs to succeed in a career in the US Army, and he capitalized on his many opportunities in spectacular fashion. The son of one of George C. Marshall's closest assistants, Deane graduated from West Point with the first class of...
M50 Ontos and M56 Scorpion 1956–70
US Tank Destroyers of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Designed in the 1950s, the US Marines' M50 Ontos and the US Army's M56 Scorpion were both intended to be fast, light, air-droppable tank-killers for the Cold War battlefield – an answer to the cumbersome and ineffective World War II-vintage tanks that had taken to the battlefield during the Korean...
by Major Gregory T. Banner
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This paper studies the lines of communications (the Ho Chi Minh Trail) which went from North to South Vietnam, through Laos, during the Second Indochina War. The purpose of this paper is to study the proposal that the United States, during the Vietnam War, should have used ground forces in Laos to...
13 Cent Killers
The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.”
In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing...
Ripcord
Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
On April 10, 1970, Hill 927 was occupied by troopers of the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division. By July, the activities of the artillery and infantry of Ripcord had caught the attention of the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) and a long and deadly siege ensued. Ripcord was the Screaming Eagles’...
Blood on the Risers
An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it.
As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies...
After My Lai: My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company
My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently married, freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment was not enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had committed the My Lai massacre—the murder of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians—eighteen months...