Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Dead Center
A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS,
EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST.
Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen,...
Masters of the Art
A Fighting Marine's Memoir of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
No punches are pulled in this gripping account of Vietnam combat through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine helicopter crewman and door gunner with more than three hundred missions under his belt.
In 1968, U.S. Marine Ronald Winter flew some of the toughest missions of the Vietnam War, from...
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
A damning account of how the United States government abandoned American prisoners of war in Vietnam—and the cover-up that continues to this day.
It is a story often seen in movies and tv shows—POWs from the Vietnam war left behind to suffer in enemy hands, only to be later rescued through...
Death in the A Shau Valley
L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-70
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Featuring a new introduction by the author about his return to Vietnam, his reflections on the war, and his humanitarian work in Cambodia.
“The enemy had a single purpose: kill me and my teammates.”
Larry Chambers was still new to Vietnam in early 1969 when the LRRPs of the 101st...
by Peter E. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Twenty-five US Marine Corps squadrons flew versions of the Phantom II and 11 of them used the aircraft in South-East Asia from May 1965 through to early 1973. Rather than the air-to-air missiles that were the main component in the original F-4 armament, these aircraft carried an ever-expanding range...
Letters on the Wall
Offerings and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Since its creation in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become the most visited National Park Services site. Each year, 4.5 million people come to the Wall. Many of them leave letters or other special objects. Every night, park rangers collect and inventory these mementos—now numbering well...
Fathers and Daughters
from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Le Ly...
In the Shadow of Vietnam
Essays, 1977-1991
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Twenty-three powerful, moving, angry and wise essays published over a period of 15 years on subjects ranging from South Africa to Central America, the United States to the Soviet Union, all bound together by the lingering physical, psychological, political and intellectual sensibilities the author...
Guerrilla Nation
My Wars In and Out of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In September 1969, Michael Maclear, the first Western television journalist allowed inside North Vietnam, was in Hanoi for major Canadian and U.S. networks. He recounted in gripping detail how an entire population had been trained for generations in guerrilla combat. His reporting that the North was...
by Drew Martensen
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
This is the most poignant Vietnam War book I have read and without any selfbravado. It ranks up there with the famous WWI trench books. One could never again glorify war after reading this book.
Hugo Trux, Marketing Director
I half-heartedly picked up Widowmaker one day and was quickly immersed...
Abandoned in Hell
The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
An astonishing memoir of military courage at a remote outpost during the Vietnam War—includes a foreword by Joseph L. Galloway, New York Times bestselling coauthor of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.
In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command...
West Dickens Avenue
A Marine at Khe Sanh
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days...
Pathfinder
First In, Last Out: A Memoir of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
December 1967: Richard Burns had just arrived in Vietnam as part of the fourteen-man 101st Pathfinder Detachment. Within just one month, during a holiday called Tet, the Communists would launch the largest single attack of the war--and he would be right in the thick of it. . . .
In Vietnam,...
Combined Action Platoons In The Vietnam War:
A Unique Counterinsurgency Capability For The Contemporary Operating Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In Vietnam, the III Marine Amphibious Force used Combined Action Platoons (CAPs) as one part of its operational level counterinsurgency campaign. These platoons provided security assistance to the South Vietnamese Popular Forces and civic action to the village based population. To measure the operational...