Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Ho Chi Minh
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
To grasp the complicated causes and consequences of the Vietnam War, one must understand the extraordinary life of Ho Chi Minh, the man generally recognized as the father of modern Vietnam. Duiker provides startling insights into Ho's true motivation, as well as into the Soviet and Chinese roles in the Vietnam War.
Time in the Barrel
A Marine’s Account of the Battle for Con Thien
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War
Con Thien, located only two miles from the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Vietnam, was a United States Marine Corps firebase that was the scene of fierce combat for months on...
Brown Water, Black Berets
Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The men of the U.S. Navy's brown-water force played a vital but often overlooked role in the Vietnam War. Known for their black berets and limitless courage, they maneuvered their aging, makeshift craft along shallow coastal waters and twisting inland waterways to search out the enemy. In this moving...
by Gareth Hector, Dr István Toperczer
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Having learned their trade on the subsonic MiG-17, pilots of the Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) received their first examples of the legendary MiG-21 supersonic fighter in 1966. Soon thrown into combat over North Vietnam, the guided-missile equipped MiG-21 proved a deadly opponent for the US...
An Illness Caused by Youth
from The Father of All Things
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Veteran Jack Bissell only deepened the abyss between him and his son Tom when he talked about the Vietnam war. But, when a magazine editor sends the two back to Vietnam for a story, Tom reopens the conversation and confronts his father’s past and the man that had seemed impossibly remote.
Part history,...
Get the Bloody Job Done
The Royal Australian Navy Helicopter Flight-Vietnam and the 135th Assault Helicopter Company 1967-1971
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
This book tells the story of a small group of Australian sailors who served with distinction in a very difficult and unpopular war. They were the hardest-fought Australian aviation unit to serve in the Vietnam War and suffered a much higher casualty rate than the RAAF or Australian Army aviation units....
by Brad Elward
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
For every American fighter pilot involved in the Vietnam War, the ultimate goal was to 'kill a MiG'. In eight years of conflict 43 Vietnamese Peoples Air Force aircraft were claimed by US Navy and US Marine Corps Phantom II crews, and one single ace crew produced. Navy Phantom IIs scored the first...
by Judy Rantala
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The small nation of Laos, wedged between Thailand and Vietnam, is little known to most Westerners. When the author and her husband, a USAID worker, moved to Laos in 1971, it was a quiet country falling increasingly under the effects of a heavy but unacknowledged U.S. military presence as part of a...
America's Rasputin
Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Walt Rostow's meteoric rise to power—from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to the West Wing of the White House—seemed to capture the promise of the American dream. Hailing from humble origins, Rostow became an intellectual powerhouse: a professor of economic history at MIT and an influential foreign policy...
Shrapnel Wounds
An Infantry Lieutenant’s Vietnam War Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Shrapnel Wounds: An Infantry Lieutenant’s Vietnam War Memoir by Tom Crowley. Shrapnel Wounds is the combat memoir of Lieutenant Tom Crowley, an enthusiastic and highly trained U.S. Army enlistee and Officer Candidate School grad who enters combat in Vietnam in mid-1966. Highly regarded by his infantry...
Vietnam
2 Doors-No Opening
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
This book gives readers a thrilling inside look at the American advisory effort in Vietnam’s paddies and mangroves during the early part of that war. The early chapters detail what it was like for an American Army team living in a rat infested thatch hut, reaching out to emaciated and down trodden...
Ghosts and Shadows
A Marine in Vietnam, 1968-1969
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego ill-prepared for the training and abuse that awaited him in boot camp. At the time, he would have done anything to escape; only upon reflection years later did he realize that the self-confidence instilled in him by his drill instructors...
TIGER FORCE
"Inward Season Three...Over"
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
For the past 15 years, members of Tiger Force, an elite group of American paratroopers serving in Vietnam, have been branded in the press as a rogue unit of rampaging GIs. Finally, additional research reveals the confusing rules of engagement, recorded statistics, and many previously untold personal...
Ballad of the Green Beret
The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry Sadler
The top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn’t “Paint It Black” or “Yellow Submarine”--it was “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” a hyper-patriotic tribute to the men of the Special Forces by Vietnam...