Vietnam War category: 1155 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group was created in 1963 as the result of President John F. Kennedy's strong desire to conduct an unconventional war...
Vung Tau Ferry
HMAS Sydney and Escort Ships: Vietnam 1965-1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The purpose of this book is to recognise the major contribution of those many members of the Royal Australian Navy whose dedicated service in the Vietnam War was for so long ignored. These are the approximately 9,800 RAN personnel who, through dedication to the task over seven years, transported safely...
Air Cav
History of the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam 1965-1969
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Air Cav: History of the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam 1965-1969 is the story of the small, close world of fighting men in action, told in their own words and supplemented with vivid photographs of the First Cavalry Division’s experience in the war and a history of the division. This volume can...
My Father the Spy
An Investigative Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief of station" on some of the hottest assignments of the Cold War, from the back alleys of occupied Vienna to the jungles of the Philippines—and...
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
It's the summer of 1964. The bush hat, and not the steel helmet, is the favored headgear of the sixteen thousand American advisors in South Vietnam. They love their work, and they're very good at it. How can they possibly fail? Covering their war are a handful of foreign reporters, including novelist...
by Charles Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The true story of the final days of the Vietnam War from the author of Marine Sniper.
Culled from extensive interviews and research, Goodnight Saigon is the achingly dramatic story of the end of the Vietnam War as told from both sides of the conflict. Included are never-before-revealed accounts...
Witness to the Revolution
Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolution
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to...
My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known...
War in Aquarius
Memoir of an American Infantryman in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Faced with a 1-A draft classification after graduation from college in the spring of 1968, the author decided to control his own destiny by volunteering for the draft. Soon he was given the one job he most wanted to avoid—infantryman. This is a foot soldier's story of twelve long months in Vietnam....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique USAF publication presents a thorough history of the Air Force Reserve. The book begins with the fledgling air reserve program initiated in 1916, traces its progress through World War II, and then concentrates...
by Bryan Alec Floyd
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
“Terse, hard hitting poems that treat the Vietnam War in the style of the Spoon River Anthology: portraits (often posthumous) of 47 marines who served in Vietnam and what the war did to them.” — Los Angeles Herald Examiner
Charlie Company's Journey Home
The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The Boys of '67 and the War They Left Behind
The human experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp – the camaraderie, the fear, the smell, the pain. Men were transformed into soldiers, and then into warriors.
These warriors had wives who loved them and shared in their transformations....
Containment and Credibility
The Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
“Impressively researched . . . Sheds much new light on the prolonged and often angry debate between those who waged the war and those who opposed it” (George C. Herring, author of America’s Longest War).
In the 1960s, the scare of communism provided the rationale for war in Vietnam. The...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Drawing from the vision of airpower theorists and building on insights gained from studies on various regime changes, this study advances a theory of regime change and outlines a strategy...