Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Very Crazy, G.I.!
Strange but True Stories of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
AMERICAN BOYS AT WAR IN VIETNAM--AND INVOLVED IN INCIDENTS YOU WON'T FIND IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
In this compelling, highly unusual collection of amazing but true stories, U.S. soldiers reveal fantastic, almost unbelievable events that occurred in places ranging from the deadly Central Highlands...
by Michael Herr
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines.
From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor...
by James T. Gillam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
In 1968 James T. Gillam left college and was drafted into the Army. Within a month he transformed from an uncertain sergeantwho tried to avoid combatto an aggressive soldier killing his first enemy and planning and executing successful ambushes in the jungle. Gillam was a regular point man and occasional...
Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars
Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
“A dark and fascinating tale . . . illuminated by Nguyen’s story of escape from Communist tyranny to the United States in 1990, and by his honesty and integrity, which shine through on every page.” —Historynet.com
This extraordinary memoir tells the story of one man’s experience of...
by Frederick Downs Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2007
“The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”—Army Times
Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zone tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant to face lethal danger, to follow orders, and to...
Operation Chaos
The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An untold Cold War story: how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of U.S. military deserters, a tale that leads from a bizarre political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment
Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war...
Vietnam War River Patrol
A U.S. Gunboat Captain Returns to the Mekong Delta
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
As a 20-year-old gunboat captain and certified U.S. Navy diver in the Mekong Delta, the author was responsible for both the vessel and the lives of its crew. Ambushes and firefights became the norm, along with numerous dives—almost 300 in 18 months. Forty years after the war, he returned as a tourist....
Tiger Force
A True Story of Men and War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate...
by Darrel Whitcomb
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
When his electronic warfare plane, call sign Bat 21, was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal "Gene" Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. After...
Five Hours of Butterflies
A Memoir of My Experiences in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
At the age of 21, Jack R. Peterson left home and enlisted with the Navy at the beginnings of the War in Viet Nam. Young and green around the ears, Jack met up with other boys who were ready to become men. None of them had a clue. All of them had eyes clouded with adventure and travel, being independent...
by John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
This book provides a different perspective on the Vietnam conflict. Journey to South Vietnam is a story of real life events, including my career in the military services—the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and the United States Air Force (USAF). These compelling and life-altering experiences seemed...
Stained with the Mud of Khe Sanh
A Marine's Letters from Vietnam, 1966-1967
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The author describes his memoir: “It’s based on wartime letters. Upon arriving at the United States Marine Corps Boot Camp one of the first things my drill instructors told me to do was to write at least two letters home a week. I did what they told me. My father, a World War II combat veteran,...
Rolling Thunder 1965–68
Johnson's air war over Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Operation Rolling Thunder was the campaign that was meant to keep South Vietnam secure, and dissuade the North from arming and supplying the Viet Cong. It pitted the world's strongest air forces against the MiGs and missiles of a small Soviet client state. But the US airmen who flew Rolling Thunder...
Losing Binh Dinh
The Failure of Pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Americans have fought two prolonged battles over Vietnam—one in southeast Asia and one, ongoing even now, at home—over whether the war was unnecessary, unjust, and unwinnable. Revisionist historians who reject this view have formulated many contra-factual scenarios for how the war might have been...