Vietnam War category: 1155 books
The Tet Offensive
Politics, War, and Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
On January 30, 1968 approximately 84,000 North Vietnamese Army and National Liberation Front forces launched nearly simultaneous attacks against over 100 cities and military installations in South Vietnam. The well-coordinated urban attacks came during the most sacred of Vietnamese holidays and caught...
The Tet Offensive
A Brief History with Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
With Americans turning against the war in ever greater numbers, struggles for power between the government and the military, and no end in sight to the fighting, the Tet Offensive of 1968 proved to be the turning point of the Vietnam War. In The Tet Offensive, historian William Thomas Allison provides...
by Tom Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Stories of men and women confronted by the Vietnam War. Contains personal stories of Vietnam War Veterans, people who fled the country, people who refused to go to war, people who beat the draft, people who obtained Conscientious Objector Status, and people who loved and supported them.
Storming the City
U.S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In an increasingly urbanized world, urban terrain has become a greater factor in military operations. Simultaneously, advances in military technology have given military forces sharply increased capabilities. The conflict comes from how urban terrain can negate or degrade many of those increased capabilities....
Can't Fool All of the People All of the Time
Case Study: The G.W. Bush AWOL Story -- U.S. Corporate Media Versus Independent & Citizen Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Military veteran, sister of a Vietnam War casualty, and a former print journalist, Maureen A. Griswold's 2003 satirical exposé, "A Veteran Applauds KB Toys," catalyzed a tsunami of responses/commentary regarding U.S. corporate media overall blackout of the G.W. Bush AWOL story from...
Diem's Final Failure
Prelude to America's War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Often portrayed as an inept and stubborn tyrant, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem has long been the subject of much derision but little understanding. Philip Catton's penetrating study provides a much more complex portrait of Diem as both a devout patriot and a failed architect of modernization....
Down South
One Tour in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“I was always happy to see first light.
By first light it was over . . . for a while.”
–from Down South
There were a lot of ways to get killed in Vietnam. You could get “zapped,” “dinged,” “burned,” “popped,” “smoked,” or “wasted.” Marine 2nd Lt. William H. Hardwick...
Phantom Warriors: Book 2
More Extraordinary True Combat Stories from LRRPS, LRPS, and Rangers in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
MORE GRIPPING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED LRRP ACCOUNTS
FROM THE FRONT LINES
During the Vietnam War, few combat operations were more dangerous than LRRP/Ranger missions. Vastly outnumbered, the patrols faced overwhelming odds as they fought to carry out their missions, from gathering intelligence, acting...
Cleared Hot!
A Marine Combat Pilot's Vietnam Diary
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1993
Daring missions. Dangerous rescues. Deadly accuracy.
Many pilots never made it out of 'Nam. This one did. Highly decorated Col. Bob Stoffey-- a Marine Corps pilot for over twenty-five years, who served multiple tours in Vietnam-- has seen and done it all. Cleared Hot! is his story-- a fast-paced,...
Gunship Pilot
An Attack Helicopter Warrior Remembers Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
It was 1968 and Robert Hartley was on his first combat mission in Vietnam as copilot of a helicopter gunship. As he and his platoon leader flew over the A Shau Valley, a Chinook helicopter engulfed in flames suddenly came into view. Hartley noticed tiny black smoking objects exiting the tail ramp...
Blood Trails
The Combat Diary of a Foot Soldier in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
BAPTISM BY FIRE
Chris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely...
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York Times
Using portraits of America’ s flawed policy makers and accounts...
Reflections of a Warrior
Six Years as a Green Beret in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
PFC Franklin Miller arrived in Vietnam in March 1966, and saw his first combat in a Reconnaissance Platoon. So began an odyssey that would make him into one of the most feared and respected men in the Special Forces elite, who made their own rules in the chaos of war.
In the exclusive world...
Exiting Vietnam
The Era of Vietnamization and American Withdrawal Revealed in First-Person Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Although the Paris Peace Accords ended direct United States military involvement in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, the process of withdrawal lasted over three years. This illuminating volume chronicles this withdrawal, its background, and its impact through a combination of official history and first-person...