Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Reluctant Warrior
A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
"ONE OF THE BEST VIETNAM WAR STORIES I'VE EVER READ, one damn good, compelling read. It's almost something out of a Clancy novel, yet it's true. The best thing I can say about it is I didn't want it to end."
--Col. David Hackworth, New York Times bestselling author of About Face
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U.S.Navy Seawolves
The Elite HAL-3 Helicopter Squadron in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
There were no dry runs for Seawolves in Vietnam.
They put their lives on the line—every time.
In the Viet Cong-infested Mekong Delta, where small SEAL teams were alwaysoutgunned and outnumbered, discovery brought swift, deadly consequences— and a radio call for backup from the United States...
by Gregory V. Short
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In early February of 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive, Private First Class Gregory V. Short arrived in Vietnam as an eighteen-year-old U.S. Marine. Amid all of the confusion and destruction, he began his tour of duty as an 81mm mortarman with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, which was...
Force Recon Diary, 1970
A True Account of Courage in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The quiet of the night was again shattered by the thunderous roll of incoming artillery shells, spaced five seconds apart, ripping the jungle to pieces, as huge chunks of earth and vegetation blew skyward under the brilliant flashes of orange and white explosions . . . The possibility of encountering...
by Andrew Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Viet Cong campaign that shook the United StatesBy January 31, 1968, the U.S. had been fighting the Vietnam War for more than 10 years, but the American people never thought they wouldn't win. The Tet Offensive changed all that. Over seven bloody months the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet...
Young Soldiers Amazing Warriors
Inside One of the Most Highly Decorated Battalions of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
The beginning of the famous "Nine Days in May" battles of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam and the heroes who fought them. The early fire fights and battles of one of the most highly decorated battalions of the Vietnam War. Eyewitness accounts of boys become men as they recount the riveting...
by Marilyn Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietnam war.
by James A. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country's most difficult conflicts—the first against Vietnam's colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody conflicts,...
Summons of Trumpet
U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Soldier/scholar Palmer traces the history of the American involvement in Vietnam and shows how events in both the U.S. and Vietnam became inextricably linked as domestic dissent and a lack of realistic, viable military strategy ultimately led to America's first lost war.
Unlikely Warriors
The Army Security Agency's Secret War in Vietnam 1961-1973
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In early May 1961, a U.S. military aircraft taxied toward a well-guarded terminal building. The plane slowed to a halt; steps were maneuvered up to its side, and the door was pulled open. The tropical night air was heavy and dank, and the moon shone dimly through high thin clouds. On board the aircraft...
Hunters & Shooters
An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
The U.S. Navy SEALs have long been considered among the finest, most courageous, and professional soldiers in American military history—an elite fighting force trained as parachutists, frogmen, demolition experts, and guerrilla warriors ready for sea, air, and land combat. Born out of a proud naval...
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by Captain Francis J. West
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 11 illustrations and 6 maps]
The Guerilla Warfare in the jungles and paddies of Vietnam was unlike the previous wars that the United States had been involved in for the past hundred years; there were no frontlines, no rest areas, few uniformed enemies and a terrorized population unwilling...
Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months
A Soldier's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This thoughtful memoir recounts one man’s transformation from a glory-seeking, gung-ho Kansas teenager to a weary, twice-wounded grunt who had volunteered for a second tour of duty. Enlisting in the Army in June 1964 at age 17, Micheal Clodfelter was assigned to an artillery battalion of the 101st...
by Major Kelly Owen Carl Boian
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes 14 maps and diagrams.
Major General Melvin Zais, a second generation Russian American, orchestrated the battle between the 29th Regiment of the People’s Army of Vietnam and the 101st Airborne Division around Dong Ap Bia (Hamburger Hill), Vietnam. General Zais, focused operations on and...