Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Rice Wars in Colonial Vietnam
The Great Famine and the Viet Minh Road to Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This book offers the first detailed English-language examination of the Great Vietnamese Famine of 1945, which left at least a million dead, and links it persuasively to the largely unexpected Viet Minh seizure of power only months later. Drawing on extensive research in French archives, Geoffrey...
Dragon Ascending
Vietnam and the Vietnamese
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
A firsthand report on contemporary Vietnam presents a portrait of a nation that is struggling under the hold of Communism and places the Vietnam war in the perspective of a four-thousand-year-old history.
Operation Thunderhead
The True Story of Vietnam's Final POW Rescue Mission--and the last Navy Seal Kil led in Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
The incredible true story of a top secret mission to resuce POWs in Vietnam.
In the last year of the Vietnam conflict, even as American troops were leaving for home, there were still those fighting for their lives: prisoners of war being held in the Communist north. There were two operations...
US Grenade Launchers
M79, M203, and M320
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
In an effort to provide the US infantryman with more firepower to cover the range gap between the hand grenade and the light mortar, the 40mm M79 grenade launcher – a shoulder-fired, single-shot weapon – entered service with US forces in 1961.
Reliable, easy to use, and lethally effective, the...
Batcats
The United States Air Force 553Rd Reconnaissance Wing in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
Written by men who flew the missions and gathered together the recollections of their comrades, this is an account of the political, social, cultural, technical and combat context of an extraordinary side of the Vietnam conflict. An account touching on topics ranging from Thai supernaturalism to high...
by Henry Hines
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
What possessed this nineteen year-old to volunteer (or to accept being drafted like so many others) for a distant war in a totally unknown culture? I’ve spent decades pondering my actions. I tramped through I-Corps, the military area bordering North Vietnam, with 20 fellow infantry platoon members....
"Aid and Comfort"
Jane Fonda in North Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Jane Fonda’s visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro–North Vietnamese, anti–American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. In their eyes, she was guilty...
The 1964 Election and Its Aftermath
from In Retrospect
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
"Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Written twenty years after the end...
Decent Interval
An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of America’s final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great...
Inside An Loc
The Battle to Save Saigon, April-May 1972
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The Battle of An Loc was one of the bloodiest battles in the Vietnam War and a defining moment in the history of the Republic of South Vietnam. A few square blocks tucked among vast rubber tree plantations, the provincial town was thought to be of little strategic value to the North Vietnamese. Yet...
by Lt.-Gen. Herman Nickerson Jr. USMC
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In view of his unique experiences as a senior Marine commander in Vietnam and his Extensive efforts to communicate his views and his combat knowledge to the troops he commanded, it was decided to republish a series of articles that Lieutenant General Herman Nickerson, Jr., wrote in 1969-1970 while...
Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972
Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This commemoration booklet focuses on naval air power during the final years of the Vietnam War. For much of this period, Navy aircraft sought to hamper the flow of supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos—a huge investment in air power resources that ultimately proved fruitless. After North...
by Major Gregory B. Conover
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The Vietnam conflict spread dissension into every corner of our political and cultural environment and shattered the foreign policy consensus that had guided US relations since World War II. The initial combined effort of the United States and South Vietnam to defeat the insurgency was the Strategic...
The Battle at Ngok Tavak
A bloody defeat in South Vietnam, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
In 1968, in the western jungle of Vietnam near Laos, a Special Forces Company, under the command of an Australian Army Captain, supported by a Marine artillery detachment, occupied an old French fort, on a hill known as Ngok Tavak.
The circumstances of the battle that ensued, and the subsequent...