Vietnam War category: 1155 books
La guerra de Vietnam
Un trágico conflicto fratricida en plena Guerra Fría
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la guerra de Vietnam, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir las causas que desembocan en la guerra de Vietnam, escenario de un cruel...
The Good Governor
Robert Ray and the Indochinese Refugees of Iowa
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
After the Americans withdrew from the Vietnam War, their Indochinese allies faced imprisonment, torture and death under communist regimes. The Tai Dam, an ethnic group from northern Vietnam, campaigned for sanctuary, writing letters to 30 U.S. governors in 1975. Only Robert D. Ray of Iowa agreed to...
Vietnam's High Ground
Armed Struggle for the Central Highlands, 1954-1965
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
During its struggle for survival from 1954 to 1975, the region known as the Central Highlands was the strategically vital high ground for the South Vietnamese state. Successive South Vietnamese governments, their American allies, and their Communist enemies all realized early on the fundamental importance...
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough...
Hornet 33
Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Combat helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War flew each mission facing the possibility of imminent death. Begun as a series of attempted letters to the Department of Veterans Affairs, this compelling memoir of an aircraft commander in the 116th Assault Helicopter Company—“The Hornets”—relates...
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A Doctor's Year in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor’s year behind the frontlines in Vietnam.
Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting,...
Dereliction of Duty
Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C."
—H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)
Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became...
Flying from the Black Hole
The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots--their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or simply unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people...
They Are All My Family
A Daring Rescue in the Chaos of Saigons Fall
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War in April 1975, as Americans fled and their Vietnamese allies and employees prepared for the worst, John Riordan, a young banker, the assistant manager of Citibank's Saigon branch succeeded in rescuing 106 Vietnamese. They were his 33 Vietnamese staff members...
The First Marine Captured in Vietnam
A Biography of Donald G. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Colonel Donald Gilbert Cook was the first U.S. Marine captured in Vietnam, the first and only Marine in history to earn the Medal of Honor while in captivity; and the first Marine POW to have a U.S. Navy ship named in his honor, the USS Donald Cook (DDG-75). On December 31, 1964, while serving as...
Here There are Tigers
The Secret Air War in Laos and North Vietnam, 1968-69
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
In-the-cockpit perspective on aerial warfare during the Vietnam War. Many never-before-heard stories--some of them tragic, others humorous.
No Cats in Vietnam
The Memoir of a Straightleg Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
No Cats in Vietnam, the Memoir of a Straightleg Engineer, is a memoir that really was begun as a response to someones suggestion. I swear. I have thought from time to time of writing something longer than a newspaper article on subjects ranging from Vietnam to gun control to Conflict Resolution, but...
by James Watson, Kevin Dockery
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Chief Petty Officer James "Patches" Watson was there at the start. One of the first to come out of the famed Underwater Demolition Team 21, he was an initial member -- a "plank owner" -- of America's deadliest and most elite fighting force, the U.S. Navy SEALs.
Through three...
by Colonel John K. Ellsworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This SRP examines Operation ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968) bombing campaign in the context of military Principles of War and their applications. It analyzes accomplishment of strategic objectives and future implications for applications of airpower doctrine. It reviews the pre-Vietnam strategic situation,...