Vietnam War category: 1155 books

French experience with armour in Indo-China dated back to 1919, when it sent FT-17s to the colony, followed by a variety of armoured cars. After World War II, French troops were equipped with a motley collection of American and cast-off British equipment until the outbreak of war in Korea saw an increase...

Includes over 50 maps and illustrations This monograph forms part of the Indochina Monograph series written by senior military personnel from the former Army of the Republic of Vietnam who served against the northern communist invasion. “For several years Cambodia, under the leadership...

This study examines the planning, execution, and results of US military involvement in the 1970 Cambodian incursions. Named Operation Rockcrusher, the attacks targeted North Vietnamese sanctuaries in officially neutral Cambodia. Strategic guidance for the operation reflected the Nixon administration's...

The Fortunate Son recounts the parallel lives of an  army brat and a group of Vietnam veterans who intersect decades after the war.  The veterans open up to me, the army brat, perhaps in a way they never have  with their own families. Why? Through my father, Top, their First Sergeant, we  have...

True Faith and Allegiance: An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc is an intimate and compelling account of the most brutal infantry warfare and is also a critique of the mishandling of America’s departure from Indochina. An unintended consequence of Washington’s stampede to get...

"When you expect peace, prepare for war!" However, the author asserts, there is no amount of preparation that can adequately make one ready for the madness of it all, whether he emerges as a winner or a loser. Nor can anything prepare survivors for the aftermath of such experiences that continue to impact...

The combat engineers of the First Marine Division, 9th Engineer Battalion, risked their lives daily in Vietnam as they cleared the roads of mines, repaired and paved the famous “Highway 1,” disarmed booby traps, built bridges and culverts, and destroyed enemy bunkers and tunnels. Despite their...

[Includes 26 charts, 4 maps, 31 tables and 48 illustrations] "This monograph focuses on the use of analysis in combat operations and concentrates on the utilization of techniques in situations with which the authors were personally familiar. It covers primarily the systematic blending of military...

Although women have served in defense of our country since the American Revolutionary War, women were not given full military status until World War II. Providing full military status to women had repercussions for the built environment of the country's military installations, especially as the government...

This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Unconventional warfare (UW) is an operational concept the United States utilizes to enable resistance movements or insurgencies to coerce or overthrow a government or...

  Navy Medicine begins and ends with a humanitarian operation-—the first, in 1954, after the French were defeated, when refugees fled to South Vietnam to escape from the communist regime in the North; and the second, in 1975, after the fall of Saigon and the final stage of America’s exit...

“In quell’umido pomeriggio di marzo, mentre marciavamo tra i campi di riso, portavamo con noi, oltre agli zaini e ai fucili, anche l’intima convinzione che il Vietcong sarebbe stato rapidamente sconfitto. Ci tenemmo gli zaini e i fucili; quella convinzione svanì”. Per gli Stati...

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In January 2012, President Obama announced the US military would "pivot to the Pacific" to support and protect political and economic interests in the Region. To this end, the Joint Operational...

Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the warÆs end and grew up as Americans, speaking English and...