Vietnam War category: 1155 books
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by Major Donald K. Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with over 30 maps, diagrams and photos
This ninth essay of the Southeast Asia Monograph Series tells the stories of the 12 Air Force heroes who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for action in Vietnam. The author, Major Schneider, has chosen a most unusual and effective way...
Vietnam Declassified
The CIA and Counterinsurgency
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Vietnam Declassified is a detailed account of the CIA's effort to help South Vietnamese authorities win the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasantry and suppress the Viet Cong. Covering the CIA engagement from 1954 to mid-1972, it provides a thorough analysis of the agency and its partners. Retired CIA operative...
Allies at Odds
America, Europe, and Vietnam, 1961–1968
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Allies at Odds examines America's Vietnam policy from 1961 to 1968 in an international context by focusing on the United States' relationship with its European partners France, West Germany, and Great Britain. The European response to America's Vietnam policy provides a framework to assess this important...
The Beauty That Remains
A Vietnamese Refugee's Journey to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The Beauty That Remains charts the author's escape from communist Vietnam, her stay in a Malaysian refugee camp, and her first years in Australia, with all the drama and the hilarity of a bumbling young woman from a small town in Vietnam who tried to learn, adapt and make sense of Australian culture...
by Dale Walton
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book offers a dispassionate strategic examination of the Vietnam conflict that challenges the conventional wisdom that South Vietnam could not survive as an independent non-communist entity over the long term regardless of how the United States conducted its military- political effort in Indochina.
In My Viewfinder
An Air Force Photographer's Thailand Tour of Duty - From USAF Basic Training to Documenting the Secret War Over Laos & Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
By the time I had arrived in Thailand to take on the responsibilities of an aerial photographer, I had spent three years in the Air Force acquiring the skills and knowledge of photography in general. I felt confident I could put those skills to work as a still-photographer and successfully complete...
by Daniel Lang
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The searing account of a war crime and one soldier’s heroic efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice
First published in the New Yorker in 1969 and later adapted into an acclaimed film starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn, Casualties of War is the shocking true story of the abduction,...
Traumatic Defeat
POWs, MIAs, and National Mythmaking
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
War breeds myths, especially those made up by the vanquished to explain or soften their loss. Occasionally the myths of the defeated center on prisoners of war (POWs) and those missing in action (MIAs) to justify the lost struggle, mute national guilt, and sometimes even reject the reality of defeat...
Silent Warrior
The Marine Sniper's Vietnam Story Continues
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2003
The author of the bestselling Vietnam War memoir Marine Sniper continues the incredible true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock...
In the United States Marine Corps, the most dangerous job in combat is that of the sniper. With no backup and little communication with the outside world, these...
If I Die in a Combat Zone
Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
**A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried
"One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam."
—Minneapolis Star and Tribune**
Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave...
15 Months in SOG
A Warrior's Tour
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
"When we cross the border: no ID, and it's kiss yourself good-bye if Charlie gets ahold of you."
In Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command's Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) fielded small recon teams in areas infested with VC and NVA. Because SOG operations suffered extraordinary...
Dak To
America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
**“Excellent . . . honest and realistic . . . Edward Murphy’s meticulous research is unflawed and his writing style is novel-like.”—San Antonio Express-News
“A no-holds barred account . . . highly recommended.”—Military magazine**
In June 1967, General William Westmoreland...
Eyes of the Eagle
F Company LRPs in Vietnam, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
In the 101st Airborne, if you cared enough to send the very best, you sent The Howlers.
Gary Linderer volunteered for the Army, then volunteered for Airborne training. When he reached Vietnam in 1968, he was assigned to the famous “Screaming Eagles,” the 101st Airborne Division. Once there,...
A Piece of My Heart
The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
“Records the memories of a war in the words of those women courageous enough to walk into hell.”—San Francisco Chronicle
A decade after America pulled out of Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart- wrenching oral history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker...