Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Jack of All Trades
An American Advisor's War in Vietnam, 1969-70
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Maj. Ron Beckett had already served two tours in Vietnam when he received orders to return in April 1969. As the district senior advisor in the remote, rural Dinh Quan District of Long Khanh Province, he would face a demanding and dangerous assignment on the front lines of pacification.
Price of Exit
A True Story of Helicopter Pilots in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
"The risk of a fatal catastrophe was constant. The NVA was the enemy, but the ultimate opponent was, quite simply, death. . . ."
For assault helicopter crews flying in and around the NVA-infested DMZ, the U.S. pullout from Vietnam in 1970-71 was a desperate time of selfless courage....
Blackhorse Riders
A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Winner of the 2013 Silver Medal in History from the Military Writer's Society of America
Finalist, 2013 Colby Award
Winner of the 2012 USA Best Book Award for Military History
Philip Keith's Blackhorse Riders is the incredible true story of a brave military unit in Vietnam that...
Con Thien
The Hill of Angels
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2011
A memoir/history of a much-beleaguered Marine outpost of the DMZ.
Throughout much of 1967, a remote United States Marine firebase only two miles from the demilitarized zone (DMZ) captured the attention of the world’s media. That artillery-scarred outpost was the linchpin of the so-called...
Force Recon Command
3rd Force Recon Company in Vietnam, 1969-70
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
THE A SHAU VALLEYWHERE THE NVA WAS KING . . .
In order to prevent surprise attacks on U.S. forces as they were pulling out of Vietnam, someone had to be able to pinpoint the NVA's movements. That dangerous job was the assignment of then-major Alex Lee and the Marines of the 3rd Force Reconnaissance...
by Ed Emanuel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
LRRPs had to be the best.
Anything less meant certain death.
When Ed Emanuel was handpicked for the first African American special operations LRRP team in Vietnam, he knew his six-man team couldn’t have asked for a tougher proving ground than Cu Chi in the summer of 196868. Home to the largest...
Nixon
La presidencia del Watergate y del fin de la guerra de Vietnam
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Nixon y su lucha contra el comunismo, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Profundizar en el personaje de Nixon y su vida antes y después de llegar a la política,...
A Tiger among Us
A Story of Valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
**Foreword by Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense and Senator from Nebraska
Adaptable. Cunning. Ferocious. Fearless. The Indochinese tiger is just one of the formidable predators roaming Vietnam's jungle. In 1966 a small band of US Special Forces soldiers--most especially Bennie Adkins--spent...
A Sappers' War
How the legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats fought the Vietcong
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
'We make and we break.'
They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary Aussie sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere...
Secret Green Beret Commandos in Cambodia
A Memorial History of Macv-Sog’s Command and Control Detachment South (Ccs), and Its Air Partners, Republic of Vietnam, 1967-1972
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
We could call this book “Special Operations Recon Mission Impossible.” A small group of highly trained, resourceful US Special Forces (SF) men is asked to go in teams behind the enemy lines to gather intelligence on the North Vietnamese Army units that had infiltrated through Laos and Cambodia...
A Raid Too Far
Operation Lam Son 719 and Vietnamization in Laos
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2014
In February 1971, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) launched an incursion into Laos in an attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and destroy North Vietnamese Army (NVA) base areas along the border. This movement would be the first real test of Vietnamization, Pres. Richard Nixon’s program...
The Battle of Long Tan
As told by the Commanders
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
This is the first time that those in direct command of Delta Company have shared their memories of the most significant battle fought by Australians in Vietnam, the Battle of Long Tan.
Each of the commanders shares the experiences that brought them to Vietnam, and describes how the company...
by Ron Marks
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Tommie Bauer is an ordinary young American drafted into a war to defend freedom in Southeast Asia, a war that consumes his life, as he knew it. Through the eyes of this highly trained young patriot, we discover how constant exposure to killing, death and dying poses a serious threat to the psychological,...
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by Lt.-Col. A. J. C. Lavalle
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with over 30 maps, diagrams and photos
The Southeast Asia Monograph Series is designed and dedicated to telling the story of USAF’s participation in the Vietnam War. This monograph, the sixth in the Series, adds another exciting chapter to our continuing effort to bring forth and highlight...