Vietnam War category: 1155 books
The Easter Offensive, Vietnam 1972. Volume 1
Invasion across the DMZ
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
On 30 March 1972 the South Vietnamese positions along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from South Vietnam were suddenly shelled by hundreds of heavy guns and multiple rocket launchers. Caught in a series of outposts of what was the former ‘McNamara Line’, the shocked defenders...
A Rift in the Earth
Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial
A Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious “art war” that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what kind of memorial...
by Frank Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen.
As he flew over South East Asia towards Vietnam, Captain Barry Petersen struggled to keep an aura of calm. Inwardly he was incredibly excited....
Westmoreland
The General Who Lost Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
“A terrific book, lively and brisk . . . a must read for anyone who tries to understand the Vietnam War**.” —Thomas E. Ricks**
Is it possible that the riddle of America’s military failure in Vietnam has a one-word, one-man answer?
Until we understand Gen. William Westmoreland,...
Embers of War
The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED WORKS OF HISTORY IN RECENT YEARS
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians • Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award...
Hanoi's War
An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the reader...
Vietnam War Almanac
An In-Depth Guide to the Most Controversial Conflict in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
With more than 58,000 casualties and 300,000 wounded, at a cost of more than $130 billion, the Vietnam War became one of the most divisive conflicts in American history. The scars left by the war can still be felt today, making it crucial that we have the facts about this watershed event.
Vietnam...
by David Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002
More than a quarter of a century after the last Marine Corps Huey left the American embassy in Saigon, the lessons and legacies of the most divisive war in twentieth-century American history are as hotly debated as ever. Why did successive administrations choose little-known Vietnam as the "test...
The 25-Year War
America's Military Role in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
On April 30, 1975, Saigon and the government of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam, ending -- for American military forces -- exactly twenty-five year of courageous but unavailing struggle. This is not the story of how America became embroiled in a conflict in a small country...
by Jim Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
War Story author Jim Morris ponders the hated nickname "Baby Killers" given to Vietnam War soldiers, and then explains the extraordinary lengths U.S. soldiers go to in order to avoid civilian casualties, often at the soldiers' own expense.Jim Morris served three tours with Special Forces...
Kontum
The Battle to Save South Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in what became known as the Easter Offensive. Almost all of the American forces had already withdrawn from Vietnam except for a small group of American advisers to the South Vietnamese armed forces. The 23rd ARVN Infantry Division and its...
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by Frederick Eugene Oldinsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 24 maps
This thesis begins with a brief history of armored vehicles from their earliest concepts to the modern battle tank of today. It critically examines the decision not to include tank units with the first American combat forces deployed in Vietnam and the irrationality of that decision...
by Gareth Hector, Dr István Toperczer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) were equipped with slow, old Korean War generation fighters – a combination of MiG-17s and MiG-19s – types that should have offered little opposition to the cutting-edge fighter-bombers such as the F-4 Phantom II, F-105...
Apocalypse Then
American Intellectuals and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Prior to the Vietnam war, American intellectual life rested comfortably on shared assumptions and often common ideals. Intellectuals largely supported the social and economic reforms of the 1930s, the war against Hitler's Germany, and U.S. conduct during the Cold War. By the early 1960s, a liberal...