Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Racing Back to Vietnam
A Journey in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
2018 GOLD MEDAL WINNER (MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA)
In 1971, United Air Force flight surgeon John Pendergrass spent much of his time in the backseat of an F-4 Phantom, racing across the skies of Vietnam.
Forty-five years later, he boards an altogether different type of aircraft and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. On December 20, 2010, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) denied the Pentagon's request, endorsed by President Barack Obama, to advance posthumously Air Force Maj Gen John D. Lavelle...
by Major Gregory Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This monograph addresses what operational level military factors enabled the North Vietnamese Army to defeat the former South Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War’s final campaigns of 1975. The Vietnam War covered the full spectrum of conflict from terrorism, to guerrilla warfare, to a conventional...
Armed with Abundance
Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities,...
The Irony of Vietnam
The System Worked
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
"If a historian were allowed but one book on the American involvement in Vietnam, this would be it." - Foreign Affairs When first published in 1979, four years after the end of one of the most divisive conflicts in the United States, The Irony of Vietnam raised eyebrows. Most students of...
by Col. Hoang Ngoc Lung
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes over 10 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.
“The war in Vietnam was often called an intelligence...
From Enemies to Partners
Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent Orange
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The impact and tragedy of war do not end when the guns fall silent…
Ten to fifteen percent of all Vietnamese with disabilities are probable Agent Orange victims…
Agent Orange is a humanitarian concern we are doing something about.
More than four decades after the end of the...
The American South and the Vietnam War
Belligerence, Protest, and Agony in Dixie
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself. President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Secretary of State Dean Rusk of Georgia oversaw the dramatic...
Reckless
Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Henry Kissinger's role in the Vietnam War prolonged the American tragedy and doomed the government of South Vietnam
The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 after eight years of fighting, bloodshed, and loss. Yet the terms of the truce that ended the war were effectively identical...
Why Vietnam Matters
An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
In The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam described Rufus Phillips as a man one could trust telling President Kennedy during the Vietnam War about the failures of the Strategic Hamlet Program, 'in itself a remarkable moment in the American bureaucracy, a moment of intellectual honesty.' With...
A Bright Shining Lie
John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, renowned journalist Neil Sheehan tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel...
by William Broyles
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In this “essential” memoir, a former marine returns to Vietnam years later to try to make sense of the war (Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead).
When William Broyles Jr. was drafted, he was a twenty-four-year-old student at Oxford University in England, hoping to avoid military service....
Waiting for an Army to Die
The Tragedy of Agent Orange
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
"I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it," said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange—tells this young vet’s...
Vietnam
A View from the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Based on rich collections housed at the National Archive, the Center of Military History, and at the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech, Voices from America's Failed Crusade will trace the American experience of Vietnam from the war's popular inception to its morale-crushing and bitter conclusion. Being...