Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Letters from Vietnam
Voices of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“No heroes, everyone did their part, and everyone was scared to death.”
They are the words of soldier Mark W. Harms in 1968, summing up his combat experience during the Vietnam War. His stunning letter home is just one of hundreds featured in this unforgettable collection, Letters from...
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The author of Tanks in Hell tracks ten years of tank warfare in Vietnam, combining firsthand accounts from veterans with analysis of tactics and strategy.
In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible tanks of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Tank Battalion landed across a beach near Da Nang, drawing...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
This monograph focuses on the battles of Quang Tri City and Hue that took place during the 1968 Tet offensive . The offensive itself, an all-out effort by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces to overrun the major cities of South Vietnam, marked the turning point of the Vietnam War. Although the attacks...
Dundurn Vietnam War Library Bundle
Guerrilla Nation / Indochina Now and Then / Cross-Border Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The Vietnam War was a regional conflict that turned into an epic confrontation between ideologies, leaving deep scars on the psyches of nations that fought and long-lasting physical damage to Vietnam itself. The three books in this bundle cover different aspects of the war and the region, from Michael...
Such a Lovely Little War
Saigon 1961-63
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy’s father works for the South Vietnam embassy;...
Black Ops, Vietnam
An Operational History of MACVSOG
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
During the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization that consisted of personnel from Army Special Forces, the Air Force, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance units, and the CIA....
by Major Thom Duffy Frohnhoefer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
General Creighton Abrams assumed command of United States forces in the Republic of South Vietnam in the summer of 1968. In recent years, this change in leadership has been viewed as a radical departure from the operational approach implemented by his predecessor General William Westmoreland. This...
by Dr. Graham A. Cosmas, Lt.-Col. Terrence P. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This publication represents the eighth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This particular volume details the gradual withdrawal in 1970-1971 of Marine combat forces from South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps,...
In Good Company
One man's war in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
On Friday 8th March 1968, 20-year-old Gary McKay lost the lottery. He was conscripted.
From a comfortable and carefree life of surfing and rugby football, he was drafted into the deadly serious preparation for war in the jungles of South Vietnam.
In Good Company is his story told in...
Australia's Battlefields in Viet Nam
A traveller's guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Being there 30 years on, standing on the fields of conflict, it all came rushing back. The good bits and the bad bits. But it left me with a feeling of comradeship and pride. I was glad that I made the journey.
In 1971 Gary McKay was an Australian platoon commander in what was then South Vietnam...
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
A True Story of Friendship Stronger Than War
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In 1967, John (Chick) Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered at this hearth had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. Now, they were seeing protesters turn on the troops....
The Pentagon Papers
The Secret History of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
“The WikiLeaks of its day” (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American politics.
“The most significant leaks of classified material in American history.” –The Washington Post
Not Fake News! The basis for the 2018 film The Post by Academy Award-winning director Steven...
A Better War
The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1999
“A comprehensive and long-overdue examination of the immediate post–Tet offensive years [from a] first-rate historian.” —The New York Times Book Review
Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how...
Campus Wars
The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1992
"At the same time that the dangerous war was being fought in the jungles of Vietnam, Campus Wars were being fought in the United States by antiwar protesters. Kenneth J. Heineman found that the campus peace campaign was first spurred at state universities rather than at the big-name colleges....