Vietnam War category: 1155 books

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The Cat From Hue

A Vietnam War Story

by John Laurence
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008

Winner of the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Award John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from its early days, through the bloody battle of Hue in 1968, to the Cambodian invasion. He was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war, however, the traumatic...
Cover of The Best of American Heritage: Vietnam War
by Edwin S. Grosvenor
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019

Here, acclaimed American historians - among them, Max Boot, Douglas Brinkley, and Stanley Karnow - tell the dramatic story of America's war in Vietnam. It's all here - from the first American deaths in Vietnam and the controversial Gulf of Tonkin attack to the Tet offensive, the My Lai massacre, and, finally, the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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A Lonely Kind of War

Forward Air Controller, Vietnam

by Marshall Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010

From retired Air Force pilot Marshall Harrison comes a remarkable memoir of aerial warfare in Vietnam. In his third combat tour, Harrison found himself converted from the high performance world of jets to the awkward-looking OV-10 Bronco and assigned as a FAC forward air controller. A captivating...
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by Neil Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014

In the opening years of the Vietnam War, a small group of American military advisors and their South Vietnamese allies were facing down the Viet Cong. The confident Americans were there to do what seemed elementary: help the South Vietnamese army defeat a ragtag guerrilla enemy. They were assured...
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Hamburger Hill

The Brutal Battle for Dong Ap Bia: May 11-20, 1969

by Samuel Zaffiri
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009

The battle for Ap Bia Mountain (Hill 937), was one of the fiercest of the entire Vietnam War. On May 10, 1969, Army, Marine Corps, and ARVN forces kicked off Operation Apache Snow. It was finally time to clean out the notorious A Shau Valley. The next day, elements of the 101st Airborne Division,...
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Days of Valor An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam

An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War

by Robert L. Tonsetic
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade was created from three U.S. infantry battalions of long lineage as a fast reaction force to place in Vietnam. As the book begins in December 1967 the brigade has been at war for a year and many of its battered 12-month men are returning home. The Communists seem to...
Cover of Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam
by Larry Berman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1991

"Stunning....The portrait of the embattled and unyielding president that emerges is vivid and memorable."—Publishers Weekly By 1968, the United States had committed over 525,000 men to Vietnam and bombed virtually all military targets recommended by the joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet,...
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A Sphinx

The Memories of a Reluctant Spy in Vietnam

by John G. Burdick
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008

When John Burdick received his orders to ship to Vietnam in 1967, he was certain his life was over. His goal was to return to the United States alive and on his feet no matter what it took. He had been recruited by the military to become an intelligence agent, and for a college graduate student from...
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The Perfect War

Technowar in Vietnam

by James William Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

“Powerfully and persuasively . . . Gibson tells us why we were in Vietnam . . . a work of daring brilliance—an eye-opening chronicle of waste and self-delusion.” —Robert Olen Butler In this groundbreaking book, James William Gibson shatters the misled assumptions behind both liberal...
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by Jeanette Vaughan, Robert G. Lathrop
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016

Vietnam. A USMC A-4 Skyhawk pilot. PTSD. He survived Vietnam, but would he survive its aftermath? The experiences of combat produce different memories by those whom have served. Some return as warriors, seemingly unscathed. With others, their life is never the same. The horrors of each mission come back...
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by Lt. Gen. Ngo Quang Truong
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Includes over 30 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. “In 1968, a U.S. presidential election year,...
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What Lessons Can Be Drawn From U.S. Riverine Operations During The Vietnam War

As The U.S. Navy Moves Into The Twenty-First Century?

by Major David J. Spangler
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

This study examines U.S. riverine force operations in the Vietnam War to determine why the force was established, how and why it evolved, and what significance it held for the war as a whole. This study begins with Operation Game Warden, continues through Mobile Riverine Force operations, and ends...
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Long Time Passing

Vietnam and the Haunted Generation

by Myra MacPherson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009

This new edition of a classic book on the impact of the Vietnam War on Americans reintroduces the haunted voices of the Vietnam era to a new generation of readers. Based on more than 500 interviews, Long Time Passing is journalist Myra MacPherson’s acclaimed exploration of the wounds, pride,...
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Fast Movers

Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience

by John Sherwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001

The war in the skies above Vietnam still stands as the longest our nation has ever fought. For fourteen years American pilots dropped bombs on the Southeast Asian countryside -- eventually more than eight million tons of them. In doing so, they lost over 8,588 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters....
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