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Eleven Bravo

A Skytrooper's Memoir of War in Vietnam

by E. Tayloe Wise
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

E. Tayloe Wise served in Vietnam from May 1969 through April 1970. During those 11 months, he wrote an estimated 750–800 letters home. This memoir is based on those letters, which recounted the details of his experiences and also served as an outlet where he could express the terror, tedium and...
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by Major-General Nguyen Duy Hinh
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Includes over 30 maps and illustrations For several years, the eastern part of the Laotian panhandle was used by North Vietnam as a corridor for the infiltration of personnel and materiels required to sustain its war efforts in South Vietnam and Cambodia. In addition to the Ho Chi Minh Trail,...
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Land of Frozen Laughter

A Community Development Volunteer in the Vietnam War, 1967-1969

by John Lewallen
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016

Written from the viewpoint of a civilian war veteran, Land of Frozen Laughter is the story of John Lewallen’s two years as an International Voluntary Services volunteer in South Vietnam at the height of the war. This book offers a unique, uncensored view of wartime life with US soldiers and the...
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The War I Survived Was Vietnam

Collected Writings of a Veteran and Antiwar Activist

by Michael Uhl
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016

This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author’s reflections on the war, from his combat experiences to his exploration of American veteran identity to his struggles with PTSD. His career as an advocate for the...
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by Richard Lock-Pullan
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

US Intervention Policy and Army Innovation examines how the US Army rebuilt itself after the Vietnam War and how this has affected US intervention policy, from the victory of the Gulf War to the failure of Somalia, the Bosnian and Kosovo interventions and the use of force post 9/11. Richard...
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The Yankees are Coming! The Yankees are Coming!

A Comparison Between The American Revolution And Vietnam’s War For National Unification

by Major Jeffrey M. Dunn USMC
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

This paper compares British involvement in America’s struggle for independence in the late eighteenth century with the United States’ immersion in North Vietnam’s struggle for national unification in the twentieth. Many similarities exist between the American Revolution and the Vietnam...
Cover of Guide to Religion and the Military: Chaplains, Command Climate, Freedom of Religious Expression, Christian Evangelicalism, Secular Pluralism, Catholic Church and Vietnam, Catholic Just War Tradition
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique compilation of thirteen military documents provides special insight into the role of religion in the military and wars. Contents include: Religion and the Military: A Growing Ethical Dilemma * Combatant Commander...
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The People Make the Peace

Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

As young adults in the 1960s and 1970s, the nine people featured in this book-including co-editor Frank Joyce, Rennie Davis, Judy Gumbo, Alex Hing, and others-worked to end the U.S. war in Vietnam. Independently of each other, while the United States was still at war, nearly all of them travelled...
Cover of The U. S. Army Officer Corps: Changing With the Times - Black Officers, Diversity Issues, Pre and Post-Vietnam, Officer Personnel Management System (OPMS), Career Field Designation (CFD)
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. What types of officers does the U. S. Army need to sustain the force, lead, manage resources, procure the best possible supplies and equipment, and operate in the field in the 21st Century?...
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The Vietnam War

The Tet Offensive 1968

by Anthony Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014

On 30 January 1968 the North Vietnamese communists launched a coordinated surprise attack – the Tet Offensive – across South Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and American armies. Superior firepower eventually crushed the offensive, but it proved to be a major psychological victory for the...
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by Major General William B. Fulton
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

[Includes 2 charts, 6 diagrams, 16 maps, and 21 illustrations] “This monograph describes U.S. Army Riverine planning and operations in the Republic of Vietnam during the years 1966 through 1969. Since the personal experience of the author was with preparations for riverine operations and the initial...
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Radicals on the Road

Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era

by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the possibility of being shot down by bombers in the air and antiaircraft guns on the ground was very real. American travelers recalled landing in blackout...
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The Soldiers' Story: An Illustrated Edition

Vietnam in Their Own Words

by Ron Steinman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

Veteran journalist Ron Steinman gathers candid reminiscences from seventy-six men (including Senator John McCain) who lived through the brutalities of combat in the Vietnam War. A Soldiers' Story provides a vivid and gripping oral history of the fear, fellowship, trauma and triumph of these Marine,...
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Fly Until You Die

An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War

by Chia Youyee Vang
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

During the Vietnam War, the US Air Force secretly trained pilots from Laos, skirting Lao neutrality in order to bolster the Royal Lao Air Force and their own war efforts. Beginning in 1964, this covert project, "Water Pump," operated out of Udorn Airbase in Thailand with the support of the CIA. This...
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