Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Dangerous Grounds
Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war. In the first...
Guns Up!
A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE.
"Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie...
War Paint
The 1st Infantry Division's LRP/Ranger Company in Fierce Combat in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/...
Hal Moore
A Soldier Once . . . And Always
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The definitive biography of Harold G. Moore, hero of the Vietnam War and author of the bestselling memoir of the battle at Ia Drang.
Hal Moore, one of the most admired American combat leaders of the last fifty years, has until now been best known to the public for being portrayed by Mel Gibson...
Passing Time
Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
From 1969 to 1974 Ehrhart was just Passing Time. His reentry into the “world” began with his enrollment as a 21-year-old freshman (and token Vietnam vet) at Swarthmore College. At first simply trying to bury his past, Ehrhart slowly if inexorably came to understand what happened to him, and why,...
by Reg Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Vietnam War explores the long and costly civil war pitting South Vietnamese and U.S. forces against communist guerrillas and North Vietnamese troops.
by Peter E. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Despite its 'F-for-fighter' designation, the F-105 was designed and purchased to give the USAF an aircraft capable of the delivery of nuclear weapons at very high speed, long range and below-the-radar altitudes. However, when the Vietnam War began it also emerged as USAF's best available tactical...
by Darlene Neubauer
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
This is a true story that will enlighten you on the intense fighting that went on in Vietnam. My brother wrote to me every time he got some time off from going up in his helicopter and fighting for hours at a time. He had trouble finding time to get enough sleep. I was grateful for all the letters...
Baptism
A Vietnam Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
"The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion."
A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three...
Search and Destroy
The Story of an Armored Cavalry Squadron in Vietnam: 1-1 Cav, 1967-1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Armored Division, deployed to Vietnam from Fort Hood, Texas, in August 1967. Searchand Destroy covers the 1/1’s harrowing first year and a half of combat in the war’s toughest area of operations: I Corps. The book takes readers into the savage...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
FIRE IN THE STREETS : The Battle for Hue, Tet 1968 by Eric Hammel = The Tet Offensive of January 1968 was the most important military campaign of the Vietnam War. The ancient capital city of Hue was a key objective of the surprise Communist offensive, but when the North Vietnamese launched their massive...
Rangers at War
LRRPs in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
"Shelby Stanton has emerged as the leading military historian on the war in Southest Asia."
COL. CHARLES B. MacDONALD
Author of COMPANY COMMANDER and A TIME FOR TRUMPETS
One of the toughest and most challenging jobs in Vietnam was to be a U.S. Army Ranger running Long Range Reconnaissance...
Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land
The Vietnam War Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'. First-hand accounts, maps and contemporary photographs, analysis from the soldiers involved and new perspectives...
In Liberating Strife: A Memoir of the Vietnam Years
Volume 1, The Track of a Storm
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Vietnam: A word that few Americans had ever heard before the early 1960s, and a place that even fewer would have been able to point out on a map, slowly but inexorably becomes the primary focus of national attention as America’s intervention in the war ultimately emerges as the defining event of...