Vietnam War category: 1155 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this U.S. Air Force (USAF) publication examines the Air Force's support of the ground war in South Vietnam between 1965 and early 1968. The book covers the period from the time when the United States began moving from...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War, 2nd Edition
How We Got into—and Out of—Vietnam, and What We Can Learn from It Now
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
A long ago war - still relevant today.
Misunderstanding remains, and a lot is still unknown, of the Vietnam War. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Vietnam War, Second Edition provides an updated and revised guide giving readers the facts. It assesses policies and the reasons for them, shedding...
The American Experience in Vietnam
Reflections on an Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
When it was originally published, the twenty-five-volume Vietnam Experience offered the definitive historical perspectives of the Vietnam War from some of the best rising authors on the conflict. This new and reimagined edition updates the war on the fifty years that have passed since the war’s...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report examines the strategic and political impacts of collateral damage from strike warfare and strategic bombing. It is hard to argue that there is a more prevailing issue than collateral damage when discussing strike...
War Without Fronts
The American Experience in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The publication of this long out-of-print book should facilitate the ongoing conversation on how the American war in Vietnam continues to serve as a comparison for more recent U.S. overseas military campaigns.Thomas C. Thayer’s War Without Fronts, first appearing in 1985, offered an analysis of U.S....
The Other Vietnam War
A Helicopter Pilot's Life in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Each of us who served in Vietnam was the guy next door, the average Joe, not a hero. The boy who might date your daughter or sister. The young man who might mow your yard. In Vietnam, we weren’t out to be heroes. We just did our jobs.
For a helicopter pilot, each day was like all the others....
The Vietnam War
An Intimate History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.
More than forty years...
Ending the Vietnam War
A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
The Definitive Account
Many other authors have written about what they thought happened -- or thought should have happened -- in Vietnam, but it was Henry Kissinger who was there at the epicenter, involved in every decision from the long, frustrating negotiations with the North Vietnamese delegation...
Gunbird Driver
A Marine Huey Pilot's War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Gunbird Driver is a memoir of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E's in Marine Observation Squadron 6. The book provides information about the missions, operations, and the living conditions at Ky Ha, and about the fellow Marines with whom he served. It also...
Vietnam
The complete story of the Australian war
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
For Australians, Vietnam remains one of most difficult - and controversial - wars we have fought. On the fiftieth anniversary of Australia's first involvement comes Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War, for anyone who wishes to understand why Australia went to war, and who wants to make...
Vietnam's Second Front
Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Vietnam War has been analyzed, dissected, and debated from multiple perspectives for decades, but domestic considerations -- such as partisan politics and election-year maneuvering -- are often overlooked as determining factors in the evolution and outcome of America's longest war.
In Vietnam's...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. General Wallace M. Greene was only the fourth Commandant of the Marine Corps to serve as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Upon the start of his tenure in January 1964, he believed he...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2013
This volume describes those JCS activities related to the war in Indochina during the period 1947-1954. One of the results of the warfare that raged in Southeast Asia in the late 1940s and early 1950s was to put Vietnam on the map. The decolonization of French Indochina left the region divided into...
by Gordon Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
A concise, accessible history of one of the most important and fascinating conflicts of the 20th centuryOn March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the south central coast of South Vietnam, marking the beginning of a conflict...