Vietnam War category: 1155 books
South Vietnamese Soldiers: Memories of the Vietnam War and After
Memories of the Vietnam War and After
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Published on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, this book brings to life the experiences and memories of South Vietnamese soldiers—the forgotten combatants of this controversial conflict.
• Relates the stories of South Vietnamese soldiers through a compelling narrative...
The Vietnam War
Topics in Contemporary North American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture. The post-9/11 United States forays into the Middle East, the invasion and occupation of Iraq especially, have evoked comparisons to the nearly two decades of American presence in Viet Nam (1954-1973). That evocation has renewed...
Finding My Platoon Brothers
Vietnam Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Glyn Haynie carries the names of 13 brothers forever engraved on his heart. They are the names of brothers killed in combat during the War in Vietnam. The bonds formed in battle are unique and not understood by anyone who has not served in the military. The men in their foxholes do not fight for...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This report builds on the research and ideas of the school of thought that believes strategy is the most important factor in predicting war outcomes. One shortcoming of that school is the...
by James A. Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Vietnam 1968: See what’s inside the mind of a new lieutenant as he leads two diverse infantry platoons and then commands a rifle company in the field. Walk in the rice paddies and jungles, outsmart the bad guys and, above all, keep the troops alive. Move past the mistakes and twists of fate in the...
by David Luhrssen
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Vietnam War on Film illustrates how to employ film as a teaching tool. It also stands on its own as an account of the war and the major films that have depicted it.
• Provides a unique guide to the Vietnam War experience for film history buffs, students and scholars of history, and fans of...
by Edwin E. Moïse
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
The Vietnam War is anything but a forgotten war. Even today, the strategies that led to an unexpected American defeat are hotly debated, and much remains controversial and unclear, which is not surprising given the nature of the combat in which the Vietnamese guerrilla warfare eventually won out over...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This excellent report, a wide-ranging historical overview of that most difficult aspect of military leadership, the art of battle command, has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. McGrath leads the reader through case studies beginning with Alexander...
by Christopher Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Officially the war in Laos did not exist – both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the south, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from...
War Torn
Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
For the first time, nine women who made journalism history talk candidly about their professional and deeply personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. Their stories span a decade of America’s involvement in Vietnam, from the earliest days of the conflict...
Vietnam
An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for...
Surprised at Being Alive
An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn’t your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft...
The Hunter Killers
The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
At the height of the Cold War, America's most elite aviators bravely volunteered for a covert program aimed at eliminating an impossible new threat. Half never returned. All became legends. From New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton comes one of the most extraordinary untold stories of aviation...
by Mary McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
**Hailed as “the most provocative and disturbing analytical indictment . . . of America’s role in Vietnam” by the New York Times, this is Mary McCarthy’s riveting account of her journeys to Saigon and Hanoi **
In 1967, the editor of the* New York Review of Books sent Mary McCarthy...