Vietnam War category: 1155 books
US Internal Security Assistance to South Vietnam
Insurgency, Subversion and Public Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This new study of American support to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam illuminates many contemporary events and foreign policies.
During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, the United States used foreign police and paramilitary assistance to combat the spread of communist...
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by Major A. J. C. Lavalle
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with over 30 maps, diagrams and photos
This is a story of war. A parable of men and machines, of friend and foe. A drama of moves and countermoves, played out in the skies over North Vietnam and having for its backdrop two bridges - the majestic Paul Doumer and the infamous bridge at Thanh...
by LCDR Eugene F. Paluso USN
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The United States Navy involvement in the Vietnam War prior to 1964 was primarily blue water operations. In 1964, the Vietnam Delta Infiltration Study Group was tasked to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of enemy infiltration of men and supplies into South Vietnam Mekong Delta region across...
Vietnam
The Early Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Haunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps the most persistent of these is whether President Kennedy would have ended American involvement in Vietnam if he had lived.For many Americans, Oliver Stone's film JFK left no doubt that before his assassination Kennedy had determined...
No Sure Victory
Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Conventional wisdom holds that the US Army in Vietnam, thrust into an unconventional war where occupying terrain was a meaningless measure of success, depended on body counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army officer and historian Gregory Daddis looks far deeper into...
Creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The Inside Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
Since its dedication in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become an American cultural icon symbolizing the war in Vietnam—the defining experience of the Baby Boom generation. The black granite wall of names is one of the most familiar media images associated with the war, and after three decades...
Xin Loi, Viet Nam
Thirty-one Months of War: A Soldier's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
No one in Vietnam had to tell door gunner and gunship crew chief Al Sever that the odds didn’t look good. He volunteered for the job well aware that hanging out of slow-moving choppers over hot LZs blazing with enemy fire was not conducive to a long life. But that wasn’t going to stop Specialist...
by Chuck Gross
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. At the age of twenty Chuck Gross spent his 1970-71 tour with the 71st Assault Helicopter Company flying UH-1 Huey helicopters....
by Robert Mason
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War
More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken...
Dear Mom
A Sniper's Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
In Vietnam's jungle war, only one group of men was feared more than death itself—the Marine Scout Snipers. . . .
The U.S. Marine Scout Snipers were among the most highly trained soldiers in Vietnam. With their unparalleled skill, freedom of movement, and deadly accurate long-range Remington...
From Classrooms to Claymores
A Teacher at War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
"Vietnam was a fantasy life of gunfire, blood,
heat, and superhuman toil."
By late 1969, the end of the war was just over the horizon. But for Ches Schneider, a drafted schoolteacher turned infantry grunt in the deadly Central Highlands, it was just beginning. This story of a Missouri...
It Took Heroes
A Cavalry Chaplain's Memoir of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
The soldiers in 1st Cav fought some of Vietnam’s fiercest battles—
and Chaplain Newby was there right beside them.
For grunts in Vietnam, the war was a jungle hell of sudden death, endless suffering, and supreme courage. For Chaplain Newby, it was an honor to be chosen to share it with...
Legend
The Incredible Story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
**The true story of the U.S. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and a Green Beret Staff Sergeant's heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War, from New York Times bestselling author Eric Blehm. **
On May 2, 1968, a twelve-man Special...
by Max Boot
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)
A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.**
Praised as a “superb scholarly achievement” (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms...