Vietnam War category: 1155 books
Black April
The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame-from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975-has eluded us.Black April addresses that deficit....
by Gary D. Murtha
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
South Vietnam Military History and Insignia contains 125 pages packed with over 60 pages of color insignia as well as hundreds of b/w insignia that includes background history on South Vietnam's major military units and structure. It is the most complete book ever done on the subject and one that will...
An Enormous Crime
The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
The dramatic history of living American soldiers left in Vietnam, and the first full account of the circumstances that left them there
An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case...
Saigon Kids
An American Military Brat Comes of Age in 1960's Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This memoir of an American teenager coming of age in 1960s Vietnam “is a rip-roaring historical snapshot of a capitol teetering on the brink of war” (Rick Frederickson, Vietnam Magazine).
In 1962, when US Navy Chief Petty Officer Bryant Arbuckle brought his wife and three sons to his new...
To Hanoi and Back
The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966-1973
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
After nearly eighteen months of the largely unsuccessful bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder, the US Air Force began to look for ways to overcome technological, geographical, and political challenges in North Vietnam and use limited air power more effectively. In 1972 the two Linebacker...
by Steve Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The author begins his tour of duty in Vietnam as his fiancé and family continue their own daily lives in a nation wracked by continuing controversy and crisis. His assignments “behind the lines” in the war zone sometimes seem calm by comparison with the nation’s domestic turbulence as he enjoys...
The Frost Weeds
Vietnam: 1964-1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2014
During the early years of the Vietnam War, a small group of American soldiers carried the fight to the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, often under difficult circumstances. Their sacrifices generally went unrecognized and unappreciated by a mostly indifferent nation. But a massive influx of...
Vietnam War Helicopter Art
U.S. Army Rotor Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Hundreds of unique color photos showing how soldiers decorated their helicopters during the Vietnam War.
Blood in the Hills
The Story of Khe Sanh, the Most Savage Fight of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
A soldier’s eye view of Vietnam’s fiercest close-quarters battle upon its 50th anniversary
Khe Sanh’s Hill Fights of 1967—as experienced by co-author Bobby Maras and told in this hour-by-hour, day-by-day account—were carnage on the ground, much of it hand-to-hand fighting in the dark....
Because Our Fathers Lied
from The Living and the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Robert S. McNamara was the official face of Vietnam, the technocrat with steel-rimmed glasses and an ironclad faith in numbers who kept insisting that the war was winnable long after he had ceased to believe it was.
In his insightful, morally devastating book, The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson...
Images from the Otherland
Memoir of a United States Marine Corps Artillery Officer in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2002
For two decades Sympson thought little of his tour of duty as a Marine artillery officer in Vietnam. But recovering from non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer probably caused by exposure in Vietnam to Agent Orange, he saw a thread running through his later life and was flooded with memories of events he...
Combat Talons in Vietnam
Recovering a Covert Special Ops Crew
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Combat Talons in Vietnam is a personal account of the first use of C-130s in the Vietnam War. It provides an insider’s view of crew training and classified missions for this technologically advanced aircraft. Many covert missions over North Vietnam were successful, but one night, John Gargus, a...
Vietnam War Nurses
Personal Accounts of 18 Americans
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Eighteen nurses who served in the United States military nurse corps during the Vietnam War present their personal accounts in this book. They represent all military branches and both genders. They served in the theater of combat, in the United States, and in countries allied with the U.S. They served...
Cowboy: The Interpreter Who Became a Soldier, a Warlord, and One More Casualty of Our War in Vietnam
Cowboy: The Interpreter Who Became a Soldier, a Warlord, and One More Casualty of Our War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Cowboy was handsome, flamboyant, courageous, clever, and cruel. He got his nickname from the Green Berets who worked with him in the Highlands of South Vietnam in the 1960s. "You've got to take the bad with the good," one Special Forces captain explained. "And Cowboy is a good interpreter."...