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13 Cent Killers
The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.”
In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing...
by Jack Weatherford
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the...
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...
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...
Gone Native
An NCO's Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
On his first combat assignment, Cornett accompanied the Vietnamese Rangers on a search-and-destroy mission near Khe Sang. There he gained entree into a culture that he would ultimately respect greatly and admire deeply. Cornett's most challenging military duty began when he joined the Phoenix Program....
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/...
Marine Sniper
93 Confirmed Kills
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
The explosive true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam War.
There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has only been one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock.
He stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy lines—on their own ground. And...
Phantom Warriors
Book I: LRRPs, LRPs, and Rangers in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Here are some of the most courageous missions executed by six-man teams on their own deep behind enemy lines. Ranging from the Central Highlands to the Mekong Delta to excursions— authorized and unauthorized—into Cambodia, these gripping accounts begin when the call first went out for covert U.S....
by Reynel Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
"No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men." [pg. 13]
In 1965 nearly four hundred men were interviewed and only thirty-two selected for the infant LRRP Detachment of the...
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....
Silent Warrior
The Marine Sniper's Vietnam Story Continues
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2003
The author of the bestselling Vietnam War memoir Marine Sniper continues the incredible true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock...
In the United States Marine Corps, the most dangerous job in combat is that of the sniper. With no backup and little communication with the outside world, these...
Down South
One Tour in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“I was always happy to see first light.
By first light it was over . . . for a while.”
–from Down South
There were a lot of ways to get killed in Vietnam. You could get “zapped,” “dinged,” “burned,” “popped,” “smoked,” or “wasted.” Marine 2nd Lt. William H. Hardwick...
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...
Very Crazy, G.I.!
Strange but True Stories of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
AMERICAN BOYS AT WAR IN VIETNAM--AND INVOLVED IN INCIDENTS YOU WON'T FIND IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
In this compelling, highly unusual collection of amazing but true stories, U.S. soldiers reveal fantastic, almost unbelievable events that occurred in places ranging from the deadly Central Highlands...