Vietnam War category: 1155 books

C Wayne “Snoopy’ Harrison is no literary giant.  He’s greater than that.  He just doesn’t know it.  Snoop is a down-to-earth, salt-of-the-earth kind of a guy gifted with the unique ability to share his story, a story that resonates.  Some folks say, “Read between the lines.”  You...

Even as the last shots of World War II were being fired, new conflicts were springing up around the globe. The wars that followed 1945 ranged from minor insurgencies through to full-blown conventional conflicts, and they have changed the political and social map of the world while creating millions of...

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This monograph examines whether or not the current U.S. Army Operational Design methodology could increase the effectiveness of airpower. Analysis of existing design literature provides a...

After training for five months at Fort Benning, Prince and Ed Reeves worked as a point team on patrols in the jungles of Vietnam. They ate together, slept together, sloshed through rice paddies together, walked up and down mountain trails in the heat and monsoon rain together, and flew in choppers...

Let us not forget those who served. We were called to duty and we went to war. These are the stories of a few of those brave young men and women who fought in Americas most unpopular war. These are stories of times, events, and places that should never be forgotten. In war, the brain encircles and...

I Corps, Republic of South Vietnam, bloody 1968 Live the harrowing highs and traumatic lows of one marine youth who finds his seven-month in country war-weary self carrying a field radio burden for a suspect glory-minded forward observer artillery officer whod yet to learn the undeclared war was a...

They flew low and slow, at treetop level, at night, in monsoons, and in point-blank range of enemy guns and missiles. They were missions no one else wanted, but the ones all other pilots prayed for when shot down. Flying the World War II-vintage Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a single-engine, propeller-driven...

A no-holds-barred, straight-in-your-face account of combat in Vietnam You know it's going to be hot when your brigade is referred to as a Fireball unit. From May 1967 through May 1968, Ted Arthurs was in the thick of it, humping an eighty-pound rucksack through triple canopy jungle, chasing...

What life was really like in the Green Machine. The Recruiter forgot to tell you what? Living a life of poverty and desperation I took a chance and did what so many of my peers did: joined the Marines just as Vietnam was heating up. I fully expected to make a career of the Marines...

The Vietnamese knew the Long-Range Patrol Scouts as "the men with green faces,†? a reference to the camouflage paint that they used. Operating in patrols of four to six men these men were like ghosts – scouting far behind enemy lines. This book examines the Long-Range Patrol Scout's superior...

US Special Forces in Vietnam created the Civilian Irregular Defence Group (CIDG), a large paramilitary organization designed to protect the local population from Viet Cong incursions, whilst conducting border surveillance, raids and combat patrols in the local area. Their camps were often overrun...

À force de survivre au Vietnam et de revenir vivant, il faut un entrainement d’élite, une vrai croyance en cet entrainement, la répétition mentale et physique de ceci, ainsi que des relations réelles. Si l’on s’était distrait, perdait l’attention, désobéissait, ignorait ou même oubliait...

LIFE Magazine presents a special on the Vietnam Wars.

Behind-enemy-lines stories of elite Marines in Vietnam Force Recon companies were the eyes and ears of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Classified as special operations capable, Force Recon Marines ventured into the enemy’s backyard to conduct reconnaissance and launched deliberate strikes against...