Vietnam War category: 1155 books
by Turner Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2000
Personal stories and biographies of Game Wardens in Vietnam.
by Henry G. Gole
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
A career in the U. S. Army in the second half of the twentieth century was a passageway to every conceivable locale, hospitable and decidedly otherwise. Henry GoleÆs experiences lead the reader through the geography of one such career. The recollections of a professional soldier, Henry GoleÆs account...
A Year in Hell
Memoir of an Army Foot Soldier Turned Reporter in Vietnam, 1965-1966
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This memoir relates the author’s experiences during his year-long tour of duty in the early days of American involvement in Vietnam. Serving in Bravo Company of the 1st Infantry Division, Ray Pezzoli provided protection for engineers constructing the deep water port in Cam Ranh Bay. From July 11,...
Launch the Intruders
A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Each pilot and bombardier/navigator sat side by side in an all-weather jet built for low-level bombing runs, precision targeting, and night strikes. Their success—and their very lives—depended on teamwork in flying their versatile A-6 Intruders. And when the North Vietnamese mounted a major offensive...
Eyes Behind the Lines
US Army Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Units [Revised Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Eyes Behind the Lines: US Army Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Units is the 10th study in the Combat Studies Institute (CSI) Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Occasional Paper series. This work is an outgrowth of concerns identified by the authors of On Point: The United States Army in Operation...
Steel and Blood
South Vietnamese Armor and the War for Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Col. Ha Mai Viet presents a historically accurate and detailed account of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the South Vietnamese armor forces. Highly decorated for his valor and leadership of the armored units, the author spent ten years documenting what went on so he could offer an analysis of...
by Matthew Golden
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
From the late 1950's and especially after the election of President John F. Kennedy in 1960, US involvement in Vietnam had steadily increased. In 1963, most of the American troops in South Vietnam were Army Special Forces (better known then as the “Green Berets”). By 1965, events both military...
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by Bernard C. Nalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 60 photos and 7 maps and charts
The 1968 fight for Khe Sanh pitted some 6,000 U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese Rangers against an enemy force roughly three times as large. For more than 70 days North Vietnamese troops maintained pressure on Khe Sanh’s defenders, who had dug in around...
To Vietnam in Vain
Memoir of an Irish-American Intelligence Advisor, 1969-1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
American military advisors in South Vietnam came to know their allies personally—as few American soldiers could. In addition to fighting the Viet Cong, advisors engaged in community building projects and local government initiatives. They dealt firsthand with corrupt American and South Vietnamese...
We Walked Across Their Graves
Vietnam 1967—The Que Son Valley
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
In 1967, John Strunk is a newly minted 19 year old Marine with a 10th grade education, little self-esteem and no particular understanding of what he is doing in Vietnam. His memoir is an unvarnished account of his personal experiences as part of a Marine Regiment, which over several months repeatedly...
Danger 79er
The Life and Times of Lieutenant General James F. Hollingsworth
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In Danger 79er, historian James H. Willbanks tells the remarkable story of Lt. Gen. James F. Hollingsworth, a three-time recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross along with four Silver Stars, six Purple Hearts, and a host of additional medals and commendations. His career spanned wars both cold...
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by Col. William E. Le Gro
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Col. William E. Le Gro was a staff member of the MACV (U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam) from 1972-1975 and served in Saigon during its last days. Armed with first-hand knowledge, including the GVN forces and their limits, this book will provide the reader with an accurate and detailed account of events following the U.S. withdrawal in 1973.
Illustrated with 22 maps.
The League of Wives
The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story — a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge secret...
Danger Close
The Battle of Long Tan, as told by the Commanders to Bob Grandin
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2019
This is the first time that those in direct command of Delta Company have shared their memories of the most significant battle fought by Australians in Vietnam, the Battle of Long Tan. They describe the experiences that brought them to Vietnam, and how Company commander Harry Smith drove Delta Company...