Vietnam War category: 1155 books
by Frank Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
'thoroughly researched and compelling . . . a chilling account' - The Sun Herald
An eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold . . . until now.
In 1969 a ragtag unit of 39 men were thrown together at Nui Dat, Vietnam. It was so slapdash a group it didn't even have an officer...
Bury Us Upside Down
The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made.
In today’s wars, computers,...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
KHE SANH: Siege in the Clouds, An Oral History by Eric Hammel From critcally acclaimed military historian Eric Hammel comes a vivid oral history account of the Tet 1968 siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base. The words of American fighting men caught up in the grueling, deadly seventy-seven-day ordeal create...
The Quiet Professional
Major Richard J. Meadows of the U.S. Army Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Major Richard J. "Dick" Meadows is renowned in military circles as a key figure in the development of the U.S. Army Special Operations. A highly decorated war veteran of the engagements in Korea and Vietnam, Meadows was instrumental in the founding of the U.S. Delta Force and hostage rescue force. Although...
by James S. Hirsch
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
How two Vietnam POWs, one white and one black, formed an unexpected friendship that saved them both: “A moving story.” —John McCain
Fred Cherry was one of the few black pilots taken prisoner by the Vietnamese, tortured and intimidated by captors who tried and failed to get him to sign...
by Peter E. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Originally designed as a carrier-borne long-range interceptor armed with radar-guided missiles and tasked with defence against missile-launching bombers, the Phantom II went on to establish itself as one of the most important multi-role fighter, attack and reconnaissance aircraft of the 20th century....
by Major Kevin S. Wimmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This study examines armored warfare in a jungle environment. The focus is to determine if there is a role for ground mounted armored forces in jungle warfare. This study explains how armor was used in past jungle conflicts and examines current doctrine and applicability of employment of armor in the...
The Living and the Dead
Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
One of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam experience, The Living and the Dead presents a brilliant study of Robert McNamara, his decision-making during the war, and the way his decisions affected his own life and the lives of five individuals. A monumental work about power, its abuse, and...
Falling Through the Earth
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
A daughter's unforgettable memoir of her wild and haunted father, a man whose war never really ended.
From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun the police, and never shy away from...
Stone Cold
The extraordinary story of Len Opie, Australia's deadliest soldier
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
'If I'd have been a Vietcong you'd be dead.' - Len Opie
'Len was a soldier above soldiers.' - Keith Payne VC
Through three wars across 30 years, Len Opie carved a reputation as one of the country's greatest infantrymen. A cold-eyed killer who drank nothing stronger than weak tea, he...
Tales from a Mountain City
A Vietnam War memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Tales from a Mountain City is a blend of history and memoir told by a young Vietnamese girl growing up during the last years of the war and the communist regime. This is a poignant account of the innocence of a child, the innocence of a people, shattered again and again by the cruel tides of power...
After the Flag Has Been Folded
A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost to War--and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Karen Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966 -- in a nation being torn apart by a war nobody wanted, in an emotionally charged Southern landscape stained with racism...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This operation highlights the role that the small country of Laos played in the foreign policy calculations of the newly elected U.S. president, John F. Kennedy. Gravely concerned that the Laotian government was in danger of being overwhelmed by a growing Communist insurgency known as the Pathet Lao,...
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks poignantly...