Vietnam War category: 1155 books
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...
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...
LRRP Company Command
The Cav's LRP/Rangers in Vietnam, 1968-1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A gripping account of ordinary men with extraordinary courage and heroism who had one last chance to make good—and one helluva war zone to do it in.
The new commander of the Company E, 52d Infantry LRRPs, Capt. George Paccerelli, was tough, but the men’s new AO was brutal. It was bad enough...
The Magnificent Bastards
The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
On April 29, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army is spotted less than four miles from the U.S. Marines’ Dong Ha Combat Base. Intense fighting develops in nearby Dai Do as the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, known as “the Magnificent Bastards,” struggles to eject NVA forces from this strategic position.
Yet...
Six Silent Men...Book Three
101st LRP / Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
"The Eyes and Ears of the Screaming Eagles . . ."
By 1969, the NVA had grown more experienced at countering the tactics of the long range patrols, and SIX SILENT MEN: Book Three describes some of the fiercest fighting Lurps saw during the war. Based on his own experience and extensive interviews...
Shrapnel in the Heart
Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war.
by Peter E. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This title covers the technical characteristics of the F-104 Starfighter, one of the most widely-used and popular aircraft in history. Although built in small numbers for the USAF, the F-104C fought and survived for almost three years in Vietnam. There, it was engaged in some of the war's most famous...
Lurps
A Ranger's Diary of Tet, Khe Sanh, A Shau, and Quang Tri
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Lurps is the revised edition of the memoir of a juvenile delinquent who drops out of ninth grade to chase his dream of military service. After volunteering for Vietnam, he joins the elite U.S. Army LRRP/Rangers—small, heavily armed long-range reconnaissance teams that patrol deep in enemy-held territory....
by Don Ericson, John L. Rotundo
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
They were the biggest Ranger company in Vietnam, and the best. For eighteen months, John L. Rotundo and Don Ericson braved the test of war at its most bloody and most raw, specializing in ambushing the enemy and fighting jungle guerillas using their own tactics. From the undiluted high of a "contact"...
by DF Ryschka
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Raw, hard hitting, not politically correct, as it was during the early years of the 1970s. See through the soldiers eyes his perspectives, as he takes you visually through his personal slice of the non-winnable Vietnam War. Feel his fear and euphoria from the mundane to the cracking sounds of AK 47...
by Roy P. Benavidez
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Half-Hispanic, half-Yaqui Indian, and an orphan, Roy Benavidez fought his way out of poverty and bigotry to serve with the U.S. Armys elitethe Airborne and the Special Forces. Seriously wounded in Vietnam, he was told he would never walk again. Benavidez not only conquered his disability but demanded...
Don't Bunch Up
One Marine's Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Captain William Van Zanten was one of the “Magnificent Bastards” of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, in 1966–a year when any day could bring death or dismemberment from a Bouncing Betty or a punji stake, a firefight or a sniper bullet. He and his men faced B-52-sized mosquitoes, rain, heat, disease,...
Dagger Four Is OK
Brigadier General Norman C. Gaddis POW Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
At the age of eighteen, armed with a dream of flying and the desire to serve his country, Norman Gaddis enlists in the Army Air Corps in the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After twenty-four years of service and seventy-two combat missions, he is shot down while in flight in an F-4 Phantom...
Sergeant Major, U.S. Marines
The Biography of Sergeant Major Maurice J. Jacques, USMC
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
“The story of Sergeant Major Maurice Jacques is the story of a true warrior. With close to fifty months’ combat in Korea and Vietnam, he’s one of that rare breed, men who have looked the Devil in the eye—for a long time—and never blinked!”**—**LtCol. Oliver North, USMC (Ret.)
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