Andrew Wiest: 11 books
Vietnam's Forgotten Army
Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
2009 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography
Vietnam’s Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN chronicles the lives of Pham Van Dinh and Tran Ngoc Hue, two of the brightest young stars in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Both men fought with valor...
by Andrew Wiest
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
For years, Douglas Haig has been considered perhaps the most controversial military leader in British history. Today his career is at the center of a swirling historiographical debate concerning the nature of the First World War. The traditional school contends that Haig, like the majority of generals...
Charlie Company's Journey Home
The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The Boys of '67 and the War They Left Behind
The human experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp – the camaraderie, the fear, the smell, the pain. Men were transformed into soldiers, and then into warriors.
These warriors had wives who loved them and shared in their transformations....
Vietnam
A View from the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Based on rich collections housed at the National Archive, the Center of Military History, and at the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech, Voices from America's Failed Crusade will trace the American experience of Vietnam from the war's popular inception to its morale-crushing and bitter conclusion. Being...
The Boys of ’67
Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In the spring of 1966, while the war in Vietnam was still popular, the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up. Across the nation, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings...
The Illustrated History of World War I
The Battles, Personalities, Events and Key Weapons From All Fronts In The First World War 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The first truly total war, the ‘war to end all wars’, shocked the world with its scale and brutality. Men from both sides went to war in August 1914 expecting to be home by Christmas, but on the Western and Italian Fronts troops became locked in a grim stalemate of trench warfare. For the first time,...
History of World War I: The Western Front 1917–1918
From Vimy Ridge to Amiens and the Armistice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the...
Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land
The Vietnam War Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'. First-hand accounts, maps and contemporary photographs, analysis from the soldiers involved and new perspectives...
by Andrew Wiest
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Vietnam War was arguably the most important event, or series of events, of the "American Century." America entered the brutal conflict certain of its Cold War doctrines and certain of its moral mission to save the world from the advance of communism. As this book explains, however, the...
Sticklers, Sideburns and Bikinis
The military origins of everyday words and phrases
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Did you know they started 'hearing through the grapevine' during the American Civil War, that 'ghettos' originated in Venice or that 'deadline' has a very sinister origin? Jam-packed with many amazing facts, Fighting Talk is a fascinating trip through the words and phrases that came to us from the...
by Wiest, Andrew and McNab, Chris
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
The Vietnam War is a timely account of the 6,000-day conflict in Southeast Asia. The book begins with the history of South East Asia during World War II, before discussing the French involvement in the First Indochina War, and the subsequent drawing-in of the United States and its allies, Australia and...