The Vietnam War, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionLearn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was a...

Part of the }Short History{ series, this provides a concise and accessible history of one of the most important conflicts of the 20th century. Comp...

Reducere. From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only...

Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and Nort...

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Publisher: Vintage CanadaAuthor(s): John BoykoIllustration(s): B&W ON TEXT STOCKNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 211 x 2...

At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) was equipped with slow, old Korean War-generation fighters--a combina...

Over 40 vivid, eyewitness accounts of the defining conflict of the second half of the twentieth century

Reducere. "Into The Dragon's Jaws" details the exciting adventures and experiences of a young Canadian Red Cross combat casualty surgeon who volunteered to a...

Reducere. Vance Gammons was the Company Commander of the 335th Assault Helicopter Company in an era like no other: the Vietnam War. At the time, none of the ...

DescriptionThe racial tensions that have long plagued American society exist to a much lesser extent in the military where the bond of common pursu...

Reducere. Among the best books ever written about men in combat, "The Killing Zone" tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant ...

Reducere. DescriptionMost Dangerous is the award-winning nonfiction account of an ordinary man who wielded the most dangerous weapon: the truth. In 1964, Dan...

Reducere. An account of the over 450 combat missions flown by the author in the Vietnam War. The author is a highly decorated fighter pilot having been award...

Reducere. George D. Aiken, a hillside farmer and a liberal Republican Depression-era Governor, rose to national prominence as a leading GOP U. S. Senator and...

Reducere. Harry Truman's administration began searching for an American response to the clash in Indochina between Frech colonialism and Vietminh communism i...

Reducere. Widely acclaimed as the Vietnam War's most highly decorated soldier, Joe Ronnie Hooper in many ways serves as a symbol for that conflict. His troub...

After 50 years of keeping the tormenting memories of the Vietnam War at bay, Robert W. Smith unveils the horrific experiences he lives with daily. ...

Reducere. IndieFab awardsIn the middle of a dark night off the coast of Vietnam on June 3, 1969, the USS Frank E. Evans is rammed by a ship ten times her siz...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Peter E. DaviesIllustration(s): 20 b/w; 90 colNumber of pages: 96Collection: Combat AircraftPublicat...

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Reducere. American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlef...

A diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. It sho...

Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.S. naval strategy in 1967-1968 saw young men fresh out of high school policing the canals and tributaries...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is one of the very best anthologies of poetry to come out of the Vietnam War. The poets here have given their experiences an energy...

President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked...

Ernest C. Brace was a former Marine hero, banished in disgrace from the Corps. In 1965, while working as a civilian pilot in Laos, he was captured ...

Reducere. The book you are holding is different than most military histories. It offers a fascinating variety of stories that go beyond the battlefields into...

Reducere. For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'."...

DescriptionI published my original "Tales of Ramasun" in February 2012 and moved on to other things like "Mixed Foursome: The Zach Roper Mysteries"...

Reducere. Based on Historical Events...How far would America go to stop the communists?French Indochina, 1945 - 1951. After several victories, the French Arm...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sergio MillerIllustration(s): 32-page black and white plate sectionNumber of pages: 528Publication d...

Reducere. What went wrong in Vietnam? Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestsell...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Andrew WiestIllustration(s): Fully illustrated in colour and b&wNumber of pages: 144Collection: Esse...

Reducere. In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great una...

Reducere. Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely asso...

Reducere. Historically, the Vietnam War is the longest, largest and most complex colonial wars. During the war, the North and South Vietnam fought each other...

Reducere. An extraordinary selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye, from mainstream best...

A surgeon turned soldier. A courageous research mission. Will he survive his own wartime trauma?Texas, 1970. Vascular specialist Brian Levin has st...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, James William Gibson shatters the misled assumptions behind both liberal and conservative explanations for America's f...

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the ana...

39 Australian soldiers, Vietnam, 1969. The Army denied they existed. What were they trying to hide? Frank Walker's critically acclaimed bestseller ...

Reducere. In this frank, engaging memoir, Captain Chamberlain chronicles the missions, personal courage and sacrifice of the Marines he was privileged to com...

DescriptionVery few of the many books about the Vietnam War fully address why the fighting was conducted in such a cruel manner, why it was prolong...

What were the catalysts that motivated Mexican American youth to enlist or readily accept their draft notices in World War II, Korea, or Vietnam? I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lien-Hang T. NguyenWhile most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanizatio...

Analyses the Kennedy Administration and draws controversial parallels between the Presidency of JFK and that of Ronald Reagan.

DescriptionIn the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politic...

Reducere. Bright Light is the true story of the author's training as a green beret medical specialist and his service with the top secret MACV SOG. The book ...

The critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam's place in America's self-image How did the Vietnam War change the...

Sam Adams loved intelligence work, and that enthusiasm shines throughout this memoir of his years with the Central Intelligence Agency. His career ...

Reducere. Readers are introduced to courageous women and girls who risked their lives through their involvement in the conflict in Vietnam. These women serve...

Reducere. Bob Loewer was an American counterintelligence special agent who served in the Mekong Delta as a district intelligence advisor in the Phoenix Progr...

Reducere. Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the American War is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today--in official and unofficial his...

Reducere. Even the Women Must Fight ""Karen Turner and Phan Thanh Hao have brought scholarship and compassion to a long-neglected aspect of the Vietnam War--...

Reducere. The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968, ``an instantly recognizable classic of mil...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat would you say if I told you there are disturbing things the US Government hasn't told you about the Vietnam War and doesn't want yo...

The Vietnam War was a significant historical event that has had profound implications for international law and state actions. This book brings tog...

Reducere. Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of Americ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lonnie M. LongAuthor: Gary B. BlackburnIn early May 1961, a U.S. military aircraft taxied toward a well-guarded terminal bu...

DescriptionDuring the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of Ameri...

Reducere. Paper is a scout dog with the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles". Gravely wounded in a Viet Cong ambush, his leg has been badly shattered by a high ...

Presents an account of the cultural politics surrounding the memorialisation of the Vietnam War. This book presents a study of American attempts to...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work t...

In April 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, the U.S. government launched "Operation Babylift, " a highly publicized plan to evacuate nearly thre...

Reducere. This memoir tells the story of a Marine rifle platoon commander's time in the mountainous jungle of the northernmost province of the then Republic ...

This is the first scholarly account of the causes of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978. Full of startling revelations from Soviet communi...

Reducere. War is hell so is peace tells one man's story of the realities of a Vietnam veteran's road to peace. Learn how ourVietnam veterans trullcy desire t...

The Silent Warriors of the U.S. Air Force Security Service, the "back-enders" on SAC's Hognose RC-135 reconnaissance planes, had quietly been in al...