The Vietnam War

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...

Description"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and in moments of comfort, but where he stands in moment...

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. Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The ...

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

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...

DescriptionA personal account of the courageous men of an Army Combat Engineer Battalion during our most unpopular war. They faced constant danger ...

* A powerful and time-honoured collection of interviews with the veterans of Vietnam.

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

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. 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...

DescriptionExplore the Captivating History of the Vietnam War The Vietnam War represented a watershed not only in American and Vietnamese history b...

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

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...

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

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...

DescriptionThis is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans. The year is 1964--early days in South Vietnam-...

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. 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...

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

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

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. 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 ...

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...

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...

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. 21 Months, 24 Days is an engaging memoir of a blue-collar kid turned soldier. Threatened by the draft in the late sixties, he enlisted in the Army ...

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

Reducere. Ed, "Fast Eddie, " Cobleigh served two tours of duty during the Vietnam air war, logging 375 combat sorties in the F-4 Phantom fighter/bomber. In W...

Ed, "Fast Eddie, " Cobleigh served two tours of duty during the Vietnam air war, logging 375 combat sorties in the F-4 Phantom fighter/bomber. In W...

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. In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows ("the best account yet of Nixon's devious interference with Lyndon Johnson's 1968 Vietnam War negotiations"...

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

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

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

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...

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

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--...

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

Explore the Captivating History of the Vietnam War!The Vietnam War represented a watershed not only in American and Vietnamese history but also int...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Mary FarrellIllustration(s): 50 black-and-white and color photographsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

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

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

Reducere. When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam, " everyone understood. The Vietnam War has become the touchstone for U.S. mil...

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

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

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 ...

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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. 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. 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 ...

A moving journey through the history of the Vietnam War, packed with gripping accounts of struggle, sacrifice, and braveryThis is the definitive st...

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...

Reducere. Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was foug...

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...

Reducere. Why did the Vietnam War begin? When most Americans today think of the Vietnam War they think of the period of time between the years surrounding 19...

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Reducere. ★ ``Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction.``* America's war in Vietnam. In over a decade of ...

Reducere. Although trained as a U.S. Army broadcaster, Albert Viator was quickly diverted into PSYOPS-psychological warfare-and spent his one-year tour of du...

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...

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...

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...

"Tony Hirashiki was simply one of the best television cameramen to cover the Vietnam War. His soaring video, often acquired only at great personal ...

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

Air Force veteran and novelist Hank Zeybel takes us along for the ride in this memoir of his sorties in Vietnam and beyond.Publisher: Casemate Publ...

Reveals how special forces personnel, particularly from the Australian SAS, have been operating in roles and places that they should not have been....