The Vietnam War

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy...

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

DescriptionFrom the defeat of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam at Ap Bac to the battles of the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh, and more, Storms over ...

DescriptionOn July 31, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) began a reconnaissance cruise off the coast of North Vietnam. On August 2, three...

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...

The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting a...

The Vietnam War was in many ways defined by a civil-military divide, an underlying clash between military and civilian leadership over the conflict...

A sharply focused, fine-grained analysis of one critical province during the Vietnam War, Robert Thompson's work demonstrates how pacification is b...

Reducere. On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the next eleven d...

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Reducere. DescriptionWarriors and Fools is not just another book about the Vietnam War. It is different from most. Unlike some others, the author is a vetera...

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

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

Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945-54), except in the south. He shows ...

The military trial of William Calley for his role in the slaughter of 500 or more Vietnamese civilians at My Lai shocked a nation already sharply d...

Reducere. By now the world knows well the exploits of World War II admirals Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and "Bull" Halsey. These brilliant strategists and c...

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

Reducere. Many books have been written about the Vietnam War. Most of them are just overviews of events and often focus on the political aspect of the confli...

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. Nestled in Vietnam's Thua Thien Province, west of the city of Hue, and bordering Laos, the narrow 40-kilometer long A Shau Valley, situated between...

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...

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

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

Reducere. Many books have been written about the Vietnam War. Most of them are just overviews of events and often focus on the political aspect of the confli...

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. In early May 1961, a U.S. military aircraft taxied toward a well-guarded terminal building. The plane slowed to a halt; steps were maneuvered up to...

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'."...

The Vietnam War: A History in Documents - Marilyn B. Young, John J. Fitzgerald, A. Tom Grunfeld

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Xiaoming ZhangThe surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist natio...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Christopher GoschaIllustration(s): 32 b/w illus. 15 maps.Number of pages: 568Publication date: 2022...

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

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...

There is so much more to the Vietnam War than just the war itself. The Vietnam War was a complicated mixture of events and characters that eventual...

Preachers Present Arms is the result of many years of research in libraries, religious periodicals (including many obscure ones), newspaper clippin...

Reducere. In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and sea...

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. In 1968 two young Vietnamese sisters flee to Saigon after their village on the Mekong River is attacked by American forces and burned to the ground...

Reducere. DescriptionNorman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in milita...

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Reducere. DescriptionDavid R. "Buff" Honodel was a cocky young man with an inflated self-image when he arrived in 1969 at his base in Udorn, Thailand. His wa...

Reducere. Robert M. Givens grew up in the Midwest, graduating in 1966 from Millikin University in his hometown of Decatur, Illinois, and from Indiana Univers...

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...

Reducere. Sam Walker pulls no punches when he tells his Vietnam War story to college journalism student, Claire Cunningham. As Sam shares his unapologetic an...

Reducere. DescriptionWarriors and Fools is about the Vietnam War. It seeks to answer one specific question - why did the US fail to achieve its principal obj...

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 ...

Reducere. This latest addition to The New Press's People's History series offers an incisive account of the war America lost, from the perspective of those w...

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

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. Volume 2 of the two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military chief of staff from World War II through Viet...

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...

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...

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...

Reducere. Explore the Cold War and Get a Deeper Understanding of the Korean and Vietnam WarTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: Korean War: A Captivating...

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...

Reducere. A gripping and informative visual guide to one of the bloodiest conflicts in US and world history Journey through the Vietnam War; exploring detail...

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

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DescriptionWhat was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history -- the Vietnam War? Shooting Vietnam takes...

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...

Publisher: Linden Publishing Co IncIllustration(s): 41 b/w photosNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 185 x 261 x 24Cover type: Ha...

Never before published photos of the Vietnam War. Intense, first-hand accounts of combat.

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....

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

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...

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. 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...