Vietnam, Hardcover

Description Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from th...

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...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a comprehensive guide to US Aircraft carriers operations off Vietnam, between 1964 and 1975. After guiding andd describing ...

Despite French President Charles de Gaulle's persistent efforts to constructively share French experience and use his resources to help engineer an...

Reducere. In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s, U.S. leaders hailed Diem as "the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Grady Thane BirdsongEditor: Alexandra O'ConnellDesigned by: Nick ZelingerVietnam 1968, the Year of the Monkey...This is the...

DescriptionA US Naval Aviator's odyssey through pivotal moments in 20th-century history The rise of Adolf Hitler, America's Great Depression in the...

Reducere. Originally published in 2001. From the foreword: "In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air ...

Reducere. The first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam. Filling a substantial void in our understanding of the history of airpower in Vietnam...

Reducere. In the spring of 1971, the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history unfolded at a site nationally celebrated as the birthplace of freedom and d...

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...

Reducere. Vietnam 1967-68Eighteen-year-old Marine recruit William V. Taylor Jr. and his brother Marines are assembled into a new reaction force that is immed...

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. Of all the military assignments in Vietnam, perhaps none was more challenging than the defense of the Mekong River Delta region. Operating deep wit...

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

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...

Reducere. Medals and Insignia of the Republic of Vietnam and her Allies 1950 to 1975. This is the most complete listing of all medals, decorations, ribbons a...

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. This book is above all, history. For the first time an author has covered the actions of a single Marine company in Vietnam and their 5+ year deplo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Max HastingsAn absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling aut...

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. Awarded the Silver Medal by the Military Writers Society of America - Sent into the deadly Central Highlands of Vietnam, the true story of my dad a...

Reducere. CADILLAC PLATOON is a story of the contrasts, contradictions, and tensions of the late 1960s. Written by a decorated Vietnam veteran, it is a compl...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1967, at age nineteen, John Stillman-refusing to wait for the draft-voluntarily enlisted in the Army to aid his fellow countrymen in ...

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...

Reducere. Privileges of War is a collection of positive stories about wartime service during one of the most negative and controversial periods in American h...

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. On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Briga...

Reducere. The years 1967 and 1968. It is the height of the Vietnam War. A boy of eighteen enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps.About author(s): David Arocha has ...

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...

DescriptionVietnam is an ancient and beautiful land, with a deep history of occupational conflict that remains an enigma in Americans' collective m...

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. "This book is OUTSTANDING The Author has seen some really exciting times in his life, in addition to some WOW flight hours. I read this in two days...

Reducere. Are you looking for a Vietnamese cookbook with 70 tasty and healthy recipes?In this book you will learn how to prepare at home 70 Vietnamese recipe...

Reducere. The Vietnamese called the young sniper Hổ xảo quyệt, The Cunning Tiger.Brady Nash believes his friend Duff Coleridge has been murdered in Vietnam, ...

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. As American troops continue their steady exodus on the last day of their ground war in Vietnam, Lieutenant Joe Tallon is shot down by an enemy miss...

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. DescriptionHelicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these "rotor heads" saved thousands o...

Reducere. Air Cav: History of the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam 1965-1969 is the story of the small, close world of fighting men in action. This volume can...

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...

When writing about the Vietnam War, most scholars focus on the 1960s. But in this hard-hitting analysis, eminent historian Dr. J. Edward Lee focuse...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. 810Vector to Destiny: Journey of a Vietnam F-4 Fighter Pilot goes beyond the classic Vietnam war story to give you some insight into what it was li...

Reducere. The year is 1969. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. Upstate New York hosts an outdoor concert called Woodstock. The Vietnam war rages on. Tom Combs...

DescriptionSince the fall of Saigon in 1975 there have been many books published on why (and whether) America lost the war in Vietnam. The senior A...

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

DescriptionThis memoir of the Vietnam War is structured as a series of short stories that convey the emotional and physical landscape of the Vietna...

DescriptionSherman Lead is the gripping story of a year flying the F-4 Phantom in combat during the Vietnam War, told through the eyes of a US Air ...

From the first large-scale Viet Minh offensive against the French in 1950, to the fall of Saigon in 1975, the United States tried desperately to un...

Reducere. From Da Nang to Stonewall, Zippo Boys is a story of war and revolution. Dave Lara is a Mexican-American-Jew born in Castroville, California to a po...

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

Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to atten...

DescriptionElite units carried out many dangerous operations during the Vietnam War, the most secret and hazardous of which were conducted by the S...

Reducere. At the height of the Vietnam war, the U.S. Army drafted Norman Hile out of law school, trained him to be an artillery officer, and in August 1970 s...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Vietnam, then keep reading...Before the Common Era, the area in and around what is now known as ...

Reducere. From a celebrated military historian, a powerful account of the most pivotal year of the Vietnam War--the cataclysm that forever changed America. T...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you take elements of Clementine Wamariya's memoir, THE GIRL WHO SMILED BEADS, and Oliver Stone's docudrama, HEAVEN & EARTH, then thro...

Reducere. It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We w...

Reducere. What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer that question--and the answer was a heavy one. In...

Reducere. A Marine's searing and intimate memoir about surviving Vietnam and its aftermath. John Musgrave had a small-town midwestern childhood that embodied...

DescriptionPreserved today as a museum in her namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and w...

DescriptionThe M24 Chaffee was the finest light tank developed by the US during WWII. This tank was developed by Cadillac, which, along with farm e...

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. A Memoir: A innocent 18 year old leaves home to join the military during a time of war. He leaves because he can no longer live with the religious ...

Reducere. Tap Code shares never-before-told details of underground operations during the Vietnam War while weaving in an inspiring story of true love, honor,...

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...