Vietnam War

Days of Valor tells the story of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, a major combat unit of the US Army that served in the Vietnam War.The brigade was formed at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was sent out to Vietnam in December 1966. In January 1968, the 199th...

Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey's gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany's three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16). Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804109154Author Dennis FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)...

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By the end of the American war in Vietnam, the coastal province of Phu Yen was one of the least-secure provinces in the Republic of Vietnam. It was also a prominent target of the American strategy of pacification - an effort, purportedly separate and...

Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975485910Author Thomas A RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint American Heritage PublishingPublisher American Heritage PublishingWeight(grams)...

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Beginning with the withdrawal of French forces from South Vietnam in 1955, the U.S. took an ever-widening role in defending the country against invasion by North Vietnam. By 1965, the U.S. had "Americanized" the war, relegating the Army of the Republic...

Did the Vietnam War have to happen? And why couldn't it have ended earlier? These are among the questions that Robert McNamara and his collabourators ask in Argument Without End, a book that will stand as a major contribution to what we know about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451468093Author William AlbrachtFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 411g

For the first two weeks of the Easter Offensive of 1972, the 571st Military Intelligence Detachment provided the only pertinent collateral intelligence available to American forces. Twice daily, the Detachment provided intelligence to the USS Buchanan...

How did the protests and support of ordinary American citizens affect their country's participation in the Vietnam War? This engrossing book focuses on four social groups that achieved political prominence in the 1960s and early 1970s-students, African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312385385Author Bill HendonFormat PaperbackImprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 862g

Courage Under Fire is the first book published about Operation Lamar Plain. After 50 years, the story of the renowned 101st Airborne's major offensive near Tam Ky, South Vietnam remains largely unknown. Fighting at Tam Ky by the 1st Brigade began 15 May...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062405661Author Sir Max HastingsFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1383gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

In the summer of 1967, the Marines in I Corps, South Vietnam's northernmost military region, were doing everything they could to lighten the pressure on the besieged Con Thien Combat Base.Still fresh after months of relatively light action around Khe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975597651Author Troy OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Subterfuge PublishingPublisher Subterfuge PublishingWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm)...

A vivid account of the 1970 springtime campaigns of the U.S. Army in South Vietnam along the Cambodia border, told from the soldier's perspective with detailed battlefield tales "Most of us remember [the 1970 Cambodian campaign] for the killings of...

Scorned by allies and enemies alike, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was one of the most maligned fighting forces in modern history. Cobbled together by U.S. advisers from the remnants of the French-inspired Vietnamese National Army, it was...

LRPs were all volunteers . They were in the spine-tingling, brain-twisting, nerve-wracking business of Long Range Patrolling. They varied in age from 18 to 30. These men operated in precision movements, like walking through a jungle quietly and being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804116381Author Alex LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

When the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment came ashore at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, in September 1966, it faced a number of challenges. The enemy - Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) - was, of course, the most critical challenge. But the terrain...

When the U.S. Army went to war in South Vietnam in 1965, the general consensus was that counterinsurgency was an infantryman's war; if there was any role at all for armored forces, it would be strictly to support the infantry. However, from the time the...

In An American Brothel, Amanda Boczar considers sexual encounters between American servicemen and civilians throughout the Vietnam War, and she places those fraught and sometimes violent meetings in the context of the US military and diplomatic campaigns...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501183461Author John L PlasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

The captivating individual stories of 17 U.S. Navy corpsmen who served in Vietnam, told in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Navy in wartime, why they became corpsmen--the enlisted medical specialists of the Navy and Marine...

When his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal "Gene" Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most...

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The My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968, and the court martial of Lt. William Calley a year and a half later are among the bleakest episodes in American history and continue to provide a volatile focus for debates about the Vietnam War. This book presents...

During the Vietnam War, the US Air Force secretly trained pilots from Laos, skirting Lao neutrality in order to bolster the Royal Lao Air Force and their own war efforts. Beginning in 1964, this covert project, "Water Pump," operated out of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999341315Author Le Ke SonFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint G. Anton PublishingPublisher G. Anton PublishingWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998900544Author John C HedleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint A15 PublishingPublisher A15 PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

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The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His experiences are notable because he flew both Huey 'Slicks' and Huey 'Gunships': the former on defense as he flew...

The hilarity of M*A*S*H meets the satire of Catch 22 in one distinctive Australian voice. 'We need to send our survey party there!' (pointing to map) 'But Colonel, we cain't do it. that's the most insecure area in the whole country!' 'Insecure? Goddamn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585004553Author C. M. BoylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 164g

What was for the United States a struggle against creeping Communism in Southeast Asia was for the people of North Vietnam a ""great patriotic war"" that saw its eventual victory against a military Goliath. The story of that conflict...

A work of creative nonfiction inspired by the true story of two South Dakota teenagers, Mark St. Pierre's Of Uncommon Birth draws upon extensive interviews and exhaustive research in military archives to present a harrowing story of two young men--one...

Philip D. Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier in what America has made of that war. Each passing year, he says, dulls our sense of immediacy about...