Vietnam War

In 1971, Vietnam veterans testified in public hearings about atrocities they had participated in or witnessed during the war. Here, Stacewicz seeks to tell their story by interviewing more than 30 members of Vietnam Veterans Against War and draws on...

This book examines the critical role of desertion in the international Vietnam War debate. Paul Benedikt Glatz traces American deserters' odyssey of exile and activism in Europe, Japan, and North America to demonstrate how unprecedented levels of...

The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of the conflict, that of the South Vietnamese. Challenging the conventional view that the war was a struggle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939521248Author Rena KopystenskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Strategic Media BooksPublisher Strategic Media BooksWeight(grams) 466g

The Gulf of Tonkin: The United States and the Escalation in the Vietnam War analyzes the events that led to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam and increased American involvement. On August 4, 1964, the captains of two American destroyers, the USS...

Now in its 7th edition, Vietnam: An American Ordeal continues to provide a thorough account of the failed American effort to create a viable, non-Communist state in Southern Vietnam.Unlike most general histories of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, which are...

Although US involvement in the Vietnam conflict began long before 1965, Lyndon Johnson's substantial large commitment of combat troops that year marked the official beginning of America's longest twentieth-century war. By 1969, after years of intense...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476686721Author Herbert ShippeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

Gerald McCarthy enlisted in the Marines at 17 and volunteered for Vietnam. After the war he went AWOL, then to civilian jails and military brigs and finally to a Navy psychiatric ward, where he witnessed patient suicides. Medically discharged, he...

Southern Voices: Biet Dong and the National Liberation Front presents oral histories from former members of an elite squad of Viet Cong operatives, focusing on their experiences during what is known, in Vietnam, as the American War. Author Michael Robert...

The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in which a substantial number of military personnel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142199Author Martin TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Claire Louise Caudill is one of those rare people who have become legends in their own time. She delivered more than 8,000 babies over the years, in and around her hometown of Morehead, Kentucky. In 1995 she was named Country Doctor of the Year, and she...

Glory Denied is the harrowing and heroic story of Floyd "Jim" Thompson, captured in March 1964, who became the longest-held prisoner of war in American history. Tom Philpott juxtaposes Thompson's capture, torture, and multiple escape attempts with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545339541Author Don LomaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Caliber ComicsPublisher Caliber ComicsWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062405678Author Max HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 975g

This invaluable account provides an excellent introduction to the Presidency of John F. Kennedy. To understand Kennedy's aims and achievements in the White House, it looks at Kennedy the man and outlines his background and early career and the influences...

The Vietnam War remains one of the most contentious events in American history. This book is a collection of essays that seeks to examine the current state of scholarship on the war and its aftermath. It is divided into five sections which address...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940495286Author Rod ColvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Addicus BooksPublisher Addicus BooksWeight(grams) 0g

In late 1971, the People's Army of Vietnam launched Campaign 'Z' into northern Laos, escalating the war in Laos with the aim of defeating the last Royal Lao Army troops. The NVA troops numbered 27,000 and brought with them 130mm field guns and T-34...

Charged with monitoring the huge civilian press corps that descended on Hue during the Vietnam War's Tet offensive, US Army Captain George W. Smith witnessed firsthand a vicious twenty-five day battle. Smith recounts in harrowing detail the separate,...

Dr. Richard Carlson was an obstetrics-gynecology resident in inner city Los Angeles when he received his call to Vietnam. He served as chief medical officer with a unit of American doctors, nurses and corpsmen in Bac Lieu Province 1966-1967. His...

On April 30, 1975, Saigon and the government of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam, ending -- for American military forces -- exactly twenty-five year of courageous but unavailing struggle. This is not the story of how America...

The latest entry in Stackpole's Battle Briefings Series covers the Vietnam War, from its roots in the French war through the evacuation of the embassy. In between is the American Vietnam experience: the draft, the combat, the politics, and everything...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451224088Author Doyle D. GlassFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476688909Author John B HasemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 177Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

In 1968, Theodore Hammett stepped forward for a war he believed was wrong, pressured by his father's threat to disown him if he withdrew from a Marine Corps officer candidate program. He hated the Vietnam War and soon grew to hate Vietnam and its people...

Elephant's Ear. Dog's Head. Angel's Wing. These names evoke the image of children playing a whimsical game, identifying objects in the clouds. But for Joe Finch and his fellow helicopter pilots of 25th Aviation Battalion, they meant something vastly...

During the first half of 1969, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division operated northwest of Saigon in the vicinity of Go Dau Ha, fighting in 15 actions on the Cambodian border, in the Boi Loi Woods, the Hobo Woods and Michelin...

Elite units carried out many dangerous operations during the Vietnam War, the most secret and hazardous of which were conducted by the Studies and Observations Group, formed in 1964.In the years since the Vietnam War, the elite unit known as SOG has...

That America was drawn into the Vietnam War by the French has been recognized, but rarely explored. This book analyzes the years from 1945 with the French military reconquest of Vietnam until 1963 with the execution of the French-endorsed dictator, Ngo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345475817Author Lt. General Ha MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)...

President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked a complicated series of events with tragic consequences on many fronts.In Cambodia, the invasion renewed...

"To Bear Any Burden is necessary to understand the most significant aspect of the Indochina wars: the human one." -Tran Van Dinh, author of Blue Dragon White Tiger: A Tet Story"At least this reader would like to spend hours if not days talking to each of...

Jane Hamilton-Merritt, Nobel-nominated scholar and photojournalist, has followed the plight of the Hmong and the war in Indochina since the 1960s. The staunchest of allies, the Hmong sided with the Americans against the North Vietnamese and were foot...

America's Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America's commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem...

These are the stories Vietnam vets tell over beers at Legion halls and VFW posts-stories of young men tangled up in the chaos of landing zones and nameless jungle hills, in the boredom of base camps, in the confusion of a controversial war. Raw, often...

Scholars have rarely studied a society's return to peace as a cultural category, as a formative experience common to many lives at any time in history. This collection of original essays by historians and literary critics explores the complex and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937868413Author Major Bruce H NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Quadrant Books(r)Publisher Quadrant Books(r)Weight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm)...