Vietnam War

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991355204Author David GroenFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Artha PublishingPublisher Artha PublishingWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

What was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history the Vietnam War? Cameras, Combat, and Courage , a companion volume to "Shooting Vietnam", takes you there as you read the firsthand accounts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665708210Author Tùng-PhongFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 912g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063265974Author Wilfred ReillyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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From a political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment - the bizarre and untold story of how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of US military deserters during the Cold War.Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and...

Zahn reconstructed his year of combat in Vietnam with surprising detail, capturing the cockiness, angst, and attitude of the naive nineteen-year-old 1st Cavalry Division attack helicopter pilot of 1970 and 1971. . . . I recommend it to those interested...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512494Author Albert GrandoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941165683Author Lou EisenbrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vietnam NursePublisher Vietnam NurseWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

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'."" For a ""tunnel rat"" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588342843Author Richard WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

In 1961 US special forces units began etering remote areas of Vietnam dominated by the Viet Cong. Their task was to organise local defence and strike forces aimed at stopping the enemy from gaining further control of such areas. The Green Berets set up...

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Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat, to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. At the age of twenty, Chuck Gross spent his 1970-71 tour with the 71st...

At Easter 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South, and there were almost no US ground troops left to stop it. But air power reinforcements could be rushed to the theater. Operation Linebacker's objective was to destroy the invading forces from the...

In Vietnam, Professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only once in a generation. The vivid accounts of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky...

This is the personal account of an army infantry platoon leader and commanding officer in the central highlands of Vietnam during 1967 and 1968 when he was 21 years old. These were the two bloodiest years of the war, a time when the U.S. army employed...

During the Cold War, Vietnam showed the limitations of a major power in peripheral conflicts. Even so, the military forces involved (North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, American, and Allied) demonstrated battlefield consistency in conflict that gave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981628097Author Perry Deane YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Press 53 Carolina Classics EditionsPublisher Press 53 Carolina Classics...

Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. Like its predecessor, this book overturns the conventional wisdom using a treasure trove of new sources,...

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The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a highly classified, multi-service United States Special Forces unit which conducted covert unconventional warfare operations prior to and during the Vietnam War. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732230002Author Daniel FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Warbird BooksPublisher Warbird BooksWeight(grams) 209g

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances...

The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of,...

Studies of air combat in the Vietnam War inevitably focus on the MiG-killing fighter engagements, B-52 onslaughts or tactical strikes on the Hanoi region. However, underlying all these was the secretive 'electron war' in which highly-skilled electronic...

On his second combat tour, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group), or Studies and Observations Group as it was innocuously called. The small...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802127907Author Mark BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'. On August 2,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782664222Author Paul D MatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Military BookshopPublisher Military BookshopWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In a potent act of myth busting, Noam Chomsky turns his critical gaze upon the Kennedy Administration and draws controversial parallels between the Presidency of JFK and that of Ronald Reagan, with particular focus on the Vietnam War. For anyone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418443Author Robert TonseticFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

This is the quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier at war. Edward Dvorak joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam in the summer of 1967. He then joined Company F, 51st Infantry, Long Range Patrol, Airborne. For Dvorak...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512929Author Albert GrandoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

During the Vietnam War, both the United States and the Soviet Union supplied all manner of weapon systems to the opposing sides, including tanks and armoured vehicles. Two tanks in particular took momentary prominence in the later years of the conflict...

Drawn Swords in a Distant Land showcases the fascinating, untold story of the rise and fall of the Republic of Vietnam. Putting aside outdated ideological debates, it offers the first in-depth review of the South Vietnamese successes and failures in...

Designed to counter the threat of a massed Soviet armored assault, the M50 Ontos showed its merit in the jungles and streets of Vietnam. Ontos grew out of Project Vista, the secret study of possible improvements to NATO defenses. Project Vista identified...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250038685Author Ed RasimusFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

The F-105D Thunderchief was originally designed as a low-altitude nuclear strike aircraft, but the outbreak of the Vietnam War led to it being used instead as the USAF's primary conventional striker against the exceptionally well-defended targets in...

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