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Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
RRP: €14.28€10.04Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New YorkerAn extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of... -
Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family by Nguyen Qui Duc 9780803226982
RRP: €19.03€15.64In 1968 Nguyen Qui Duc was nine years old, his father was a high-ranking civil servant in the South Vietnamese government, and his mother was a school principal. Then the Viet Cong launched their Tet offensive, and the Nguyen family's comfortable life... -
Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C. by Diane Carlson Evans 9781682619124
RRP: €23.80€15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682619124Author Diane Carlson EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Permuted PressPublisher Permuted PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 221mm *... -
Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Crazy Adventure in a Crazy War *SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOVIE* by John Donohue
RRP: €15.46€7.68*** 'You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that you read this rollicking story.' - Malachy McCourt 'An unforgettable wild right from start to finish.' - John Bruning, New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible 'Donohue's... -
We Had to Get Out of That Place: A Memoir of Redemption and Betrayal in Vietnam by Steven Grzesik 9781476690513
RRP: €17.84€14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476690513Author Steven GrzesikFormat PaperbackPage Count 161Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc -
Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills
RRP: €11.89€8.09'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation MuseumThe aeroscouts of the... -
A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo
RRP: €20.22€14.61The first memoir of the Vietnam War and an all-time classic of war literature|40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION|In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months... -
Topgun by Dan Pedersen
RRP: €15.46€10.50DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM'GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER . . .' Admiral James Stavridis________March 1969.American jets are getting shot down at an unprecedented rate over Vietnam. In an urgent effort to... -
Ho Chi Minh Trail 1964–73: Steel Tiger, Barrel Roll, and the secret air wars in Vietnam and Laos by Peter E. Davies
RRP: €17.84€13.03The Trails War formed a major part of the so-called 'secret war' in South East Asia, yet for complex political reasons, including the involvement of the CIA, it received far less coverage than campaigns like Rolling Thunder and Linebacker. Nevertheless,... -
Dispatches by Michael Herr 9781447275060
RRP: €13.08€8.94With an introduction by Kevin Powers.A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine... -
Operation Linebacker I 1972 by Mr Marshall Michel III
RRP: €20.22€14.61At 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... -
A Short History of The American Civil War DK 9780241422588
RRP: €22.60€16.67Explore the fascinating history of America's bloodiest ever conflict. Combining expert historical insight with the eyewitness accounts of soldiers and civilians, A Short History of the American Civil War offers a brilliant summary of the key events and... -
MiG-21 “FISHBED”: Opposing Rolling Thunder 1966–68 by Dr István Toperczer 9781472857569
RRP: €19.03€13.82Using archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, Istvan Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and 1968. One of the most successful communist jet... -
A Brief History of Vietnam: Colonialism, War and Renewal: The Story of a Nation Transformed by Bill Hayton
RRP: €17.84€11.02A comprehensive guide to understanding Vietnam's long and tumultuous historyA Brief History of Vietnam explores the turbulent history of a land that has risen from the ashes of war to become the newest Asian tiger economy. This book expertly examines the... -
Going Downtown: The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961–75 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver 9781472848758
RRP: €17.84€13.03This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train... -
F-8 Crusader: Vietnam 1963–73 by Peter E. Davies
RRP: €19.03€13.82With specially commissioned artworks and dynamic combat ribbon diagrams, this volume reveals how the 'last of the gunfighters', as the F-8 was dubbed by its pilots, prevailed against the growing MiG threat of the Vietnamese People's Air Force. When... -
Tanks in the Easter Offensive 1972: The Vietnam War's great conventional clash by William E. Hiestand
RRP: €14.27€10.03This study explains how the armies of North and South Vietnam, newly equipped with the most modern Soviet and US tanks and weaponry, fought the decisive armored battles of the Easter Offensive. Wearied by years of fighting against Viet Cong guerillas... -
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
RRP: €17.84€12.14By January 1968 the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, announced a new phase of the war in which 'the end begins to come into view.' The North Vietnamese had different ideas... -
It Doesn't Take A Hero by H Norman Schwarzkopf 9780857501684
RRP: €21.41€20.69In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank account of... -
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam by John A. Nagl
RRP: €20.23€16.36Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife", Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl - a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current conflict in Iraq - considers the now-crucial... -
US MACV-SOG Reconnaissance Team in Vietnam by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: €17.84€13.98In 1964 Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, activated a joint unconventional task force known as the Studies and Observation Group-MACV-SOG. As a cover its mission was to conduct analysis of lessons learned in combat by all branches of service. SOG's... -
The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Remarkable Story of War by Tom Mangold
RRP: €11.89€8.09The story of an extraordinary campaign in the Vietnam War - fought in a 200-mile labyrinth of underground tunnels and chambers.The campaign in the tunnels of Cu Chi was fought with cunning and savagery between Viet Cong guerrillas and special teams of US... -
River of Time by Jon Swain
RRP: €13.08€9.25Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions... -
The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence
€33.80John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from 1965 to 1970 and was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war. His documentary about a squad of U.S. troops, "The World of Charlie Company," received every major award... -
The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War by Jon E. Lewis
RRP: €15.46€10.23By 1969, following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, over 500,000 US troops were 'in country' in Vietnam. Before America's longest war had ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975, 450,000 Vietnamese had died, along with 36,000 Americans. The Vietnam War... -
M113 APC 1960-75: US, ARVN, and Australian variants in Vietnam by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: €14.27€10.03The M113 is the most widely used and versatile armoured vehicle in the world. Fielded in 1960 as a simple 'battlefield taxi', over 80,000 M113s would see service with 50 nations around the world and 55 years later, many thousands are still in use. In... -
Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse
€15.80Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this... -
Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq by Julian Stallabrass 9781538141809
RRP: €67.83€56.24See firsthand how war photography is used to sway public opinion.In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Air Force released blurry video of a missile blowing up a pick-up truck which may have had a weapon attached to its flatbed. This was a lethal form of... -
US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War Jim Laurier (Illustrator) 9781849087513
RRP: €20.22€16.78Twenty-five US Marine Corps squadrons flew versions of the Phantom II and 11 of them used the aircraft in South-East Asia from May 1965 through to early 1973. Rather than the air-to-air missiles that were the main component in the original F-4 armament,... -
To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam by Tom A. Johnson
RRP: €28.55€24.79Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these "rotor heads" saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen... -
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher E. Goscha
RRP: €22.60€16.20WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S JOHN K. FAIRBANK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's... -
Dien Bien Phu 1954: The French Defeat that Lured America into Vietnam by Martin Windrow
RRP: €20.22€14.61A highly illustrated study of the battle at Dien Bien Phu, the 56-day siege that eventually led to the surrender of the remaining French-led forces, this iconic battle provided the climax of the First Indochina War. In late 1953, the seventh year of... -
The FN FAL Battle Rifle by Bob Cashner
RRP: €19.03€13.82Of all the infantry small arms developed during World War II, one that generated the most interest was the German 'assault rifle', the StG 44 Sturmgewehr. This innovative weapon inspired the Soviet AK-47 in 7.62x39mm calibre. In the West, the NATO... -
A Short History Of The Vietnam War by Gordon Kerr 9781843442134
RRP: €17.84€11.66On 8 March, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the south central coast of South Vietnam, marking the beginning of a conflict that would haunt American politics and society... -
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World Colonel John Hughes-Wilson 9781472122070
RRP: €15.46€10.23This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the recent war... -
The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War by Doug Stanton
RRP: €22.60€14.08SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS' AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers shares the powerful account of an... -
Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh 9780141989099
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over' John le CarreIn... -
Access to History: The USA and Vietnam 1945-75 3rd Edition by Vivienne Sanders
€30.00Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
RRP: €19.03€13.82This 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,... -
An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
RRP: €17.84€12.60From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'Excoriating and profound . . . A...