A
Lonely Kind of War: Forward Air Controller, Vietnam
Marshall Harrison
Paperback / Published 1997
Low Level Hell : A Scout Pilot in the Big Red One
Hugh L., Jr. Mills, Robert Anderson
The first-hand account of a special breed of Vietnam aviator, by a
highly decorated pilot whose exploits in armed helicopters have become
legendary. His chopper wasn't designed to fight, but 21-year-old Hugh Mills
had other ideas. His troop of scouts made up their own rules and made aerial
warfare history.
Listed under Air War Vietnam
LRRP:
Rangers in Vietnam
Michael Lee Lanning
Paperback / Published 1988
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
Charles Henderson
Listed under Snipers
Masters
of War : Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era
Robert Buzzanco
Paperback / Published 1997
The Men Behind the Trident: SEAL Team One in Vietnam
Dennis J. Cummings (Editor)
Listed under Navy Seals
Mobile
Guerrilla Force : With the Special Forces in War Zone D
by James C. Donahue
Paperback - 304 pages Reprint edition (April 1997)
St Martins ISBN: 0312961642
Never
Without Heroes : Marine Third Reconnaissance Battalion in Vietnam, 1965-70
Lawrence C., Jr. Vetter
Chronicles the true story of a Marine reconnaissance battalion in Vietnam,
from the grueling and deadly recon patrols, to the agonizing deaths of
men who put their lives on the line every day.
Paperback / Published 1996
Night
of the Silver Stars : The Battle of Lang Vei (Special Warfare Series)
by William R. Phillips, William C. Westmoreland
Hardcover - 272 pages (October 1997)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557506914
Nixon's
Vietnam War (Modern War Studies)
Jeffrey P. Kimball
A critical look at the policies of Kissinger and Nixon gives the lie
to the spin doctors.
Hardcover / Published 1998
No
Peace, No Honor : Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam
by Larry Berman
Free Press
Hardcover - 272 pages (August 2001)
No
Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam
Otto J. Lehrack
Paperback / Published 1992
The
NVA and Viet Cong (Elite Series No. 38)
by Conboy Ken, et al
(Paperback - January 1992)
Special Order
Once
upon a Distant War : David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett - Young
War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles
William Prochnau
Once Upon a Distant War tells the stories of such young Vietnam war
correspondents as Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett, and David Halberstam, providing
a riveting chronicle of high adventure and brutal slapstick, gallantry
and cynicism, as well as a vital addition to the history they shaped. "Prochnau
. . . tells a Vietnam story we haven't heard before. . . . Complex, witty,
and humane."--Tobias Wolf.
Paperback / Published 1996
One
Shot-One Kill
Charles W. Sasser, Craig Roberts
Snipers made up a vital part of the American military machine in World
War II, Korea, Vietnam and Beirut. They honed the vital art of delivering
a single accurate shot from nowhere - devastating enemy morale. Here is
a powerful tribute to these important but often overlooked fighters.
Paperback / Published 1990
Operation
Tuscaloosa: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines at An Hoa, 1967
John J. Culbertson
Paperback / Published 1997
Pathfinder
: First In, Last Out
by Richard R. Burns
December 1967: Richard Burns had just arrived in Vietnam as part of
the fourteen-man 101st Pathfinder Detachment. Within just one month, during
a holiday called Tet, the Communists would launch the largest single attack
of the war--and he would be right in the thick of it. . . . In Vietnam,
Richard Burns operated in live-or-die situations, risking his life so that
other men could keep theirs. As a Pathfinder--all too often alone in the
middle of a hot LZ--he guided in helicopters disembarking troops, directed
medevacs to retrieve the wounded, and organized extractions. As well as
parachuting into areas and supervising the clearing of landing zones, Pathfinders
acted as air-traffic controllers, keeping call signs, frequencies, and
aircraft locations in their heads as they orchestrated takeoffs and landings,
often under heavy enemy fire. From Bien Hoa to Song Be to the deadly A
Shau Valley, Burns recounts the battles that won him the Silver Star, Bronze
Star, Purple Heart, and numerous other decorations. This is the first and
only book by a Pathfinder in Vietnam . . . or anywhere else. Amazon.com
Paperback - 416 pages (February 26, 2002)
Ivy Books; ISBN: 0804116024
Phase
Line Green : The Battle for Hue, 1968
by Nicholas Warr, Jack Shulimson (Introduction)
Platoon
- Bravo Company
by Robert Hemphill, Joseph L. Galloway
Hardcover - 210 pages 1 edition (October 1, 1998)
Sergeant Kirkland's; ISBN: 1887901256
Point Man
James, Chief Watson
Listed under Navy Seals
Primer of the Helicopter War
by Charles Holley, Mike Sloniker
Listed under Air War Vietnam
Protest
and Survive : Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam War
by James Lewes
Book Description: Drawing from more than 120 newspapers, published
between 1968 and 1970, this study explores the emergence of an anti-militarist
subculture within the U.S. armed services. These activists took the position
that individual GIs could best challenge their subordination by working
in concert with like-minded servicemen through GI movement organizations
whose behaviors and activities were then publicized in these underground
newspapers. In examining this movement, Lewes focuses on their treatment
of power and authority within the armed forces and how this mirrored the
wider and more inclusive relations of power and authority in the United
States. He argues that this opposition among servicemen was the primary
motivation for the United States to withdraw from Vietnam.
Hardcover from Praeger Publishers
Book Published: 30 July, 2003
Red
Thunder, Tropic Lightning : The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam
Eric M. Bergerud
Paperback / Published 1994
This honest, unflinching narrative presents the personal stories of
the 25th Infantry--the division that inspired Oliver Stone's film, Platoon.
Bergerud contends that the Vietnam War was lost in the field, where divisions
like the 25th Infantry were obliged to fight in massive, expensive, and
seemingly pointless campaigns against a stubborn, resilient enemy.
Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina
by Horst Faas (Editor), Tim Page (Editor), David Halberstam (Introduction)
Listed under Images of War
A
Rumor of War
by Philip Caputo
Paperback: 356 pages
Owlet; ISBN: 080504695X; Reprint edition (November 1996)
The Secret War Against Hanoi : Kennedy and Johnson's Use of Spies,
Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam
by Richard H., Jr Shultz
Listed under Spies and Subversion
Shooting
at the Moon : The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos
Roger Warner
... chronicles a covert operation that used Hmong villagers as guerrilla
fighters against the North during the Vietnamese War. Thought to be an
expendable resource by Central Intelligence Agency strategists, the Hmong
died by the thousands fighting the North Vietnamese. Those who survived
were abandoned to their fate when the United States pulled out of the war.
Amazon.com
Paperback (January 1997)
Steerforth Press; ISBN: 1883642361
Silent
Warrior : The Marine Sniper's Vietnam Story Continues
by Charles W. Henderson
(Hardcover - October 2000)
Six
Silent Men : 101st Lrp/Rangers (Vol 1)
Reynel Martinez
Old timers called it the suicide unit. Whether conducting prisoner
snatches, search and destroy missions, or hunting for the enemy's secret
base, LRRPs depended on each other 110 percent. Author Reynel Martinez,
a 101st LRRP Detachment veteran, takes readers into the lives and battles
of these extraordinary men.
Paperback / Published 1997
Usually ships promptly
Six
Silent Men (101st Lrp/Rangers, No 2)
Kenn Miller
The 1st Brigade LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam became
the most highly decorated company in the history of the Division. Db.
Paperback / Published 1997
SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars
by John L. Plaster
Listed under Special Forces
Spies
and Commandos : How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam
(Modern War Studies)
by Kenneth J. Conboy, Dale Andrade
In 1960 the CIA launched an operation using South Vietnamese to infiltrate
Hanoi. It was an abject failure. Db.
Paperback: 358 pages
Univ Pr of Kansas; ISBN: 0700611479; Reprint edition
(September 2001)
Steel
My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U.S.
Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam
by David H. Hackworth with Eilhys England
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts is retired Colonel David Hackworth's account
of his tour of duty in Vietnam commanding the 4/39th, an infantry battalion
operating south of Saigon in the Mekong River delta. Poorly led (the previous
commander had based the battalion in the middle of a mine field), with
frightfully high casualties (40 percent during the six months prior to
Hackworth's arrival), and fighting in the most dangerous of terrain, the
4/39th was a dispirited and demoralized group when Hackworth assumed command
in January, 1969. Upon arrival, Hackworth fired many of the senior officers
and then put the 4/39th through "Combat 101," which made him so unpopular
that at one point Hackworth was warned of a bounty some of his men had
put out on him.
Over the next five months, however, Hackworth would transform the 4/39
from "hopeless to hardcore," dramatically reverse the casualty rate, score
some spectacular victories over the Viet Cong, and earn the undying respect
of his troops. Here's a gung ho and earthy firsthand account of the Vietnam
War that fans of We Were Soldiers Once... will appreciate.
--Harry C.
Edwards - Amazon.com
The author, who served his second tour of duty in Vietnam as a 9th Infantry
Division battalion commander, went on to become a military analyst for
Newsweek. Db.
Hardcover: 512 pages
Rugged Land; ISBN: 1590710029; 1st edition (May 2002)
Strategy
in Vietnam: The Marines and Revolutionary Warfare in I Corps, 1965-1972
Michael A. Hennessy
Hardcover / Published 1997
Stolen
Valor : How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
by B. G. Burkett, Glenna Whitley (Preface)
Verity Press
Hardcover - 692 pages 1 edition (September 1, 1998)
Street Without Joy
by Bernard B. Fall
Listed under French Indochina War
Tan
Phu: Special Forces Team A-23 in Combat
Leigh Wade
Paperback / Published 1997
Usually ships promptly.
Team
Sergeant: A Special Forces NCO at Lang Vei and Beyond
William T. Craig
Paperback / Published 1998
Tet
Offensive 1968 : Turning Point in Vietnam (Campaign Series, No. 4)
by James R. Arnold.
Paperback (June 1990)
A
Time for War : The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975
Robert D. Schulzinger
Based on newly available primary sources, both in private and public
archives, a full-length history of the Vietnam conflict based entirely
on primary material encompasses three decades of war and paints a political
and social portrait of the times.
Paperback: 397 pages
Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0195125010; (December
1998)
The
Tunnels of Cu Chi
Tom Mangold
Paperback / Published 1997
Usually ships promptly.
Vietnam Airborne
Gordon Rothman, et al
Listed under US Army Uniforms
Vietnam Marines 1965-73 (Elite Series, No 43)
by Charles D. Melson, Kevin Lyles (Illustrator)
Listed under US Army Uniforms
Vietnam
Shadows : The War Its Ghosts and Its Legacy
by Andrew F. Krepinevich
Usually ships promptly.
Paperback Reprint edition (March 1988)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801836573
A
Very Short War : The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang (Texas A&m
University Military History, 46) Vol 46
John F. Guilmartin, John Keegan
Hardcover / Published 1995
Usually ships promptly.
The
War for South Viet Nam, 1954-1975: Revised Edition
by Anthony James Joes (Author)
We
Were Soldiers Once...and Young : Ia Drang : The Battle That Changed the
War in Vietnam
Harold G. Moore
Paperback / Published 1993
Usually ships promptly.
This unparalleled eyewitness account draws on the authors' own personal
experiences as well as interviews with American soldiers, North Vietnamese
commanders, and the families back home, to present a blow-by-blow reenactment
of the horrifying human drama of the tide-turning battle at Ia Drang.
Highly Recommended
 |
When
I Was a Young Man
by Robert Kerrey, et al
"This is not the story I intended to tell." So writes Medal of Honor
winner Bob Kerrey, whose youthful innocence died in the Mekong Delta one
midnight in 1969. Kerrey, the former Nebraska senator, touched off controversy
when, in 2001, he admitted to having taken part in a Vietnam War incident
in which women and children had been killed. That terrible event stands
at the center of this book, which, among other things, offers a sharp critique
of the conduct of the war; Kerrey writes that it "could not be won because
we focused too much on stopping communism and too little on building a
free and independent nation." But Kerrey's absorbing memoir, written at
a distance of four decades, touches on much more: the lost virtues of 1950s
America, small-town life in the heartland, the nature of heroism and patriotism,
the camaraderie and sorrow born of combat, and the need to remember the
past. Joining the work of Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, and other eyewitnesses,
Kerrey's account presents grim proof that war is "not what our slogans,
propaganda, and childhood fantasies have taught us to believe." --Gregory
McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 352 pages
Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0151004749; 1st edition (June 6,
2002)
Where
We Were in Vietnam: A Comprehensive Guide to the Firebases, Military Installations
and Naval Vessels of the Vietnam War, 1945-1975
by Michael Kelley
(Paperback - June 2002)
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