**“Excellent . . . honest and realistic . . . Edward Murphy’s meticulous research is unflawed and his writing style is novel-like.”—San Antonio Express-News“A no-holds barred account . . . highly recommended.”—Military magazine**In June 1967, General William Westmoreland sent the 173d Airborne Brigade to Dak To, a mountainous region in the deadly Central Highlands. Here the 173d found itself locked in mortal combat, facing tremendous odds against a profess...

While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few are aware of the significance of the battles, or even their existence. For more than thirty years, virtually the only people who knew about the Hill ...

More than 100 compelling, true stories of personal heroism and valor– in a special expanded edition honoring courage in the face of warHere are dramatic accounts of the fearless actions that earned American soldiers in Vietnam our highest military distinction–the Medal of Honor. Edward F. Murphy, head of the Medal of Honor Historical Society, re-creates the heroic acts of individual soldiers from official documents, Medal of Honor citations, contemporary accounts, ...

Few images evoke a more powerful or frightening reaction than that of the assassin.Silently creeping into your room while you sleep, they plunge a pick deep inside your brain, or fill your snoring nostrils with poisonous vapour. Or perhaps skilled fingers from the shadows strike a vital point during mid-step; the coroners say it was a heart attack.Assassins are people to be feared, no doubt. But what do they fear? What do they dream of? What life, what world, are they longi...

From their early days in 1965 when the order of the day was to drive the insurgent Viet Cong from the villages around Da Nang to the final, dramatic evacuation of Saigon ten years later, Semper Fi—Vietnam relates the whole gutsy, glorious saga of the Marines in Vietnam in stark, riveting detail.Acclimating to their strange new surroundings occupied the Marines’ first few weeks in South Vietnam. . . . Throughout the day, peasants dressed in pajama-like clothing and sporting...

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of The LOST ART of Followership, The Hidden Half of Leadership.Followership is your ability to consistently produce excellent results by adding greater value to those who helped you produce those results - especially your boss.It's the 1st volume in a forty-book series of a comprehensive Success Training Program (see OTHER BOOKS).In business, Followership is your ability to take direction well, get behind a goal, be ...

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of FINDING YOUR CALLING SIMPLIFIED, which explains how to discover your life's work, the career you were meant to have.It's the 37th volume in a forty-book series of a comprehensive Success Training Program (see OTHER BOOKS).Here, you'll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools to enhance your ability to discover the career you were meant to have.Many people think that the career they start...

This book is about finding a NEW JOB and includes all facets of Job Searching.Here you'll learn how to identify, measure, and increase your value added to any employer, how to create a compelling resume strong enough to make your phone ring, how to get your resume to the right people, how to interview strong enough to be selected as the #1 candidate, how to negotiating strong enough to receive the highest compensation the employer can afford, how to change careers, and how to measu...

In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of socio-spatial reproduction and underlying tensions in the political order. Drawing on cutting edge perspectives from urban studies, this book grants renewed, interdisciplinary energy to the housing qu...

From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows, this transformation came at a steep price, through an often-violent political and social struggle that continues to this day.In analyzing the causes and consequences of this struggle, Murp...

TThis book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of The LOST ART of Training, The Science of Preparing Others For The Future.Training is your ability to prepare others for the future by supporting their training needs to enhance their performance, unleash their potential, and encourage their professional development.This is the 8th Volume in a forty-book series of a comprehensive Success Training Program called YOUR SUCCESS MADE SIMPLE.It was created for you, rega...

The Politics of Compassion explores the manifold obstacles that hinder our individual and collective capacity to care for the vulnerable, offering insights from history, religion, ethics, cognitive and social sciences, international relations, public policy, and contemporary politics. It examines both how far we’ve come in addressing poverty and social injustice and how far we still have to go. It concludes by discussing strategies to help us achieve a more consistent practice of compassio...