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  • The Vietnam Cauldron: Defense Intelligence in the War for Southeast Asia - Expanding the New DIA, USS Pueblo Intelligence Disaster, Raid on Son Tay, Mayaguez Incident, Operation Babylift at War's End

    This important study has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - this is not a print replica, and thus it is suitable for all devices. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was the first new agency established by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara after he assumed office in 1961. The ambitious McNamara intended to reformulate U.S. strategic nuclear ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What It Is Like to Go to War

    “A precisely crafted and bracingly honest” memoir of war and its aftershocks from the New York Times–bestselling author of Matterhorn (The Atlantic).In 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of forty Marines who would live or die by his decisions. In his thirteen-month tour he saw intense combat, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

    by Marilyn Young ...
    The first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietnam war. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Getting Out of Saigon

    How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians

    by Ralph White ...
    A “captivating” (The Washington Post) true story of “courage, resolve, and determination” (Christian Science Monitor), author Ralph White’s successful effort to save nearly the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.In April 1975, Ralph White was asked by his boss to transfer from the Bangkok branch of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • Nine Days in May

    The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967

    Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Last Stand at Khe Sanh

    The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam

    by Gregg Jones ...
    In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by 20,000 enemy troops. Their only road to the coast was cut, and bad weather and enemy fire threatened their fragile air lifeline. The siege of Khe Sanh-the Vietnam War's epic confrontation-was under way.For seventy-seven days, the Marines and a contingent of US Army Special ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Guns Up!

    A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War

    by Johnnie Clark ...
    THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE."Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to ten seconds after a firefight began ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Reflections on Captivity

    A Tapestry of Stories by a Vietnam War POW

    On October 17, 1965, Navy LTJG Porter Halyburton was shot down over North Vietnam on his 76th mission and listed as killed in action. One-and-a-half years later he was found to be alive and a prisoner of war. Halyburton was held captive for more than seven years. Reflections on Captivity, is a collection of fifty short stories about this young naval officer's experiences as a POW in North Vietnam. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Prelude to the War in Vietnam 1954-1959 - North and South Vietnam, Geneva Conference, Collins Mission

    The Historical Division, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the predecessor of the present Joint History Office, produced the manuscript "The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1954-1959," in 1972 as a Top Secret document. Based largely upon then classified State Department and Defense department records, the History consists of eight chronological chapters and an Appendix describing the formation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Khe Sanh: Siege in the Clouds

    by Eric Hammel ...
    KHE SANH: Siege in the Clouds, An Oral History by Eric Hammel From critcally acclaimed military historian Eric Hammel comes a vivid oral history account of the Tet 1968 siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base. The words of American fighting men caught up in the grueling, deadly seventy-seven-day ordeal create a harrowing tapestry of tragedy and triumph. = As two North Vietnamese Army divisions move to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Moon Reflected Fire

    by Doug Anderson ...
    Of The Moon Reflected Fire and its subject, the Vietnam War, poet James Tate writes: "These are trenchant, wrenching poems. With artistry and honesty they perform an inquest into war and its corrosive after effects." ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Tiger among Us

    A Story of Valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley

    **Foreword by Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense and Senator from NebraskaAdaptable. Cunning. Ferocious. Fearless. The Indochinese tiger is just one of the formidable predators roaming Vietnam's jungle. In 1966 a small band of US Special Forces soldiers--most especially Bennie Adkins--spent four grueling days facing down the "tiger" among them.**While the rain and mist of an early March ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Spymaster

    The death of CIA operative Theodore G. "Ted" Shackley in December 2002 triggered an avalanche of obituaries from all over the world, some of them condemnatory. Pundits used such expressions as "heroin trafficking," "training terrorists," "attempts to assassinate Castro," and "Mob connections." More specifically, they charged him with having played a major role in the Chilean military coup of 1973 ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • The Sniper

    The Untold Story of the Marine Corps' Greatest Marksman of All Time

    by Jim Lindsay ...
    Jim Lindsay's The Sniper reveals, for the first time ever, the full story of the deadliest sniper in Marine Corps history, Chuck Mawhinney, who served in the Vietnam war at age 18—written with his full cooperation and participation.Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney is a United States Marine who holds the Corps' record for the most confirmed sniper kills (and the second most of any US service member in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Kill Anything That Moves

    The Real American War in Vietnam

    by Nick Turse ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    **Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civiliansThe American Empire ProjectWinner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction**Americans 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Phoenix Program

    America's Use of Terror in Vietnam

    Series series Forbidden Bookshelf
    “This shocking expose of the CIA operation aimed at destroying the Vietcong infrastructure thoroughly conveys the hideousness of the Vietnam War” (Publishers Weekly).In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America’s Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF) ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Valley of Death

    The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War

    by Ted Morgan ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Ranger Born

    A Memoir of Combat and Valor from Korea to Vietnam

    Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s imagination. In this searing, inspiring memoir, Black ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Hill Fights

    The First Battle of Khe Sanh

    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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Education of Corporal John Musgrave

    Vietnam and Its Aftermath

    by John Musgrave ...
    A Marine's searing and intimate story—"A passionate, fascinating, and deeply humane memoir of both war and of the hard work of citizenship and healing in war’s aftermath. A superb addition to our understanding of the Vietnam War, and of its lessons” (Phil Klay, author of Redeployment).John Musgrave had a small-town midwestern childhood that embodied the idealized postwar America. Service, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Inside the Crosshairs

    Snipers in Vietnam

    "The American sniper could be regarded as the greatest all-around rifleman the world has ever known. . . ."At the start of the war in Vietnam, the United States had no snipers; by the end of the war, Marine and army precision marksmen had killed more than 10,000 NVA and VC soldiers--the equivalent of an entire division--at the cost of under 20,000 bullets, proving that long-range shooters still ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Price They Paid

    Enduring Wounds of War

    The Price ­They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever—and how that brutal experience has changed their lives in the forty years since the war ended.   Nine million Americans served in the military during the Vietnam era.  2.6 million of them served in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Anzacs Betrayed The Story of the 2nd D&E Platoon

    by Don Tate ...
    Atrocities, Corruption, Murder. The Falsification of History.May 1969, the Vietnam War.Don Tate now provides an in-depth analysis of one of the most sordid matters in Australian military history, the deletion of the 2nd D&E Platoon from all the histories of the Vietnam War and his 38 year battle to have it reinstated.It is a story of many parts- but at it's heart, it is a story of betrayal.Not ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clear, Hold, and Destroy

    Pacification in Phú Yên and the American War in Vietnam

    By the end of the American War in Vietnam, the coastal province of Phú Yên was one of the least-secure provinces in the Republic of Vietnam. It was also a prominent target of the American strategy of pacification—an effort, purportedly separate and distinct from conventional warfare, to win the “hearts and minds” of the Vietnamese. In Robert J. Thompson III’s analysis, the consistent, and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD