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  • America in Vietnam

    by Guenter Lewy ...
    Based on a variety of classified military records, Lewy provides the first systematic analysis of the course of the Vietnam War, the reasons for the failure of American strategy and tactics, and the causes of the final collapse of South Vietnam. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Planning A Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam

    by Larry Berman ...
    "Takes an historically important decision, places it in its immediate stream of policy development, perceptions and events and adds what was missing from the Pentagon Papers."—Richard E. Neustadt, Harvard University"A thoroughly researched and highly perceptive study of the decisions that turned the tribal struggle in Vietnam into an American war. Berman's book fully documents the role of domestic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Limits of Air Power

    The Limits of Air Power analyzes the American bombing campaigns in Vietnam and shows why the use of air power, so effective in previous wars, proved unsuccessful in a limited war.Major Mark Clodfelter, a military historian, assesses the American use of air power from World War II through the Vietnam War, and shows how its effectiveness declined in Vietnam when air commanders and political leaders ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Vietnam, Our Beloved Land

    Translated by The-Uy Tran ...
    This collection of photography and essays from 1960's Vietnam offers a picture of normal, daily life during the Vietnam War era.Some of the photographs were entered in international expositions where they were recognized not only for fine composition and balance, but also for their ability to capture glimpses of Vietnam that few Westerners have had the chance to see, or understand.What do such ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam

    by Larry Berman ...
    "Stunning....The portrait of the embattled and unyielding president that emerges is vivid and memorable."—Publishers WeeklyBy 1968, the United States had committed over 525,000 men to Vietnam and bombed virtually all military targets recommended by the joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet, the United States was no closer to securing its objectives than it had been prior to the Americanization of the war. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Campus Wars

    The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era

    "At the same time that the dangerous war was being fought in the jungles of Vietnam, Campus Wars were being fought in the United States by antiwar protesters. Kenneth J. Heineman found that the campus peace campaign was first spurred at state universities rather than at the big-name colleges. His useful book examines the outside forces, like military contracts and local communities, that led to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Cleared Hot!

    A Marine Combat Pilot's Vietnam Diary

    by Bob Stoffey ...
    Full of vivid detail, this combat diary uncovers the real heroes of the Vietnam War, the behind-the-scenes Marine Corps pilots who helped our boys return home...then went back for more.Daring missions. Dangerous rescues. Deadly accuracy.Many pilots never made it out of 'Nam. This one did. Highly decorated Col. Bob Stoffey-- a Marine Corps pilot for over twenty-five years, who served multiple tours ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Harvest of Fear

    A history of Australia's Vietnam War

    by John Murphy ...
    How did fears of the Cold War shape Australian images of Asia? What was the nature of the Vietnamese revolution, which some 50 000 Australian troops failed to reverse in the 1960s? How did a small and marginal peace movement grow into the powerful Moratorium and did it have any impact on the course of the War?Harvest of Fear is a beautifully crafted history of Australia's experience of the Vietnam ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Return Via Rangoon

    by Philip Stibbe ...
    This is one young officer's war story about training and inspiration in the Burmese jungle behind enemy lines. Beaten up and water tortured, yet only giving his captors false information, Stibbe was moved around Burma until he was eventually imprisoned in Rangoon jail. Now stricken with Parkinson's disease, probably as a result of his prison diet, Stibbe with his eldest son, also a soldier, has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vietnam War: Why?

    by M Sivaram ...
    "In Vietnam, the newsman is reporting a strange, baffling, frontless war-and an even stranger, more baffling, faceless political scene" writes M. Sivaram. In a factual, objective, straight-from-the-shoulder report he analyzes one of the most frustrating wars in history-and answers the question "Why?"The author, an Indian journalist who has covered such world trouble-spots as Korea, Suez, Malaya, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Bridge at Dong Ha

    Series series Bluejacket Books
    This is the true story of the legendary Vietnam War hero John Ripley, who braved intense enemy fire to destroy a strategic bridge and stall a major North Vietnamese invasion into the South in April 1972. Told by a fellow Marine, the account lays bare Ripley's innermost thoughts as he rigged 500 pounds of explosives by hand-walking the beams beneath the bridge, crimped detonators with his teeth, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • An American Requiem

    God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us

    by James Carroll ...
    National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist).James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father, who had once dreamed of becoming a priest, instead began a career in J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming one of the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Time for War

    The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975

    Even after two decades, the memory of the Vietnam War seems to haunt our culture. From Forrest Gump to Miss Saigon, from Tim O'Brien's Pulitzer Prize-winning Going After Cacciato to Robert McNamara's controversial memoir In Retrospect, Americans are drawn again and again to ponder our long, tragic involvement in Southeast Asia. Now eminent historian Robert D. Schulzinger has combed the newly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • In Good Company

    One man's war in Vietnam

    by Gary McKay ...
    On Friday 8th March 1968, 20-year-old Gary McKay lost the lottery. He was conscripted.From a comfortable and carefree life of surfing and rugby football, he was drafted into the deadly serious preparation for war in the jungles of South Vietnam.In Good Company is his story told in his own words. It begins with induction and selection for the officer academy for national servicemen at Scheyville, a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Apocalypse Then

    American Intellectuals and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975

    Prior to the Vietnam war, American intellectual life rested comfortably on shared assumptions and often common ideals. Intellectuals largely supported the social and economic reforms of the 1930s, the war against Hitler's Germany, and U.S. conduct during the Cold War. By the early 1960s, a liberal intellectual consensus existed.The war in Southeast Asia shattered this fragile coalition, which ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Get the Bloody Job Done

    The Royal Australian Navy Helicopter Flight-Vietnam and the 135th Assault Helicopter Company 1967-1971

    by Steve Eather ...
    This book tells the story of a small group of Australian sailors who served with distinction in a very difficult and unpopular war. They were the hardest-fought Australian aviation unit to serve in the Vietnam War and suffered a much higher casualty rate than the RAAF or Australian Army aviation units. The sheer intensity and protracted nature of their combat service is not understood or ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Better War

    The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam

    by Lewis Sorley ...
    “A comprehensive and long-overdue examination of the immediate post–Tet offensive years [from a] first-rate historian.” —The New York Times Book ReviewNeglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing from thousands of hours of previously unavailable (and still ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Turning

    A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War

    by Andrew E Hunt ...
    The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in which a substantial number of military personnel actively protested the war while it was in progress.In The Turning, Andrew Hunt reclaims the history of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), an ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A World Of Hurt

    by Mary Powell ...
    In 1970, twenty-three year-old Army nurse, Mary Reynolds boarded a plane bound for Vietnam. Uncertain and alone, Mary had no idea what lay ahead. Almost thirty years later, Mary tells the story of that year in her life: a year of discomfort, fear and anger, as well as courage, hope and love. She includes the stories of seven of her friends, among them a dustoff helicopter pilot, an infantry ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rice and Cotton: South Vietnam and South Alabama

    The "Deans": We Execute the Plan

    The "innocence lost" - never to be regained - by America's youth during the Vietnam War lies strewn across America's landscape in the form of shattered lives and minds. We were sent there by U.S. government officials who played recklessly with our young lives; however, we did not know to what extent at the time. Maybe we still don't. But, we do know that for them, our so-called leaders, politics ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • All Guts and No Glory

    The story of a Long Tan warrior

    Platoon Sergeant Bob Buick - decorated with the Military Medal for bravery for his actions during the Battle of Long Tan - tells in vivid and enthralling detail the story of his tour of Viet Nam. It culminates in the most famous battle involving Australian Diggers in the Viet Nam War, in which thirteen of Buick's men were killed and the remainder survived against overwhelming odds.All Guts and No ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scar That Binds

    American Culture and the Vietnam War

    by Keith Beattie ...
    At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the impact of the war through a variety of rhetorical devices, most notably the emotionally charged metaphor of "the wound that will not heal." References in various contexts to veterans' attempts to find a ... Read more

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  • The Vietnam Lobby

    The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955-1975

    Established in 1955 as a private advocacy group, the American Friends of Vietnam worked to influence U.S. attitudes and policies toward Vietnam for nearly two decades. AFV members wrote articles, gave speeches, sponsored aid drives, and forged ties with journalists, academics, and government officials in an effort to generate American assistance for South Vietnam. In The Vietnam Lobby, Joseph ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Working-Class War

    American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam

    No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working ... Read more

    $28.99 USD