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The 11 Days of Christmas : America's Last Vietnam Battleby Marshall MichelISBN 1893554244 (1-893554-24-4)
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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Characterby Jonathan ShayISBN 0684813211 (0-684-81321-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Achilles in Vietnam : Traumatic Stress and the Undoing of Characterby Jonathan Shay, Lee GoernerISBN 0689121822 (0-689-12182-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Achilles in Vietnam : Traumatic Stress and the Undoing of Character'Book summary:Shay works from an intriguing premise: that the study of the great Homeric epic of war, The Iliad, can illuminate our understanding of Vietnam, and vice versa. Along the way, he compares the battlefield experiences of men like Agamemnon and Patroclus with those of frontline grunts, analyzes the berserker rage that overcame Achilles and so many American soldiers alike, and considers the ways in which societies ancient and modern have accounted for and dealt with post-traumatic stress disorder---a malady only recently recognized in the medical literature, but well attested in Homer's pages. The novelist Tim O'Brien, who has written so affectingly about his experiences in combat, calls Shay's book "one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam war." He's right. [via]
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Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States and the Modern Historical Experienceby Gabriel KolkoISBN 0394538749 (0-394-53874-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedyby James G. Blight, Robert S. McNamara, Thomas J. Biersteker, Robert K. Brigham, Herbert Y. SchandlerISBN 1891620878 (1-891620-87-8)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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The structure of Argument Without End is unconventional, with McNamara writing introductions and conclusions to most of the chapters, which sometimes read like excerpts of transcripts and often like pieces of analytical history. Readers will get the sense of observing a graduate-level seminar on the war, with some of its most knowledgeable participants and critics making presentations. The result is a provocative text eager to challenge assumptions. McNamara's presence hangs over everything--this really is his book, despite the numerous coauthors sharing credit--and his sense of optimism is eerie. "Both Hanoi and Washington could have accomplished their purposes without the appalling loss of life," he writes. A statement like that shows 20/20 hindsight, yet it's an awfully candid remark from a man who had much to do with America's humiliation in Southeast Asia. This is an important contribution to our understanding of that terrible conflict. --John J. Miller [via]
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Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, the Novel As Historyby Norman MailerISBN 0452272793 (0-452-27279-3)
Softcover, Plume
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At War with Asiaby Noam ChomskyISBN 0394462106 (0-394-46210-6)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At War with Asia'Book summary:[via]In 1970, Noam Chomsky urged Americans to confront and avoid the dangers inherent in the American invasion of Southeast Asia (North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). Looking back 30 years later, we still share Chomskys concern: Will this new war lead us to an ever-expanding battle against the people of the world and increasing repression at home?
Drawing in part on his visits to Asia and in part on his extensive reading in the field, Chomsky discusses the historical, political and economic reasons behind our involvement in a Southeast Asian land war. Chomsky examines the impact of our involvement on United States military strategy and what its eventual effect will be in America and abroad. While the people of the world are clearly the victims of U.S. foreign policy, the citizens of the United States have not been able to escape harm. In an eerie prediction of current events, Chomsky states:
It is unlikely that we can continue indefinitely on this mad course without severe domestic depression and regimentation. For those who hope to rule the world, to win what some scholars like to call the game of world domination, American policies in Southeast Asia may appear rational. To the citizens of the empire, at home and abroad, they bring only pain and sorrow. In this respect we are reliving the history of earlier imperial systems. We have had many opportunities to escape this trap and still do today. Failure to take advantages of these opportunities, continued submission to indoctrination, and indifference to the fate of others, will surely spell disaster for much of the human race.
At War With Asia is an indispensable guide to understanding both the past and current logic of imperial force.
Introduction by Christian Parrenti.
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Battle for Hue : Tet 1968by Keith W. NolanISBN 0891415920 (0-89141-592-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Battle for Hue, Tet, 1968by Keith William NolanISBN 0440104076 (0-440-10407-6)
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The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam Warby John PradosISBN 047137945X (0-471-37945-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Born on the Fourth of Julyby Ron KovicISBN 0671681494 (0-671-68149-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Dear Americaby Bernard EdelmanISBN 0393323048 (0-393-32304-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Dear America: Letters From Vietnamby Bernard EdelmanISBN 0671661124 (0-671-66112-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dear America : Letters Home from Vietnamby Bernard Edelman, Paul McCarthyISBN 0671691783 (0-671-69178-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnamby New York Vietnam Memorial CommISBN 0393019985 (0-393-01998-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam'Book summary:"An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam."David Halberstam
More than twenty-five years after the official end of the Vietnam War, Dear America allows us to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served in Vietnam. In this collection of more than 200 letters, they share their first impressions of the rigors of life in the bush, their longing for home and family, their emotions over the conduct of the war, and their ache at the loss of a friend in battle. Poignant in their rare honesty, the letters from Vietnam are "riveting,...extraordinary by [their] very ordinariness...for the most part, neither deep nor philosophical, only very, very human" (Los Angeles Times). Revealing the complex emotions and daily realities of fighting in the war, these close accounts offer a powerful, uniquely personal portrait of the many faces of Vietnam's veterans. Over 100,000 copies sold. [via]More editions of Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam:
The Eleven Days of Christmas: America's Last Vietnam Battleby Marshall L. MichelISBN 1893554279 (1-893554-27-9)
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Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam Warby Henry KissingerISBN 074321532X (0-7432-1532-X)
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Falling Through the Earth: A Memoirby Danielle TrussoniISBN 0312426569 (0-312-42656-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Fields of Fireby James H. WebbISBN 0553583859 (0-553-58385-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fields of Fire'Book summary:They each had their reasons for being a soldier.
They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo Death Before Dishonor before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts of family heroes.
They were three young men from different worlds plunged into a white-hot, murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon in the An Hoa Basin, 1969. They had no way of knowing what awaited them. Nothing could have prepared them for the madness to come. And in the heat and horror of battle they took on new identities, took on each other, and were each reborn in fields of fire....
Fields of Fire is James Webbs classic, searing novel of the Vietnam War, a novel of poetic power, razor-sharp observation, and agonizing human truths seen through the prism of nonstop combat. Weaving together a cast of vivid characters, Fields of Fire captures the journey of unformed men through a man-made hell until each man finds his fate. [via] 
For Reasons of Stateby Noam Chomsky, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 039471895X (0-394-71895-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Four Hours in My Laiby Michael Bilton, Kevin SimISBN 0140177094 (0-14-017709-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Friendly Fireby C.D. BryanISBN 0553240676 (0-553-24067-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam Warby Denise ChongISBN 0140280219 (0-14-028021-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phuc Storyby Denise ChongISBN 0670868175 (0-670-86817-5)
Hardcover, Viking
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountainby Robert Olen ButlerISBN 0140176640 (0-14-017664-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnamby Robert MannISBN 0465043704 (0-465-04370-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam'Book summary:A Grand Delusion is the first comprehensive single-volume American political history of the Vietnam War. Spanning the years 1945 to 1975, it is the definitive story of the well-meaning but often misguided American political leaders whose unquestioning adherence to Cold War dogma led the nation into its tragic misadventure in Vietnam. At the center of this narrative are seven such men-Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, J. William Fulbright, Mike Mansfield, and George McGovern. During their careers, each occupied center-stage in the nation's debate over Vietnam policy.Mann focuses in particular on the role played by leading members of Congress, including senators' Mansfield and Kennedy's shaping of American policy toward Vietnam in the 1950s; Congress's acquiescence in the 1950s to the Eisenhower administration's support of the American-backed Diem government; and the blank check that Congress gave to Lyndon Johnson with the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution.Mann considers as well the evolution of opposition to the war, including pivotal hearings conducted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1966 to 1968; the small band of war opponents led by senators Fulbright, McGovern, and Wayne Morse; Mansfield's quiet-but-persistent lobbying campaign to dissuade his friend Lyndon Johnson from escalating the war in 1965; the bitter political feud that erupted between Fulbright and Johnson-erstwhile friends-over the war; McGovern and Hatfield's determined effort to force Richard Nixon to withdraw American forces from Vietnam; and Congress's assertion of its Constitutional role in war making in the early 1970s, culminating in the passage of the War Powers resolution in 1973. [via]
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Hamburger Hill: May 11-20, 1969by Samuel ZaffiriISBN 0891417060 (0-89141-706-0)
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Ho Chi Minhby William J. DuikerISBN 0786863870 (0-7868-6387-0)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Ho Chi Minh: A Lifeby William J. DuikerISBN 078688701X (0-7868-8701-X)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Home Before Morningby Christopher Morgan, Lynn Van DevanterISBN 0825301327 (0-8253-0132-7)
Hardcover, Beaufort Books
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Home Before Morningby Lynn Van DevanterISBN 1558492984 (1-55849-298-4)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnamby George M. KahinISBN 0385240996 (0-385-24099-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Larry Burrows, Vietnamby Larry Burrows, David HalberstamISBN 037541102X (0-375-41102-X)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The Last Battle : The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam Warby Ralph WetterhahnISBN 0452283337 (0-452-28333-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnamby Martin WindrowISBN 0306814439 (0-306-81443-9)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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The Limits of Air Power : The American Bombing of North Vietnamby Mark ClodfelterISBN 0029059909 (0-02-905990-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Eraby David Halberstam, Daniel J. SingalISBN 007555092X (0-07-555092-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Killsby Charles HendersonISBN 0425103552 (0-425-10355-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills'Book summary:In the chaos of the combat zone, there are the living, the dead, and the Ghost.[via]
In the ongoing Iraq conflict, there are no battle lines, no direct offensives, no ground won or lost??just the daily fight against an enemy who hits and runs, hides and sneaks. If the enemy shows himself, it?s only for a moment. But for a Marine Sniper, that is all that is needed.
Readers now have the opportunity, from these warriors? perspective, to peer into the killing zone through a telescopic lens, down the barrel of a high-powered rifle, and into the very heart of the enemy. The training, the techniques, and the steel will necessary to survive as a sniper are all described in vivid detail.
Charles Henderson also delves into the core of the enemy??the maniacal ideology, and the tactics that have sown so much violence in Iraq??and how they are all vulnerable to a single bullet from a Ghost.More editions of Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills:
My American Journey: An Autobiographyby Joseph E. Persico, Colin L. PowellISBN 0345407288 (0-345-40728-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My American Journey'Book summary:The story of Colin Powell is the classic American story, or at least, it's what we like to think the classic American story should be. The son of hard-working Jamaican immigrants, Powell was born in Harlem, grew up in the racially integrated South Bronx, attended the City College of New York, joined the R.O.T.C. and discovered his passion for things military. After stints in Korea, Vietnam and Germany he made his most important marks in the Pentagon bureaucracy, cultivating civilian and military contacts and advancing above his colleagues on an express ride through the ranks. As the ultimate insider, Powell is coveted by both political parties, but questions his own ability to switch from military hero to politician. [via]
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Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sidesby Christian A. AppyISBN 0142004499 (0-14-200449-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Pentagon Papers:as Published by the New York Times: As Published by the New York Timesby Neil SheehanISBN 0552649171 (0-552-64917-1)
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The Pentagon Papers As Published by the New York Times.by Quadrangle Books [197 New YorkISBN 0812903412 (0-8129-0341-2)
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Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamaraby Deborah ShapleyISBN 0316782807 (0-316-78280-7)
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Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970by Keith W. NolanISBN 0891418091 (0-89141-809-1)
Softcover, Presidio Pr
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Ripcord : Screaming Eagles under Siege, Vietnam 1970by Keith William NolanISBN 0891416420 (0-89141-642-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy and Johnson's Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnamby Richard H. ShultzISBN 0060194545 (0-06-019454-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Secret War Against Hanoi: The Untold Story of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnamby Richard H. ShultzISBN 0060932538 (0-06-093253-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papersby Daniel EllsbergISBN 0142003425 (0-14-200342-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnamby Dale Andrade, Kenneth J. ConboyISBN 0700611479 (0-7006-1147-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Spies and Commandos traces the rise and demise of this secret operation--started by the CIA in 1960 and expanded by the Pentagon beginning in1964--in the first book to examine the program from both sides of the war. Kenneth Conboy and Dale Andrad interviewed CIA and military personnel and traveled in Vietnam to locate former commandos who had been captured by Hanoi, enabling them to tell the complete story of these covert activities from high-level decision making to the actual experiences of the agents.
The book vividly describes scores of dangerous missions-including raids against North Vietnamese coastal installations and the air--dropping of dozens of agents into enemy territory--as well as psychological warfare designed to make Hanoi believe the "resistance movement" was larger than it actually was. It offers a more complete operational account of the program than has ever been made available--particularly its early years--and ties known events in the war to covert operations, such as details of the "34-A Operations" that led to the Tonkin Gulf incidents in 1964. It also explains in no uncertain terms why the whole plan was doomed to failure from the start.
One of the remarkable features of the operation, claim the authors, is that its failures were so glaring. They argue that the CIA, and later the Pentagon, were unaware for years that Hanoi had compromised the commandos, even though some agents missed radio deadlines or filed suspicious reports. Operational errors were not attributable to conspiracy or counterintelligence, they contend, but simply to poor planning and lack of imagination.
Although it flourished for ten years under cover of the wider war, covert activity in Vietnam is now recognized as a disaster. Conboy and Andrad's account of that episode is a sobering tale that lends a new perspective on the war as it reclaims the lost lives of these unsung spies and commandos. [via]
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Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnamby David H. Hackworth, Eilhys EnglandISBN 1590710029 (1-59071-002-9)
Hardcover, Rugged Land
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Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam: ISBN 1590710029 (1-59071-002-9)
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Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its Historyby Glenna Whitley, B. G. BurkettISBN 1565302842 (1-56530-284-2)
Hardcover, Verity Pr Inc
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Ten Thousand Days Of Thunder: A History Of The Vietnam Warby Philip CaputoISBN 0689862318 (0-689-86231-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Thousand Days Of Thunder: A History Of The Vietnam War'Book summary:It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. And in this stirring chronicle, Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Philip Caputo writes about our country's most controversial war -- the Vietnam War -- for young readers. From the first stirrings of unrest in Vietnam under French colonial rule, to American intervention, to the battle at Hamburger Hill, to the Tet Offensive, to the fall of Saigon, 10,000 Days of Thunder explores the war that changed the lives of a generation of Americans and that still reverberates with us today.
Included within 10,000 Days of Thunder are personal anecdotes from soldiers and civilians, as well as profiles and accounts of the actions of many historical luminaries, both American and Vietnamese, involved in the Vietnam War, such as Richard M. Nixon, General William C. Westmoreland, Ho Chi Minh, Joe Galloway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, and General Vo Nguyen Giap. Caputo also explores the rise of Communism in Vietnam, the roles that women played on the battlefield, the antiwar movement at home, the participation of Vietnamese villagers in the war, as well as the far-reaching impact of the war's aftermath.
Caputo's dynamic narrative is highlighted by stunning photographs and key campaign and battlefield maps, making 10,000 Days of Thunder THE consummate book on the Vietnam War for kids. [via]
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Thud Ridgeby Jack BroughtonISBN 0553251899 (0-553-25189-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975by Robert D. SchulzingerISBN 0195125010 (0-19-512501-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975'Book summary:Taking a more extensive view of the American war in Indochina than have many other historians, Robert Schulzinger begins his well-crafted account at the end of World War II. The collapsing Japanese and French empires had created a political vacuum that could be filled only by a nationalist movement--one that, in Vietnam's case, was also communist. American involvement, he writes, was questionable from the start. He quotes Dean Rusk, an architect of Kennedy and Johnson administration war policies, as saying that his greatest mistake was overestimating the patience of the American people and underestimating that of the Vietnamese. That was but one in a long series of miscalculations over three decades, and Schulzinger's book admirably relates the sad history of that conflict. [via]
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To Hanoi and Back: The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966+1973by Wayne ThompsonISBN 1560988770 (1-56098-877-0)
Hardcover, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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Trial by Fire: The 1972 Easter Offensive, America's Last Vietnam Battleby Dale AndradeISBN 0781802865 (0-7818-0286-5)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965by Mark MoyarISBN 0521869110 (0-521-86911-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Up Countryby Nelson DemilleISBN 0446611913 (0-446-61191-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up Country'Book summary:In Up Country, Nelson DeMille cannily revives the army career of Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, the cynical, hardworking Criminal Investigation Division man who was forcibly retired after solving the high-profile killing in The General's Daughter. Brenner's called back to investigate the murder of a young army lieutenant by his captain. The catch is, the crime took place during the heat of the Tet Offensive, and the only living witness was a North Vietnamese soldier who described the incident in a 30-year-old letter that has only recently come to light. Soon Brenner, a Vietnam vet, is on an ostensible nostalgia tour of his old stomping grounds. The trip immediately turns dangerous as he heads "up country" to search for the letter writer, accompanied by a gorgeous American businesswoman, who's hiding more than even the smartest CID officer could imagine.
DeMille, who saw his own tour of duty in Vietnam (and even found a letter on a dead Vietnamese soldier), intersperses historical facts and chilling political possibilities with enough local color to provide some serious flashbacks for his fellow veterans. To non-vets the book may seem very long, but the payoff at the end is worth a couple hundred extra pages. --Barrie Trinkle [via]
A Vietcong Memoirby David Chanoff, Troung Nhu Tang, Van Toai DoanISBN 0394743091 (0-394-74309-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Vietnam Readerby Stewart O'NanISBN 0385491182 (0-385-49118-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanhby John CorbettISBN 0891418350 (0-89141-835-0)
Softcover, Presidio Pr
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When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnamby Ed RasimusISBN 1588341038 (1-58834-103-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Without Remorseby Tom ClancyISBN 0425143325 (0-425-14332-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Panico Nuclearby Tom ClancyISBN 8401491509 (84-01-49150-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Sin Remordimientosby Tom ClancyISBN 0307347966 (0-307-34796-6)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sin Remordimientos'Book summary:Sin remordimientos ofrece una historia que es dinamita pura. John Kelly vive una frenética odisea personal ambientada en el ojo del huracán del mundo actual: por un lado, inicia una implacable cruzada contra los narcotraficantes que han arruinado la vida de la mujer a la que ama. Por el otro, recibe el encargo de una peligrosísima misión: rescatar a un grupo de oficiales norteamericanos prisioneros en un campamento secreto situado en las selvas de Vietnam... Una gran novela por partida doble; dos guerras, dos misiones y un protagonista de excepción.
El escritor toma sus argumentos por asalto y los conquista con la eficiencia de un batallón de comandos.
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