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	We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam In the first significant engagement between American troops and the Viet Cong, 450 U.S. soldiers found themselves surrounded and outnumbered by their enemy. This book tells the story of how they battled between October 23 and November 26, 1965. Its prose is gritty, not artful, delivering a powerful...
	The Last Hookers This is the definitive story of Army Aviation and Vietnam. LTC Carle E. Dunn, USA (Retired) has done the hookers and anyone who is interested in what really happened in Vietnam a great service in pointing out the good and the bad, the brave and not so brave, the strife and the glory. The "Last Hookers" suggest a much more positive view of not just the outcome of the war, but also of American morale, competence, and performance. A must read.
	Firebirds: The Best First-Person Account of Helicopter Combat in Vietnam Ever Written Chuck Carlock volunteered to become a helicopter pilot in August 1966, convinced that by the time he finished training, the Vietnam War would be over. Little did he know that he would see some of the war's most intense action, including the Tet offensives. Carlock portrays countless dangers, from an...
	Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History [ABRIDGED] The Vietnam War was the defining event of recent U.S. history, a tragic struggle that cost the lives of 58,000 Americans and 970,000 Vietnamese, and that is still being debated today. The three-volume Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, edited by Spencer Tucker, has been hailed as the most...
	A Country Such as This The innocence the 1950s and turbulence of the 1960s and 70s--years when America reached out and touched the heavens, only to be torn apart by internal conflict and a war in Southeast Asia--provide a dramatic setting for this unforgettable story of three men and the women they love carving a place...
	A Rumor of War Caputo describes the Vietnam War, or the "the splendid little war" as he ironically calls it, as his journey from being an enthusiastic idealist poisoned by the romanticized view of war as a chivalrous and noble enterprise to the dehumanized and desensitized wreck that he becomes during his tour in Vietnam. The book is an amazing testimony about the true nature of war with all its atrocities and horrors.
	America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam 1950-1975 Widely recognized as a major contribution to the study of American involvement in Vietnam, this comprehensive and balanced account analyzes the ultimate failure of the war, and the impact of the war on US foreign policy. The book seeks to place American involvement in Vietnam in historical...
	America's War in Vietnam: A Short Narrative History The book provides are very thorough accout aobut the tactics employed during the war and the battles that resulted. The level of detail is tremendous and the book is well written.
	Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side The groundbreaking publication Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side is an intense collection of images, many never seen before, from the cameras of North Vietnamese photographers. Each included photographer has a chapter highlighting his personal stories and captivating pictures....
	Fields of Fire (Bluejacket Books) From the first paragraph, Jim Webb paints the perfect picture of the war in the rice paddies that was fought by so many Marines.
	Grunts: U.S. Infantry in Vietnam (G.I. Series, 13) 112 illustrations & 8 pages in color & 7 x 10 & More than 100 photos from private collections, most previously unpublished & Detailed study of the special uniforms and equipment of the Vietnam War By the end of 1965, 184,000 American soldiers were involved in what would prove to be America's longest war. Despite the media images of waves of helicopters and B-52s, Vietnam was essentially an infantryman's war. This study presents rare images of the men who fought this war--their uniforms and equipment and how they were adapted to meet the severe conditions in the jungles and rice paddies of Southeast Asia.
	Jungle Dragoon: The Memoir of an Armored Cav Platoon Leader in Vietnam The latest of Presidio's superior military memoirs reports the Vietnam experience of a career armor officer whose first combat was as leader of a platoon of M-48 tanks with the 1st Infantry Division in 1966. Walker faced not only formidable obstacles of terrain and stubborn opposition well provided...
	Lost Soldiers Webb's cultural and political portrayal of Vietnam 25 years after the war's end is delivered with such bold strokes and magical detail that it really doesn't matter that the plot itself is relegated to the backseat. This is a highly personal and empathetic look at today's Vietnam, a land of misery...
	Marshalling the Faithful: The Marines' First Year in Vietnam A dramatic account of the Marines' first year in Vietnam offers a soldier's perspective on the era at the front lines and describes their harrowing experiences with friendship, heroism, life, and death.
	Nam: A Photographic History Ray Bonds's The Vietnam War: The Illustrated History of the Conflict in Southeast Asia (Salamander Books) sets the bar very high for photojournalistic collections on the war. Coauthors Daugherty (Fighting Techniques of a U.S. Marine: 1941-1945), a military history professor at the online American...
	No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam: An Oral History The record of a Marine battalion in Vietnam, 1964-69, by a former infantry captain. Lehrack's technique is to record various NCOs, privates, and line officers, then to distill their accounts and give them a chronology. He sets this worm's-eye view in wider context; for instance, he contrasts the...
	Reluctant Warrior: A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam "ONE OF THE BEST VIETNAM WAR STORIES I'VE EVER READ, one damn good, compelling read. It's almost something out of a Clancy novel, yet it's true. The best thing I can say about it is I didn't want it to end." --Col. David Hackworth, New York Times bestselling author of About Face
	Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It In midsummer 1967, the United States aircraft carrier Forrestal, stationed off Vietnam, lost 134 men to fires and ensuing explosions after an errant missile from one of its own planes ruptured a fuel tank on a nearby jet. Gregory A. Freeman's Sailors to the End is a starkly illuminating account of...
	Sergeant Major, U.S. Marines Maurice Jacques served for thirty years with the U.S. Marine Corps, nearly six of them in combat. An accomplished infantryman, parachutist, recon patroller, marksman, combat swimmer, and record-setting drill instructor, Jacques personifies the hard-fought,...
	Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam 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...
	The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story With over half a decade of service as a war correspondent in Vietnam, John Laurence earned deserved accolades for his reportage, especially for his documentary The World of Charlie Company. In this superb book, The Cat from Hue, he returns to that time, drawing on long-buried memories to capture...
	The Co-Vans: U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam Foreword by Edwin Howard Simmons. Depending upon where and when they served, Americans had vastly different experiences in the Vietnam War. Among the more unique experiences were those of the advisors who worked closely with their Vietnamese counterparts, sharing the dangers, privations, local...
	The Easter Offensive: Vietnam, 1972 (Blue Jacket Books) On April 1, 1972 the North Vietnamese Army crosses the DMZ. It crashes into the worst soldiers in the South Vietnamese Army with total surprise. Running for their lives or surrendering in place, the South's soldiers leave the highway south wide open for the North's rapidly advancing armor. The target of the surprise blitzkrieg is the provincial capital of Quang Tri City. Both the US and South Vietnamese commands have no idea how close they are to loosing the northern most province of South Vietnam.
	The Lost Battalion: Controversy and Casualties in the Battle of Hue In 1968 in South Vietnam, a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to charge a fortified North Vietnamese Army force 200 yards away over an open field with no artillery or air support. When the Lost Battalion finally escaped encirclement after nine hours, fighting against an enemy that outnumbered them three to one, the tragic episode disappeared from official memory and relevant U.S. Army records. Krohn tells the whole story--and tells it with the words of those present.
	The Nightingale's Song Overtly the life stories of five graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy--John McCain, John Poindexter, Bud McFarlane, Jim Webb, and Oliver North--this probing tale implicitly examines the academy's institutional soul. A survivor of Annapolis, abbreviated by cognoscenti as IHTFP (I Hate This F . . . ing...
	The Vietnam War Almanac The Vietnam War Almanac is a concise, one-volume reference that synthesizes the available information and presents the results in an informative, entertaining, highly readable form.
	The War That Would Not End: U.S. Marines in Vietnam 1971-73 Dale Andrade, author, U.S. Army Center for Military History, Trial by Fire, Ashes to Ashes ...captures the remarkable job the Marines did during the offensive, as well as the mood and feel...
	When I Was a Young Man "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...
	Winged Sabers: The Air Cavalry in Vietnam 1965-1973 The Air Cavalry Troops who served in Vietnam were an unusually courageous and resourceful lot. Constantly facing death, they developed a bravado and camaraderie that made them a force to be reckoned with. Winged Sabers is a comprehensive, multi-faceted volume on the men, the machines, and the...
	Honor the Warrior Honor the Warrior is an anthology. It is a collection of seventeen stories of Marines in combat in Vietnam. All of the stories are factual and well documented. The book also includes a list of all Marines awarded the Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross and the Silver Star. It includes photographs, a bibliography and a name index.
	I Served I Served is a first-person account of the lonely childhood and manhood rites of passage of a Catholic orphanage schoolboy and plankholder in F Company, 51st Long Range Patrol (Airborne) Infantry. From separation from most of his siblings, to life in an orphanage in North Carolina, to the dank jungles of Viet Nam, and finally to homecoming and marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Don Hall keeps us on edge.