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The Son Tay Raid: American POWs in Vietnam Were Not
Forgotten (Texas A&M University Military History Series) by John Gargus. |
Where We Were in Vietnam: A Comprehensive Guide to the Firebases, Military Installations and Naval Vessels of the Vietnam War, 1945-1975Where We Were represents more than seven years of exhaustive research by author, artist, and Vietnam veteran Michael Kelley. With more than 10,000 entries, it covers the entire Indochina Theater including Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and both North and South Vietnam. Wherever possible, it includes the following for each firebase and military installation: Standard and a.k.a. names, origin of names, grid coordinates, relative location, dates built and dismantled, major units occupying, dates of major attacks, unique features, alternate grids, and province and military region.
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 They Marched Into Sunlight : War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967
by David Maraniss.The only direct connection between the two incidents dramatized in this narrative is their occurrence within hours of each other. In South Vietnam near Saigon, a U.S. Army battalion was decimated in an ambush laid by a North Vietnamese regiment; while in Madison, Wisconsin, police bloodied a dozen university students obstructing recruitment by a company they denounced as a war profiteer.
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 Hill Fights: The First Battle of Khe Sanh by Edward F. Murphy
The vicious fighting that took place in and around Khe Sanh for more than a year before the infamous January-April 1968 siege by the North Vietnamese Army is a largely untold story of the Vietnam War. The heart of the book consists of intimate, detailed depictions of firefights, ambushes and other battlefield action told from the point of view of the U.S. Marines who were in the thick of it. |
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam by David H. Hackworth. This 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, with frightfully high casualties, and fighting in the most dangerous of terrain, the 4/39th was a dispirited and demoralized group when Hackworth assumed command in January, 1969.
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 The 1st Cav in Vietnam : Anatomy of a Division by Shelby L. Stanton. They were the First Team, the most innovative development in warfare since the introduction of massed tank formations in World War II.
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 When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot Over North Vietnam
Riveting stories of aerial combat over Vietnam and candid commentary on the doomed Rolling Thunder campaign Ed Rasimus straps the reader into the cockpit of an F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber, hurtling through the MiG-filled skies over North Vietnam, and then fast and low into the teeth of the enemy’s ferocious air defenses—with less than a 50-50 chance of surviving.
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 After Tet, The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam.
Military historian and ex-marine Ronald Spector marks the 25th anniversary of the Tet offensive which presaged the worst fighting that took place the year following. Detailing the deterioration
of race relations, the growth of the drug culture, and even the experience of South Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers, this comprehensive history may stand as one of the most important books about Vietnam.
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The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War
by John Prados.
The Blood Road is an elegant and exciting work of important historical scholarship, marking the first coherent study of the notorious Ho Chi Minh Trail, which carried the troops, armaments, and civilians of North Vietnam toward a violent victory. Using the Trail as a compelling metaphor for and microcosm of the Vietnam War.
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 Brown Water, Black Berets : Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam by Thomas J.Cutler, Lt. Cdr. USN. Now, for the first time ever, the electrifying story of the most unique and frightening war ever fought on water is finally told. From the Navy's early fleet of Oriental junks to the final withdrawal of U.S.troops, the incredible experiences of the Black Berets and their Vietnamese sailors are brought vividly to life.
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 Dispatches
by Michael Herr. Herr wrote about the Vietnam war for Esquire magazine. He was one of the few "rock & roll" journalists who actually got out in the bush with the troops, along with fellow reporter/photographers such as Dana Stone and Sean Flynn, who were both killed while following stories. His unique, tell-it-like-it-is style is fascinating, and presents a very different perspective on Vietnam.
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 Fire in the Streets : The Battle for Hue Tet 1968by Eric Hammel. A Vietnam veteran recreates the historical Tet Offensive of 1968, discussing the city of Hue before the battle, the U.S. tanks fighting their way up Highway 1, the American civilian in search of his fiancee, and more. |
Flying Black Ponies: The Navy's Close Air Support Squadron in Vietnam
by Kit Lavell, Stephen Coonts.
Vice Adm. Emmett H. Tidd, USN [Ret.] Admiral Zumwalt's chief of staff in Vietnam:
"[Lavell's] account is superbly researched, annotated, and crisply written. My only complaint is that the pages spin by too fast..."
Dick Couch, author of Rising Wind, SEAL Team One:
"The Black Ponies were our protectors--angels with Zuni rockets!...Lavell's book is a fine tribute to these special aviators."
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Fuelling the War : Revealing an Oil Company's Role in Vietnam
by Louis Wesseling.
For the last three years of the Vietnam War, the author of this book was Chief Executive of Shell
Vietnam. As such he controlled half the country's oil supply which was purchased by the Americans,
used by the South Vietnamese,fought for by the Vietcong and often supplied to the North
Vietnamese and Vietcong armies through indirect channels. The book is his account of the role of oil
in that war.
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The Linebacker Raids : The Bombing of North Vietnam, 1972 by John T. Smith. A detailed analytical account of the conduct and effectiveness of US strategic bombing policy in the most controversial aerial campaign of the Vietnam war - the two Linebacker raids. The political background to the raids is explored, as well as the theory and practice of US strategic bombing. |
 Once a Warrior King
by David Donovan. First Lieutenant David Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta in 1969 to act as a military advisor to the South Vietnamese. Virtually left on his own to work with the local militias, he tells a gripping account of the
personal war that was battling the Viet Cong in the Delta.
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One Day Too Long
From October 1967 to March 1968, the United States operated a top-secret radar system in Laos
near that country's border with North Vietnam. This was a provocative move: Laos was a neutral
country. Yet the air force desperately needed all-weather bombing capability in the region, and so
the Pentagon decided to take a chance. When Communist troops learned of Site 85, they hit it hard.
The largest single ground combat loss of U.S. Air Force personnel in the history of the
Vietnam War.
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 Phase Line Green : The Battle for Hue, 1968
Nicholas Warr, Jack Shulimson (Introduction). Nick Warr was a lieutenant with 1st Battlaion 5th Marines during the battle for Hue City. He takes a no-nonsense look at that historical battle in this book. (Note: Nick Warr was my first platoon commander in Vietnam - WWL)
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Ringed in Steel : Armored Cavalry, Vietnam 1967-68
During the height of the Vietnam war, the armored cavalry saw action in every hotspot on the map.
From the terrifying New Year's Eve Mekong Delta ambush to the horrors of the Tet Offensive, here
is Major Mahler's dramatic account of armored combat, when his cavalry squadron brought steel
and death to the steaming jungles of Southeast Asia.
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Ripcord
by Keith William Nolan
The Battle for Firebase Ripcord began on March 12, 1970, when the 101st Airborne Division launched the first of the three assaults that it took to open the position in the jungle-covered mountains northeast of the A Shau Valley. Following an enemy siege of the isolated firebase, the battle ended on July 23, 1970 when the 101st conducted a dramatic helicopter evacuation of Ripcord.
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 Semper Fi-Vietnam:
From Da Nang to the DMZ : Marine
Corps Campaigns, 1965-1975 by Edward F. Murphy.
Now, for the first time in one volume--the campaign history of U.S. Marine
operations in South Vietnam. From their early days in 1965 trying to drive
the insurgent Viet Cong from the villages around Da Nang to the valiant
efforts of those who attempted to help the South Vietnamese halt the
onslaught of enemy troops.
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 SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars by John L. Plaster |
 The Village
by Bing West.
Few American battles have been so extended, savage and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such "Combined Action Platoons" (CAPs) are now a lost footnote about how the war could have been fought; only the villagers remain to bear witness. This is the story of fifteen resolute young Americans matched against two hundred Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought and died. And why the villagers remember them to this day.
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 Tet!
by Don Oberdorfer. The author was a reporter for the Washington Post and was in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive. This detailed account of the offensive and its aftermath is without a doubt the best written to date. Oberdorfer tells a riveting account of the battles, particularly in Saigon and Hue. A superb account.
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 To What End : Report from Vietnam by Ward S. Just.
This reportorial classic on the Vietnam War, rereleased on the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon,
is a concise and atmospheric account of the war-torn country in 1966 and 1967. A writer for The Washington Post, Ward Just pumped out this slender volume in a few weeks following his journalistic tour of duty. Vietnam, he says in a new foreword, "was the war where you sympathized
with your countrymen even as you doubted the wisdom of their actions, and the cause for which
they fought (and the anti-war protestors were not much admired, either, at least by me)."
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 The Tunnels of Cu Chi
by Tom Mangold, John Penycate. The infamous Viet Cong tunnels in the areas around III Corps bedeviled American forces for years. This book is an insightful look into the tenacity of the enemy. |
 The Men Behind the Trident : Seal Team One in Vietnam (Special Warfare Series) by Dennis J. Cummings. This is the story of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team One in Vietnam as told by twenty of the elite Navy commandos who fought there from 1962 to 1972. Here for the first time, these unorthodox and sometimes iconoclastic special warriors talk about the missions that are left out of the official histories and existing accounts. |
Vietnam : A History
by Stanley Karnow. Provides a comprehensive look at both sides of the Vietnam War through a collection of personal tales and delves into the political and military events in the United States and elsewhere that originally caused the war and the brought it to an end.
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 We Were Soldiers Once...and Young:
Ia Drang : The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore.
In November 1965, the air mobile 1st Cavalry Division, led by Lt. Col. Moore and accompanied by reporter Galloway, landed in a remote valley in the central highlands of South Vietnam--and were met by 3,000 seasoned North Vietnamese Regulars. Today, the Ia Drang battle is taught at the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Air Force
Academy, and the Army, Navy, and Air Force war colleges.
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365 Days
by Ronald J. Glassner. Ron Glassner was a surgeon treating the serverely wounded from the battlefield. In this gut-wrenching book he describes the terror and the nightmare of war, while at the same time shows us incredible acts of courage and bravery from these sons and daughters of America.
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 100 Missions North: A Fighter Pilot's Story of the Vietnam War
by Ken Bell.
In 100 Missions North, Ken Bell recounts the harrowing sorties that he and his comrades flew in F-105 Thunderchiefs-the famous "Thud"-in 1966-67, when pilots faced a 50 percent loss rate. What was it like to face these odds day after day? We learn that men sustained by faith in each other and joined by the unique bonds of combat can overcome anxiety, fear, and even terror to achieve common goals.
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 Cheating Death: Combat Air Rescues in Vietnam and Laos
by George J. Marrett.
Deadly aerial combat, thrilling rescues, and colorful characters from a pilot and natural storyteller who was there They flew low and slow, at treetop level, at night, in monsoons, and in point-blank range of enemy guns and missiles. They were missions no one else wanted, but the ones all other pilots prayed for when shot down. Flying the A-1 Skyraider, a single-engine, propeller-driven relic in a war of "fast-movers," these intrepid Air Force pilots flew one of the most dangerous missions of the war, helping rescue thousands of downed Navy and Air Force pilots.
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