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 The Element of Surprise: Navy Seals in VietnamBest Price: $3.25 Being on a Navy SEAL and Vietnam kick at the moment, I decided to pick up Darryl Young's The... |  Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War (An Ausa Institute of Land Warfare Book)Best Price: $3.97 Excellent modern history of the US military from the Vietnam War up until 1995 or so. The... |  Force Recon CommandBest Price: $3.06 I had the honor and pleasure of serving with Alex Lee when he was the Battalion Commander of 3/1... |  The Irony of Vietnam: The System WorkedBest Price: $11.84 One of a series of must read books on Vietnam for all who want to enter the field of... |  MiG-21 Units of the Vietnam War (Osprey Combat Aircraft 29)Best Price: $14.05 I found a reference to this book while trying to find an authentic MiG-21 camouflage paint... |
 Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving)Best Price: $22.00 Describes the feminine side of nursing in Vietnam War, a time "when people grew up... |  International History Series - Vietnam and the United States (International History Series)Best Price: $36.00 Series Editor: Akira Iriye, Harvard University The volumes in this series critically assess... |  Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan...and BeyondBest Price: $21.25 This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a... |  House to House: Playing the Enemy's Game in Saigon, May 1968Best Price: $4.95 Keith Nolan's book, "House to House" is a vivid account of the Battle of South Saigon... |  Is Iraq Another Vietnam?Best Price: $2.85 This is the kind of book that gets assigned in political science classes at our universities. ... |
 Vietnam: A Complete Photographic HistoryBest Price: $60.97 |  The Tunnels of Cu ChiBest Price: $207.01 I purchased "Tunnels" to serve as historical background reading for a recent trip to... |  Time It Was: American Stories from the SixtiesBest Price: $19.72 As a child of the Sixties the stories related in Time It Was are the stories of my youth. The... |  American Power and the New MandarinsBest Price: $3.78 Noam Chomsky's first political work is a first-rate collection of essays critiquing the U.S. war... |  Survivors: Vietnam P.o.w.s Tell Their StoriesBest Price: $4.97 This book describes the very brutal conditions endured by POWs who were held captive in S.V.N,... |
 Doc: Platoon MedicBest Price: $15.13 Great reading... great story... As with all of us who started at "Ft. Sam", everyone... |  Inside Force Recon: Recon Marines in VietnamBest Price: $2.95 Nice book in general. Lots of details about the establishment of FR and activities in Vietnam.... |  A P.O.W.'s Story: 2801 Days InBest Price: $36.33 The writing and story seemed fine. It certainly had personality and flair. After a while... |  Into Laos: The Story of Dewey Canyon Ii/Lam Son 719, Vietnam 1971Best Price: $30.00 Gives feeling and perspective with great logistical insights and intense battle descriptions,... |  Phantom Warriors: Book 2 (Phantom Warriors)Best Price: $3.90 I'm not a big fan of any of the authors here...but, I really see a personal vendetta going on... |
 Not Going Home Alone: A Marine's StoryBest Price: $4.14 I have read many, many first-hand accounts by Vietnam vets and this is my favorite. Kirschke,... |  Silken Threads: A History of Embroidery in China, Korea, Japan, and VietnamBest Price: $37.85 I discovered this book at the library, renewed it several times, and then decided I just had to... |  Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot (History of War)Best Price: $7.22 This is probabaly the best book you can find of the battle of Dien Bien Phu if you want to have... |  Cheating Death: Combat Air Rescues in Vietnam and LaosBest Price: $4.95 As a helicopter crew chief in Viet Nam, and having seen the A-1's in action, I can say without a... |  Tet!: The Turning Point in the Vietnam WarBest Price: $3.46 A new edition of this book was published in 2001 with, I believe, a new introduction by the... |
 Dragon Ascending: Vietnam and the VietnameseBest Price: $16.95 I thought this book was very helpful in understanding the history of Vietnam and the present up... |  ...and a hard rain fell: A GI's True Story of the War in VietnamBest Price: $4.71 I bought this book because I thought it was a first-hand account of what it was like to fight in... |  Medal of Honor: One Man's Journey From Poverty and Prejudice (Memories of War)Best Price: $4.65 I met MSG Benavidez in 1990 while stationed in NJ. I had the distinct honor of driving him... |  Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam BattlesBest Price: $10.50 I enjoyed this book. The writing is straight forward and I would say "blue collar." I... |  Shook over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil WarBest Price: $21.60 Written by a lawyer-historian this book is a review of statistics and anecdotes about... |
 Nguyen Cochinchina: Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Studies on Southeast Asia)Best Price: $25.00 A historical reassessment of southern Vietnam and its distinct culture. The author illuminates... |  Falling Through the Earth: A MemoirBest Price: $0.69 This memoir is very well crafted. Danielle Trussoni uses the lens of her father's experiences... |  Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin ReservoirBest Price: $3.95 This book is awesome, I read it originally because my grandfather was one of the replacments in... |  After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in VietnamOf the many, many books addressing the subject of the war in Vietnam, this is certainly one of... |  The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in VietnamBest Price: $18.20 Popkin is a handful of author who write about the socioeconomic cause and effect in Vietnam... |
 Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans MemorialBest Price: $15.30 This book is tripe. I was forced to read it for a college class, and am disappointed by the... |  The Bridge at Dong Ha (Bluejacket Books)Best Price: $8.99 Real heroes are those who do what is right rather than what will keep them out of trouble with... |  Pak Six: A True StoryBest Price: $11.95 This book by Gene I Basel is one of the most riveting stories I have read since Thud Ridge. G.I.... |  Tiger Patterns: A Guide to the Vietnam War's Tigerstripe Combat Fatigue Patterns and Uniforms (Schiffer Military/Aviation History)Best Price: $52.46 The information in this book is edifying, but for an educated reader it can be tough going. I... |  Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their FightBest Price: $5.42 Unsure whether they would be greeted as traitors or heroes, POWs returning from Vietnam... |
 The Battle of DienbienphuBest Price: $6.98 Jules Roy... not Ralph Wetterhahn... writes a moving account of the tragic campaign at... |  Fire from the Sky: Seawolf Gunships in the Mekong DeltaBest Price: $18.89 This is an excellent read. The facts are what they are and adequately support the "Sea... |  SOG: A Photo History Of The Secret WarsBest Price: $49.25 I read the book SOG, and as with any book relating true life war stories, you try to picture in... |  Scream of Eagles: The Dramatic Account of the U.S. Navy's Top Gun Fighter Pilots and How They Took Back the Skies Over VietnamBest Price: $3.50 Really a fun book - it is aimed at the general reader and is thus not academically oriented, but... |  Marines in Hue City: A Portrait of Urban Combat, Tet 1968Best Price: $6.78 Having been in Hue in early January 1968, the subject book clearly displays the devastation that... |
 Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures)Best Price: $22.39 In Lost Modernities Alexander Woodside offers a probing revisionist overview of the... |  Succeed in Business: Vietnam (Culture Shock! Success Secrets to Maximize Business)Best Price: $7.58 This is a well written and informative guide. It is much better written, and much more... |  Through the Valley: Vietnam, 1967-1968Best Price: $21.99 Very good book. It was loaded with logistics details that would normally be boring and... |  The Vietnam War (20th Century Perspectives)Best Price: $6.25 |  A Sniper in the Arizona: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967Best Price: $3.99 I am an avid reader of books based on snipers in Vietnam, however this book didn't quite meet my... |
 Jungle Rules: A True Story of Marine Justice in VietnamBest Price: $0.86 I've read and enjoyed all of Charles W. Henderson's books. Jungle Rules is another top notch... |  Viet Nam: Borderless Histories (New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies)Best Price: $21.83 Moving beyond past histories of Viet Nam that have focused on nationalist struggle, this volume... |  Secret and Dangerous: Night of the Son Tay POW RaidBest Price: $11.00 "Air Commando pilot Bill Guenon has written the only first-hand account of the incredible... |  Eyes of the EagleBest Price: $3.95 I am so glad I read it a second time. The mission of 4NOV68 is riveting. The LRRPs were... |  Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of WarBest Price: $2.88 Tom Philpott is an outstanding author. His format and organization provide a perfect setting... |
 Leave No Man Behind: Bill Bell and the Search for American POW/MIAs from the Vietnam WarBest Price: $19.46 It was fascinating to read and learn from this author, who is multi-lingual and deeply immersed... |  America's Lost War: Vietnam: 1945-1975 (American History Series (Arlington Heights, Ill.).)Best Price: $17.45 An objective, succinct and fair summation of the war in Vietnam as experienced from all sides. ... |  The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy EraBest Price: $23.70 In the early 1960s, David Halberstam was a New York Times correspondent who initially viewed the... | ||
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