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Fresh out of West Point, John Howard arrived for his first tour in Vietnam in 1965, the first full year of escalation when U.S. troop levels increased to 184,000 from 23,000 the year before. When he returned for a second tour in 1972, troop strength stood at 24,000 and would dwindle to a mere 50 the following year. He thus participated in the very early and very late stages of American military involvement in the Vietnam War. His two tours-one as...
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Lee spent January 1969 to December 1970 in the US Army. Cong Catchers is a compilation of events that occurred while he served. This is not a guns-and-ammo book. It is a book about a young man with Christian values at war. A young man who avoided the pleasures that were readily available and instead organized football games, drank soda, avoided drugs, and helped repair orphanages. You will enjoy meeting many of those he served with and the ways they...
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Every war continues to dwell in the lives it touched, in the lives of those living through that time, and in those absorbed by its historical significance. The Vietnam War lives on-famously or infamously, depending on political points of view-but those who have "been there, done that" have a highly personalized window on their time of that history. Valor in Vietnam focuses on nineteen stories of Vietnam, stories of celebrated figures in the veteran...
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Get the Summary of Diane Carlson Evans & Bob Welch's Healing Wounds in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Healing Wounds" chronicles the emotional journey of Diane Carlson Evans, a former combat nurse, as she grapples with the aftermath of her service in the Vietnam War. The book details her struggle with repressed memories and PTSD, her efforts to reconcile with her past, and her advocacy for the recognition of women...
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After forty years of silence, a Vietnam veteran shares powerful personal memories of his year of combat.
This memoir of the Vietnam War is structured as a series of short vignettes that convey the emotional and physical landscape of the Vietnam War. It is a window into the war from the perspective of "the marine"-the author, who served in a rapid response assault force.
Carl Rudolph Small joined the Corps in 1969 at nineteen years old, coming...
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Get the Summary of Jim Lindsay & Chuck Mawhinney's The Sniper in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Sniper" chronicles the life and military career of Charles Benjamin Mawhinney, from his childhood in Pine Creek, Oregon, to his service as a US Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam. Raised in a self-reliant homestead, Chuck learned the value of hard work and developed sharpshooting skills under his grandfather's tutelage....
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A military studies professor and former combatant "rationally dissects the strategies and mindsets on both sides" of this thirty-year conflict (New York Journal of Books).
Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, there have been much discussion of why (and whether) America lost the war in Vietnam. The common belief is that the war was lost not on the battlefield but in Washington, DC. The stark facts, though, are that the Vietnam War was lost before...
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This gripping chronicle of an aerial rescue during the Vietnam War offers a vivid example of the heroism of US Air Force pararescue jumpers.
In June of 1972, Capt. Lynn Aikman was returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam when his F-4 Phantom was shot down. He and his backseater Tom Hanton ejected from their aircraft, but Hanton landed near a village and was quickly captured. Badly injured during the ejection, Aikman landed some distance...
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Pocket manuals bring together a wealth of information from a wide variety of training manuals and tactical documents. Between 1964 and 1975, 2.6 million American personnel served within the borders of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, of whom an estimated 1–1.6 million actually fought in combat. At the tip of the spear was the infantry, the "grunts" who entered an extraordinary tropical combat zone completely alien to the world they had left...
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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 organization that transformed the antiwar movement...
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On 30 January 1968 the North Vietnamese communists launched a coordinated surprise attack the Tet Offensive across South Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and American armies. Superior firepower eventually crushed the offensive, but it proved to be a major psychological victory for the communists a turning point in the Vietnam War. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this photographic history of Tet and of American involvement in the struggle against the...
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In the 1960s and '70s, the Laotian Civil War became a covert theater for the conflict in Vietnam, with the US paramilitary backing the Royal Lao government in what came to be known among the CIA as the Secret War. In late 1971, the North Vietnamese Army launched Campaign Z, invading northern Laos on a mission to defeat the Royal Lao Army. General Giap had specifically ordered the NVA troops to kill the CIA army and occupy its field headquarters in...
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The First Battle is a graphic account of the Vietnam War's first major clash. On August 18, 1965, regiment fought regiment on the Van Tuong Peninsula near the new Marine base at Chu Lai. On the American side were three battalions of Marines under the command of Colonel Oscar Peatross, a hero of two previous wars. His opponent was the 1st Viet Cong Regiment commanded by Nguyen Dinh Trong, a veteran of many fights against the French and the South Vietnamese....
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The Vietnam War: Relive The 2nd Longest War in American History Take a trip down the historic path to learn more about the Vietnam War. The conflict lasted 20 years and was fought on all fronts with the daunting Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the north, the Viet Cong communist Guerillas in the south and escalating political pressure back home to withdraw from the war. You'll discover: What the Vietnam War was about, how did it get started and who...
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This military memoir examines one of the most vicious and tragically forgotten battles of the Vietnam War from a variety of perspectives.
In June of 1967, the Viet Cong sought to isolate and destroy an elite South Vietnamese unit as part of a new offensive strategy. They sent a voluntary POW as an "informant" to dupe the 52nd Vietnamese Ranger Battalion into taking a dangerous position in the III Corps sector of South Vietnam. In the midst of...
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From the award-winning author of Da Nang Diary, the "detailed military history" (Publishers Weekly) of the fighting between the North Vietnamese Army and the US military and its South Vietnamese allies in the "Valley of Death," site of the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) were not a major factor, but where the trained...
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This military history chronicles the combat operations of the Blackhorse Regiment, which paved the way for armored cavalry tactics in the Vietnam War.
South Vietnam, September 1966. When the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment came ashore at Vung Tau, it faced a number of challenges. In addition to the threat of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, the terrain and weather posed their own dangers, adversely affecting the use of bulletproof vehicles...
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As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief of station" on some of the hottest assignments of the Cold War, from the back alleys of occupied Vienna to the jungles of the Philippines—and especially Saigon, where he became a pivotal player in the turning point of the Vietnam War: the overthrow of South Vietnamese president
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"Larry Berman in his book-insightful, overdue, an authentic 'Shock and Awe' story-deftly humanizes the contradictions in An's life" - -Bernard Kalb
"Berman has done an excellent job… There's plenty here for both supporters and critics of the Vietnam War to ponder." - Dan Southerland, former correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor in Saigon
"Berman has unraveled the mystery of his strange double life in an engrossing narrative." - Stanley...
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Tap Code shares never-before-told details of underground operations during the Vietnam War while weaving in an inspiring story of true love, honor, and courage as husband and wife endured the hardest circumstances they had ever faced. When Air Force pilot Captain Carlyle "Smitty" Harris was shot down over Vietnam on April 4, 1965, he had no idea what horrors awaited him in the infamous Hoa Lo prison--nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton." Harris was the sixth...
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