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The Vietnam WarNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Based on the celebrated PBS television series, the complete text of an engrossing history of America's least-understood conflict, "a significant milestone [that] will no doubt do much to determine how the war is understood for years to come." --The Washington Post...
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The Vietnam War: A Military History"Remarkable... the best overview of America's misadventure in Southeast Asia, and it is sure to become the standard one-volume book on the war." - Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it...
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The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated HistoryThis revised and updated guide to the Vietnam War charts the unforgettable story of America's longest and most controversial conflict, 50 years on from its end. Hundreds of insightful images and a compelling narrative combine to chronicle this catastrophic war. From 1955, the communist...
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The Village of Ben SucWith a new introduction by Wallace Shawn, a classic work of war reportage that describes, with unblinking vision, the systematic leveling of a Vietnamese village by American troops. In January 1967, as President Lyndon Johnson sent more forces to the war in Vietnam, the...
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The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at HomeAward-winning author and journalist Wil Haygood explores how the Vietnam War became a mirror for the struggle of Black Americans--fighting for freedom abroad while demanding equality at home--and a powerful lens through which to understand the racial and political divides that continue to shape...
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The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern WarfareFrom award-winning journalist and coauthor of The 15:17 to Paris, an affecting human history of the first self-steering bomb Paveway, the first "smart" bomb, was created to be a more precise and ostensibly humane weapon, reducing civilian casualties. The true impact of the bomb,...
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Then All Hell Broke Loose: The Odyssey of a Marine Corps Photographer in VietnamOne Marine, one camera, and a front-row seat to history--Then All Hell Broke Loose is a gripping visual journey through the Vietnam War. The USNS Hugh J. Gaffey dropped anchor at 1430 hours on December 27, 1966, under an overcast sky at Da Nang,...
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They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967David Maraniss tells the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties through the events of a few gripping, passionate days of war and peace in October 1967. With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while...
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This Is a True War Story: My Improbable History with VietnamA personal account by a war historian and adoptee who discovers his biological father was a famous Marine combat photographer in Vietnam. Robert K. Brigham has had a substantial career as a historian of the Vietnam War, with a hand in nine books, a...
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Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter PilotThoughts on issues of character, leadership, integrity, personal and public virtue, and ethics, the selections in this volume converge around the central theme of how man can rise with dignity to prevail in the face of adversity-lessons just as valid for the challenges of...
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Topgun: An American StoryNATIONAL BESTSELLER "If you loved the movie, you will love the real story in the book." -- Fox & Friends On the 50th anniversary of the creation of the "Topgun" Navy Fighter School, its founder shares the remarkable inside story of how he and...
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Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in VietnamHow two Vietnam POWs, one white and one black, formed an unexpected friendship that saved them both: "A moving story."--John McCainFred Cherry was one of the few black pilots taken prisoner by the Vietnamese, tortured and intimidated by captors who tried and failed to...
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Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America's SoulThe untold story of the Black patriots--from soldiers in combat to peace protesters--who ended the Vietnam War and defended the soul of American democracy, from a pre-eminent civil rights historian and the award-winning author of Half American As the civil rights movement blazed through...
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Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir, Revised EditionVietnam-Perkasie, W.D. Ehrhart's classic account of his 13 months as a Marine in Vietnam, is the only memoir of the war that is written from the point-of-view of the 18-year-old living the experience rather than the voice of the author recollecting the war later...
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We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam"Powerful. . . . A candid, highly informative, and heartfelt tale of forgiveness between former fierce enemies in the Vietnam War." --St. Petersburg TimesThe #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young brought to life one of the...
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We Few: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam"Brokhausen mixes irreverence, perversity, and sarcasm with touches of gonzo journalism to recreate his 1970 tour with the Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group..." -- Vietnam Veterans of AmericaThis riveting memoir details the actions and experiences of a small group of Americans...
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We Were There: VietnamVietnam was a bloody and divisive war that shaped a generation.In 1968, with the elimination of law school draft deferments, Steve Bailey's door to academia slammed shut. Another door opened to two years of training through Louisiana's swamps, Panama's jungles, and Officer Candidate School....
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What It Is Like to Go to War#3 on Amazon.com's 10 Best Books of 2011The New Yorker Favorite Books from 2011Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2011Barnes & Noble Best Nonfiction Books of 2011St. Louis Post Dispatch Favorite Books of 2011A Shelf Awareness Reviewer's Top Pick of 2011 One of the most...
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What Now, Lieutenant?: Leadership Forged from Events in Vietnam, Desert Storm and BeyondWars fought on a grand scale with global consequences are made up of countless smaller battles and events. For the men who fought, bled and died in them they are not small-those little pieces of war-and the personal aftermath and their effect is beyond...
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When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent my Time in Hell: A memoir of my year as an Army Nurse in VietnamWhen she was 18, Barbara Hesselman joined the Army to finance her nursing education. A little more than four years later, and with less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. On the neurosurgical...
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