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We Few: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam
- ASIN: B07CMHKC5Q
- Manufacturer: Casemate Publishers
A Green Beret’s gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In 1970, on his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Officially, it was known as the Studies and Observations group. In fact, this Special Forces squad, which Brokhausen calls “an unwashed, profane, ribald, ... [Read More]
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The Green Berets in the Land of a Million Elephants: U.S. Army Special Warfare and the Secret War in Laos 1959-74
- ASIN: 1612006655
- ISBN: 1612006655
- Manufacturer: Casemate
The Secret War in Laos was one of the first “Long Wars” for special operations, spanning a period of about thirteen years. It was one of the largest CIA-paramilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now. Between 1959 and 1974, Green Berets were covertly deployed to Laos to prevent a communist take-over o... [Read More]
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
- ASIN: 0553381482
- ISBN: 0553381482
- Brand: Bantam
- Manufacturer: Bantam Books
“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.” With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the might... [Read More]
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Across The Fence
- ASIN: B004XMOISG
- Manufacturer: SOG Publishing
For eight years, far beyond the battlefields of Vietnam and the glare of media distortions, American Green Berets fought a deadly secret war in Laos and Cambodia under the aegis of the top secret Military Assistance Command Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group, or SOG.Go deep into the jungle with five SOG warriors surrounded by 10,000 enemy t... [Read More]
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A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight
- ASIN: 1455591416
- ISBN: 9781455591411
- Brand: Twelve
- Manufacturer: Twelve
Amazon Best Book of the Month"Maria Toorpakai is a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfillment, and genuine personhood." --Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains EchoedMaria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressiv... [Read More]
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Special Forces at War: An Illustrated History, Southeast Asia 1957-1975
- ASIN: 0760334498
- ISBN: 0760334498
- Brand: Brand: Zenith Press
- Manufacturer: Zenith Press
More than 8.7 million Americans reported for military duty in Southeast Asia, but only a select few wore the Green Beret, the distinctive symbol of the U.S. Army Special Forces. Operating out of small outposts in some of the worlds most rugged terrain, these elite soldiers played a crucial role during the protracted conflict. Special Forces at War:... [Read More]
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Counterinsurgency in Paradise: Seven Decades of Civil War in the Philippines (Asia@War)
- ASIN: 1910294063
- ISBN: 1910294063
- Manufacturer: Helion and Company
Best known in the USA as a former colony and exotic tourist location, the Republic of the Philippines has seen civil unrest, insurgencies and separatism movements ever since independence in 1946. Endemic corruption, human rights violations, ethnic strife and a shaky economy have fueled wars that have been raging on and off for almost 70 years. Agai... [Read More]
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The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II (P.S.)
- ASIN: 0060746386
- ISBN: 0060746386
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II's outset, closing all of China's seaports, more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a 700-mile overland route - the Burma Road - from the southwest Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma. But when Burma fell in 1942, the Burma... [Read More]
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The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
- ASIN: 0891418695
- ISBN: 0891418695
- Brand: Brand: Presidio Press
- Manufacturer: Presidio Press
At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough to maneuver through the guerrillas’ narrow domai... [Read More]
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Fire from the Sky: Seawolf Gunships in the Mekong Delta
- ASIN: 159114776X
- ISBN: 9781591147763
- Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press
Fire from the Sky is the first complete history of the most decorated Navy squadron of the Vietnam War. Richard C. Knott tells the dramatic history of the HAL-3 Seawolves, the U.S. Navy's first and only helicopter gunship squadron of the Vietnam War. The squadron was established "in country" to support the fast, pugnacious river patrol boats of the... [Read More]
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The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand
- ASIN: B07G796MFC
- Manufacturer: William Morrow
From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks—a pulse-pounding page-tu... [Read More]
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Behind Japanese Lines: With the OSS in Burma
- ASIN: B00I2G6RIS
- Manufacturer: Skyhorse
In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William Wild Bill” Donovan, now known historically as the Father of Central Intelligence,” with orders to form a special unit whose primary mission was to prepare for the eventual reopening of the Burma Road linking Burma and China by performing guerilla ope... [Read More]
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The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
- ASIN: 1476761914
- ISBN: 1476761914
- Brand: SCRIBNER
- Manufacturer: Scribner
A powerful work of literary military history from the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers, the harrowing, redemptive, and utterly unforgettable account of an American army reconnaissance platoon’s fight for survival during the Vietnam War—whose searing experiences reverberate today among the millions of Ameri... [Read More]
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LRRP Company Command: The Cav's LRP/Rangers in Vietnam, 1968-1969
- ASIN: 0804119201
- ISBN: 9780804119207
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
A gripping account of ordinary men with extraordinary courage and heroism who had one last chance to make good—and one helluva war zone to do it in. The new commander of the Company E, 52d Infantry LRRPs, Capt. George Paccerelli, was tough, but the men’s new AO was brutal. It was bad enough that the provinces of Binh Long, Phuoc Long, and Ta... [Read More]
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Low Level Hell: A Scout Pilot in the Big Red One
- ASIN: B001QAP3JQ
- Manufacturer: Presidio Press
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Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam
- ASIN: 0306823721
- ISBN: 0306823721
- Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
The riveting story of the heroic three-month defense of Khe Sanh by 6,000 Marines--an epic confrontation at a pivotal moment in America's war in VietnamLast Stand at Khe Sanh is a vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic 1968 confrontation, when 6,000 US Marines held off 30,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars at a remote mountain stronghold. Based ... [Read More]
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Blackjack-33: With Special Forces in the Viet Cong Forbidden Zone
- ASIN: B003L1ZVMM
- Manufacturer: Presidio Press
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The Son Tay Raid: American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten, Revised Edition (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
- ASIN: 160344212X
- ISBN: 160344212X
- Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
In May 1970, aerial photographs revealed what U.S. military intelligence believed was a POW camp near the town of Son Tay, twenty-three miles west of North Vietnam’s capital city. When American officials decided the prisoners were attempting to send signals, they set in motion a daring plan to rescue the more than sixty airmen thought to be held ... [Read More]
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Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG
- ASIN: B00AK9IRX8
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Major John L. Plaster recalls his remarkable covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War in a “comprehensive, informative, and often exciting…account of an important part of the overall Vietnam tragedy” (The New York Times).Before there were Navy SEALs, there was SOG. Short for “Studies and Operations G... [Read More]
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A Special Relationship: The United States and Military Government in Thailand, 1947-1958
- ASIN: 0824818180
- ISBN: 0824818180
- Brand: Brand: Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press
The development of the Thai-American alliance from 1947 to 1958 dramatically transformed both countries' involvement in Southeast Asia. Bounded by two important political events in Thailand, an army coup in 1947 and the military's assumption of complete control of government in 1958, the period witnessed both the entrenchment of authoritarian milit... [Read More]
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