Remembering The Vietnam War: Combat

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  • Vietnam: The Good Times, The Bad Times

    • ASIN: B07PS5QZSY

    The book you are about to read is a dramatic story of a Vietnam tour of duty written by a U.S. Marine veteran of South Vietnam. I am that Marine. The storyline centers on me and my particular field company, my battalion, and regiment. The writing tells, in depth, about my experiences, recollections, and feelings while in the battlefields and rear b... [Read More]

  • THERE IT IS...IT DON'T MEAN NOTHIN': A Vietnam War Memoir

    • ASIN: 1723970743
    • ISBN: 1723970743
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    There it is, and It don’t mean nothin' are two phrases the grunts used to describe their situation in Vietnam. The first covered the insanity, and the second, the result.At the request of his daughters, Charles Hensler set out to write a brief summary of his time in Vietnam. The project evolved into a cathartic journey, resulting in a compelling,... [Read More]

  • Vietnam: A Tale Of Two Tours

    • ASIN: B07B48PV26

    A U.S. Army helicopter pilot's candid first-hand account and photos of his Vietnam experience in the air and on the ground at the height of US troop strength and then again when he returned for a second tour of duty at the very end of the war. It is a non-political description of what life was really like for him and others who served with him in V... [Read More]

  • Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam

    • ASIN: 1612005993
    • ISBN: 1612005993
    • Manufacturer: Casemate

    A Military Book Club main selectionPeter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was assigned to the Alpha Company. Clark gives a visceral, vivid and immediate account of life in the platoon, as he progresses from green recruit to... [Read More]

  • A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (40th Anniversary Edition)

    • ASIN: B0039PH70O
    • Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks

  • Tiger Bravo's War: An epic year with an elite airborne rifle company of the 101st Airborne Division's "Wandering Warriors", during the height of the Vietnam War

    • ASIN: 0998854204
    • ISBN: 0998854204
    • Manufacturer: Currahee Press LLC

    A war that defined a generation. A band of paratroopers that defied the odds. A bond that couldn’t be broken. In the bloodiest year (1968) of a decade long war, a company called “Tiger Bravo” fought across the battlefields of Vietnam, as part of an elite Strike Force nicknamed the “Wandering Warriors.” By the time the last chopper departe... [Read More]

  • Vietnam: There & Back: A Combat Medic's Chronicle

    • ASIN: B07B844YCK
    • Manufacturer: Hellgate Press

    I n 1967, Jim Purtell left his small Midwestern town to join the U.S. Army. He did so at a time when the country was pro-Vietnam and serving seemed an honorable thing to do. Little did he know that the tide would turn a mere six months later as drastically as it did. VIETNAM--THERE & BACK: A COMBAT MEDIC'S CHRONICLE is a candid account of the time... [Read More]

  • 19 Minutes to Live - Helicopter Combat in Vietnam: A Memoir by Lew Jennings

    • ASIN: 1548484539
    • ISBN: 1548484539
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    "19 Minutes to Live" illustrates the incredible courage and determination of helicopter pilots and crews supporting those heroes that carried a rucksack and a rifle in Vietnam. Over 12,000 helicopters were used in the Vietnam War, which is why it became known as "The Helicopter War". Almost half of the helicopters, 5,086, were lost. Helicopter pilo... [Read More]

  • When I Turned Nineteen: A Vietnam War Memoir

    • ASIN: 0998209511
    • ISBN: 0998209511
    • Manufacturer: Glyn Haynie

    It’s the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who’d enlisted or been drafted from all over the United States and who’d all come from different backgrounds. We came together and formed a... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

    • ASIN: 1419718789
    • ISBN: 1419718789
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    National bestseller2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui.   This b... [Read More]

  • Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam

    • ASIN: B06Y34KWQL
    • Manufacturer: Do Right Press

    Things I’ll never forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being drafted into the Army or volunteering for the Marine Corps. These are his memories of funny times, disgusting times and deadly times. The author kept a journal for an entire year; therefore many of the dates, times and places are accurate. The rest is ba... [Read More]

  • To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam

    • ASIN: 0451222180
    • ISBN: 0451222180
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

    The riveting memoir of a Vietnam War helicopter pilot.“When you step into a Huey with Tom Johnson, you’re in for the real thing. No one has previously captured the Vietnam helicopter experience with such gripping authority.”—Robert F. Dorr, author of Chopper  From June 1967 to June 1968, Tom Johnson accumulated an astonishing 1,600 flying ... [Read More]

  • The Vietnam War: A Graphic History

    • ASIN: 0809094959
    • ISBN: 0809094959
    • Brand: Zimmerman, Dwight/ Vansant, Wayne (ILT)/ Horner, Chuck (FRW)
    • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

    When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam," everyone understood. The Vietnam War has become the touchstone for U.S. military misadventures―a war lost on the home front although never truly lost on the battlefront. During the pivotal decade of 1962 to 1972, U.S. involvement rose from a few hundred advisers to a fighting ... [Read More]

  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07H72LJ5V
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

  • To Bear Any Burden: The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians (Vietnam War Era Classics Series)

    • ASIN: 0253213045
    • ISBN: 0253213045
    • Manufacturer: Indiana University Press

    To Bear Any Burden is necessary to understand the most significant aspect of the Indochina wars: the human one." ―Tran Van Dinh, author of Blue Dragon White Tiger: A Tet StoryAt least this reader would like to spend hours if not days talking to each of the people within these pages." ―Jack Reynolds, Network Correspondent, NBC... remarkable insi... [Read More]

  • Vietnam: A History

    • ASIN: 0140265473
    • ISBN: 0140265473
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    "A landmark work...The most complete account to date of the Vietnam tragedy." -The Washington Post Book WorldThis monumental narrative clarifies, analyzes, and demystifies the tragic ordeal of the Vietnam war. Free of ideological bias, profound in its undertsanding, and compassionate in its human portrayls , it is filled with fresh revelations draw... [Read More]

  • The Things They Carried

    • ASIN: B002TWIVNA
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Death in the A Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970

    • ASIN: 0804115753
    • ISBN: 0804115753
    • Brand: Brand: Ivy Books
    • Manufacturer: Ivy Books

    “The enemy had a single purpose: kill me and my teammates.”Larry Chambers was still new to Vietnam in early 1969 when the LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division became L Company, 75th (Rangers). But his unit’s mission stayed the same: act as the eyes and ears of the 101st deep in the dreaded A Shau Valley—where the NVA ruled.Relentless thick ... [Read More]

  • A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath

    • ASIN: 0394743091
    • ISBN: 0394743091
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    "An absorbing and moving autobiography...An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion in the political life of our era."—Chicago TribuneWhen he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the m... [Read More]

  • Remembering The Vietnam War: Combat

    A Marine's story of Vietnam in 1968

    Vietnam War Memoirs Part 1