Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape o...
The true story made famous in Werner Herzog's acclaimed film Rescue Dawn---the incredible drama of the pilot who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to lead a mass escape from a POW camp deep in the Laotian jungle.
Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape o...
Bruce HendersonThe true story made famous in Werner Herzog's acclaimed film Rescue Dawn---the incredible drama of the pilot who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to lead a mass escape from a POW camp deep in the Laotian jungle.
A Code To Keep: The True Story of Ame...
Ernest C. BraceErnest C. Brace was a former Marine hero, banished in disgrace from the Corps. In 1965, while working as a civilian pilot in Laos, he was captured and spent the next two years in a bamboo cage with his legs in stocks. His bravery did ...
Honor Denied: The Truth About Air Ame...
Allen CatesAir America flight crews, hired as civilians, but castigated as mercenaries, malcontents, and psychopaths, operated military aircraft and performed yeoman service for twenty-five years until the war in Southeast Asia ended on a roofto...
Last Men Out: The True Story of Ameri...
Bob DruryOn April 30, 1975, for twenty-four straight harrowing hours, a small band of U.S. Marines exhibited exceptional bravery to evacuate thousands from Saigon as North Vietnamese forces surged toward the city. Based on a wealth of recently...
Call Sign Dracula: My Tour with the B...
Joe Fair"Call Sign Dracula" provides an outstanding, valuable and worthy in-depth look into the life of a US Army Infantry soldier serving with the famed 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) in Vietnam. It is a genuine, firsthan...
Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Mari...
Gregg JonesLast 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 on extensive archival research and m...
Fire Base Illingworth: An Epic True S...
Philip KeithFire Base Illingworth is an epic, never-before-told true story of a North Vietnamese Army attack and how the men of this nearly overrun Fire Base survived.In the early morning hours of April 1, 1970, more than four hundred North Viet...
The League of Wives: The Untold Story...
Heath Hardage Lee"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story ― a profile...
They Marched Into Sunlight : War and ...
David MaranissMaraniss...is a writer with a masterly sense of narrative pace. Moving between the campus at Madison and the jungles of Vietnam, with side trips to Hanoi and Washington, the tale unfolds with a magisterial sweep that recaptures the wa...
Battle Story: TET Offensive 1968
Andrew RawsonThe Viet Cong campaign that shook the United StatesBy January 31, 1968, the U.S. had been fighting the Vietnam War for more than 10 years, but the American people never thought they wouldn't win. The Tet Offensive changed all that....
In the Jungle... Camping with the Ene...
W. James SeymourDuring the Vietnam War, when conventional warfare tactics weren't proving enough to eliminate Communist insurgency, the U.S. Army implemented small unit operations to take a new kind of fight to the enemy. Five to six man Long Range P...
Step Forward the Hero: The Story of M...
Donald SpiveyThe biography of Milton L. Olive, III, the first African American awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War. We learn not just about Milton Olive the individual, but about the special challenges of an African American coming of a...
Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam...
Alvin Townley"Defiant is Unbroken meets Band of Brothers—and then some." —Congressman Pete SessionsDuring the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners-of-war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of No...
Vietnam. A USMC A-4 Skyhawk pilot. PTSD. He survived Vietnam, but would he survive its aftermath? The experiences of combat produce different memories by those whom have served. Some return as warriors, seemingly unscathed. With other...
The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's Wa...
Andrew WiestWhen the 160 men of Charlie Company (4th Battalion/47th Infantry/9th ID) were drafted by the US Army in May 1966, they were part of the wave of conscription that would swell the American military to 80,000 combat troops in theater by ...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to th...
Phillip JenningsThe Vietnam War was tragic and a dismal failureat least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe. But Phillip Jennings sets the record straight in The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War, r...
One of the greatest examples of war journalism ever written, Herrs clearheaded yet unsparing dispatches from the front lines of the Vietnam War take on the force of poetry, finding clarity in one of the most incomprehensible events in...
This is a story of the Vietnam War and four young Marines. It's about fighting and killing. Compassion and love, however, are defining parts of the story. The story personalizes what war does to those who fight it and what they do to ...
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War a...
Christian G. AppyThe critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam's place in America's self-image How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? In American Reckoning, Christi...
Some Gave it All: Through the Fire of...
Mark Bowser"I want to thank Danny Lane for being brave enough to share his story with the world."~Chuck NorrisBased on an incredible true story, a young Marine fights an unbelievable battle in the abyss of Vietnam. Get a front row seat...
Dead Men Flying: Victory in Viet Nam ...
General Patrick Henry BradyViet Nam may be the only war we ever fought, or perhaps that was ever fought, in which the heroism of the American soldier was accompanied by humanitarianism unmatched in the annals of warfare. And the humanitarianism took place durin...
The sound of helicopter blades chopping through the air as they swiftly fly away into the distance, the eerie quietness before the buzzing of bullets zipping past the protective helmets, and the blasts of heavy shelling disturbing the...
Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam ...
Noam ChomskyNom Chomsky dismisses efforts to resurrect Camelot—an attractive American myth portraying JFK as a shinning knight promising peace, foiled only by assassins bent on stopping this lone hero from withdrawing from Vietnam. Chomsky argu...
Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courag...
Stephen CoontsThe epic Vietnam War story of the multi-year air campaign to destroy Ho Chi Minh's "Invincible" bridgeone of the most dramatic actions in aviation history Every war has its "bridge"Old North ...
Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courag...
Stephen CoontsA riveting Vietnam War story--and one of the most dramatic in aviation history--told by a New York Times bestselling author and a prominent aviation historianEvery war has its ""bridge""--Old North Bridge at Concor...
M50 Ontos and M56 Scorpion 1956-70: U...
Kenneth EstesDesigned in the 1950s, the US Marines' M50 Ontos and the US Army's M56 Scorpion were both intended to be fast, light, air-droppable tank-killers for the Cold War battlefield--an answer to the cumbersome and ineffective World War II-vi...
For the conscripts of who experienced the Vietnam 'police action', the way the world was seen, shaped, and understood was irretrievably changed by war. In his gentle, humorous and moving memoir, Ted George gives voice to the experienc...
Lions of Medina: The True Story of th...
Doyle GlassThursday, 12 October 1967 Marine Lance Corporal Kevin Cahill stepped onto a trail deep in the remote Hai Lang National Forest of South Vietnam. Following Cahill were the 166 Marines of Charlie Company, First Battalion, First Marines,...
Swift Sword: The True Story of the Ma...
Doyle GlassA true Vietnam War saga based on 50 interviews with veterans who were there and relatives of those who didn't come home. "I served in Vietnam and reading Swift Sword is as close as you can get to reliving the terror of persona...