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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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,...
In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara were desperate to find additional troops for the Vietnam War, but they feared that they would alienate middle-class voters if they drafted college boys or sent Re...
Tiger Force: Inward Season Three...Ov...
Leo HeaneyFor the past 15 years, members of Tiger Force, an elite group of American paratroopers serving in Vietnam, have been branded in the press as a rogue unit of rampaging GIs. Finally, additional research reveals the confusing rules of en...
A Threat of the First Magnitude
Aaron LeonardThe untold story of the FBI informants who penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labeled threats to the internal security of t...
A Bullet Through the Helmet: A Vietna...
Douglas E. MooreThe Memoir of a Vietnam Dustoff pilot. True stories of Huey helicopter Medevac rescue missions flown during the Vietnam War.
Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Com...
John L. PlasterJohn Plaster's riveting account of his covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War is "a true insider's account, this eye-opening report will leave readers feeling as if they've been given a ...
M113 APC 1960–75: US, ARVN, and Aus...
Jamie PrenattThe M113 is the most widely used and versatile armored vehicle in the world. Fielded in 1960 as a simple "battlefield taxi," over 80,000 M113s would see service with 50 nations around the world and 55 years later, many thous...
The Price They Paid: Enduring Wounds ...
Michael PutzelTHE PRICE THEY PAID is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever—and how that brutal experience has cha...
Summer Wind: A Soldier's Road from In...
Randy and Roxanne MillsThe fascinating and heartbreaking story of Indiana soldier, Dick Wolfe, was preserved in scores of letters he sent home to family, and letters friends sent to him in Vietnam from July 1967 to early January of 1968. On the rare days Wo...