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Regimental histories abound, but few can be as stirring as this story of the fortunes of the famous Yorkshire-based Green Howards. Raised in 1688 in response to a call for loyal troops, the Green Ho……続きを見る

A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond Chandler The Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empir……続きを見る

From the defeat of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam at Ap Bac to the battles of the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh, and more, Storms over the Mekong offers a reassessment of key turning points in the ……続きを見る

Through the story of the brief, brave life of a promising poet, the president and CEO of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art evokes the turmoil and tragedy of the Vietnam War era. In That Time tel……続きを見る

Winner of the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Award John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from its early days, through the bloody battle of Hue in 1968, to the Cambodian invasion. He……続きを見る

On March 19, 1969, First Lieutenant Homer R. Steedly, Jr., shot and killed a North Vietnamese soldier, Dam, when they met on a jungle trail. Steedly took a diary -- filled with beautiful line drawin……続きを見る

A 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 historian Every war has its "bridge"--Old North B……続きを見る

Now in its second edition, Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam provides a fresh approach to understanding the American combat soldier’s experience in Vietnam by focusing on the day-to-day……続きを見る

Dr. Dooley and a tiny staff set up two jungle hospitals in Laos, five miles from the edge of the bamboo curtain where they continue to fight disease and communism with antibiotics and understanding.……続きを見る

The famous American doctor who helped found MEDICO tells of the personal battle he fought against cancer while healing the sick in the jungles of Asia. Dooley was a celebrated person during his camp……続きを見る

Explore the tumultuous Vietnam Era and its lasting impact on American society. Based on extensive research and interviews, What's Going On chronicles the history of the Vietnam Era, revealing the po……続きを見る

This book explores how and why Vietnam loomed so large for Humphrey as vice president from 1964 through the 1968 election campaign against Richard Nixon. It assesses how Humphrey’s loyalty to Lyndon……続きを見る

In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese sol……続きを見る

The U.S. Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP) in Vietnam was an enlightened gesture of strategic dissent. Recognizing that search-and-destroy operations were immoral and self-defeating and th……続きを見る

Winner: Southwest Book Award A great white angel spreading her wings across the Moreno Valley: this is how one visitor described the memorial standing atop a windswept prominence in the Sangre de Cr……続きを見る

**WINNER OF THE 2022 GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war.** Kate Webb, an Australian ico……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Nixon y su lucha contra el comunismo, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, us……続きを見る

As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II during the wind-down of the Vietnam War. Overcoming mi……続きを見る

Taking the reader in the mountains and forests that the Americans called “Indian country,” Stevens presents the Viet Nam War as an extension of the romantic myth of the American frontier. In seven o……続きを見る

In the Tet Offensive of 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive countrywide attack on South Vietnam. Though the Communists failed to achieve their tactical and operational obj……続きを見る

Rooted in recent scholarship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War offers profound new perspectives on the political, historical, military, and social issues that defined the war and its effect o……続きを見る

More than a quarter of a century after the last Marine Corps Huey left the American embassy in Saigon, the lessons and legacies of the most divisive war in twentieth-century American history are as ……続きを見る

Im 20. Jahrhundert gab es mehrere politische und militärische Konflikte. Ausgehend vom Ersten Weltkrieg ist es mehr als ausreichend zu behaupten, dass im Gegensatz zu mehreren Ansichten, die von pol……続きを見る

On November 18, 1965, U.S. Navy pilot Willie Sharp ejected from his F-8 fighter after being hit while positioned over a target in North Vietnam. With a cloud layer beneath him, he did not know if he……続きを見る

This United States Army publication, Field Manual FM 90-5 Jungle Operations August 1982 describes: The Jungle Environment; Life in the Jungle; Preparation and Training to Deploy to Jungle; The Threa……続きを見る

In October 1967, eighteen-year-old Patrick Bradley enlisted in the US Army and was later deployed to Vietnam to map mobile POW camps to determine a pattern for rescuing prisoners. Combat left him ph……続きを見る

A Marine's searing and intimate storyー"A passionate, fascinating, and deeply humane memoir of both war and of the hard work of citizenship and healing in war’s aftermath. A superb addition to our u……続きを見る

Historically, the Vietnam War is the longest, largest and most complex colonial wars. During the war, the North and South Vietnam fought each other with the help of their backers. The Vietnam War la……続きを見る

See firsthand how war photography is used to sway public opinion. In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Air Force released blurry video of a missile blowing up a pick-up truck which may have had a weapon……続きを見る

As a schoolboy, Ron George seemed an unlikely airplane pilot. By his own admission, he was scared of heights and was so uncoordinated he couldn't hit a baseball or fly a paper airplane. He went on, ……続きを見る