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CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 A cultural history of how white men exploited the image of the Vietnam veteran to roll back civil rights and restake their claim on the nation “If war among t……続きを見る

It was one of the most unpopular wars in history, raging halfway around the world. Yet as the body bags were mounting during the turbulent 1970s, one soldier, a mechanic-turned-helicopter crew chief……続きを見る

An army, Lewis Mumford once observed, “is a body of pure consumers”ーand it is logistics that feeds this body’s insatiable appetite for men and materiel. Successful logisticsーthe transportation of ……続きを見る

Not for God and Countryis a true and definitive war story written by a decorated Marine who survived some of the harshest combat of the long, cruel Vietnam War. Learn why young Americans were sent t……続きを見る

The Gulf of Tonkin: The United States and the Escalation in the Vietnam War analyzes the events that led to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam and increased American involvement. On August 4,……続きを見る

The first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam. Filling a substantial void in our understanding of the history of airpower in Vietnam, this book provides the first comprehensive treatm……続きを見る

Book 3, the last of a three-book series, continues from 1968 in book 2 to cover the action of Marine Corps Tankers and Ontos crewmen fighting the locally grown Viet Cong; the better armed, trained, ……続きを見る

The war in Vietnam achieved almost none of the goals the American decision-makers formulated, and it cost more than 56,000 American lives. Yet, until recently, Americans have preferred to ignore the……続きを見る

Viet 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 ……続きを見る

In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and search and rescue teams from all services and Air Amer……続きを見る

In the fall of 1967, political and military leaders in Washington said the Vietnam War was approaching “the crossover point”: More Vietcong soldiers were dying in battle each week than could be recr……続きを見る

A coming of age story of a young man facing his draft notice during the Vietnam Era, and how his decision shaped his life, and that of his family. Told through a series of letters sent to his mother……続きを見る

En marzo de 1954, los vietnamitas abrieron fuego contra el bastión del colonialismo francés de Dien Bien Phu, lanzando varias oleadas cuya última, el primero de mayo, aniquiló a un enemigo ya desmor……続きを見る

Much of the history written about the Vietnam War overlooks the U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons. These CAPs lived in the Vietnamese villages, with the difficult and dangerous mission of d……続きを見る

El volumen que presentamos a continuación bajo el titulo de Escritos Militares es una compilación de dos importantes trabajos en el periodo de la guerra de resistencia contra los Estados Unidos: Gue……続きを見る

El general Vo Nguyen Giap fue uno de los más destacados jefes militares de todos los tiempos, líder comunista y comandante revolucionario de una de las mayores epopeyas de liberación del siglo XX: l……続きを見る

First published in 1957, this classic work on the political situation in Southeast Asia at the start of the Vietnam War includes a supplement covering events up to mid-1958. An introductory chapter ……続きを見る

This memoir tells the story of a Marine rifle platoon commander’s time in the mountainous jungle of the northernmost province of the then Republic of Vietnam. While tasked with fighting the enemy, G……続きを見る

Looking back I could have handled things a little differently after Vietnam. I think I would have punched a lot of people a lot sooner. I just didn't know how to react when I got home. We came strai……続きを見る

By the end of the American War in Vietnam, the coastal province of Phú Yên was one of the least-secure provinces in the Republic of Vietnam. It was also a prominent target of the American strategy o……続きを見る

"The immigration officer at the airport in Saigon slid my passport over the scanner at his desk. After consulting his monitor, he remarked in English, 'Welcome back, Lieutenant.' I answered in Vietn……続きを見る

“Vietnam; Honor and Sacrifice,” is a dramatic, action packed, gut wrenching story that will allow readers to feel they are in the line of fire. Tom Kenrude, has always wanted to be a doctor. But as ……続きを見る

At the age of eighteen, armed with a dream of flying and the desire to serve his country, Norman Gaddis enlists in the Army Air Corps in the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After twent……続きを見る

Bob Loewer was an American counterintelligence special agent who served in the Mekong Delta as a district intelligence advisor in the Phoenix Program. Captain Loewer, then a military intelligence se……続きを見る

2 Gold Global E-book Awards for Nonfiction History and Nonfiction Military Bronze Global E-book Award for Nonfiction Autobiography/Memoirs 1st Air Cavalry Lieutenant Joe Abodeely shipped off to Viet……続きを見る

Few historians of the Vietnam War have covered the post-1975 era or engaged comprehensively with refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights as defining issues of the period. After Saigon's ……続きを見る

John O'Halloran was a country boy from Tamworth, NSW, who was called up for national service not long after the start of the Vietnam War. As a tough and determined 21-year-old, he guided 6 RAR's B C……続きを見る

The time period is prior to and during the 1968 Tet Offensive in South Vietnam... Shining In Infinity chronicles the lives of two characters on opposite sides of the conflict, and how they both deal……続きを見る

For 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 resear……続きを見る

The Vietnam war began for the United States in 1954; by 1966, the Central Intelligence Agency undertook a major analysis and concluded: We cannot win in Vietnam. Their analysis was kept secret for 4……続きを見る