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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History

Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than...
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The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick DVD

. - PBS
Format: DVD


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The Vietnam War: A Concise International History

Mark Atwood Lawrence - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels between that conflict and more recent fighting in the Middle East. In The Vietnam War, Mark Atwood Lawrence draws upon the latest research in archives around the world to offer readers a superb...
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Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History

Spencer C. Tucker

The largest and most comprehensive study to date of one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history.ABC-CLIO presents the largest and most comprehensive study to date of the wars in Vietnam. This authoritative, three volume masterwork details early U.S. in
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Dusterman

Joseph M. Belardo

Dusterman is an action packed adventure story about a patriotic young enlisted man from New Jersey named G.I.Joe that is based on his daily dairy entries during wartime. He served his country with honor and distinction in Vietnam with the most heavily decorated artillery unit in t
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The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

Heath Hardage Lee - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"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 of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military...
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Not since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down has Mark Bowden written a book about a battle. His most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. By January 1968,...
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Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove

Max Cleland - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

By the time he had reached middle age, Max Cleland thought he had nothing to live for. A grenade explosion in Vietnam had left him a triple amputee. He had lost his seat in the U.S. Senate, and in the grip of depression he had lost his fiance, too. But instead of giving up, Cleland reaches...
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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War

Michael Sallah - Little
Format: Book

At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed...
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Valiant Women of the Vietnam War

Karen Zeinert - 21st Century
Format: Library Binding

With this volume about American women's participation in Vietnam, both overseas and at home, Zeinert continues her historical review of women in military conflict, which includes Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution (1996) and Those Courageous Women of the Civil War (1998)....
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Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans Movement

Gerald Nicosia - Crown; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

An epic narrative history that chronicles, for the first time, the experience of America's Vietnam veterans who returned home to fight a different kind of war.The courageous Americans who served in Vietnam fought two wars: one on the other side of the world and one when they returned...
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Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam

Kenneth J. Conboy

During the Vietnam war, the U.S. sought to undermine Hanoi's subversion of the Saigon regime by sending Vietnamese operatives behind enemy lines. A secret to most Americans, this covert operation was far from secret in Hanoi: all of the commandos were killed or captured, and many
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Fire Road: The Napalm Girl's Journey through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace

Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Paperback

Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now!These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames -- before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing...
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In Retrospect:: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

Robert S. McNamara - Crown; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The #1 national bestseller--an indispensable document for anyone interested in the Vietnam War. McNamara's controversial book tells the inside and personal story of America's descent into Vietnam from a unique point of view, and is one of the most enlightening books about government...
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On Point : A Rifleman's Year in the Boonies : Vietnam 1967-1968

Roger S. Hayes - Presidio Press; 1ST edition
Format: Illustrated]

The young draftee was a typical army rifleman: a grunt.
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Our Vietnam/Nuoc Viet Ta: A History of the War 1954-1975

A.J. Langguth

Twenty-five years after the end of this terrible war, a former New York Times war correspondent returns to Vietnam to pursue new sources and returns with a surprising new and more well-rounded history of the conflict. 30,000 first printing.
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