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A Ranger Born
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 7.99Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness?and that is what fired Black?s imagination.... more...
Reflections of a Warrior
Pocket Books 2007; US$ 9.99PFC Franklin Miller arrived in Vietnam in March 1966, and saw his first combat in a Reconnaissance Platoon. So began an odyssey that would make him into one of the most feared and respected men in the Special Forces elite, who made their own rules in the chaos of war. In the exclusive world of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and... more...
West Dickens Avenue
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 7.99In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the deadliest fights of the Vietnam War?and... more...
The Second Indochina War
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2008; US$ 28.99Now in a thoroughly revised edition, this influential book offers a concise history of the 'Vietnam War' as seen by all sides, not just from the American perspective. Retaining its invaluable account of the strategies, perspectives, and internal politics of the Vietnamese Communists based on research in primary documents and interviews in Saigon and... more...
Limits of Air Power
Free Press 1989; US$ 32.95The Limits of Air Power analyzes the American bombing campaigns in Vietnam and shows why the use of air power, so effective in previous wars, proved unsuccessful in a limited war. Major Mark Clodfelter, a military historian, assesses the American use of air power from World War II through the Vietnam War, and shows how its effectiveness declined... more...
Shrapnel in the Heart
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Five Years to Freedom
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die.... more...
Haunting Legacy
Brookings Institution Press 2011; US$ 29.95In Haunting Legacy, the father-daughter journalist team of Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb presents a compelling, accessible, and hugely important history of presidential decisionmaking on one crucial issue: in light of the Vietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war? more...
Leading the Way
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 23.00"Required reading for anyone seeking a valid perspective on America's military over the past three decades." Kirkus Reviews Fifty-six combat veterans, from senior sergeants to generals, reveal in their own words how a small group of courageous, determined men and women brought the U.S. military from the wounds of Vietnam back to high standards of excellence... more...
Charlie Rangers
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99They were the biggest Ranger company in Vietnam, and the best. For eighteen months, John L. Rotundo and Don Ericson braved the test of war at its most bloody and most raw, specializing in ambushing the enemy and fighting jungle guerillas using their own tactics. From the undiluted high of a "contact" with the enemy to the anguished mourning of a fallen... more...









