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  • Vietnam Declassifiedby Jr. Thomas L. Ahern; Donald P. Gregg

    The University Press of Kentucky 2010; US$ 40.00

    Vietnam Declassified is a detailed account of the CIA's effort to help South Vietnamese authorities win the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasantry and suppress the Viet Cong. Covering the CIA engagement from 1954 to mid-1972, it provides a thorough analysis of the agency and its partners. Retired CIA operative and intelligence consultant Thomas L. Ahern... more...

  • Inventing Vietnamby Michael Anderegg

    Temple University Press 2009; US$ 33.95

    The Vietnam War has been depicted by every available medium, each presenting a message, an agenda, of what the filmmakers and producers choose to project about America's involvement in Southeast Asia. This collection of essays, most of which are previously unpublished, analyzes the themes, modes, and stylistic strategies seen in a broad range of films... more...

  • The Vietnam Warby David L. Anderson

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2005; US$ 99.95

    The Vietnam War endured for thirty years, cost billions of dollars, and resulted in thousands of Vietnamese, French, and American deaths. Massive American military intervention in Vietnam embroiled America in protests, placed enormous strains on the western alliance, and altered U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and China. David L. Anderson's concise... more...

  • The Columbia History of the Vietnam Warby David L. Anderson

    Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 64.99

    America's experience in Vietnam continues to figure prominently in debates over strategy and defense and within the discourse on the identity of the United States as a nation. Through fifteen essays rooted in recent scholarship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War is a chronological and critical collective history central to any discussion of... more...

  • The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam Warby David L. Anderson

    Columbia University Press 2004; US$ 29.99

    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 hotly debated as ever. Why did successive administrations choose little-known Vietnam as the "test case" of American commitment in the fight against communism?... more...

  • Ending the Vietnam Warby Cheng Guan Ang

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 49.95

    Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, tells the story of the war from the Tet offensive in 1968 up to the reunification of... more...

  • Southeast Asia and the Vietnam Warby Cheng Guan Ang

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 44.95

    This book describes and explains Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore?s attitudes and policies regarding the Vietnam War. While it is generally known that all three countries supported the US war effort in Vietnam, it reveals the motivations behind the decisions of the decision makers, the twists and turns and the nuances in the attitudes of Jakarta,... more...

  • Lurpsby Robert C. Ankony

    Hamilton Books 2008; US$ 49.99

    Lurps is the revised edition of the memoir of a juvenile delinquent who drops out of ninth grade to chase his dream of military service. After volunteering for Vietnam, he joins the elite U.S. Army LRRP / Rangers?small, heavily armed long-range reconnaissance teams that patrol deep in enemy-held territory. more...

  • Patriotsby Christian Appy

    Penguin Group Inc. 2004; US$ 18.00

    Christian G. Appy?s monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war?s path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective,... more...

  • Working-Class Warby Christian G. Appy

    The University of North Carolina Press 1993; US$ 28.95

    "Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached draft age during the war--came from working-class and impoverished backgrounds. . . . Deals especially well with the apparent paradox that the working-class soldiers' families back home mainly opposed the... more...