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100 Missions North
Potomac Books Inc. 2003; US$ 19.95In 100 Missions North , Ken Bell recounts the harrowing sorties that he and his comrades flew in F-105 Thunderchiefs, the famous "Thud", in 1966-67, when pilots faced a 50 percent loss rate. What was it like to face these odds day after day? We learn that men sustained by faith in each other and joined by the unique bonds of combat can overcome... more...
13 Cent Killers
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 7.99?It?s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.? In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing them. Now noted Vietnam author John J. Culbertson, a... more...
15 Months in SOG
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99"When we cross the border: no ID, and it's kiss yourself good-bye if Charlie gets ahold of you." In Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command's Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) fielded small recon teams in areas infested with VC and NVA. Because SOG operations suffered extraordinary casualties, they required extraordinary soldiers. So when... more...
Accommodation and Resistance
ABC-CLIO 1986; US$ 95.00In this careful historical analysis, Edward Rice-Maximin documents the reactions of the French Left to the First Indochina War, 1944-1954. Unlike previous works, which dealt exclusively with the politics of the French Communists, this book is among the first to deal with the entire French left and to focus directly on the role of the Socialists. more...
After the Massacre
University of California Press 2006; US$ 28.95Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My?a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling, though less well-known, massacre... more...
Aid Dependence in Cambodia
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 49.99International intervention liberated Cambodia from pariah state status in the early 1990s and laid the foundations for more peaceful, representative rule. Yet the country?s social indicators and the integrity of its political institutions declined precipitously within a few short years, and inequality grew dramatically. Conducting an unflinching investigation... more...
Allies at Odds
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 89.99Allies at Odds examines America's Vietnam policy from 1961 to 1968 in an international context by focusing on the United States' relationship with its European partners France, West Germany, and Great Britain. The European response to America's Vietnam policy provides a framework to assess this important chapter in recent American history within... more...
America in Vietnam
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 21.99This controversial and timely book about the American experience in Vietnam provides the first full exploration of the perspectives of the North Vietnamese leadership before, during, and after the war. Herbert Y. Schandler offers unique insights into the mindsets of the North Vietnamese and their response to diplomatic and military actions of the... more...
America in Vietnam
Oxford University Press, USA 1978; US$ 19.99Based on a variety of classified military records, Lewy provides the first systematic analysis of the course of the Vietnam War, the reasons for the failure of American strategy and tactics, and the causes of the final collapse of South Vietnam. more...
America's Shadow
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 67.50A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the post?Cold War world and focuses on the Vietnam War, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West. more...









