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Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 27.95Why were the American POWs imprisoned at the ?Hanoi Hilton? so resilient in captivity and so successful in their subsequent careers? This book presents six principles practiced within the POW organizational culture that can be used to develop high-performance teams everywhere. The authors offer examples from both the POWs? time in captivity and their... more...
Fire from the Sky
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 29.95This is the dramatic history of the HAL-3 Seawolves, the U.S. Navy's first and only helicopter gunship squadron of the Vietnam War. The squadron was established "in country" to support the fast, pugnacious river patrol boats of the brown water navy. Flying combat-worn Hueys borrowed from the Army, the mission of the Seawolves quickly expanded to include... more...
Vietnam War Nurses
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 35.00Eighteen nurses who served in the United States military nurse corps during the Vietnam War present their personal accounts in this book. They represent all military branches and both genders. They served in the theater of combat, in the United States, and in countries allied with the U.S. They served in front line hospitals, hospital ships, large... more...
Vietnam - Hué, Danang & Hoi An
Hunter Publishing 2012; US$ 8.99The arrival of Emperor Gia Long in 1802 began the flowering of Hué, with the building of a Chinese-style Forbidden City and the construction of royal tombs along the Perfume River. When Emperor Bao Dai abdicated in 1945, Hué ceased to be the capital of Vietnam, and Hanoi was reinstated. Hué was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in... more...
Vietnam - Nha Trang, Dalat & the Southern Highlands
Hunter Publishing 2012; US$ 8.99Nha Trang has a huge variety of hotels, almost all within a few blocks of the Pacific beaches. Most of the hotels have gardens with restaurants, and all offer decent Asian and Western food. There are lots of ocean-front bars and some discos open until all hours. People come to Nha Trang for three reasons: To eat seafood, to chill out, and to try the... more...
Death Zones and Darling Spies
UNP - Nebraska Paperback 2013; US$ 26.95In 1961, equipped with a master?s degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off on a trip around the world. Allotting just two weeks to South Vietnam, she was still there seven years later, having then earned the distinction of being the... more...
The Lost Battalion of Tet
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 23.95Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this new paperback edition brings back into print a book that became an essential source for a 2006 study of the battle by the U.S. Army s Center of Military History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early 1968 during one of the first engagements of Tet, when a U.S.... more...
Rampant Raider
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 32.50A member of Light Attack Squadron 212 s "Rampant Raiders," A-4 pilot Stephen R. Gray writes about his experiences flying combat sorties from the deck of an aircraft carrier during one of the most intense periods of aerial combat in U.S. history. From the perspective of a junior naval aviator, Gray reveals the lessons he learned first at the Naval... more...
DK Eyewitness Books: Vietnam War
Dorling Kindersley 2005; US$ 16.99Be an eyewitness to the longest war in American history?a dramatic story of patriotism, tragedy, bloody conflict, and heroism. Notonly can you trace the timeline of the war from the Indochina struggle in 1946 to the final offensive in 1975, page after page of real-life photographs offer aunique look at the reality of the Vietnam War. See campaigns... more...
Vietnam
Zed Books 2010; US$ 34.95Vietnam: Rethinking the State offers an exciting and up-to-date look at the politics of this fascinating country as it seeks to make the transition from a war-torn economic backwater to a dynamic modern society. Martin Gainsborough argues for a move away from the idea of reform as commonly understood and towards a deeper understanding of... more...









