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Ending the Vietnam War
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 49.95Existing 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...
Death of a Generation
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 22.99The assassination of John F. Kennedy led to the "death of a generation". The president had planned to withdraw all special forces by the end of 1965. But White House involvement in the Coup undercut the withdrawal effort and ultimately led to the war that Kennedy had sought to prevent. more...
Tears before the Rain
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 24.99Testimony from seventy eyewitnesses to the fall of Saigon--nurses, pilots, journalists, an ambassador, and others--illuminate this account of one of the most horrendous periods of this century. more...
The Uncensored War
Oxford University Press 1986; US$ 74.99This book is the first scholarly study of Vietnam news coverage, and shows how Kennedy and Johnson both tried to discourage press coverage, and how relations between the press and the Nixon administration completely broke down. 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...
LRRP Company Command
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 7.99A book about fine leadership in combat, LRRP Company Command focuses on Captain George Paccerelli as he molds the men of the Air Cav's LRRP company into a successful reconnaissance unit. Jorgenson spent 7 years in the Army; three as an infantryman and four as a journalist. After surviving a number of missions as a LRRP with Hotel Company (Airborne),... more...
Platoon Leader
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 7.99A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.' "Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program. . . . Rather than present a potpourri... more...
Ripcord
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 7.99On April 10, 1970, Hill 927 was occupied by troopers of the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division. By July, the activities of the artillery and infantry of Ripcord had caught the attention of the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) and a long and deadly siege ensued. Ripcord was the Screaming Eagles? last chance to do significant damage to the NVA... more...
Semper Fi: Vietnam
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 7.99From their early days in 1965 when the order of the day was to drive the insurgent Viet Cong from the villages around Da Nang to the final, dramatic evacuation of Saigon ten years later, Semper Fi?Vietnam relates the whole gutsy, glorious saga of the Marines in Vietnam in stark, riveting detail. Acclimating to their strange new surroundings occupied... more...









