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Blood on the Risers
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 7.99From Dak To to the Tet Offensive, John Leppelman saw it all. In three tours of duty, he made combat jumps, spent months of fruitless effort looking for the enemy, watched as his budies died because of lousy leadership and lousy weapons. He saw the war as few others did, and lives to tell about the valor and sacrifice that outlived the dead. From... more...
LRRP Team Leader
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99Vietnam, 1968. All of Sergeant John Burford's missions with F Company, 58th Infantry were deep in hostile territory. As leader of a six-man LRRP team, he found the enemy, staged ambushes, called in precision strikes, and rescued downed pilots. The lives of the entire team depended on his leadership and their combined skill and guts. A single mistake--a... more...
One Soldier's Story: 1939-1945
Dundurn 2002; US$ 19.99This story details the fateful adventures of two Canadian army regiments dispatched to the Pacific to face the Japanese. more...
Guns Up!
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE. "Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in... more...
Master Chief
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99IT'S HARD TO BE HUMBLE WHEN YOU'RE SERVING WITH THE VERY BEST For UDT/SEAL team member Gary R. Smith, just being part of an elite military organization wasn't enough--he had to be in the thick of the action. Because in bloody, violent Vietnam he learned there's no stronger bond than the one forged in the gut-wrenching chaos of combat. During ambushes,... more...
When Thunder Rolled
Smithsonian 2011; US$ 12.99Ed Rasimus straps the reader into the cockpit of an F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber in his engaging account of the Rolling Thunder campaign in the skies over North Vietnam. Between 1965 and 1968, more than 330 F-105s were lost?the highest loss rate in Southeast Asia?and many pilots were killed, captured, and wounded because of the Air Force?s disastrous... more...
Life and Death in the Central Highlands
University of North Texas Press 2010; US$ 22.36In 1968 James T. Gillam was a poorly focused college student at Ohio University who was dismissed and then drafted into the Army. Unlike most African Americans who entered the Army then, he became a Sergeant and an instructor at the Fort McClellan Alabama School of Infantry. In September 1968 he joined the First Battalion, 22nd Regiment of the 4th... more...
Why The North Won The Vietnam War
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 39.00In this new collection of essays on the Vietnam War, eminent scholars of the Second Indo-china conflict consider several key factors that led to the defeat of the United States and its allies. The book adopts a candid and critical look at the United State's stance and policies in Vietnam, and refuses to condemn, excuse, or apologize for America's actions... more...
Expendable Elite
Trine Day 2006; US$ 9.99Exposing the unique nature of the United States? elite fighting force, this narrative reveals how covert operations are often masked to permit and even sponsor assassination, outright purposeful killing of innocents, illegal use of force, and bizarre methods in combat operations. Through this compelling memoir, the author reveals the fear these warriors... 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...









