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With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics
Dale Van Atta
University of Wisconsin Press
University of Wisconsin Press
In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, centrist Congressman Melvin Laird (R-WI) agreed to serve as Richard Nixon’s secretary of defense. It was not, Laird knew, a move likely to endear him to the American public—but as he later said, “Nixon...
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Red Thunder Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam
Eric M. Bergerud
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
This honest, unflinching narrative presents the personal stories of the 25th Infantry--the division that inspired Oliver Stone's film, Platoon. Bergerud contends that the Vietnam War was lost in the field, where divisions like the 25th Infantry were...
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A World of Hurt: Between Innocence & Arrogance in Vietnam
Mary Reynolds Powell
Greenleaf Book Group
Greenleaf Book Group
In 1970, twenty-three year-old Army nurse, Mary Reynolds boarded a plane bound for Vietnam. Uncertain and alone, Mary had no idea what lay ahead. Almost thirty years later, Mary tells of that year in her life: a year of discomfort, fear and...
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Mobile Guerrilla Force: With The Special Forces In War Zone D
James C. Donahue
St. Martin's Paperbacks
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Without artillery support, without reinforcements, they turned a suicide mission into a success. Battered and depleted by the Vietcong guerrillas' sadistic style of warfare, allied intelligence unleashed their secret weapon: an experimental Army...
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On Yankee Station: The Naval Air War over Vietnam (Bluejacket Books)
John B. Nichols, Barrett Tillman
US Naval Institute Press
US Naval Institute Press
Foreword by Stephen Coonts. Combining vivid personal narrative with historical and operational analyses, this book takes a candid look at U.S. naval airpower in the Vietnam War. Coauthors John Nichols, a fighter pilot in the war, and Barrett...
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Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War (Contesting the Past)
Gary R. Hess
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell
In Vietnam , Gary R. Hess describes and evaluates the main arguments of scholars, participants, and journalists, both revisionist and orthodox in their approach, as they try to answer fundamental questions of the Vietnam War. Clearly examines...
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The Vietnam War Handbook: US Armed Forces in Vietnam
Andrew Rawson
The History Press
The History Press
In the 1950s, the United States sent troops to Vietnam to support the South Vietnamese government in their fight against the communist North. Almost three million U. S. men and women traveled thousands of miles to fight for what was a questionable...
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Spymaster: My Life in the CIA
Ted Shackley, Richard A. Finney
Potomac Books Inc.
Potomac Books Inc.
The death of CIA operative Theodore G. "Ted" Shackley in December 2002 triggered an avalanche of obituaries from all over the world, some of them condemnatory. Pundits used such expressions as "heroin trafficking," "training terrorists," "attempts...
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