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Gone Native: An NCO's Story

By: Alan G. Cornett

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: Jun-00

Seller ID: 462285

ISBN: 804116377

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides

By: Appy, Christian G.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 2004

Seller ID: 466042

ISBN: 0142004499

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." -Chicago Tribune

Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides: Ameri...
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Red Thunder Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam

By: Bergerud, Eric M.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: March 1994

Seller ID: 465965

ISBN: 0140235450

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Extraordinary...recreates the Vietnam experience in visceral terms."--Col. Harry G. Sumniers, Jr., editor, Vietnam magazine.
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About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior

By: Colonel David H. Hackworth,Julie Sherman

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Touchstone: Apr-90

Seller ID: 457703

ISBN: 671695347

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

By: Fredrik Logevall

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: Jan-14

Seller ID: 457399

ISBN: 375756477

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Combat Corpsman: The Vietnam Memoir of a Navy Seals Medic

By: Greg McPartlin

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Dutton Caliber: Nov-05

Seller ID: 458070

ISBN: 425205827

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Walter Winchell: A Novel

By: Herr, Michael

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Vintage: August 1991

Seller ID: 472828

ISBN: 0679733930

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A streamlined hybrid of novel and screenplay, Walter Winchell tells the story of the failed vaudevillian who became this country's most influential gossip columnist and wizard of the vicarious. Brilliant . . . full of punchy dialogue, colorful people and places and period movie devices . . . Herr's hybrid is perfect.--Chicago Tribune.
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Vietnam: A History

By: Karnow, Stanley

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 457259

ISBN: 0140145338

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

My Detachment: A Memoir

By: Kidder, Tracy

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: October 2006

Seller ID: 466261

ISBN: 0812976169

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself. This extraordinary memoir is destined to become a classic.

Kidder was an ROTC intelligence officer, just months out of college and expecting a stateside assignment, when his orders arrived for Vietnam. There, lovesick, anxious, and melancholic, he tried to...
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Blaze of Light: The Inspiring True Story of Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor Recipient

By: Marcus Brotherton

Price: $8.00

Publisher: WaterBrook: Mar-20

Seller ID: 459779

ISBN: 525653783

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In Retrospect

By: McNamara, Robert

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Feb-13

Seller ID: 456977

ISBN: 679767495

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War

By: Neil Sheehan, Hedrick Smith, E. W. Kenworthy, Fox Butterfield

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Racehorse: Dec-17

Seller ID: 452983

ISBN: 1631582925

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"The WikiLeaks of its day" (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American politics.

"The most significant leaks of classified material in American history." -The Washington Post

Not Fake News The basis for the 2018 film The Post by Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America's true role in the ...
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Vietnam at War: The History: 1946-1975

By: Phillip B. Davidson

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: May-91

Seller ID: 457260

ISBN: 195067924

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

By: Sheehan, Neil

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: September 1989

Seller ID: 457243

ISBN: 0679724141

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION. One of the most acclaimed books of our time--the definitive Vietnam War expos .

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that th...
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Better War. The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam

By: Sorley, Lewis

Price: $5.00

Publisher: November 2012

Seller ID: 467678

ISBN: 0156013096

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing from thousands of hours of previously unavailable (and still classified) tape-recorded meetings between the highest levels of the American military command in Vietnam, A Better War is an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these final years. Through his exclusive access to authoritative materials, award-winning historian Lewis Sorley highlights the dramatic differences in conception, condu...
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The Year of the Hare: America in Vietnam, January 25, 1963-February 15, 1964

By: Winters, Francis X.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of Georgia Press: March 1999

Seller ID: 470685

ISBN: 0820321214

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When the United States government engineered the overthrow of the troublesome South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963, it set in motion a tumultuous course of events deepening the Vietnam War. The Year of the Hare asks why President John F. Kennedy decided to depose his ally of nine years, despite almost daily warnings from some cabinet officials that the most likely consequence of a coup would be chaos.

Why did Kennedy and his colleagues choose this perilous course in the midst of an uncertain civil war? To answer this question, The Year of the Hare takes...
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