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Price of ExitPrice of Exit
Best Price: $4.11
This is truly one of the most insightful books I have ever read on the very end of the line for...
Blackjack-34Blackjack-34
Best Price: $3.98
Written by a living legend. James C. Donahue joined the Marine Corps when he was seventeen years...
Why a Soldier?: A Signal Corpsman's Tour from Vietnam to the Moscow Hot LineWhy a Soldier?: A Signal Corpsman's Tour from Vietnam to the Moscow Hot Line
Best Price: $8.99
WHY A SOLDIER is a serious book about life in a grim war (make no mistake about that). But...
Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in VietnamLessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
Best Price: $4.15
Reading "Lessons in Disaster; McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam" is a very...
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in VietnamKill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling secret history of the...


Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in VietnamLessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
Best Price: $1.98
This book sure has impact. There are glowing reviews by senior diplomats; and in his book,...
Street Without JoyStreet Without Joy
Best Price: $4.17
An excellent book, although obviously dated. The slang comes off as quaint, although a definite...
Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War (Twayne's International History Series)Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War (Twayne's International History Series)
Best Price: $45.30
Best book purchase I have ever made. It was the best buy, the quickest shipment and was in...
Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War ActivistFugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist
Best Price: $1.86
In an issue, last year, of the contemporary political mag "Dissent" there was a review...
A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris AgreementA Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement
Best Price: $6.98
Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret...


The March of Folly: From Troy to VietnamThe March of Folly: From Troy to VietnamThe Living and the Dead - Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost WarThe Living and the Dead - Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
A biography of Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of State for Defences during the Vietnam War...
Once a Warrior KingOnce a Warrior King
Best Price: $19.99
Among soldiers of the close-knit special operations community at Fort Bragg, NC, this book is...
The World almanac of the Vietnam WarThe World almanac of the Vietnam War
Best Price: $17.50
One Tough Marine: The Biography of First Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen, USMCOne Tough Marine: The Biography of First Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen, USMC
Best Price: $6.99
About a very Modivated Marine who lost his leg in a parachuting accident when he hit two...

Spite House: Last SecretSpite House: Last Secret
Best Price: $38.99
I was led to this book by Tom McKenney, one of the principals in the story. Tom McKenney was my...
Who Spoke Up?: American Protest Against the War in Vietnam 1963-1975Who Spoke Up?: American Protest Against the War in Vietnam 1963-1975
Best Price: $132.96
A powerful narrative of the American protest against the war in Vietnam. Filled with interviews...
Over the Beach: The Air War in VietnamOver the Beach: The Air War in Vietnam
Best Price: $8.87
As a former naval aviator and Viet Nam veteran flying off the Kitty Hawk during this period, it...
A Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam : The Story of America's Rise to PowerA Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam : The Story of America's Rise to Power
Best Price: $10.75
From Melos to My Lai : Violence, Culture and SurvivalFrom Melos to My Lai : Violence, Culture and Survival
Best Price: $32.15
"From Melos To My Lai: Violence, Culture and Survival" explores the...

Price of ExitPrice of Exit
Best Price: $4.11
This is truly one of the most insightful books I have ever read on the very end of the line for...
Blackjack-34Blackjack-34
Best Price: $3.98
Written by a living legend. James C. Donahue joined the Marine Corps when he was seventeen years...
Why a Soldier?: A Signal Corpsman's Tour from Vietnam to the Moscow Hot LineWhy a Soldier?: A Signal Corpsman's Tour from Vietnam to the Moscow Hot Line
Best Price: $8.99
WHY A SOLDIER is a serious book about life in a grim war (make no mistake about that). But...
Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in VietnamLessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
Best Price: $4.15
Reading "Lessons in Disaster; McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam" is a very...
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in VietnamKill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling secret history of the...

Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in VietnamLessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
Best Price: $1.98
This book sure has impact. There are glowing reviews by senior diplomats; and in his book,...
Street Without JoyStreet Without Joy
Best Price: $4.17
An excellent book, although obviously dated. The slang comes off as quaint, although a definite...
Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War (Twayne's International History Series)Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War (Twayne's International History Series)
Best Price: $45.30
Best book purchase I have ever made. It was the best buy, the quickest shipment and was in...
Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War ActivistFugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist
Best Price: $1.86
In an issue, last year, of the contemporary political mag "Dissent" there was a review...
A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris AgreementA Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement
Best Price: $6.98
Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret...

Saneha-e-Mashriqi Pakistan Tasweer Ka Doosra RukhSaneha-e-Mashriqi Pakistan Tasweer Ka Doosra Rukh
In December 1971, one of Pakistan's most decorated officers, A.A.K. Niazi, laid down arms...
All the Way With JFK? Britain, the US and the Vietnam WarAll the Way With JFK? Britain, the US and the Vietnam War
Best Price: $49.95
In this brilliantly-researched study, Peter Busch examines the Conservative government's...
Collision of Cultures: The Americans in Vietnam, 1954-1973Collision of Cultures: The Americans in Vietnam, 1954-1973
Best Price: $16.00
Causes and Consequences of the Vietnam WarCauses and Consequences of the Vietnam WarThunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His TimesThunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times
Best Price: $13.05
Very exciting to see the new paperbook edition of this superbly researched and compassionately...

Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted GenerationLong Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation
Best Price: $48.75
Praise for the original edition: "A haunting chorus of voices, a moving...
Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants under the FrenchBefore the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants under the French
Although the United States has been involved in Vietnam for over twenty years, there has been no...
From Vietnam to 9/11: On the Front Lines of National Security with a New Epilogue on the Iraq WarFrom Vietnam to 9/11: On the Front Lines of National Security with a New Epilogue on the Iraq War
Best Price: $14.99
...they get five deferments when their Country asks them to serve. Like Dick Cheney. I only...
Assault on the Left: The FBI and the Sixties Antiwar MovementAssault on the Left: The FBI and the Sixties Antiwar Movement
Best Price: $31.95
The New Left movement was founded in 1962 with the idea of organizing a massive protest against...
North to Canada: Men and Women Against the Vietnam WarNorth to Canada: Men and Women Against the Vietnam War
Best Price: $65.00
I was intrigued by the number of Americans that sought refuge in Canada during the late 60s and...

Termite HillTermite Hill
Best Price: $1,230.30
Fighting their way through Soviet MiGs and SAMs, Lt. Col. Mack MacLendon's 357th Tactical...
War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla in HistoryWar In The Shadows: The Guerrilla in History
Best Price: $39.55
This is a very broad, very shallow survey of the entire history of guerilla warfare from the...
When Johnny Comes Marching Home AgainWhen Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
Best Price: $18.94
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again tells the stories of three soldiers in three wars. ...
Vietnam Air WarsVietnam Air WarsVietnam Voices: Perspectives on the War Years, 1941-1982Vietnam Voices: Perspectives on the War Years, 1941-1982
Arranged chronologically and in counterpoint, this unique book samples all conceivable forms of...

The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties (America in the World)The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties (America in the World)
Best Price: $20.96
Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the...
Black Prisoner of War: A Conscientious Objector's Vietnam MemoirBlack Prisoner of War: A Conscientious Objector's Vietnam Memoir
Best Price: $13.50
This book was not worth reading under its 1975 incarnation and is even less so now. All the...
Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its WarAbandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War
Best Price: $39.95
James H. Wilbanks has written one of the finest military histories to date of the final two...
Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War (Modern War Studies)Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War (Modern War Studies)
Best Price: $17.20
Did America's departure from Vietnam produce the "peace with honor" promised by...
The Brown Water Navy: The River and Coastal War in Indo-China and Vietnam, 1948-1972The Brown Water Navy: The River and Coastal War in Indo-China and Vietnam, 1948-1972
Best Price: $67.88

The Dust of Life: America's Children Abandoned in VietnamThe Dust of Life: America's Children Abandoned in Vietnam
Best Price: $8.36
Few seem to understand the aftermath of the US involvement in Southeast Asia better than Robert...
Vietnam: Three Battles (A Da Capo paperback)Vietnam: Three Battles (A Da Capo paperback)
Best Price: $24.00
Survivors: Vietnam P.o.w.s Tell Their StoriesSurvivors: Vietnam P.o.w.s Tell Their Stories
Best Price: $2.39
This is one of the greatest books that I have read on the Vietnam War subject, and I have read...
Stealth Patrol: The Making Of A Vietnam RangerStealth Patrol: The Making Of A Vietnam Ranger
Best Price: $0.01
As someone who has read 15 books by different Vietnam Veterans, Stealth Patrol, gets an average...
Soldiers Once: My Brother and the Lost Dreams of America's VeteransSoldiers Once: My Brother and the Lost Dreams of America's Veterans
Best Price: $0.01
Author Catherine Whitney has given this world an inspired and insightful look at veterans. In...

Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange ExposureBlue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure
Best Price: $33.50
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has established that Vietnam veterans are automatically...
Hong Kong and the Asylum-Seekers from VietnamHong Kong and the Asylum-Seekers from Vietnam
Leonard Davis gives the background to the 15-year-long saga of Hong Kong and the asylum seekers...
Taking Fire: The True Story of a Decorated Chopper PilotTaking Fire: The True Story of a Decorated Chopper Pilot
Best Price: $135.18
This is one of the best vietnam-era non-fiction books that I have read. The book describes the...
Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. MarineBrute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine
Best Price: $8.21
Victor "Brute" Krulak is arguably the most important officer in the history of the...
War and the Ivory Tower: Algeria and VietnamWar and the Ivory Tower: Algeria and Vietnam
Best Price: $12.90
In War and the Ivory Tower , David L. Schalk explores the public role of the intellectual in...

SealsSeals
Best Price: $24.95
"SEALs" is the book version of a historical master's thesis written by Tim...
Rangers at War:  LRRPs in VietnamRangers at War: LRRPs in Vietnam
Best Price: $27.95
Company K team 3-C I was there and in the same Company K. Sgt. Kenneth Hess was a good friend...
Time Heals No WoundsTime Heals No Wounds
First, I don't know what book those previous people read, but I only consider it an average...
StingrayStingray
Best Price: $7.35
As a student of military history, I have read much on the subject of the Vietnam War. STINGRAY,...
Ground Attack -- VietnamGround Attack -- Vietnam
Best Price: $4.95
There are many books written by pilots and/or Vietnam vets dealing in their personal...

Operation TuscaloosaOperation Tuscaloosa
Best Price: $71.71
I know Johns account of the days of Operation Tuscaloosa and the days leading up to it are as he...
Death in the a Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970Death in the a Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970
Best Price: $4.19
"Death in the A Shau Valley" by former Army Ranger Larry Chambers is a concise and...
Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of TarawaUtmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa
Best Price: $7.50
While the war in continental Europe takes the lion's share in military bibliography the one...
Gone Native: An NCO's StoryGone Native: An NCO's Story
Best Price: $4.14
Cornett's credentials are beyond reproach. He's been there and done just about...
Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed its Own POWs in VietnamKiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed its Own POWs in Vietnam
This is a book that should make ordinary American citizens exceedingly sad and angry. Although...

Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed its Own POWs in VietnamKiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed its Own POWs in Vietnam
Best Price: $65.31
As someone, who came of age during the height of the Iran/Contra fiasco, I found this book was...
Vietnam: Why We Should Have Won (Library Edition)Vietnam: Why We Should Have Won (Library Edition)
Best Price: $15.09
Dan Lyons is brilliant - I recommend this to anyone interested in the subject.
Imprisoned or Missing in Vietnam: Policies of the Vietnamese Government Concerning Captured and Unaccounted for United States Soldiers, 1969-1994Imprisoned or Missing in Vietnam: Policies of the Vietnamese Government Concerning Captured and Unaccounted for United States Soldiers, 1969-1994
Best Price: $21.50
This book unlocked hidden truths and falsehoods for me and broadened my knowledge of the...
Eye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, VietnamEye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam
Best Price: $29.95
"Eye of the Tiger" is a beautifully written, almost poetic profile of a U.S. Marine in...
Mission to Mach 2: A Fighter Pilot's Memoir of Supersonic FlightMission to Mach 2: A Fighter Pilot's Memoir of Supersonic Flight
Best Price: $23.75
The thirty-year period that marked the advent of the supersonic jet in military aviation was a...

Death Angel: A Vietnam Memoir of a Bearer of Death Messages to FamiliesDeath Angel: A Vietnam Memoir of a Bearer of Death Messages to Families
Best Price: $19.95
At 17 the author enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps with dreams of becoming a hero. Two years...
Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, 1945 to 1990Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, 1945 to 1990
Best Price: $100.00
Detailing the Vietnamese resistance to foreigners from 40 to 1990 A.D., James S. Olson and Randy...
Contagion of War (1965-1967): The Vietnam ExperienceContagion of War (1965-1967): The Vietnam Experience
Best Price: $25.00
This book on the Vietnam War deals more with tactics than strategy & attempts to march...
Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)Political Indoctrination in the U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)
Best Price: $21.26
Dr. Christopher S. DeRosa of Monmouth University provides an important contribution to the study...
A Vietnamese Royal Exile in Japan: Prince Cuong De (1882-1951) (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)A Vietnamese Royal Exile in Japan: Prince Cuong De (1882-1951) (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
Best Price: $145.29
Prince Cuong De, viewed by the French as a pretender to the Vietnamese throne, was an important...

The Tunnels of Cu ChiThe Tunnels of Cu Chi
Best Price: $11.00
I purchased "Tunnels" to serve as historical background reading for a recent trip to...
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed KillsMarine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
Best Price: $8.84
This book was a fast and engrossing read from beginning to end. Sgt. Hathcock's amazing...
The Anxious Years: America in the Vietnam-Watergate EraThe Anxious Years: America in the Vietnam-Watergate Era
Best Price: $19.50
Full disclosure: I decided to read this book after coming across a news item about Dr. McQuaid...
The Living and the DeadThe Living and the Dead
Best Price: $27.00
One of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam experience, The Living and the Dead presents...
Why Viet Nam?: Prelude to America's AlbatrossWhy Viet Nam?: Prelude to America's Albatross
Best Price: $40.00
I have just returned from Vietnam with a group of Marines I served with in the 1st Bn. 5th...

The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam, With a new preface.The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam, With a new preface.
Best Price: $21.02
Vietnam was America's most divisive and unsuccessful foreign war. It was also the first to...
The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)
Best Price: $3.99
The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly...
Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in VietnamPerils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam
Best Price: $17.67
Do you believe the President sits atop the government as an independent judge of what should be...
The My Lai Massacre in American History and MemoryThe My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory
Best Price: $24.00
I am reluctant to write this review, knowing a person's response to literature is...
The 1970s (America's Decades)The 1970s (America's Decades)
Best Price: $6.95
During the 1970s, environmental and energy issues became increasingly controversial as lines at...

At Issue in History - Vietnam War CrimesAt Issue in History - Vietnam War Crimes
Best Price: $14.00
Few events in recent American history are as controversial as the United States'...
CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great MythCNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth
Best Price: $13.48
This book makes the case that the Tailwind story of the US using sarin gas against US POWs was...
Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880 (World Social Change)Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880 (World Social Change)
Best Price: $19.50
Not much has been written about the Mekong region prior to colonial rule, perhaps because there...
Flying Through Midnight: A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam WarFlying Through Midnight: A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War
Best Price: $14.72
I guess I wasn't reading the same book as everyone else. I had seen the book and was really...
Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam WarWaiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War
Best Price: $1.99
Ms. Moreau has done a fine service to history. When Schilling Air Force Base, Kansas, a SAC B-47...

The Vietnam War Handbook: US Armed Forces in VietnamThe Vietnam War Handbook: US Armed Forces in Vietnam
Best Price: $20.27
Good overall review of the VietNam war. Like the unit histories. Some errors. There were no...
To Hanoi And Back: The Usaf And North Vietnam, 1966-1973To Hanoi And Back: The Usaf And North Vietnam, 1966-1973
Best Price: $19.01
Tiger Patterns: A Guide to the Vietnam War's Tigerstripe Combat Fatigue Patterns and Uniforms (Schiffer Military/Aviation History)Tiger Patterns: A Guide to the Vietnam War's Tigerstripe Combat Fatigue Patterns and Uniforms (Schiffer Military/Aviation History)
Best Price: $48.97
The following quotation is from page 242 of Johnson's book, "Tiger Patterns: A Guide to...
  
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