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What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes Publisher Comments Fast off the success of his devastating Vietnam War novel, Karl Marlantes gives us his incredibly readable treatise on soldier psychology, Reflections on Combat: Psyche, Soul, and Consciousness in Modern Warfare. Writing in a personal address to youths... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-1975 by George J. Veith Synopsis The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably Americas worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnams surrender on 30 April... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The NVA and Viet Cong by Kenneth Conboy Publisher Comments In 1940 Japan placed Vietnam under military occupation, restricting the local French administration to a figurehead authority. Seizing the opportunity, the Communists organised a Vietnamese independence league, the Viet Minh, whose armed forces became... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Vietnam Marines 1965-73 by Charles Melson Publisher Comments Osprey's survey of Marines during the second half of the Vietnam War (1955-1975). The period following World War II (1939-1945) saw a number of associated Marine Corps, three of whom fought together during the war in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973. These... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Here There Are Tigers: The Secret Air War in Laos, 1968-69 (Stackpole Military History) by Reginald Hathorn Synopsis In-the-cockpit perspective on aerial warfare during the Vietnam War Many never-before-heard stories--some of them tragic, others humorous At the height of the Vietnam War, in 1968 and 1969, Reginald Hathorn (call sign NAIL 31) flew 229 combat missions as... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Catfish & Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X Pham Publisher Comments Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey—a solo... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dispatches by Michael Herr Publisher Comments "He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo Publisher Comments The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dereliction of Duty by H. R. Mcmaster Publisher Comments "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." - H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Street Without Joy (94 Edition) by Bernard B. Fall Publisher Comments Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street without Joy offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia: a costly and protracted revolutionary... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-485) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era by David Halberstam Publisher Comments Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $19.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills by Charles Henderson Publisher Comments Tells the exciting true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam War.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1965-70 by Oscar Gilbert Publisher Comments By 1960, following Korea, tanks and their crews had proved themselves to be a fundamental part of the Marine Corps' combined arms team. When the Marines were ordered to Vietnam in 1965, they took their tanks with them. This book explores this decision... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War (Complete Idiot's Guides) by Timothy P Maga Publisher Comments A long ago war-still relevant today. Misunderstanding remains, and a lot is still unknown, of the Vietnam War. The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to the Vietnam War, Second Edition provides an updated and revised guide giving readers the facts. It assesses... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam by James S Hirsch Publisher Comments An unforgettable true story, Two Souls Indivisible stirringly recounts the forging of a legendary, heroic bond between two soldiers. Fred Cherry and Porter Halyburton first met in their shared cell in a brutal POW camp in Vietnam. Cherry, an air force... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange by Fred A Wilcox Publisher Comments "I died in Vietnam, but I didnt even know it," said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam by Martin Windrow Publisher Comments In December 1953 French paratroopers, who had been searching for the elusive Vietnamese army, were quickly isolated by them and forced to retreat into their out-gunned and desolate jungle base-a small place called Dien Bien Phu. The Vietnamese besieged... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Battle for Hue Tet 1968 by Keith William Nolan Publisher Comments An excellent history of what may well have been the most savage, sustained combat the Marine Corps saw in Vietnam.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tragic Mountains (93 Edition) by Jane Hamilton-merritt Synopsis Jane Hamilton-Merritt, Nobel-nominated scholar and photojournalist, has followed the plight of the Hmong and the war in Indochina since the 1960s. The staunchest of allies, the Hmong sided with the Americans against the North Vietnamese and were foot... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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