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A Better War by Lewis Sorley Publisher Comments "An important new book...Mr. Sorley has provided a major challenge to the conventional wisdom." -- Washington... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam by Gordon M. Goldstein Publisher Comments A compelling portrait of a man once serenely confident, searching decades later for self-understanding.--Richard Holbrooke, The New York Times Book Review I had a part in a great failure. I made mistakes of perception, recommendation and execution. If I... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - 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 odysseya solo bicycle voyage... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Best & the Brightest 20TH Anniversary Edition by David Halberstam Publisher Comments "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times "[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan Publisher Comments Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fortunate Son: The Autobiograpy of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. by Lewis Puller Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Lewis B. Puller, Jr.'s memoir is a moving story of a man born into a proud military legacy who struggles to rebuild his world after the Vietnam War has shattered his body and his ideals. Raised in the shadow of his father... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Vietnam and America: A Documented History by Marvin E. Gettleman Publisher Comments No single event since World War II has marked this country's foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in Vietnam. Vietnam and America is a complete history of that war, as documented in essays by leading experts and in original source... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam by Gordon M. Goldstein Publisher Comments A revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, drawing on the insights and reassessments of one of the wars architects "I had a part in a great failure. I made mistakes of perception, recommendation and execution. If I... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Operation Thunderhead: The True Story of Vietnam's Final POW Rescue Mission--And the Last Navy Seal Killed in Country by Kevin Dockery Synopsis The war was all but over-but there was still one battle the United States had to fight. In the last year of the Vietnam conflict, even as American troops were leaving for home, there were still those fighting for their lives: prisoners of war being held... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Hell in an Loc: The 1972 Easter Invasion and the Battle That Saved South Viet Nam by Lam Quang Thi Synopsis In 1972 a North Vietnamese offensive of more than 30,000 men and one hundred tanks smashed into South Vietnam and raced to capture Saigon. All that stood in their way was a small band of 6,800 South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers and militiamen, and a... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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When Hell Was in Session by Jeremiah A. Denton Synopsis In "When Hell Was in Session," Jeremiah Denton, the senior American officer to serve as a Vietnam POW, tells the amazing story of the almost eight years he survived as a POW in North Vietnam. In 1966, he appeared on a television interview from prison and... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam by Tom A. Johnson Publisher Comments During the Vietnam War, one out of every eighteen helicopter pilots never made it home alive. At age nineteen, Tom Johnson flew in the thick of it, and lived to tell his harrowing tale. Johnson piloted the UH-1 "Iroquois"-better known as the "Huey"-as... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Five Years to Freedom: The True Story of a Vietnam POW by James N. Rowe Publisher Comments When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. <BR>In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills by Charles Henderson Publisher Comments He's silent, invisible. He lies in one position for days, barely twitching a muscle, able to control his heartbeat and breathing. His record has never been matched: 93 confirmed kills. This is the story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, Marine sniper, legend... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Dear Mom: A Sniper's Vietnam by Joseph T. Ward Publisher Comments The letters Joseph War, one of the elite Marine Scout Snipers, wrote home reveal a side of the Vietnam war seldom seen. Whether under nigthly mortar attack in An Hoa, with a Marine company in the bullet-scarred jungle, on secret missions to Laos, or on... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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Flying Black Ponies: The Navy's Close Air Support Squadron in Vietnam by Kit Lavell Synopsis The tragic, the comic, the terrifying, the poignant are all part of the story of the Black Pony pilots who distinguished themselves in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. Flying their turboprop Broncos down and dirty, low and slow, they killed more... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff Publisher Comments Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gone Native: An Nco's Story by Alan G Cornett Publisher Comments On his first combat assignment, Cornett accompanied the Vietnamese Rangers on a search-and-destroy mission near Khe Sang. There he gained entree into a culture that he would ultimately respect greatly and admire deeply. Cornett's most challenging... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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A bright shining lie :John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan Publisher Comments Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam. From the Trade Paperback edition.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove by Max Cleland Synopsis Cleland, a U.S. Senator from Georgia, offers a searing memoir of how he survived Vietnam, Walter Reed hospital, and the politics of Karl Rove.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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