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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...
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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 bicycle...
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Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars
by Mark Philip (edt) Bradley Publisher Comments Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question why Vietnam? dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings...
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War Lessons: How I Fought to Be a Hero and Learned That War Is Terror
by John Merson Publisher Comments Military memoirs abound, but few prove to be trustworthy accounts free of spin, bravura, or military glitter. John Merson's War Lessons takes a rare reflective approach to this pressing issue of our time. In vivid, unadorned prose, he interweaves his own...
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Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars
by Mark Philip (edt) Bradley Publisher Comments Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question why Vietnam? dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings...
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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...
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Cleared Hot!: A Marine Combat Pilot's Vietnam Diary
by Bob Stoffey Publisher Comments Daring missions. Dangerous rescues. Deadly accuracy. Many pilots never made it out of 'Nam. This one did. Highly decorated Col. Bob Stoffey-- a Marine Corps pilot for over twenty-five years, who served multiple tours in Vietnam-- has seen and done it all....
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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...
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Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
by Jonathan Shay Publisher Comments In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life. Seamlessly combining important psycho...
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
by Thuy Tram Dang Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked...
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The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America's "Tunnel Rats" in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
by Tom Mangold Publisher Comments At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only...
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The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War (Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures)
by David L Anderson Synopsis More than a quarter of a century after the last Marine Corps Huey left the American embassy in Saigon, the lessons and legacies of the most divisive war in twentieth-century American history are as hotly debated as ever. Why did successive...
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The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
by David Halberstam Synopsis Pulitzer-prize winning author David HalberstamOs eyewitness account of the most critical political period of U.S. involvement in Vietnamthe Kennedy/Diem eraremains as fresh and stimulating today as when it was first published in 1965. In the introduction...
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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
by Mark Moyar Publisher Comments Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War....
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101st Lrp/Rangers #01: Six Silent Men
by Reynel Martinez Publisher Comments "No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men." [pg. 13] In 1965 nearly four...
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Patriots : Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides (03 Edition)
by Christian G. Appy Publisher Comments 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...
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Battle Orders #33: The US Army in the Vietnam War 1965-73
by Gordon L. Rottman Synopsis This book provides detailed information about how US Army units were organized and operated in America's longest war. Special forces veteran Gordon L Rottman examines the different types of infantry battalions and the units that supported them, their...
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My Detachment : a Memoir (05 Edition)
by Tracy Kidder Publisher Comments The award-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains reminisces about his own life, in a unromanticized profile of a young man coming of age during the Vietnam War, chronicling his experiences as a former ROTC intelligence officer in command of a...
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Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir
by Larry Gwin Synopsis "The 2d Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion". A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his...
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The Nightingale's Song
by Robert Timberg Publisher Comments Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of well...
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