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  • Too Young to Vote but Old Enough to Kill

    by DF Ryschka ...
    Raw, hard hitting, not politically correct, as it was during the early years of the 1970s. See through the soldiers eyes his perspectives, as he takes you visually through his personal slice of the non-winnable Vietnam War. Feel his fear and euphoria from the mundane to the cracking sounds of AK 47 rounds zipping past his head. Meet the friendly creatures persecuting the Grunts daily, while on ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Other Vietnam War

    A Helicopter Pilot's Life in Vietnam

    by Marc Cullison ...
    The Other Vietnam War is a powerful autobiographical account of service in Vietnam and the enduring, often invisible conflict that follows it home. Moving beyond battlefield action and historical summary, this memoir explores the private war carried within-one shaped by memory, moral conflict, and the lasting psychological impact of combat.Drawing on firsthand experience, the author recounts life ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Two One Pony

    An American Soldier's Year in Vietnam, 1969

    by Charles R Carr ...
    Series series Stackpole Military History Series
    A thoughtful, reflective narrative of a reluctant soldier that captures the rhythms of life in war as well as the boredom and chaos of Vietnam.At the height of the Vietnam War, Charles Carr left graduate school to serve in the army in Southeast Asia, knowing that if he didn't, another man would go—and possibly die—in his place. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion of the 47th Infantry (Mechanized) ... Read more

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  • Incident at Muc Wa: A Story of the Vietnam War

    by Daniel Ford ...
    This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster film, Go Tell the Spartans. It's 1964--early days in South Vietnam--and the U.S. Army Raiders have garrisoned a town that the French abandoned ten years before. The Viet Cong attack; the Americans reinforce. They're not about to repeat the mistakes of the French! "'Sad, bawdy, and compelling," wrote the Detroit Free Press. Prophetic, too ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beneath the Bamboo: A Vietnam War Story

    by Stan Taylor ...
    Excerpt: "I watched two point men take a 50-caliber machine gun bullet to the head, and watched the third being grabbed and taken behind enemy lines. Two of the enemy soldiers, which we often referred to as gooks, quickly came after me. As I quickly mowed them down with my automatic rifle, I crawled backwards away from the enemy gunfire, using my helmet to push sand in front of me as I went, which ... Read more

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  • Line Doggie: Foot Soldier in Vietnam

    by Charles Gadd ...
    Charles Gadd served in Vietnam in late 1967 and 1968 and had experiences very similar to what most enlisted men endured. He describes the mud, blood, leeches, loss of friends, and low morale due to constant harassment by guerrillas. The author, a squad leader with the 101st Airborne, was wounded twice and saw nearly constant action in the Central Highlands. This memoir is a vivid and accurate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 11C1p

    Eleven Charlie One Papa

    by James M. Mallen ...
    This is the report of an American Paratrooper, Infantry, boots on the ground, in Viet Nam in the mid 1960s. It is not a romanticized, sanitized, fantasized Hollywood version of ground combat. It is a description of life on the ground for your military grandfathers, fathers, uncles and brothers. When they returned from Viet Nam, this is not what they talked about. It was too painful, too raw, too ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • One More Sunrise

    Memoir of a Combat Infantryman in Viet Nam

    by Curtis P. Gay ...
    After spending a year in Germany as a security guard with the 50th Ordnance Company, Curtis Gay went to Viet Nam as a Private First Class. Six months later he was a Sergeant in the 25th Infantry Division and experienced some of the most intense fighting of the war. This book is his story.Curtis spent a year as a Drill Sergeant at Fort Dix, New Jersey before leaving the Army in 1968. After a long ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • What A Life: How the Vietnam War Affected One Marine

    by Randy Kington ...
    As a young enlisted man, Randy Kington served on the front line with some of the first Marine combat units in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. Kington describes his transformation from boy to man and the training that allowed him to survive nine months of some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War. The good times of comradeship and of helping the underprivileged are contrasted with the life and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dead Center

    A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

    by Ed Kugler ...
    WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS,EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST.Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966.As a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • After My Lai: My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

    My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

    by Gary W Bray ...
    In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently married, freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment was not enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had committed the My Lai massacre—the murder of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians—eighteen months earlier. In this compelling memoir, he shares his experiences of Vietnam in the direct wake of that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Stingray

    Force Recon Marines Behind the Lines in Vietnam

    by Bruce H. Norton ...
    In 1966, the Marine Corps introduced a bold, new concept to the battlefield. Little did the designers of that concept realize that it would change the way wars are fought, and the Corps, from that day forward.One of the most influential strategies of the Vietnam War, the Stingray Patrol comprised seven to ten marines in small teams, inserted by chopper deep in enemy territory. Surrounded on all ... Read more

    $7.99 USD