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  • Rotors

    A Novel of the Vietnam War

    by Roger Gallagher ...
    They were college kids and young soldiers who wanted to fly, and they knew little about Vietnam other than what they read in the newspapers before going there. But Ia Drang, Kontum, Bong Son, Pleiku, Dak To, and dozens of other places soon became their trials by fire as they flew the grunts into and out of hot LZs and exposed themselves to some of the most intense combat of the war. Their mission ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 1942

    Days of Darkness

    by Roger Gallagher ...
    It is 1942 and the war has heightened the risks of shrimping. As coast watchers keep a lookout for German U-boats along the Louisiana shoreline and in the Gulf of Mexico, eighteen-year-old Rene Dugas works alongside his father on a shrimp trawler. Unfortunately, they are not only finding shrimp in the water, but also the bloated bodies of young mariners. Still, it seems Rene is more determined ... Read more

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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

  • Hornet 33

    Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam

    by Ed Denny ...
    Combat helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War flew each mission facing the possibility of imminent death. Begun as a series of attempted letters to the Department of Veterans Affairs, this compelling memoir of an aircraft commander in the 116th Assault Helicopter Company--"The Hornets"--relates his experience of the war in frank detail.From supporting the 25th Infantry Division's invasion of ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Surprised at Being Alive

    An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond

    by Robert F. Curtis ...
    From flying with the Screaming Eagles in Vietnam to serving with the Marines and the Royal Navy, this memoir recounts the life of a career military pilot.Sometimes it just isn't your day. Whether your helicopter comes apart in flight due to equipment failure, or another aircraft runs into you in midair, or an enemy gunner lands his rounds in exactly the right spot to take you out of the sky. That ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • When I Turned Nineteen

    A Vietnam War Memoir

    by Glyn Haynie ...
    It’s the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who’d enlisted or been drafted from all over the United States and who’d all come from different backgrounds. We came together and formed a brotherhood that will last through time.I share my ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Spectre Gunner

    The Ac-130 Gunship

    by Msgt. David M. Burns ...
    This is the true story of Master Sergeant David M. Burns, an aerial gunner assigned to the deadliest squadron in air force history. Aboard the AC-130 Spectre gunship, he flew a total of 287 combat missions over Laos, South Vietnam, and Cambodia, in pursuit of the truck traffic coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. His squadron destroyed more than fifteen thousand trucks loaded with war munitions ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Brown Water Red Blood - A Sailor's Memories of his Tour of Duty with TF-117 in the Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam

    by Bruce Gaughran ...
    It has been 37 years and I still cannot forget. Even more interesting is why I find it difficult to adequately put these thoughts and emotions on paper. I have tried more than once, but the words do not do justice to how I feel. Is it because I am trying to forget or trying not to remember?Three short stories, approx. 10,000 words, tell of the author's experiences as a member of the Brown Water ... Read more

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  • Dust-Off Three-One

    by Thomas Butler ...
    A telephone call to Senator J. William Fulbrights Washington D. C. Office arranged a change of assignment for new Warrant Officer Pilot Thomas Butler to Medical Evacuation School at Ft Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. He could not have known how this factor would affect the future decisions he would make in combat. With only minor glimpses into the challenges faced by a medical evacuation pilot ... Read more

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  • Force Recon Diary, 1969

    The Riveting, True-to-Life Account of Survival and Death in One of the Most Highly Skilled Units in Vietnam

    by Major Bruce H. Norton ...
    Elite and highly trained, the 3d Force Recon's eight-man teams were assigned to obtain vital information about NVA operations. Alone, the men of these small teams were sent behind enemy lines, where they all knew that a single mistake could cost everyone their lives.United States Navy Hospital Corpsman Bruce Norton was the only navy corpsman to act as a Marine Force Recon Team Leader. In Force ... Read more

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