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  • Why Vietnam Matters

    An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned

    by Rufus C Phillips III ...
    Rufus Phillips offers an extraordinary inside history of the most critical years of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1954 to 1968, and explains why it still matters. Describing what went right and then wrong, he contends that our failure to understand the Communists, our South Vietnamese allies, or even ourselves took us down the wrong road of a conventional war until it was too late—we ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Stabilizing Fragile States

    Why It Matters and What to Do about It

    by Rufus C. Phillips ...
    Series series Studies in Civil-Military Relations
    Stabilizing Fragile States: Why It Matters and What to Do About It is a masterclass on intervening to help fragile states stabilize in the face of internal challenges that threaten national security and how the United States can do better at less cost with improved chances of success. Written from the point of view of an on-the-ground practitioner after exceptional government and voluntary service ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • Down South

    One Tour in Vietnam

    by William Hardwick ...
    “I was always happy to see first light.By first light it was over . . . for a while.”–from Down SouthThere were a lot of ways to get killed in Vietnam. You could get “zapped,” “dinged,” “burned,” “popped,” “smoked,” or “wasted.” Marine 2nd Lt. William H. Hardwick was familiar with all of them because, unlike most USMC artillery officers–who waged their war from bunkers inside protected compounds ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Taking Fire

    The True Story of a Decorated Chopper Pilot

    by Ron Alexander, Charles W. Sasser ...
    The incredible memoir by one of the most decorated chopper pilots to emerge from the Vietnam War."Some of the best action writing in the field . . . Electrifying." — New York Times –bestselling author W. E. B. GriffinNicknamed "Mini-Man" for his diminutive stature, a mere five-foot-three and 125 pounds in his flight boots, chopper pilot Ron Alexander proved to be a giant in the eyes of the men he ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fast Movers

    Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience

    by John Sherwood ...
    Official navy historian John Sherwood offers an authoritative social history of the air war, focused around fourteen of these aviators—from legends like Robin Olds, Steve Ritchie, and John Nichols to lesser-known but equally heroic fighters like Roger Lerseth and Ted Sienecki.The war in the skies above Vietnam still stands as the longest our nation has ever fought. For fourteen years American ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Shau Valor

    American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963–1971

    by Thomas R. Yarborough ...
    From the author of Da Nang Diary: A military history of the Battle of Hamburger Hill and other fights between the NVA and the US and its Vietnamese allies.Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) were not a major factor, but where the trained professionals of the North Vietnamese and US armies repeatedly fought ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Men Who Persevered

    The AATTV - the most highly decorated Australian unit of the Viet Name war

    by Bruce Davies, Gary McKay ...
    The first Australians committed to serve in Viet Nam were a group of military instructors known as the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. Their initial role: to assist in the training of the ground forces of South Viet Nam. But battalion battles and artillery duels, the relief of besieged camps, and mobile strike forces became part of the mosaic that saw this curiously named unit forge a ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Australia and the Vietnam War

    by Peter Edwards ...
    In this landmark book, award-winning historian Peter Edwards skillfully unravels the complexities of the global Cold War, decolonization in Southeast Asia, and Australian domestic politics. The Vietnam War was Australia's longest and most controversial military commitment of the 20th century, ending in humiliation for the United States and its allies with the downfall of South Vietnam. The war ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire from the Sky

    Seawolf Gunships in the Mekong Delta

    by Richard C Knott USN (Ret.) ...
    Fire from the Sky is the first complete history of the most decorated Navy squadron of the Vietnam War. Richard C. Knott tells the dramatic history of the HAL-3 Seawolves, the U.S. Navy's first and only helicopter gunship squadron of the Vietnam War. The squadron was established “in country” to support the fast, pugnacious river patrol boats of the brown water navy. Flying combat-worn Hueys ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • US Marine vs NVA Soldier

    Vietnam 1967–68

    by David R. Higgins ...
    Series Book 13 - Combat
    In 1967–68, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) was on the front line of the defence of South Vietnam's Quang Tri province, which was at the very heart of the Vietnam conflict.Facing them were the soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), men whose organization and equipment made them a very different opponent from the famous, irregular Viet Cong forces. From the 'Hill Battles' in April 1967 ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • The Hump

    The 1st Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry, in the First Major Battle of the Vietnam War

    by Al Conetto ...
    Operation Hump, the first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces, took place November 5-9, 1965, in South Vietnam's War Zone D. Known as "The Hump," it would change the nature of the war, escalating it from a hit-and-run guerrilla conflict to a bloody contest between Communist main force units and American commands of battalion size or larger.This memoir ... Read more

    $11.99 USD