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  • THE MAD FRAGGER AND ME: Leading an Infantry Rifle Platoon in Vietnam

    by Thomas Dolan ...
    "The Mad Fragger and Me: Leading an Infantry Rifle Platoon in Vietnam" descibes the true experiences of a U.S. soldier, through his military training and troop duty, culminating in a 1970-1971 tour as an Infantry Platoon Leader in Vietnam.  Former 1st Lieutenant Tom Dolan takes the reader on a vivid armchair tour of sometimes grueling 1969 Army training. He includes numerous character sketches and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Live-Work Planning and Design

    Zero-Commute Housing

    by Thomas Dolan ...
    “Although the live-work concept is now accepted among progressive urban design and planning professionals, the specifics that define the term, and its application, remain sketchy. This encyclopedic work is sure to change that, providing the critical information that is needed by architects, planners and citizens.”-Peter Katz, Author, The New Urbanism, and Planning Director, Arlington County, ... Read more

    $82.00 USD

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  • 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

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  • Pucker Factor 10: Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam

    Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam

    by James Joyce ...
    "In 1963…there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, that by raising my hand I would be going to war in Vietnam and that I would see things, hear things and do things that most people cannot imagine."--James Joyce. The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His ... 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

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  • 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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  • Hill 488

    by Ray Hildreth, Charles W. Sasser ...
    For some, Hill 488 was just another landmark in the jungles of Vietnam. For the eighteen men of Charlie Company, it was a last stand—this is the stirring combat memoir written by Ray Hildreth, one of the unit's survivors.On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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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

    $8.99 USD

  • Abandoned in Hell

    The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate

    by William Albracht, Marvin Wolf ...
    **An astonishing memoir of military courage at a remote outpost during the Vietnam War“A riveting, dead-true account in the tradition of Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.”—Steven Pressfield, national bestselling author of The Lion’s Gate**In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Firebase ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

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  • Baptism

    A Vietnam Memoir

    by Larry Gwin ...
    "The 2nd 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 country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three years old when he arrived in Vietnam in 1965. After a brief stint in the Delta, Gwin was reassigned to the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Xin Loi, Viet Nam

    Thirty-one Months of War: A Soldier's Memoir

    by Al Sever ...
    No one in Vietnam had to tell door gunner and gunship crew chief Al Sever that the odds didn’t look good. He volunteered for the job well aware that hanging out of slow-moving choppers over hot LZs blazing with enemy fire was not conducive to a long life. But that wasn’t going to stop Specialist Sever.From Da Nang to Cu Chi and the Mekong Delta, Sever spent thirty-one months in Vietnam, fighting ... Read more

    $6.99 USD