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 line in o...

Tears in the Rain: Understanding the Vietnam Experience

On the ground, in the air, and behind the lines, grunts made life-and-death decisions every day—and endured the worst stress of their young lives. It was the tumultuous year 1968, and Robert Tonsetic was Rifle Company commander of the 4th Battalion, 12th Inf...

What was it like flying B-52s against the Viet Cong? Ribald Tales & Stories from U.T. is the inside story of a daily war effort from briefing to time off among the Thais. Humor, tragedy, love and sorrow.

Byron Holley spent the longest year of his young life in Vietnam as surgeon of the 4th Battalion 39th Regiment 9th Infantry Division. He lived like a swamp rat in the boonies of the Mekong Delta, and his actions were sometimes all that made the difference between lif...

This is an acoount of one day at the Fairness Hearings in Chicago, Illinois in August 1984, with updates on the Agent Orange issue since then. This should be of interest to any reader interested in environmental issues, military affairs, veterans health, or the poli...

FEAR & REALITY. . . A Vietnam War Diary The first person account of a U.S. Army Combat Military Policeman's experiences in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam from 1966 until 1967. The account of a struggle to implement the combined U. S. Military/ South Vi...

Split/Vision is John Wilbur's Vietnamese experience. A former U.S. Navy SEAL, he served eighteen months in Vietnam at the height of the war years (1967-68)where he fought and fighting and lived among the Vietnamese of the Mekong Delta that became like home. 32 year...

Instead of backing away from the fight, the North Vietnamese mortar, recoilless rifle, heavy machine gun, sapper and regular infantry attacks increased. The last offensive around Ripcord was starting to look like the last stand. Unwilling to keep American soldiers at...

There are many books about war. There are books that describe the bravery and glories of war. Other books portray the warrior as an

Reader Review: A very good book about a subject not very common. I like memoirs about the Vietnam war and it's very nice when someone writes about a different side of the war. The author does a very good job describing his sometimes crazy day to day actions and sometime nightime ac...

My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, maste...

How To Appreciate A Vietnam Vet: Dealing With The Myth Of The Unwinnable War is a broad spectrum view of the War itself, with a focus on the contributions of the women who served in Vietnam, especially the military nurses and the Red Cross. As a mark of his deep resp...

A GI's Vietnam Diary was first published in 1974, featured in the New York Times , and remains timelessly insightful and riveting. "In 1968 I embarked upon a long journey through myself." I learned that it is each mans war as he sees it through his own eyes...

Nickel On The Grass is a series of vignettes that capture the life of an extraordinary aviator, fighter pilot and leader, Colonel Phil Handley. In a career that spanned 26 years "Hands" earned a reputation as an exceptional pilot and leader in war and peace. I do...

On May 12, 1975, the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia captured a U.S.-registered container ship, the SS Mayaguez, en route to Sattahip, Thailand on a routine supply mission. With the election a year and a half away and his approval rating sagging, then president Gerald Ford c...

For those of us who were drafted at the height of the Vietnam War, we found ways of dealing with the moral and social dilemma a draftee was faced with when serving in the military. Not all draftees went into the infantry, some of use had office jobs to keep the pa...

Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The...

For a Time We Were Titans is the memoir of an LRP/Ranger in Vietnam. It follows ten GIs from their arrival at the LRP compound in Ban Me Thuot in October 1968 to the authors return home in September 1969. It shows that those that last can grow from raw recruits, t...

London, 1896: Dr. Ambrose Gennett can’t shake the fear that gripped him when he heard her voice. On the train platform in Kensington, he went to the aid of a woman hurt in an accident. He didn’t know her, but she knew him–she saw things he had never...