1-199450 THE BOYS OF '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam In the spring of 1966, while the war in Vietnam was still popular, the US military decided to reactivate the 9th Infantry Division as part of the military build-up. Across the nation, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings from Uncle Sam. Most American soldiers of the Vietnam era trickled into the war zone as individual replacements for men who had become casualties or had rotated home.

Charlie Company was different as part of the only division raised, drafted, and trained for service. From draft to the battlefields of South Vietnam, this is the unvarnished truth from the fear of death to the chaos of battle, told almost entirely through the recollections of the men themselves. This is their story, the story of young draftees who had done everything that their nation had asked of them and had received so little in return - lost faces of a distant war. 1 vol, 376 pgs 2012 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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1-238740 ELITE BASTARDS: The Combat Missions of Company F, LRP Teams in Vietnam First-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier at war. Edward Dvorak joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam in the summer of 1967 and then joined Company F, 51st Infantry, Long Range Patrol, Airborne. For Company F, their real training started with the MACV (Military Assistant Command Vietnam) Recondo School at the 5th Special Forces Compound in Nha Trang, South Vietnam. That training culminated with an actual Combat LRP mission. If you lived through the patrol, you graduated. Dvorak would remain with Company F for 19 months going on dozens of combat patrols deep behind enemy lines. 1 vol, 296 pgs 2023 UK, PEN & SWORD
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1-930307 STRATEGY & TACTICS #307: Cold War, Hot Armor Cold War, Hot Armor is a two-player game in which players take command in armored actions during the Cold War. The game is part of a series; this particular game is set during the War in Vietnam, 1954-75. Future games will include battles in continental Africa, the Middle East and eventually a hypothetical NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict. The game system emphasizes command control, combined arms, and evolving technology.

Components: One 22x34-inch map and 280 counters. Plus magazine. 1 vol, 84 pgs 2017 US, DECISION GAMES
NEW-pb, available late August 2017 ......$50.00 with a discount of 10%

1-DG1718 KHE SAHN 1968: Marines Under Siege Khe Sanh 1968 places you in command of United States and South Vietnamese (ARVN) forces in the campaign to relieve the USMC firebase at Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. The historical campaign was something of a race against time as the US high command feared that the North Vietnamese were going to attempt to overrun the base. All resources put into the Khe Sanh fight, however, were subtracted from those available to deal with the Tet Offensive elsewhere. Your mission is to extract maximum communist losses while minimizing the allied effort.

The game uses the Cold War Blitz series rules, a solitaire game system. You command the US and ARVN units, and have a deck of cards to enhance your unit capabilities. A second deck of cards, drawn randomly one at a time, controls communist (OPFOR) activities. Combat is resolved with a quasi-tactical system with opposing units firing at one another. Scale: Level: Regiment-Brigade and Hex: 260 yards per inch.

Game Contents:
* 11 x 17' map
* 40 die-cut counters
* 18 mini cards
* Scenario Instructions
* Four page rule booklet 1 vol, 4 pgs 2015 CA, DECISION GAMES
NEW-softcover, available early December 2015 ......$15.00 with a discount of 10%

1-211610 Albert Grandolini THE EASTER OFFENSIVE VIETNAM 1972: Volume 1 - Invasion across the DMZ On 30 March 1972, the South Vietnamese were attacked by regular North Vietnamese Army divisions supported by hundreds of armored vehicles that crashed though their defensive lines along the border.

The South Vietnamese resistance shuddered, and then crumbled under the communist onslaught, putting Hue the ancient imperial capital at risk. It was only thanks to US airpower, directed by a small group of courageous American advisers, which helped to turn the tide. Under the command of a new capable commander, the South Vietnamese then methodically counterattacked to retake some of the lost ground. This culminated in the ferocious street fighting for Quang Tri.

Contains 130 photos, five maps and 18 color profiles. 1 vol, 72 pgs 2015 UK, HELION
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1-211620 Albert Grandolini THE EASTER OFFENSIVE VIETNAM 1972: Volume 2 - Tanks in the Streets The March 30, 1972 North Vietnamese offensive included three communist divisions with T-54 tanks attacked from their sanctuaries in Cambodia just north of Saigon. Their tanks ventured into the streets of An Loc City where they were checked by a desperate and heroic stand by the South Vietnamese soldiers and their American advisers, thus saving the capital of South Vietnam.

Contains 130 photos, five maps, and 18 color profiles. 1 vol, 72 pgs 2015 UK, HELION
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1-44710 anon US MARINES IN VIETNAM, 1965:The Landing & Building USMC official history, 120 photos, 17 maps. 1 vol, 274 pgs 1996 NASHVILLE, BATTERY PRESS
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1-COM005 Bomba, Ty COMMAND #05 Hamburger Hill & Operation Solace 'Hamburger Hill: The Tactics of Futility is a recreation of the bloody assault by three battalions of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division (with some help by the South Vietnamese (ARVN) 1st Division) against two battalions of the North Vietnamese Army's vaunted 29th Infantry Regiment dug in on a hill known as Dong Ap Bai, in the A Shau Valley of what was then South Vietnam.'

Scale: 240 meter hexes, variable length turns (5-120 minutes), company/platoon sized units.
1 vol, 60 pgs 1990 CA, XTR PUBLISHING
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1-214160 Bowden, Mark HUE 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam At 2:30 a.m. on January 31, 10,000 National Liberation Front troops descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000. By morning, all of Hue was in Front hands save for two small military outposts.

The commanders in country and politicians in Washington refused to believe the size and scope of the Front's presence. Captain Chuck Meadows was ordered to lead his 160-marine Golf Company against thousands of enemy troops in the first attempt to re-enter Hue later that day. After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city, block by block and building by building, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II.

Played out over 24 days of terrible fighting and ultimately costing 10,000 combatant and civilian lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the entire war. When it ended, the American debate was never again about winning, only about how to leave. 1 vol, 0 pgs 2017 US, GROVE PRESS
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2-217530 Boylan, Kevin VALLEY OF THE SHADOW: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu Struggling to reassert control over their Indochinese colonies after World War II, the French established a huge air-land base in the valley of Dien Bien Phu. But when the opposing Vietnamese People's Army (VPA) began massing its forces against the base in late 1953, French commanders seized the opportunity to draw their elusive enemy into a decisive set-piece battle.

Defending a series of fortified positions which were reliant upon a single airstrip - and later, risky and inaccurate airdrops - for reinforcement and resupply, the French troops quickly discovered that they had underestimated their enemy. In 56 days of costly close-quarters fighting, the VPA slowly dislodged the French from one strongpoint after another by developing novel tactics and accomplishing incredible feats of engineering.

Draws upon Vietnamese-language sources never previously employed in Western accounts of the siege to tell of the climactic battle of the First Indochina War. 1 vol, 368 pgs 2018 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
NEW-softcover edition, available mid July 2019 ......$21.00 with a discount of 15% rct

1-225070 Branfill-Cook, Roger Riverine Craft of the Vietnam Wars The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring color profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modeling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the subjects, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites.

This volume is something of a departure for the series in covering a wide variety of the types, at first improvised and then purpose-built for the Brown Water conflict. Besides the well-known American involvement, the book also covers some of the craft used by the French in their earlier struggle with Vietnamese guerrillas.

With its unparalleled level of visual information - paint schemes, models, line drawings and photographs - this book is simply the best reference for any model maker setting out to build one of these unusual craft.
1 vol, 64 pgs 2020 UK, SEAFORTH PUBLISHING
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1-217020 Brokhausen, Nick WE FEW: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam This riveting memoir details the actions and experiences of a small group of Americans and their allies who were the backbone of ground reconnaissance in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. On his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group), or Studies and Observations Group as it was innocuously called.

The small recon companies that were the center of its activities conducted some of the most dangerous missions of the war, infiltrating areas controlled by the North Vietnamese in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The companies never exceeded more than 30 Americans, yet they were the best source for the enemy's disposition and were key to the US military being able to take the war to the enemy, by utilizing new and innovative technology and tactics dating back to the French and Indian Wars.

Brokhausen's group racked up one of the most impressive records of awards for valor of any unit in the history of the United States Army. It came at a terrible price, however; the number of wounded and killed in action was incredibly high. Those missions today seem suicidal. In 1970 equally so, yet these men went out day after day with their indigenous allies - Montagnard tribesmen, Vietnamese, and Chinese Nungs - and faced the challenges with courage and resolve. 1 vol, 360 pgs 2018 US, CASEMATE
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1-211630 Bruce Cameron CANISTER ON FIRE: Australian Tank Operations in Vietnam Based on twelve years of research, including personal letters and diaries, extensive searches of official records, and numerous interviews, this book brings to life a previously little-known aspect of the conflict. Two Volume Set.

The 53-ton Centurion tanks were not only involved in intense fighting in conjunction with infantry to capture enemy defenses and defeat attacks, but also fought their own battles against enemy mines, ambushes, and an unforgiving terrain and climate.

This book takes the reader inside the tanks to share the experiences of their crews in action in the jungle. We see the gunner, trying to survive the heat inside the turret, while identifying designated targets; the operator trying to maintain communications, while keeping the guns loaded; the driver, trying to see his way forward, while keeping his head down; and the commander, trying to locate enemy positions, while directing his driver and giving fire orders to his gunner. The account also reveals how mechanics beat overwhelming challenges to maintain 20-year-old tanks, while field engineers risked their lives protecting them against mines. 2 vol, 940 pgs 2016 UK, BIG SKY
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1-199800 Bruhn, David WOODEN SHIPS AND IRON MEN: The U.S. Navy's Coastal and Inshore Minesweepers, and the Minecraft that Served in Vietnam, 1953-1976 From 1953 to 1976, twenty-four US Navy coastal minesweepers (MSCs) swept mines, searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships and lost munitions, 'showed the flag' in the Caribbean and throughout the Far East, and played a key role in the Vietnam War. Atlantic Fleet coastal minesweepers searched for a nuclear bomb buried in the sea bed off Savannah, Georgia, as a result of a midair collision between two US. Air Force aircraft and provided support for the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. MSCs based at Sasebo, Japan, conducted patrols off Vietnam to interdict smuggling of supplies by sea to the Viet Cong in the South.

One, USS Vireo, participated in the destruction of an enemy gun runner. Much smaller minesweeping boats (MSBs) kept the Long Tau River, which passed through the dangerous 'Forest of Assassins' and connected the South China Sea to Saigon, open to merchant vessels delivering military cargos to allied forces. Facing daily the possibility of death by Viet Cong mine or riverbank ambush, the thirteen boats of Mine Squadron Eleven Detachment Alfa comprised the first Navy unit to be awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for heroism by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Possessing too few minecraft to support its riverine combat operations, the US Navy also pressed existing landing craft and newly built assault support patrol boats and minesweeping drones into these duties.

The unheralded MSBs and steel-hulled minecraft collectively garnered four Presidential Unit Citations, three Meritorious Unit Commendations, and three Navy Unit Commendations. Significant numbers of the small enlisted crews that took the craft in harm's way received the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Bronze Star Medals for acts of heroism performed under fire. Photographs, maps, diagrams and tables, appendices and an index to full-names, places and subjects add to the value of this work. 1 vol, 372 pgs 2011 US, HERITAGE BOOKS
NEW-softcover, available late September 2012 ......$34.00

1-201630 Camp, Dick ASSAULT FROM THE SKY: U.S Marine Corps Helicopter Operations in Vietnam This work describes U.S. Marine Corps helicopter operations, including their actions and evolution, throughout the Vietnam War. The book is divided into parts spanning the three stages of the Corps' combat deployment: 'Buildup (1962-1966),' 'Heavy Combat (1967-1969),' and 'The Bitter End (1975).' Each part includes chapters devoted to 'telling the story' of Marine helicopters from the individual to the strategic level.

Vietnam has often been called our 'first helicopter war,' and indeed the US Marine Corps, as well as Army, had to feel its way forward during the initial combats. But by 1967 the combat was raging across South Vietnam, with confrontational battles against the NVA, on a scale comparable to the great campaigns of WWII. In 1968, when the Communists launched their mammoth counteroffensive, the Marines were forced to fight on all sides, with the helicopter giving them the additional dimension that proved decisive in repelling the enemy.

The author, a Vietnam veteran, uses his experiences as a company commander to bring the story to life by weaving personal accounts, after-action reports and official documents into a remarkably readable narrative of service and sacrifice by Marine pilots and crewmen. The entire story of the war is here depicted through the prism of Marine helicopter operations, from the first deployments to support the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) against the Viet Cong through the rapid United States buildup to stop the North Vietnamese Army, until the final withdrawal from our Embassy. 1 vol, 320 pgs 2012
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2-228230 Cleaver, Thomas THE TONKIN GULF YACHT CLUB: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War The 'Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club' was the tongue-in-cheek nickname of the US Seventh Fleet that was stationed off the coast of Vietnam. Examines the US Naval air campaign in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1975. Covers operations from the USS Maddox in the infamous Gulf of Tonkin incidentof 1964 onwards through to the eventual withdrawal of the fleet following the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975.

The Seventh Fleet's Task Force 77, which at points during the war had as many as six carriers on station at any one time with 70-100 aircraft on each, provided vital air support for combat troops on the ground, while at the same time taking part in the major operations against North Vietnam itself such as Rolling Thunder, Linebacker I and II. All of these operations took place in a hostile environment of flak, missiles, and MiGs. 1 vol, 304 pgs 2023 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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2-230340 Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey GOING DOWNTOWN: The US Air Force Over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia 1961-75 Examines the US Air Force's struggle in the skies over Vietnam Southeast Asia, starting in 1962 when instructors were sent to train Vietnamese pilots. Covers the major air operations against the north: Rolling Thunder from 1965 to 1968, and then Linebacker I and II in 1972, with the latter seeing the deployment of America's fearsome B-52 bombers against the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi. These operations were carried out in the face of a formidable Soviet-inspired air defence system bristling with anti-aircraft guns and SAM missile sites. Beyond this, the US Air Force was intimately involved in secret air wars against Laos and Cambodia - one cannot speak of a war only in Vietnam regarding US Air Force operations. The war the Air Force fought was a war in Southeast Asia, including attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail at night with modified T-28 trainers, to missions Downtown (Hanoi)..

This book complements Cleaver's The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (OMM Book number 228230), which covered the US Navy's aerial war over Vietnam. 1 vol, 352 pgs 2023 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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1-228501 Conboy, Ken THE ERAWAN WAR: Volume 1: The CIA Paramilitary Campaign in Laos 1961-1969 Details the CIA's largest paramilitary operation of the Cold War: the secret war in Laos, where the Central Intelligence Agency was training, funding, and leading tens of thousands of indigenous guerrillas within the kingdom and, occasionally, across its borders. Includes 77 b/w photos, 8 color photos, 6 b/w maps, 1 color map, and 6 color aircraft profiles. 1 vol, 64 pgs 2021 UK, HELION AND COMPANY
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1-228502 Conboy, Ken THE ERAWAN WAR: Volume 2: The CIA Paramilitary Campaign in Laos, 1969-1974 Details how the CIA operation in Laos became its largest paramilitary operation of the Cold War. With photos and maps, it covers the wide range of CIA-supported units in Laos, from guerrilla regiments that went toe-to-toe with the North Vietnamese army in pitched campaigns, to top-secret commandos that crossed borders to wage clandestine sabotage attacks. 1 vol, 78 pgs 2022 UK, HELION AND COMPANY
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1-228503 Conboy, Ken THE ERAWAN WAR: Volume 3: The Royal Lao Armed Forces 1961-1974 Volume 3 covers the Forces Armees du Royaume - FAR - the Royal Lao Armed Forces were the official defense force of the Kingdom of Laos. Best known by their French acronym FAR, the build-up of which was constantly hampered by the developments in the First Indochina War in neighboring Vietnam. Unsurprisingly, it was only in 1952 that the National Laotian Army - the predecessor of the Royal Lao Army - began to take shape, and only in 1961 that the Laotian Armed Forces were officially renamed the Royal Lao Armed Forces. includes 77 b/w photos, 33 color photos, 4 pages of color photos of badges/insignia, 17 color profiles, and two maps.

Plagued by an ineffective leadership at senior levels, and often suffering from chain-of-command problems, the FAR exerted little control over the regional commands and local military commanders for much of the 1960s. A country with a long-standing tradition of warlords - or local power-brokers - and the strong influence of an urban elite aristocracy, Laos took time to build-up effective armed forces, which reached their high tide in the second half of the 1960s, thanks to growing amounts of military aid from the USA. Eventually, the Royal Lao Armed Forces included not only a number of training centers, and several elite units, but the Royal Lao Army, the Royal Lao Air Force and the Royal Lao Navy, all of which fought a bitter war against the North Vietnamese and their local allies until the downfall of the Laotian Kingdom in 1975. 1 vol, 82 pgs 2023 UK, HELION AND COMPANY
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1-245170 Curtis, Robert F THE TYPHOON TRUCE, 1970: Three Days in Vietnam when Nature Intervened in the War Analyzes the 'typhoon truce' during the Vietnam War that caused the war to stop for three days in northern I Corps, the area bordering the demilitarized zone separating South Vietnam from the North. Super Typhoon Joan devastated all the coastal lowlands in I Corps and further up into North Vietnam. Less than a week later, Super Typhoon Kate hit the same area with renewed fury, leaving the entire countryside under water and the people there faced with both war and natural disaster at the same time. During an otherwise vicious war, saving life took precedence over bloody conflict. Contains 16 pages of photos. 1 vol, 264 pgs 2024 US, CASEMATE
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2-213380 Daly, Dan WHITE WATER RED HOT LEAD: On Board U.S. Navy Swift Boats in Vietnam Discusses the Swift Boat program during the Vietnam War, with 3500 officers and men serving in a fleet of 130 boats with no armor plating. The boats patrolled the coast and rivers of South Vietnam with days of deadly combat, intense firefights, storms, and many other hidden dangers. Follows the six-man crew of PCF 76 were volunteers from all over the US, eager to serve their country in a unique type of duty not seen since the PT boats of WWII. This inexperienced and disparate group of men would meld into a combat team -- a team that formed an unbreakable, lifelong bond. 1 vol, 360 pgs 2024 US, CASEMATE
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1-LEG2203 Dixon, Steve & Best, Bob SKYHAWK: Rolling Thunder 1966 (Wargame) Puts the player in the cockpit of an A-4E Skyhawk of VA-72 flying strike missions against targets in North Vietnam during the early days of Operation Rolling Thunder. Your base of operations is the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt on duty at Yankee Station. Your goal will be to survive a mission or a campaign.

Facing you will be a determined North Vietnamese force. It is possible you will face small arms fire, AAA, SAM launches, and a rare encounter with a MiG. You will have help. Support Forces allow the player to attack NV defense forces before you attack your target. Their success could make your job easier.

The player may fly a single mission or play one of the three campaigns included in the game. These campaigns are:
First Tour of Duty: Yankee Station: 10 August 1966 - 10 September 1966
Second Tour of Duty: Yankee Station 20 October 1966 - 27 December 1966
The third campaign combines the two campaigns above with additional rules.

The game is not meant to be a detailed simulation of the Rolling Thunder campaign. It is a simple yet engaging, quick game for the player. Concepts for the game come from B-29 Superfortress, Target for Today, Target for Tonight, and Kenney's Boys as well as Able Dog, a free print and play game by Patrick Millin. Some of the concepts used in Skyhawk will be expanded upon in the upcoming Operation Linebacker II game. 1 vol, 1 pgs 2023 US, LEGION WARGAMES LLC
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1-238960 Doherty, Francis ONLY THE LIGHT MOVES: Flying Covert Reconnaissance Missions in the Vietnam War Story of a 24-year-old US Army pilot who volunteered to fly covert S.O.G., or Studies and Observations Group, reconnaissance missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a region that came to represent not only the United States' war with Vietnam, but also the secret war with Laos and Cambodia. Captain Francis A. Doherty spent every day for 10 months above the jungle battlefield in an unarmed Cessna O-1 Bird Dog. Reveals the highs and lows of his year at war in Vietnam but expands beyond his time in the conflict. He explores the emotional struggle he and his comrades faced after they returned home, reconciliations with lost faith, and the incredible impact of war on families. 1 vol, 296 pgs 2023 UK, AIR WORLD
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1-228590 Doyle, David VEHICLES AND HEAVY WEAPONS OF THE VIETNAM WAR This book, the first in a series on the US military's weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and naval vessels of the Vietnam War, offers a highly illustrated reference for this wishing to delve deeper into this conflict. Through archival images, the arsenal of the US Army and USMC are revisited. Covers M113 APC, M48A3 tank, M551 Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle, M151 and M54 trucks, M50 Ontos, M107 and M109 artillery, and M42 Duster. Includes 250 color & black and white photographs. 1 vol, 248 pgs 2021 UK, PEN AND SWORD
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1-240380 Doyle, David U.S. AVIATION AND NAVAL WARFARE IN THE VIETNAM WAR Photo essay examines the men and aircraft that comprised American airpower during the Vietnam War, including the A-1 Skyraider, A-7 Corsair, B-52, C-130, C-141, F-105, F-4 Phantom, and OV-1 Mohawk. They occasionally engaged North Vietnamese MiGs, but more often facing the threat of Surface to Air Missiles (SAM) and antiaircraft fire. In over 5 million missions during the war, US forces lost over 2,000 aircraft. 1 vol, 272 pgs 2023 UK, PEN & SWORD
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1-223740 Emerson, Stephen North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive - Hanoi's Gamble By the end of 1971, in what Hanoi called the American War and at the height of the Cold War, the fighting had dragged on for eight years with neither side gaining a decisive advantage on the battlefield and talks in Paris to the end the war were going nowhere. While the United States was steadily drawing down its ground forces in South Vietnam, Washington was also engaging in a grand effort to build up and strengthen Saigon's armed forces to the point of self-sufficiency. Not only had the ranks of Saigon's forces swelled in recent years, but they were now being equipped and trained to use the latest American military equipment. Perhaps now was the time for Hanoi to take one last gamble before it was too late. 75 b/w & 20 color illustrations.

With the rumble of men and mechanized equipment breaking the early morning silence, some 40,000 North Vietnamese troops advanced across the demilitarized zone into South Vietnam on March 30, 1972 in what would become the largest conventional attack of the war. Ill-prepared and poorly led, South Vietnamese troops in the far north were quickly routed in the face of the ensuing onslaught. Likewise, coordinated attacks across the Cambodian border northwest of Saigon and into the central highlands in the coming weeks gained steam and in due course as many as 200,000 men along with T-54/55 main battle tanks, 130mm towed artillery, ZSU-57 self-propelled ant-aircraft guns, and hundreds of trucks and armored personnel carriers were engaged across three battlefronts. Soon Saigon's beleaguered forces were being pushed to the brink of defeat in what appeared to be the end for the Thieu government. Ultimately, however, the timely and massive intervention by U.S. and South Vietnamese air power, along with the bravery of some South Vietnamese commanders and their American advisers saved the day. Hanoi's gamble had failed and in its wake lay up to 100,000 dead and South Vietnamese roads littered with the smoldering wrecks of North Vietnamese military equipment. Moreover, it would be another three years before the North had recovered enough to try again.
1 vol, 128 pgs 2020 UK, PEN & SWORD
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1-223520 Falcon, John D The Freedom Shield - The 191st Assault Helicopter Company in Vietnam The Freedom Shield brings together stories of veterans of the 191st Assault Helicopter Company, tasked with carrying troops into battle, attacking enemy positions and evacuating the wounded in their UH-1 Iroquois 'Huey' helicopters. The unit was assembled from a hodgepodge selection of hand-me-down aircraft, used equipment and overlooked personnel-its appearance belied the invaluable work the crews of the 191st would undertake during the Vietnam War. This narrative of the Company, told through collected stories of veterans, defines a breed of soldier newly minted in Vietnam: the combat assault-helicopter crewman.

The 191st pilots, crews, and support personnel vividly share the details of what it was like to be at war, forced to rely on your fellow crewmembers for your own survival. Their accounts of helicopter combat at the height of the Vietnam conflict accurately recreate the sights and sounds of the battlefields, the fear and horror of watching close friends torn to pieces, their feelings on returning to base. Their message is infinitely clear: 'The price of freedom is painful.' 1 vol, 384 pgs 2020 US, CASEMATE
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1-235820 Gardner, Ian SIGN HERE FOR SACRIFICE: The Untold Story of the Third Battalion, 506th Airborne, Vietnam 1968 Drawing on interviews with veterans, many of whom have never gone on the record before, this chronicles the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, reactivated with the idea of resurrecting the Currahee spirit that had defined the original WWII volunteers of 1942.

In December 1967, the battalion was sent into the Central Highlands of Lam Dong Province. Geraci and his men began their Search and Destroy patrols, which coincided with the North Vietnamese build-up to the Tet Offensive and was a brutal introduction to the reality of a dirty, bloody war. It was here that the tenacious volunteers made their mark, just like their predecessors had done in Normandy, and the battalion was ultimately awarded a Valorous Unit Citation. This book shows how and why this unit was deserving of that award, recounting their daily sanguinary struggle in the face of a hostile environment and a determined enemy. 1 vol, 304 pgs 2023 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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1-44720 Garland, Ltc Albert N. editor DISTANT CHALLENGE, A:US Infantryman in NAM 1967-72 (159) photos, (14) maps uses first hand accounts to tell the story. 1 vol, 372 pgs 1983 NASHVILLE, BATTERY PRESS
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1-88810 Gilbert, Oscar MARINE CORPS TANK BATTLES IN VIETNAM The author presents the combat history of the 1st, 3rd and 5th Tank Battalions form 1965 to the end. Sixteen pages of b/w photos, maps, biblio, index. 1 vol, 304 pgs 2008 US, CASEMATE PUBLISHING
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1-235011 Grandolini, Albert TARGET SAIGON 1973-75: Volume 1 - The Pretense of Peace The first volume assesses the tactical and strategic situation in Vietnam after the North Vietnamese failed to destroy the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Also examines the last episode of the US gradual withdrawal as well as the implementation of part of the Peace Accords with the removal by the US Navy of the mines sown by its aircraft from the North Vietnamese ports and inland waters. It then presents the respective opposing armed forces and will particularly focus on the North Vietnamese rebuilding after the havoc wrought by the American aerial campaign of 1972.

Furthermore, the expansion of the famous Ho Chi Minh Trail, vital for the logistical support of the communist troops, is thoroughly detailed. The South Vietnamese on their part placed great emphasis on developing their own air force in order to try to replace the withdrawal of American airpower. Also details the initial fighting that not only resumed but soon escalated into divisional-level battles where the South Vietnamese still prevailed. 1 vol, 88 pgs 2017 UK, HELION AND COMPANY
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1-235012 Grandolini, Albert TARGET SAIGON 1973-75: Volume 2 - The Fall of South Vietnam: The Beginning of the End, January 1974 - March 1975 A year after the Paris peace accord had been signed, on 17 January 1973, peace had not been settled in Vietnam. The North Vietnamese continued their attacks and drastic American aid reduction began to impact heavily on the South Vietnamese ability to wage war. After the fall of Phuoc Long, and without US intervention, the North Vietnamese decided to attack the strategic Central Highlands area where they hoped to destroy the greater part of an ARVN Corps. The battle of Ban Me Thuout would be the pivotal event leading to the rapid collapse of South Vietnam. Includes 185 b/w photos, 39 color profiles, 4 color figures, 3 color maps, and 6 b/w maps. 1 vol, 104 pgs 2020 UK, HELION AND COMPANY
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1-235013 Grandolini, Albert TARGET SAIGON 1973-75: Volume 3 - Disaster at Da Nang 1975 The third volume of the Target Saigon mini-series describes the opening stages of the final North Vietnamese offensive against South Vietnam. The third volume of Target Saigon details the disastrous evacuation of Hue, Da Nang, and the Central Highlands as well as the delaying actions fought in the central coastal area and is illustrated with a wide range of contemporary photographs and a number of specially commissioned full color artworks of the vehicles, soldiers, and aircraft that fought in this campaign. Includes 144 b&w photos, 24 color profiles, and 5 maps. 1 vol, 80 pgs 2022 UK, HELION AND COMPANY
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1-235014 Grandolini, Albert TARGET SAIGON 1973-75: Volume 4 - The Final Collapse, April-May 1975 The final volume of Target Saigon examines the final campaigns of the conflict in Vietnam, in which the Communist forces engaged in a highly mechanized war of maneuver. By March 1975 the whole North Vietnamese regular battle corps, some 550,000 troops and 700 tanks, were now amassing at the gates of South Vietnam's capital and the following fighting led to some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War. Despite being heavily outnumbered, many of the ARVN's units put up a fierce resistance, inflicting heavy casualties upon the advancing Northern forces, in a series of battles that were far from the rout often described. Includes 130 b/w ills, 130 b/w photos, and 6 maps. 1 vol, 80 pgs 2022 UK, HELION AND COMPANY
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1-223860 Green, Michael UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS IN VIETNAM , 1942-1943 With the American-supported South Vietnamese government verging on collapse in early 1965, American President Lyndon Johnson decided to commit American conventional ground forces in the form of a United States Marine Corps (USMC) brigade of approximately 3,000 men on March 8, 1965. 250 color & black and white illustrations

So began a massive and costly 10-year commitment. At its height in 1968, the USMC had 86,000 men in South Vietnam. Almost 500,000 Marines would eventually rotate in out of South Vietnam during their typical one-year tours of duty. In the end, the fighting during such well-known battles at Con Tien, Chu Lai, Hue, Khe Sanh and Dong Ha and thousands of now forgotten smaller-scale engagements would cost the USMC 13,070 killed in action and 88,630 wounded, more casualties than they suffered during the Second World War. In this book, well-known military historian Michael Green using hundreds of dramatic images tells the dramatic and gallant story of the Marines' contribution to an unwinnable war; the battles, their equipment, from rifles to helicopters and jets, and the strategy adopted by the Corps.
1 vol, 160 pgs 2018 UK, PEN & SWORD
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1-245760 Greene, Peter HUEYS OVER KHE SANH: Missions with VMO-6 A vivid memoir of the Vietnam War by a crew chief who flew on hundreds of flights during his tour. Author recalls many missions, including providing gunship support for MACV-SOG in and around I Corps area, working with Marine Recon, and undertaking frequent, perilous resupply and medevac and medevac support missions. Explains the different roles that the gunships played, such as protecting helicopters during medevacs, troop insertion and extraction, resupply missions, and supporting Marines on the ground. Contains 60 color photographs. 1 vol, 288 pgs 2024 US, CASEMATE
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1-203770 Guardia, Mike HAL MOORE: A Soldier Once and Always Hal Moore, one of the most admired American combat leaders of the last 50 years, has until now been best known to the public for being portrayed by Mel Gibson in the movie We Were Soldiers. In this first-ever, fully-illustrated biography, we finally learn the full story of one of America's true military heroes.

A 1945 graduate of West Point, Moore's first combats occurred during the Korean War, where he fought in the battles of Old Baldy, T-Bone, and Pork Chop Hill. At the beginning of the Vietnam War, Moore commanded the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry in the first full-fledged battle between U.S. and North Vietnamese regulars.

Drastically outnumbered and nearly overrun, Moore led from the front, and though losing 79 soldiers, accounted for 1,200 of the enemy before the Communists withdrew. This Battle of Ia Drang pioneered the use of air mobile infantry, delivering troops into battle via helicopter which became the staple of US operations for the remainder of the war. 1 vol, 323 pgs 2013 US, CASEMATE PUBLISHING
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1-968003 Hallion, Richard 003 ROLLING THUNDER 1965-68: Johnson's Air War Over Vietnam New Air Campaign Series.

Operation Rolling Thunder was the campaign that was meant to keep South Vietnam secure, and dissuade the North from arming and supplying the Viet Cong. It pitted the world's strongest air forces against the MiGs and missiles of a small Soviet client state. But the US airmen who flew Rolling Thunder missions were crippled by a badly thought-out strategy, rampant political interference in operational matters, and aircraft optimized for Cold War nuclear strikes rather than conventional warfare. Ironically, Rolling Thunder was one of the most influential episodes of the Cold War - its failure spurring the 1970s US renaissance in professionalism, fighter design, and combat pilot training. 1 vol, 96 pgs 2018 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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1-86280 Hammel, Eric MARINES IN HUE CITY:Portrait of Urban Combat 1968 The Tet Offensive in 1968 that spilled over into Hue City was a month of grueling house-to-house fighting; 100's of b/w & color photos, index. 1 vol, 168 pgs 2007 US, ZENITH BOOKS
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1-219910 Hapnoski, William C AUTOPSY OF AN UNWINNABLE WAR: VIETNAM Hapnoski contends the Vietnam War was lost before the first American shot was fired. In fact, it was lost before the first French Expeditionary Corps shot, almost two decades earlier, and was finally lost when the South Vietnamese fought partly, then entirely, on their own.

Written by a combatant in six large battles and many smaller firefights, plus a full range of pacification duties, the book examines the futility of the 30-year war in Vietnam. This covers those who lived and revealed by the people inside Vietnam who were directly involved in the war: from leaders in high positions, down to the jungle boots and sandals level of the fighters, and among the Vietnamese people who were living the war. Because of what was happening inside Vietnam itself, no matter what policies and directives came out of Paris or Washington, or the influences in Moscow or Beijing, it is about a Vietnamese idea which would eventually triumph over bullets. 1 vol, 336 pgs 2019 US, CASEMATE
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1-972013 Higgins, David R 013 US MARINE vs NVA SOLDIER: Vietnam 1967-68 In 1967-68, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) was on the front line of the defense 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 to the struggle for the city of Hue (January-March 1968) this bloody campaign forced the two sides into a grueling trial of strength.

The USMC held a general technological and logistical advantage -- including close air support and airborne transport, technology, and supplies -- but could not always utilize these resources effectively in mountainous, jungle, or urban environments better known by their Vietnamese opponents. 1 vol, 80 pgs 2015 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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1-228580 Jack, Kenneth EYES OF THE FLEET OVER VIETNAM: RF-8 Crusader Combat and Photo-Reconnaissance Missions A comprehensive, illustrated history of photo recon launched by the U.S. Navy over Vietnam, 1964-72 that describes all types of missions undertaken, including several Crusader vs. MiG dogfights and multiple RF-8 shootdowns with their associated, dramatic rescues. Highlights the role of the unarmed supersonic RF-8A/G photo-Crusader throughout the war, and also the part played by its F-8 and F-4 escort fighters. Focuses on Navy Photo Squadron VFP-63, but also dedicates chapters to VFP-62 and Marine VMCJ-1. Includes 180 color and b/w photographs. 1 vol, 272 pgs 2021 US, CASEMATE
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1-240670 Kelley, Michael and Peter Burbank THE GUNNER AND THE GRUNT Two soldiers recount the same battles as members of the same recon unit but from different angles during the Vietnam War. Michael Kelley, the 'Gunner,' was flying in an armed helicopter above the jungle providing suppressive fire support, while Peter Burbank, the 'Grunt,' was down in the jungle on foot patrol involved in fire fights with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troops. Follows these two Boston boys from army training through deployment to the war zone and the shock of first combat missions, to helicopter air assault 'Search and Destroy' operations from the Cambodian border to the sands of the South China Sea. 1 vol, 256 pgs 2023 US, CASEMATE
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1-45580 Marshall, S.L.A. BIRD Christmas Day 1966 saw two artillery batteries and a rifle company repulse three NVA battalions from landing zone BIRD, first hand accounts, sketches maps of battle zone, b/w illust, index. 1 vol, 206 pgs 1983 NASHVILLE, BATTERY PRESS
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1-45590 Marshall, S.L.A. WEST TO CAMBODIA The story of three different operations to stop the flow of men/material down the Ho Chi Minh trail, b/w illust/drawings, glossary, index. 1 vol, 253 pgs 1984 NASHVILLE, BATTERY PRESS
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1-235600 McLeroy, James BAIT: The Battle of Kham Duc Hardback version. The strategic potential of the three-day attack of two NVA regiments on Kham Duc, a remote and isolated Army Special Forces camp, on the eve of the first Paris peace talks in May 1968, was so significant that former President Lyndon Johnson included it in his memoirs. This eyewitness narrative and analysis of a widely misinterpreted battle at the height of the Vietnam War radically contradicts all the other published accounts. Covers the tactical details of the combat narrative, and grand strategies and political contexts of the U.S. and North Vietnamese leaders. 1 vol, 272 pgs 2022 UK, PEN & SWORD
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2-235600 McLeroy, James BAIT: The Battle of Kham Duc Softcover version. The strategic potential of the three-day attack of two NVA regiments on Kham Duc, a remote and isolated Army Special Forces camp, on the eve of the first Paris peace talks in May 1968, was so significant that former President Lyndon Johnson included it in his memoirs. This eyewitness narrative and analysis of a widely misinterpreted battle at the height of the Vietnam War radically contradicts all the other published accounts. Covers the tactical details of the combat narrative, and grand strategies and political contexts of the U.S. and North Vietnamese leaders. 1 vol, 272 pgs 2022 UK, PEN & SWORD
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1-222641 Miller, Sergio IN GOOD FAITH: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 1 -- 1945-65 First of a two-volume history of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon in 1975. Starts with the Japanese surrender in 1945 through America's involvement in the French Indochina War and the initial advisory missions that followed. Using recently declassified National Security Agency top secret material to describe how these missions gradually grew in both scope and scale, and how America became ever more committed to the region. 1 vol, 416 pgs 2020 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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2-222641 Miller, Sergio IN GOOD FAITH: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 1 -- 1945-65 First of a two-volume history of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon in 1975. Starts with the Japanese surrender in 1945 through America's involvement in the French Indochina War and the initial advisory missions that followed. Using recently declassified National Security Agency top secret material to describe how these missions gradually grew in both scope and scale, and how America became ever more committed to the region. 1 vol, 416 pgs 2021 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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2-222642 Miller, Sergio NO WIDER WAR: A History of the Vietnam War -- Volume 2: 1965-75 Second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon. Traces the story of America's involvement in the Vietnam War from the first Marines landing at Da Nang in 1965, through the traumatic Tet Offensive of 1968 and the gradual Vietnamization of the war that followed, to the withdrawal of American forces and the final loss of the South in 1975. Includes recently declassified top secret National Security Agency material.

Note that the first volume, In Good Faith, covers from the Japanese surrender in 1945 through the initial US advisory missions that followed. 1 vol, 416 pgs 2022 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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1-225380 Nash, N. S. Logistics in the Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975 Reveals that basic traditional techniques proved superior to expensive state of the art systems.

During the Indochina or 'French' war, France's initial use of wheeled transport and finally air supply proved vulnerable given the terrain, climate, and Communist adaptability. The colonial power gave up the unequal struggle after the catastrophic defeat at Dien Bien Phu.

To stem the advance of Communism throughout the region, the Americans stepped in to support the pro-Western South Vietnam regime and threw vast quantities of manpower and money at the problem. The cost became increasingly unpopular at home. General Giap's and Ho Chi Minh's ruthless use of coolies, most famously on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, proved resistant to carpet-bombing and Agent Orange defoliation.

The outcome of the final war between the Communist North Vietnam and the corrupt Southern leadership, now with minimal US support, was almost a forgone conclusion. 1 vol, 224 pgs 2020 UK, PEN & SWORD
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1-83710 Nolan, Keith HOUSE TO HOUSE:Saigon, May 1968 'Playing the enemy's Game', the attack on Saigon just before the Paris Peace Talks was repulsed by four battalions of the 9th Infantry Division, it was bloody week long fight; illust/photos, biblio. 1 vol, 368 pgs 2006 US, ZENITH PRESS
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1-203280 O'Rourke, Kevin and Peters, Joe TAKING FIRE: Saving Captain Aikman: A Story of the Vietnam Air War American military special operations forces-Rangers, SEALs, and others-have become a well-recognized and highly respected part of our popular culture. But whom do these elite warriors look to in their times of greatest need: when wounded on the battlefield, cut off deep behind enemy lines, or adrift in the expanse of the world's oceans? They look skyward, hoping to catch a glimpse of their own personal guardian angel: a US Air Force pararescue jumper (PJ) who lives, and sometimes dies, by the motto that others may live.

Taking Fire provides an up-close look into the heroism and mystique of this little known segment of the Air Force Special Tactics community by focusing on one of the most dramatic rescues of the Vietnam War. It was June 1972 and Capt. Lynn Aikman is returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam when his F-4 Phantom was jumped by an enemy MiG and shot down. He and his backseater Tom Hanton ejected from their crippled aircraft, but Hanton landed near a village and was quickly captured by local militia. Badly injured during the ejection, Aikman landed some distance from the village, and there was a chance that he can be recovered if American rescuers could reach him before the enemy did.

Now on the ground and drifting in and out of consciousness, Captain Aikman looks up and suddenly sees his guardian angel in the form of USAF Pararescue Jumper Chuck McGrath. As Sergeant McGrath is preparing to hook the downed pilot to a hoist line, he sees it fall to the ground. Hostile fire on the hovering Jolly Green Giant rescue helicopter has damaged the hoist mechanism causing the operator to cut the line. While circling A-1 Skyraiders strafe the militia to keep them away from Aikman and McGrath, the helicopter crew races to come up with a plan. It's getting dark, and they'll only have one chance.

Taking Fire is an exciting, highly dramatic story of life and death over North Vietnam. Much more than a chronicle the events of 27 June 1972, the book gives the reader an up-close look at the little known world of the US Air Force's elite aerial rescue force.
1 vol, 216 pgs 2013 US, CASEMATE
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1-240260 Palmer, Dave Richard Summons of the Trumpet: U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective A history of American military involvement in Vietnam traces the course of American intervention from 1954 and the first advisors, through the era of escalation, to the final departure in the 1970s. Soldier/scholar Palmer traces the history of the American involvement in Vietnam and shows how events in both the U.S. and Vietnam became inextricably linked as domestic dissent and a lack of realistic, viable military strategy ultimately led to America's first lost war. 1 vol, 277 pgs 1978 US, PRESIDIO PRESS
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1-219420 Peck, Gaillard SHERMAN LEAD: Flying the F-4D Phantom II in Vietnam Written by a pilot who flew near-daily combat missions, this engrossing book is his story of flying the F-4 Phantom II during the Vietnam War. Operating out of Ubon Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand in 1968-69, Gaillard Peck and his squadronmates in the 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing were tasked with flying combat missions into North Vietnam and Laos as part of Operations Rolling Thunder and Steel Tiger.

The F-4 was heavily involved in the air-to-ground mission at this time, with targets being well defended by enemy anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles. Gaillard Peck's arrival in-theater coincided with the beginning of electro-optical and laser guided 'smart' bomb combat operations. There were periods of fierce combat interspersed with lulls, and the fighting was intense and unforgettable to those who participated. Some men lived through it, and others died without a clear understanding of why. 1 vol, 304 pgs 2019 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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1-243160 Pike, John VIETNAM AND THE COLD WAR 1945-1954: French Imperial Decline and Defeat at Dien Bien Phu A forensic study of Vietnam's war, imperial history, and international relations in the years following WWII that led into the Cold War and defeat of Western imperialism in Asia. Shows France's attempt to regain imperial glory in her former Asian empire following the humiliation of defeat by the Germans and creation of Vichy. It was an existential struggle on the French side -- the end of cafe society and the gravy train for planters, officials, the military, and politicians. Analyzes General Giap's strategy and tactics along with soldiers' war ground-level accounts. Contains eight black and white illustrations. 1 vol, 448 pgs 2024 UK, PEN & SWORD
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1-234951 Poole, Darren HUNTING THE VIET CONG: The Counterinsurgency Campaign in South Vietnam, 1961-1963 Volume 1: The Strategic Hamlet Programme Examines the early stages of the Vietnam War and how the counterinsurgency policy of the American-backed Diem government separated the Viet Cong from many of their supporters, forced many VC into hiding, and created a platform for further government success. Includes 180 b/w photos, three color illustrations, 22 color profiles, and five maps.

This first volume, The Strategic Hamlet Programme, examines both the Counterinsurgency Plan and the Strategic Hamlet Programme (based upon British success in the Malayan Emergency) and explains how these began to strangle insurgent activity. In many parts of South Vietnam, the VC were reduced to scavenging and intimidating the local people in order to survive. Tragically, this was a period when victory against the VC was possible but political ineptness, arrogance and military delusion threw this chance away.

Using documents captured from the Viet Cong, VC prisoner interviews and American military reports the book reveals just how close the insurgents came to being beaten. It contradicts and challenges many of the assumed notions of this time period; it reveals just how much American planners knew about Viet Cong methods, shows how they developed an excellent counterinsurgency strategy to combat insurgent violence and illustrates how - in contrast to the established wisdom - large parts of South Vietnam were under government control before the Diem coup in 1963. 1 vol, 96 pgs 2022 UK, HELION AND COMPANY
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1-234952 Poole, Darren HUNTING THE VIET CONG: Volume 2: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets 1961-1964 The second volume in this series looks at why the Strategic Hamlet strategy ultimately failed in South Vietnam. The book exposes Viet Cong atrocities, South Vietnamese corruption, and American military and political negligence. It reveals just how violent and aggressive the Viet Cong were towards their own people. Fear was a weapon of choice: beheading civilians, mutilating children, and destroying schools and hospitals were considered legitimate tactics in the VC toolbox. The book also explains how a strategy designed to protect Vietnamese villagers made them easy targets for violent guerrillas. Finally, it reveals that there were many decent Americans in South Vietnam who understood the nation and its people but who were constantly ignored by those in power. 1 vol, 96 pgs 2022 UK, HELION AND COMPANY
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1-213060 Poole, Eric COMPANY OF HEROES: A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company's War in Vietnam Now published in paperback, this tells the remarkable account of a Medal of Honor recipient Leslie Sabo Jr., whose brave actions were forgotten for over three decades. Sabo and other replacement soldiers in Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry (Currahees), 101st Airborne Division, were involved in intense, bloody engagements such as the battle for Hill 474 and the Mother's Day Ambush. 1 vol, 320 pgs 2016 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
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1-69990 Pribbenow, Merle translator VICTORY IN VIETNAM:People's Army Official History Contains much detail never before available on the history of the War 1954-1975, produced by the Military Institute of Vietnam, biblio, index. 1 vol, 512 pgs 2002 LAWRENCE, UNIV OF KANSAS
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1-196070 Ross, Hamish FROM SAS TO BLOOD DIAMOND WARS Even by SAS standards this is the story of an outstanding warrior.

On the point of being demobilized from the SAS, Fred Marafono was recruited by David Stirling for his private security company. After Stirling's death, Fred found himself in the midst of Sierra Leone's Blood Diamond wars, and formed an unbreakable bonding with the country's champion of democracy, Chief Hinga Norman, whose leadership and tragic death are integral to the story.

Fred was recruited by Simon Mann for the finest of all private military companies in Africa, Executive Outcomes. Fewer than two hundred of them defeated the rebels in their strongholds. Through political weakness, Executive Outcomes were made to leave the country, and chaos ensued. Committed men like Hinga Norman and British High Commissioner Peter Penfold saw that in the absence of military commitment from the west, only high caliber mercenaries would win the fight to restore democracy: three of them kept a vital air bridge open. 'What God abandoned, these defended'. Fred's final action was supporting the SAS in their brilliant hostage release, 'Operation Barras.' 1 vol, 256 pgs 2011 UK, PEN AND SWORD
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1-226900 Sherwood, LTC Ee COURAGE UNDER FIRE: The 101st Airborne's Hidden Battle at Tam Ky Fighting at Tam Ky by the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne began 15 May 1969 while the 101st's 3rd Brigade battled on Hamburger Hill. The political consequences of Hamburger Hill's high casualties caused Lamar Plain and its high casualties to remain classified and undisclosed. Uses declassified records and eyewitness accounts to follow 'Never Quit' Delta Company and its sister companies through 28 days of continuous combat at Tam Ky. 1 vol, 360 pgs 2021 US, CASEMATE
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1-216350 Smith, Harry LONG TAN: The Start of a Life Long Battle On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, just five kilometres from the main Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, a group of Viet Cong soldiers walked into the right flank of Delta Company, 6 RAR. Under a blanket of mist and heavy monsoon rain, amid the mud and shattered rubber trees, a dispersed Company of 108 men held its ground with courage and grim determination against a three-sided attack from a force of 2,500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troops.

When the battle subsided, 18 Australian soldiers lay dead and 24 had been wounded. Battlefield clearance revealed 245 enemy bodies with captured documents later confirming the count at over 500 enemy killed and 800 wounded. Highly Illustrated with b/w maps and images.

These men were led by a gruff and gusty perfectionist, Major Harry Smith. Now, some 50 years after the battle, Harry tells his story. Long Tan is more than just an account of a historic battle. Harry Smith takes his readers on an extraordinary journey - one that ultimately reveals a remarkable cover-up at the highest military and political echelons. Long Tan portrays his many personal battles, from failed marriages to commando-style killing; from a horrific parachute accident through to his modern-day struggles with bureaucracy for recognition for his soldiers. 1 vol, 364 pgs 2018 AUSTRALIA, BIG SKY PUBLISHING
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1-228110 Snedeker, Don BLACKHORSE TALES: Stories of 11th Armored Cavalry Troopers at War The stories - and those of their families - of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Blackhorse Regiment) represent the Vietnam generation in graphic, sometimes humorous, often heart-wrenching detail. Collected by the author through hundreds of in-person, telephone, and electronic interviews over a period of 25-plus years, these war stories provide context for the companion volume, The Blackhorse in Vietnam. Over the course of the 11th Cavalry's five-and-a-half years in combat in South Vietnam and Cambodia starting in 1966, over 25,000 young men served in the Regiment.

These combat vignettes begin on 2 December 1966, when a small column of 1st Squadron vehicles and troopers was ambushed on Highway 1 and emerged victorious despite being outnumbered. They go on to describe the one-of-a-kind crossing of the Dong Nai River on 25 April 1968, as the Blackhorse Regiment rode to the rescue during Mini-Tet 1968, and the 2nd Squadron's fight to clear the Boi Loi Woods in late April 1971. 1 vol, 256 pgs 2021 US, CASEMATE
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1-223250 Snedeker, Donald The Blackhorse in Vietnam - The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam and Cambodia, 1966-1972 When the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment came ashore at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, in September 1966, it faced a number of challenges. The enemy-Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA)-was, of course, the most critical challenge. But the terrain and weather were also factors that could adversely affect the employment of both armored vehicles and helicopters alike. The dearth of doctrine and tactics for the employment of armored cavalry in a counterinsurgency was equally challenging-especially during the pre-deployment training and initial combat operations.

But just as importantly, there was an institutional bias within the Army that an insurgency was an infantryman's war. Despite the thick jungle and monsoonal rains, despite the lack of doctrinal guidance, Blackhorse leaders found a way to overcome the obstacles and accomplish the mission. Within a year of their arrival in Vietnam, Blackhorse troopers overcame ambushes that featured volleys of anti-tank weapons, multitudes of mines, and coordinated assaults by reinforced enemy regiments against troop-sized positions. They defeated an entire enemy division twice their size. Most importantly, the 11th Cavalry successfully demonstrated the ability to operate on and off the roads, in the jungle, and during both the wet and dry seasons. By the spring of 1967, Army leaders were beginning to realize the value of armored forces in Vietnam. With the Blackhorse Regiment leading the way, armor was considered an essential part of the combat team.

This is a history of the Blackhorse Regiment in the Vietnam War, and the stories of some of the 20,000 young Americans who served in its ranks during the war. 40 photos and maps
1 vol, 336 pgs 2020 US, CASEMATE
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1-238700 Snedeker, Donald THE BLACKHORSE IN VIETNAM: The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam and Cambodia, 1966-1972 History of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ('Blackhorse Regiment'), which came ashore at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, in September 1966, in the Vietnam War. Terrain and weather were also factors that could adversely affect the employment of both armored vehicles and helicopters alike. The dearth of doctrine and tactics for the employment of armored cavalry in a counterinsurgency was equally challenging-especially during the pre-deployment training and initial combat operations. Despite the thick jungle and monsoonal rains, despite the lack of doctrinal guidance, Blackhorse leaders found a way to overcome the obstacles and accomplish the mission. 1 vol, 312 pgs 2023 US, CASEMATE
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1-239360 Stanton, Shelby L. The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1973 The Vietnam War remains deep in the nation's consciousness. It is vital that we know exactly what happened there-and who made it happen. This book provides a complete account of American Army ground combat forces-who they were, how they got to the battlefield, and what they did there. Year by year, battlefield by battlefield, the narrative follows the war in extraordinary, gripping detail. Over the course of the decade, the changes in fighting and in the combat troops themselves are described and documented. The Rise and Fall of an American Army represents the first total battlefield history of Army ground forces in the Vietnam War, containing much previously unreleased archival material. It re-creates the feel of battle with dramatic precision. 1 vol, 411 pgs 1985 US, PRESIDIO PRESS
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1-COM1069 Starkweather, Adam VIETNAM: Rumor of War -- Wargame In 1965, the United States decided to intervene in the ongoing conflict in Vietnam. From the battlefield to the home front, the United States faced one of the greatest challenges in its history. Blending the Operational Scale System as seen in Korea: Fire and Ice with two older games (Road to the Rhine and A Victory Denied), OSS: Vietnam will show the conflict in a playable yet historical manner.

Players have the ability to move all their units once. However, they may choose to move those units in any of several impulses, if they can afford the supply cost to do so. The opposing player will have to maintain adequate reserves to counter this variable impulse movement.

The Operational Scale System (OSS) is meant to be a fast, accessible way of playing, and finishing, larger games. Finally playing a large monster game will no longer require hundreds of hours - now, you can easily complete a game of this size in a weekend. Players will activate HQs, fight off insurgents, bomb and disrupt the infrastructure of their opponents with the unique means available to each side. Whether by bombing raids or insurgents, how your side maintains the ability to wage war will be the key to victory. All the while, players must watch how their actions influence events far from the battlefield.

There are scenarios to allow various campaigns that defined this war as well as a campaign game.

Product Information:
* Complexity: 6 out of 10
* Solitaire Suitability: 8 out of 10
* Time Scale: 1 season per turn
* Map Scale: 8 miles per hex
* Unit Scale: Divisional/Regimental (with Viet Cong Battalions)
* Players: 1-2
* Playing Time: 2 - 35 hours

Components:
* Three maps at 22x34-inches (overall map footprint is 66x40 inches)
* Three Countersheets of 9/16-inch counters
* Five Player Aid Cards, Displays and Charts
* One rulebook
* One scenario book
* Two 6-sided and two 10-sided dice 1 vol, 1 pgs 2019 US, COMPASS GAMES
NEW-box ......$89.00 with a discount of 35% rct

1-COM1076 Starkweather, Adam HEARTS AND MINDS: 1965 to 1975 -- Wargame This Third Edition is an uncomplicated approach to a very complicated conflict. Eight scenarios introduce players to US involvement in Southeast Asia including a scenario after the US withdrew from Vietnam, a full campaign scenario as well as high solitaire capability. Players appreciate the ability to start in any year of the war they wish and fight to the end of any other year of the war. The game provides a comprehensive historical approach using mechanics that include guerrilla warfare, faction differentiation, political turmoil, and veteran advantages. This design has already been used as a successful teaching tool.

This is a card-driven, area-based design with low counter density and a much simplified combat system. Each scenario represents a year and players have the flexibility of starting in any year of the war and ending in any later year of the war. Players choose either the Allies (US, ARVN, Cambodian and Laotian) or Communist (NVA, VC, Cambodian and Laotian) Players engage in guerrilla warfare - VC units remain hidden until engaged. VC units may be simple units or reinforced units or simply false information. When determined to be false information, players roll on the Bush Events Table which involve events from discovering Chinese troops to the arrival of USO shows featuring John Wayne and Bob Hope.

This edition involves the use of three card decks, A red deck (communist), a blue deck (Allied) and a black deck (interchangeable). Prior to every game, half of the black deck is shuffled into each of the red and blue decks ensuring a different game every time. Cards indicate the amount of RPs (Resource Points) that may be spent or banked, a historic situation, and its game effects. Certain cards are year specific. Within each Red and Blue Deck are a number of Campaign cards that may be chosen by each player allowing increased abilities but only in a predetermined area.

Product Information
* Complexity: Low to Medium (4 out of 10)
* Solitaire suitability: Medium to high (7 out of 10)
* Time Scale: Each scenario represents one year. The campaign game covers 8-10 years.
* Map Scale: The Map is divided into provincial areas, indicating major cities and US major bases
* Unit Scale: Units are abstract and represent US, ARVN, NVA, VC, Cambodian and Laotian
* Players: Two Player game (Solitaire friendly)
* Playing Time: 45 minutes or less per scenario

Components:
* 24-page rule/scenario book
* Solitaire Player Aid
* Three Counter sheets (3/4-inch Counters)
* 22x33-inch Mounted Map
* 80 Standard Playing Cards (27 Red/27 Blue/ 28 black)
* Two 6-sided dice (1 Red/1 Blue) 1 vol, 1 pgs 2019 US, COMPASS GAMES
NEW-box ......$69.00 with a discount of 35% rct

1-223650 Strachan-Morris, David Spreading Ink Blots from Da Nang to the DMZ - The Origins and Implementation of US Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Strategy in Vietnam, March 1965 to November 1968 During the United States' involvement in the war in Vietnam, the decision by the US Marine Corps to emphasize counterinsurgency operations in coastal areas was the cause of considerable friction between the Marines and the army commanders in Vietnam, who wanted the corps to conduct more conventional operations. This book will examine the background to the Marines' decision and place it in the context of Marine Corps doctrine, infrastructure and logistical capability. For the first time, this book brings together the Marine Corps' background in counterinsurgency and the state of contemporary counterinsurgency theory in the 1960s - combining this with the strategic outlook, role, organization and logistic capability of the Marine Corps to provide a complete view of its counterinsurgency operations. 2 b/w maps, 6 tables, 2 figures

This book will argue that the US Marine Corps successfully used counterinsurgency as a means to achieve their primary aim in Vietnam - the defense of three major bases in the coastal area in the north of the Republic of Vietnam - and that the corps' decision to emphasize a counterinsurgency approach was driven as much by its background and infrastructure as it was by the view that Vietnam was a 'war for the people'.

This book is also an important contribution to the current debate on counterinsurgency, which is now seen by many in the military doctrine arena as a flawed or invalid concept following the perceived failures in Iraq and Afghanistan - largely because it has been conflated with nation-building or democratization. Recent works on British counterinsurgency have also punctured the myth of counterinsurgency as being a milder form of warfare - with the main effort being the well-being of the population - whereas in fact there is still a great deal of violence involved. This book will bring the debate 'back to basics' by providing an historical example of counterinsurgency in its true form: a means of dealing with terrorist or guerrilla warfare at an operational level to achieve a specific aim in a specific area within a specific period of time.
1 vol, 158 pgs 2020 UK, HELION AND COMPANY
NEW-pb, available late May 2020 ......$50.00 with a discount of 15% rct

1-222820 Thayer, Jim TANGO 1-1: 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta Soldiers on Long Range Patrols were all volunteers aged from 18 to 30. They operated in precision movements, like walking through a jungle quietly and being able to tell whether a man or an animal is moving through the brush without seeing the cause of movement. They could sit in an ambush for hours without moving a muscle except to ease the safety off the automatic weapon in their hand at the first sign of trouble. They were kind in some ways, deadly in others. They were men who believed in their country, freedom, and fellow men. They were a new kind of soldier in a new type of warfare. These men were good because they had to be to survive. 1 vol, 168 pgs 2020 UK, PEN & SWORD
NEW-dj, available late February 2020 ......$33.00 with a discount of 15% rct

1-208000 Tucker-Jones, Anthony THE VIETNAM WAR: The Tet Offensive 1968 On 30 January 1968 the North Vietnamese communists launched a coordinated surprise attack - the Tet Offensive - across South Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and American armies. Superior firepower eventually crushed the offensive, but it proved to be a major psychological victory for the communists - a turning point in the Vietnam War.

Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this photographic history of Tet - and of American involvement in the struggle against the forces of the Viet Cong and the regular North Vietnamese army - uses over 180 contemporary images, color and black and white, to show all sides of the conflict and to reassess a defining moment in the protracted and bitter campaign against communism in South-East Asia.

The images record in vivid detail the conditions and the nature of the fighting, in particular the battles for Hue, Khe Sanh, and Saigon, and the equipment and the weaponry that was used. They show the impact of the fighting on the civilian population in the countryside and cities as they became battlegrounds. They also illustrate why the US public was so shocked by the capability of the communists to launch such an all-encompassing assault that many lost faith in America's commitment to the South. Includes 200 color and b/w photos. 1 vol, 160 pgs 2015 UK, PEN & SWORD
NEW-softcover, available early April 2015 ......$25.00 with a discount of 15%

1-938008 Various STRATEGY & TACTICS QUARTERLY # 8: Tet Offensive Tet Offensive: Appearances can be deceiving. In 1968, the leadership of North Vietnam was convinced victory in the decades-old war for control of the nations of Indochina. A massive country-wide offensive exploded during the lunar new year. Viet Cong guerrillas supported by regular units of the North Vietnamese army overran towns and cities across the south as the surprised soldiers of the US and the Republic of Vietnam flailed helplessly. They recovered quickly, crushing the offensive behind devastating airpower.

Although the offensive failed, we now look on it as the war's turning point in the communist favor. Magazine includes plentiful maps, diagrams, weapons descriptions, and images of people and events. A map poster is included depicting the whole of the Tet Offensive across South Vietnam and a detailed infographic of the amount of men, equipment, and munitions that took part in it on the reverse. 1 vol, 48 pgs 2019 CA, DECISION GAMES
NEW-softcover, available late November 2019 ......$16.00 with a discount of 25% rct

1-216330 Vizcarra, Victor THUD PILOT: A Pilot's Account of Early F-105 Combat in Vietnam Thud Pilot is the personal account of a combat fighter pilot who flew the Air Force's premier fighter-bomber in the most dangerous skies over North Vietnam. In the first five years of the Vietnam War, the F-105 Thunderchief conducted 75% of the Air Force bombing missions over North Vietnam. Color and B&W photographs.

Tells the story of the courageous men who flew the F-105 from its earliest combat deployment in 1964, and on through 1966, the year of its heaviest losses. The author's more significant missions, including his ejection and rescue over North Vietnam are described in detail and are accompanied by map drawings depicting the mission routes from takeoff to refueling orbits, the target, and return.

The book is full of several 'firsts' in the expanding air war over North Vietnam, including 'Operation Spring High,' the first counter Surface-to-Air-Missile (SAM) strike in the history of aerial warfare. The personal perspective from years of combat experience reveals just how the political mismanagement and inane Rules of Engagement made them as much the hunted as they were the hunters. Thud Pilot goes beyond the battle air space and shares the emotional impact on the families left behind. 1 vol, 160 pgs 2018 UK, FONTHILL MEDIA
NEW-softcover, available late February 2018 ......$25.00 with a discount of 15%

1-FPG6001 Walker, Mark SOLITAIRE EXPANSION FOR '65: Squad Level Gaming in the Jungles of Vietnam '65 Base Game required to play. Solitaire expansion for '65. Based on the solitaire version of Night of Man. Includes: 24-page rules and scenario booklet; One sheet of counters representing terrain, units, and mechanisms of the solitaire game; and Deck of 27 solitaire cards. 1 vol, 1 pgs 2017 US, FLYING PIG GAMES
AS NEW-folio, open and unpunched ......$30.00 with a discount of 20% spc

1-COM018 Werbaneth, James COMMAND #18:TET '68 Features:

Tet '68
- Myths and realities of the Tet Offensive
The PAVN and Tet
- The Armies of Tet
King Kamehameha
- The Napoleon of Hawaii
Drug Wars
- Pentagon's Efforts in the War on Drugs
The Israelites in Canaan
- Early Examples of Deception and Ruse in Warfare
1941 German Army / 1944-45 U.S. Army
- A Comparative Analysis of Two Forces in Their Primes
Six of One, Half-a-Dozen of the Other
- Hybrid Warships of the 20th Century
Great Britain as (Faltering) Superpower
- Britain's Decline as a Superpower, 1919-39
I Remember...
- At War on the Texas
Tet '68, issue game
D-Elim
- Strategies for Tet '68
Variants:
- 1918 (The Allied Offensive)
Errata:
- Gettysburg 1 vol, 60 pgs 1992 US, XTR CORPORATION
AS NEW-softcover unpunched, (1) copy available ......$20.00

1-241420 White, Kenneth THE BATTLE OF BONG SON: Operation Masher/White Wing, 1966 Operation Masher/White Wing targeted the regiments of the North Vietnamese Army Sao Vang Division operating in the Bong Son area in northeast Binh Dinh Province in central South Vietnam. The operation started on January 24, 1966, immediately after the Vietnamese New Year (Tet) and ended six weeks later. In 41 days of sustained fighting, the 1st Cav battled each of the three regiments of the Sao Vang Division, resulting in enemy losses of more than 3,000 KIA. This came at the cost of 199 Americans killed on the battlefield and 46 more who died in the crash of a U.S. Air Force C-123 aircraft en route to the battlefield.

However within a few weeks, intelligence reports indicated that North Vietnamese soldiers were returning to the Bong Son area in small groups. By late April, the Sao Vang Division was back in the area in force. Operation Masher/White Wing proved to be the start of a very long and deadly struggle between the 1st Cav and North Vietnamese for control of Binh Dinh Province-multiple search & destroy operations eventually resulted in more than 9,000 enemy KIA and 2,358 enemy detained, with friendly losses of more than 1,200 KIA, 5,775 WIA, and 27 MIA. Masher/White Wing demonstrated that search and destroy operations were very effective at the tactical level but without a high-level strategy to stop the unabated flow of fresh Communist troops and supplies into South Vietnam, it wasn't clear just how they contributed to overall victory. Contains 40 illustrations. 1 vol, 288 pgs 2024 US, CASEMATE
NEW-dj, available mid January 2024 ......$38.00 with a discount of 15% rct

1-201370 Wiest, Andrew VIETNAM: A View from the Front Lines Based on rich collections housed at the National Archive, the Center of Military History, and at the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech, this traces the American experience of Vietnam from the war's popular inception to its morale-crushing and bitter conclusion.

Being careful to demonstrate that the Vietnam War was actually several different wars both in time and in space, it provides a grunt's-eye view of the conflict -- from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands, to the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ.

The stories will detail everything from heroism to fragging, from helicopters hitting the LZs to rampant drug use. It will be a true and grippingly accurate portrait of the American war in Vietnam through the eyes of the men and women who fought there. 1 vol, 212 pgs 2013 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
NEW-dj, available mid April 2013 ......$26.00 with a discount of 15%

1-218160 Wiest, Andrew CHARLIE COMPANY'S JOURNEY HOME: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans The human experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp - the camaraderie, the fear, the smell, the pain. Men were transformed into soldiers, and then into warriors.
These warriors had wives who loved them and shared in their transformations. Some marriages were strengthened, while for others there was all too often a dark side, leaving men and their families emotionally and spiritually battered for years to come.

Focusing in on just one company's experience of war and its eventual homecoming, Andrew Wiest shines a light on the shared experience of combat and both the darkness and resiliency of war's aftermath. 1 vol, 400 pgs 2018 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING
NEW-dj, available mid October 2018 ......$28.00 with a discount of 15%

1-218250 Wiknik, Arthur NAM SENSE: Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division Arthur Wiknik, Jr. served in Vietnam with Company A 2/506th of the 101st Airborne Division as an infantry squad leader from April 1969 to March 1970. Offers a blend of candor, sarcasm, and humor - and it spares nothing and no one in its attempt to accurately convey what really transpired for the combat soldier during this unpopular war.

Nam-Sense is not about heroism or glory, mental breakdowns, haunting flashbacks, or wallowing in self-pity. The GIs Wiknik lived and fought with during his year-long tour did not rape, murder, or burn villages, were not strung out on drugs, and did not enjoy killing. They were there to do their duty as they were trained, support their comrades, and get home alive. 1 vol, 288 pgs 2018 US, CASEMATE
NEW-softcover, available mid October 2018 ......$15.00 with a discount of 15%

1-211160 Yarboriugh, Thpmas A SHAU VALOR: American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963-1971 Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and ARVN were not a major factor, but where the trained professionals of the North Vietnamese and US armies repeatedly fought head-to-head. This studies nine years of American combat operations encompassing the crucial frontier valley and a 15-mile radius around it -- the most deadly killing ground of the entire Vietnam War.

Beginning in 1963 Special Forces A-teams established camps along the valley floor, followed by a number of top-secret Project Delta reconnaissance missions through 1967. Then, US Army and Marine Corps maneuver battalions engaged in a series of sometimes controversial thrusts into the A Shau designed to disrupt NVA infiltrations and to kill enemy soldiers, part of what came to be known as Westmoreland's 'war of attrition.'

The various campaigns included Operation Pirous in 1967, 1968's Operations Delaware and Somerset Plain, 1969's Operations Dewey Canyon, Massachusetts Striker, and Apache Snow -- which included the infamous battle for Hamburger Hill -- culminating with Operation Texas Star and the vicious fight for and humiliating evacuation of Fire Support Base Ripcord in the summer of 1970, the last major US battle of the war.

By 1971 the fighting had once again shifted to the realm of small Special Forces reconnaissance teams assigned to the ultra-secret Studies and Observations Group-SOG. Other works have focused on individual battles or units, but A Shau Valor is the first to study the nine-year campaign -- for all its courage and sacrifice -- chronologically and within the context of other historical, political, and cultural events. 1 vol, 336 pgs 2016 US, CASEMATE
NEW-dj, available mid April 2016 ......$33.00 with a discount of 15%