Books at On Military Matters
Updated as of 10/03/2024
ABBREVIATIONS: dj-dust jacket, biblio-bibliography, b/w-black and white, illust-illustrations, b/c-book club addition.rct - recent arrival or pending publication, spc - OMM Special Price
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.' |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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).. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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1-968003
Hallion, Richard 003 ROLLING THUNDER 1965-68: Johnson's Air War Over Vietnam
New Air Campaign Series. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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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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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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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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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Ross, Hamish FROM SAS TO BLOOD DIAMOND WARS
Even by SAS standards this is the story of an outstanding warrior. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Werbaneth, James COMMAND #18:TET '68
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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