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  • Triumph Revisited

    Historians Battle for the Vietnam War

    Edited by Andrew Wiest, Michael Doidge ...
    More than thirty years later, the Vietnam War still stands as one of the most controversial events in the history of the United States, and historians have so far failed to come up with a definitive narrative of the wartime experience. With competing viewpoints already in play, Mark Moyar’s recent revisionist approach in Triumph Forsaken has created heated debate over who "owns" the history of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

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  • Inside the LRRPs

    Rangers in Vietnam

    by Col. Michael Lee Lanning ...
    Vietnam was a different kind of war, calling for a different kind of soldier. The LRRPs--Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols--were that new breed of fighting man. They operated in six-man teams deep within enemy territory, and were the eyes and ears of the units they served. This is their story--of perseverence under extreme hardship and uncommon bravery--and how they carried out the war's most ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Fire In the Streets

    by Eric Hammel ...
    FIRE IN THE STREETS : The Battle for Hue, Tet 1968 by Eric Hammel = The Tet Offensive of January 1968 was the most important military campaign of the Vietnam War. The ancient capital city of Hue was a key objective of the surprise Communist offensive, but when the North Vietnamese launched their massive invasion of the city, instead of the general civilian uprising and easy victory they had hoped ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Lyndon Johnson's War

    America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968

    by Michael H. Hunt ...
    Series series Hill and Wang Critical Issues
    The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.Using newly available documents from both American and Vietnamese archives, Michael H. Hunt's Lyndon Johnson's War reinterprets the values, choices, misconceptions, and miscalculations that shaped the long process of American intervention in Southeast Asia, and renders ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land

    The Vietnam War Revisited

    by Andrew Wiest ...
    Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'.“This is a superb and compelling reexamination of the major historical, political, and ethical issues that continue to smoulder many decades after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, I highly recommend Rolling ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Over the Beach

    The Air War in Vietnam

    by Zalin Grant ...
    "The Right Stuff without the hype, Yeager without the ego."—Washington Post Book World"While the jet-jockey competitiveness, the undercurrent of fear, the victories and foul-ups of jet sweeps have been described many times, few such chronicles have done it so grippingly and with such a ring of accuracy. Mr. Grant explores the emotions felt not only by the men in battle but by the wives and others ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • My Tour in Hell

    A Marine's Battle with Combat Trauma

    by David W. Powell ...
    Series series Reflections of History
    David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the USMarines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would beable to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he neverthought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Evenless that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of DaNang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell ... Read more

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War, 2nd Edition

    How We Got into-and Out of-Vietnam, and What We Can Learn from It Now

    by Timothy P. Maga Ph.D. ...
    A long ago war-still relevant todayMisunderstanding remains, and a lot is still unknown, of the Vietnam War. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Vietnam War, Second Edition provides an updated and revised guide giving readers the facts. It assesses policies and the reasons for them, shedding light on the controversies regarding the Vietnam War, what has been called the most complicated armed ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Friendly Fire

    by C. D. B. Bryan ...
    The true story of Michael Mullen, a soldier killed in Vietnam, and his parents' quest for the truth from the US government: "Brilliantly done" ( The Boston Globe).Drafted into the US Army, Michael Mullen left his family's Iowa farm in September 1969 to fight for his country in Vietnam. Six months later, he returned home in a casket. Michael wasn't killed by the North Vietnamese, but by artillery ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lullabies for Lieutenants

    Memoir of a Marine Forward Observer in Vietnam, 1965-1966

    by Franklin Cox ...
    Capturing the chaotic nature of the U.S. Marine experience at war in Vietnam, this memoir recounts the experiences of a young officer in a series of unrelated short pieces. In a narrative as fragmented as the war itself, the only resolution is the same one reached by the Marines who fought--the conclusion of a tour of duty with no happy ending. Each chapter describes a specific event, a story of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Threat of the First Magnitude

    FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-1974

    by Aaron J Leonard, Conor A Gallagher ...
    Discover the inner workings of FBI counterintelligence in this untold story of the FBI informants who infiltrated the Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and other threats to US security.A Threat of the First Magnitude tells the story of the FBI’s fake Maoist organization and the informants they used to penetrate the highest levels of the Communist Party USA, the Black Panther Party, the ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • History and Causality

    by M. Hewitson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after the linguistic turn have paid surprisingly little attention to causes in spite of the centrality of causation in many contemporary works of history. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD