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  • Stained with the Mud of Khe Sanh

    A Marine's Letters from Vietnam, 1966-1967

    by Rodger Jacobs ...
    The author describes his memoir: "It's based on wartime letters. Upon arriving at the United States Marine Corps Boot Camp one of the first things my drill instructors told me to do was to write at least two letters home a week. I did what they told me. My father, a World War II combat veteran, kept my letters, all 146 of them (and the 250 images I sent home). I continued to write all through my ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Blood Trails

    The Combat Diary of a Foot Soldier in Vietnam

    by Christopher Ronnau ...
    BAPTISM BY FIREChris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack Viet cong and NVA troops in the notorious Iron ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Tiger Force

    A True Story of Men and War

    by Michael Sallah, Mitch Weiss ...
    At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission was to seek out enemy compounds and hiding places so ... Read more

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  • The Ravens: The True Story Of A Secret War In Laos, Vietnam

    by Christopher Robbins ...
    Officially the war in Laos did not exist – both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the south, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from the air. The Ravens were the pilots, all volunteers, who flew through heavy groundfire to identify ... Read more

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  • The Element of Surprise

    Navy SEALS in Vietnam

    by Darryl Young ...
    It used to be said that the night belonged to Charlie. But that wasn't true where SEALs patrolled. For six months in 1970, fourteen men in Juliett Platoon of the Navy's SEAL Team One--incuding the author--carried out over a hundred missions in the Mekong Delta without a single platoon fatality. Their primary mission: kidnap enemy soldiers--alive--for interrogation. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Blood on the Risers

    An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam

    by John Leppelman ...
    In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it.As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often it seemed the only way out of the carnage in the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • LRRP Team Leader

    A Memoir of Vietnam

    by John Burford ...
    For the LRRPs, courage was a way of lifeVietnam, 1968. All of Sergeant John Burford's missions with F Company, 58th Infantry were deep in hostile territory. As leader of a six-man LRRP team, he found the enemy, staged ambushes, called in precision strikes, and rescued downed pilots. The lives of the entire team depended on his leadership and their combined skill and guts. A single mistake—a moment ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Seawolves

    First Choice

    by Daniel E. Kelly ...
    They called themselves Seawolves . . .The men of SEALs, PBRs, and SF called them saviors . . .Created in 1967, the HAL-3 helicopter squadron--aka Seawolves--provided quick-reaction close air support to SEALs, PBR River Rats, and Special Forces advisers and their troops. During the five years of the unit's existence, the seven detachments of Seawolves amassed stunning statistics: 78,000 missions, 8 ... Read more

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  • Never Without Heroes

    Marine Third Reconnaissance Battalion in Vietnam, 1965-70

    by Lawrence C. Vetter Jr. ...
    FOUR CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR,THIRTEEN NAVAL CROSSES,SEVENTY-TWO SILVER STARS . . .In four and a half years in Vietnam, the Marines of the Third Reconnaissance Battalion repeatedly penetrated North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries by foot and by helicopter to find enemy forces, learn the enemy's intentions, and, when possible, bring deadly fire down on his head. Heavily armed, well ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Seal Doc

    The Story of the First Us Navy Seal Team in Vietnam

    by Deick Conrad Williams ...
    A small team from the US Navy arrives in Vietnam in the spring of 1962. At first, its members only hear whispers about what they are supposed to accomplish. The unit goes by the name MTT 10-62 because its mission is so secret. This is the first Sea, Air and Land team—later known as the SEALs—and it’s gearing up to train a group of volunteers from the Vietnamese Junk Force in counterinsurgency and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • F-105 Wild Weasel vs SA-2 ‘Guideline’ SAM

    Vietnam 1965–73

    by Peter E. Davies ...
    Series Book 35 - Duel
    A detailed account of the suppression of North Vietnam's surface-to-air missile defences during the Vietnam War, initiating a totally new concept of air war.The Vietnam War was the first conflict that saw extensive use of surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles, and thus became a training ground for the tactics of this new type of battle, as USAF pilots battled with supersonic Soviet ground-to-air ... Read more

    $19.99 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