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Hue 1968
2017
NON-FICTIONGripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
1992
NON-FICTIONDefinitive account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965, the first major engagement between US forces and the NVA.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
1988
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize–winning account of the Vietnam War seen through the career of John Paul Vann, a soldier who saw through official optimism.
The Things They Carried
1990
FICTIONLandmark work of fiction-as-memoir about American soldiers in Vietnam. One of the most acclaimed war novels of the 20th century.
Dispatches
1977
MEMOIRIconic New Journalism account of the Vietnam War by a war correspondent. Its prose style influenced an entire generation of war writing.
The Call of the Canyon
2013
FICTIONBooks for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing t...
What Moves the Dead
2024
FICTIONWhen Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they ...
The Origin of the Idea of Crusade
2019
NON-FICTIONThough conditioned by the specific circumstances of eleventh-century Europe, the launching of the crusdaes presupposed a long historical evolution of the idea of Christian knighthood and holy war. Car...
A King of the Fields
2003
FICTIONIn an age of darkness Poland lives under the iron fist of Krol Rudy until their leader, returns with the knowledge of an outside civilised world.
Eaters of the Dead
1992
FICTIONA 10th century Arab diplomat is kidnapped by Vikings and forced to confront the ultimate horror ....
Invasion of the Sea
2001
FICTIONThe work raises a host of concerns - environmental, cultural, and political. In the story the proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declar...
Vietnam War History 1968 : the TET Offensive During Vietnam War
2021
MILITARY HISTORYVietnam at War
1991
NON-FICTIONWeaving together the histories of three distinct conflicts, Phillip B. Davidson follows the entire course of the Vietnam War, from the initial French skirmishes in 1946 to the dramatic fall of Saigon ...
The to Z of Vietnam
2010
NON-FICTIONVietnam became part of French Indochina in 1887 and did not regain its independence again until after the Vietnam War. However, despite a relatively peaceful two decades the country experienced little...