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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.
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.
Vietnam War History 1968 : the TET Offensive During Vietnam War
2021
MILITARY HISTORYA 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.
Wars of the Cold War
2004
NON-FICTIONThough the words, Cold War, refer to a period of specific international tension it is also true that the wars, conflicts and armed disputes of the period were most often influenced by, and even create...
Vietnam 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...
Vietnam
2011
NON-FICTIONHaunting questions remain about our involvement in Vietnam. Perhaps the most persistent of these is whether President Kennedy would have ended American involvement in Vietnam if he had lived. For many...
The Vietnam War: Timelines, Facts, and Battles
2022
War isn't new in our world, but the Vietnam War was a new sort of war in many ways. Called by some "the first television war," it was the first in which video and audio recording played a huge role in...
Soviet storm
2016
MILITARY HISTORYSoviet Storm tells the complete story of the War on the Eastern Front, profiling the epic campaigns and battles, revealing the tactics employed by both sides and exposing the true horrors of a conflic...