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The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953
1987
NON-FICTIONThe most exhaustive single-volume history of the Korean War, covering every major campaign from the Pusan Perimeter to the armistice.
The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953
1987
NON-FICTIONThe most comprehensive operational history of the Korean War, based on thousands of interviews and classified documents.
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
1900
MILITARY HISTORYContains: - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_i...
Vietnam and the United States
1998
NON-FICTIONDiscusses the origins and legacy of the Vietnam War and its impact on the United States.
The Korean War
1987
FICTIONChronicles the Korean War with over 200 interviews of veterans, including the Chinese.
The Vietnam War and American Culture
1991
NON-FICTIONExamines how the Vietnam War is perceived in American culture, especially by those who were not in Vietnam.
The Tragedy of Vietnam
2017
NON-FICTIONChapter 1 The French Indochina Empire -- chapter 2 The Dream of a Pax Americana -- chapter 3 America’s Mandarin -- chapter 4 The Summons of the Trumpet -- chapter 5 The Master of Deceit -- chapter 6 T...
The Korean War
2024
Presents an overview of the Korean War, including history, important people and battles, and a time line of events.
Overview of the Korean War
2009
NON-FICTIONExamines the causes, major battles and figures, and aftermath of the Korean War.
Stalin and the Turkish Crisis of the Cold War, 1945-1953
2011
MEMOIRThis book presents Western and Soviet policies on Turkey from the end of the Second World War until Stalin's death in 1953. It explains how Turkey became the first regional testing ground for the Sovi...
Tank Battles of the Cold War, 1948-1991
2021
As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this highly illustrated, wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its pre-eminence on the battlefield. The Arab-Israeli wars witnessed some of ...
Eye of the Needle
1978
FICTIONHis code name was The Needle. He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history.
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.
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.
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir
2018
NON-FICTIONGripping narrative of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir — where 15,000 UN troops were surrounded by 120,000 Chinese soldiers in brutal Korean winter and fought their way to the sea.
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs
1997
NON-FICTIONControversial argument that the Vietnam War was lost as much by deception and institutional failures at the top of the U.S. military and government as by battlefield failure.
Chosin Reservoir: Defensive, Retrograde, Winter, 1st Marine Division, 27 November-11 December 1950
1983
NON-FICTIONThis battle analysis addresses the battle of Chosin Reservoir from 27 November to 11 December 1950 in northeastern North Korea during which the 1st Marine Division and some attached U.S. Army units fo...