VIETNAM, AN AMERICAN ORDEAL
Rolling Thunder
2013
NON-FICTIONDetails each aspect of the dynamic history of the armored tank, from the developmental early days that saw engineers scramble in response to the demands of twentieth century warfare, to modern day inn...
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.
Blood and Thunder
2006
MEMOIRExamines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chell...
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.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
2004
NON-FICTIONRevisionist biography of Genghis Khan arguing that the Mongol conquests, far from being purely destructive, created the first global trading network and spread technological innovation across Eurasia.
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America
2004
NON-FICTIONRolling Stone journalist's embedded account of the 1st Recon Battalion's charge through Iraq in the opening weeks of the 2003 invasion — raw, unfiltered, and unflinching.
No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
2005
NON-FICTIONMarine veteran and journalist Bing West's on-the-ground account of the two battles for Fallujah — the first assault halted by political pressure and the brutal second assault that cleared the city.
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.
A Moving River of Tears
1992
NON-FICTIONThis volume surveys the Russian effort throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries to unite Russian and Finnish literature. The book discusses various contacts, meetings, disag...
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...
Shadow on the White House
1993
NON-FICTIONHarry Truman's administration began searching for an American response to the clash in Indochina between Frech colonialism and Vietminh communism in 1945. Thirty years and five administrations later, ...
A Displaced Nation
2024
NON-FICTIONIn A Displaced Nation, Phi-Van Nguyen argues that the displacement of eighty thousand mostly Roman Catholic evacuees from North Vietnam in 1954 had a profound impact on the war opposing Saigon on both...
Military Aspects of the Vietnam Conflict
2000
NON-FICTIONThe Vietnam War was, in the words of a preeminent scholar of the conflict (George C. Herring), "America's longest war." The Indochina conflict spanned the first generation of the larger Cold War and l...
America's Longest War
1996
NON-FICTIONWidely recognized as a major contribution to the study of American involvement in Vietnam, this comprehensive and balanced account analyzes the ultimate failure of the war, and the impact of the war o...
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...
Vietnam and the United States
1998
NON-FICTIONDiscusses the origins and legacy of the Vietnam War and its impact on the United States.