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Author : Tom Lacombe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781893846562
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Light Ruck--Vietnam 1969 written by Tom Lacombe and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xiaobing Li
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173868
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Vietnam War written by Xiaobing Li and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural and legal barriers, the oral histories of the Vietnam War currently available in English are predictably one-sided, providing limited insight into the inner workings of the Communist nations that participated in the war. Furthermore, many of these accounts focus on combat experiences rather than the backgrounds, belief systems, and social experiences of interviewees, resulting in an incomplete historiography of the war. Chinese native Xiaobing Li corrects this oversight in Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans. Li spent seven years gathering hundreds of personal accounts from survivors of the war, accounts that span continents, nationalities, and political affiliations. The twenty-two intimate stories in the book feature the experiences of American, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and North and South Vietnamese veterans, representing the views of both anti-Communist and Communist participants, including Chinese officers of the PLA, a Russian missile-training instructor, and a KGB spy. These narratives humanize and contextualize the war's events while shedding light on aspects of the war previously unknown to Western scholars. Providing fresh perspectives on a long-discussed topic, Voices from the Vietnam War offers a thorough and unique understanding of America's longest war.
Author : James C. Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444315110
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Companion to American Military History written by James C. Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 60 essays, A Companion to American MilitaryHistory presents a comprehensive analysis of the historiographyof United States military history from the colonial era to thepresent. Covers the entire spectrum of US history from the Indian andimperial conflicts of the seventeenth century to the battles inAfghanistan and Iraq Features an unprecedented breadth of coverage from eminentmilitary historians and emerging scholars, including little studiedtopics such as the military and music, military ethics, care of thedead, and sports Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every importantera and topic Summarizes current debates and identifies areas whereconflicting interpretations are in need of further study
Author : Jack Head
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781723574184
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Selected Memories of Vietnam 1969 -1970 written by Jack Head and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After College, I was drafted and whisked through stateside training in the Army's hope to have me 'in country' (Vietnam) for the 1969 TET offensive. I have written Selected Memories describing my experiences as a Good Will Ambassador to Southeast Asia with the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division, U.S. Army. This book is about the time I spent wiping out communism and having my faith in the Washington leadership's ability to wage war against a non-traditional enemy destroyed.
Author : Milam
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458782387
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Not a Gentleman's War written by Milam and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers. Written by a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Not a Gentleman's Waris about such soldiers--a gritty, against-the-grain defense of the much-maligned junior officer. Conventional wisdom holds that the junior officer in Vietnam was a no-talent, poorly trained, unmotivat...
Author : Charles R. Carr
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811745864
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Two One Pony written by Charles R. Carr and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtful, reflective narrative of a reluctant soldier in Vietnam.
Author : Michael Lee Lanning
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585446315
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Vietnam written by Michael Lee Lanning and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.
Author : Larry Chambers
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1101969563
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Death in the A Shau Valley written by Larry Chambers and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a new introduction by the author about his return to Vietnam, his reflections on the war, and his humanitarian work in Cambodia. “The enemy had a single purpose: kill me and my teammates.” Larry Chambers was still new to Vietnam in early 1969 when the LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division became L Company, 75th (Rangers). But his unit’s mission stayed the same: act as the eyes and ears of the 101st deep in the dreaded A Shau Valley—where the NVA ruled. Relentless thick fog frequently made fighter bombers useless in the A Shau, and the enemy had furnished the nearby mountaintops with antiaircraft machine guns to protect the massive trail network that snaked through it. So, outgunned, outmanned, and unsupported, the teams of L Company executed hundreds of courageous missions. Now, in this powerful personal record, Larry Chambers recaptures the experience of the war’s most brutal on-the-job training, where the slightest noise or smallest error could bring sudden—and certain—death. . . .
Author : Harry G. Enoch
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329657136
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (296 download)
Download or read book A Year In Vietnam With The 101st Airborne, 1969-1970 written by Harry G. Enoch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author was one of many reluctant soldiers who served in the Vietnam War. Drafted out of graduate school and trained in the infantry, he spent a year with the 101st Airborne. This work is a journal of the experience, a day to day description of what it was like in a "grunt unit" fighting in the Central Highlands, dealing with the heat, the bugs, the rain, the endless patrolling in the villages and mountains, the ever present boredom and occasional violence. It's not all exciting action but it's always real.
Author : Jack Head
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Selective Memories of Vietnam 1969-1970 written by Jack Head and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Al Hogue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (942 download)
Download or read book On The Road In The Central Highlands Of Vietnam 1969 written by Al Hogue and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nearly 300 photographs in this 8X10 pictorial were taken mostly in the Kontum and Pleiku Provinces. The scenery was beautiful, exotic, and dangerous. The faces of the Vietnamese people, Montagnards, children, and GIs in a country at war were unforgettable. If you were there, these pictures will bring back memories. If you weren't there, you will see what it was like.
Author : Lou Pepi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476675163
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book "My brothers have my back" written by Lou Pepi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1969, what Time Magazine called the "largest battle of the year" took place less than two miles from the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. Three companies of Task Force 1-61 met 2,000-3,000 North Vietnamese. American forces fought for two days, inflicting heavy casualties and suffering eight killed. Late on November 12, it became evident that the American position could be overrun. Alpha Company was airlifted in darkness to reinforce a small hill in the jungle. Three hours later, well past midnight, the Americans were attacked by 1,500 NVA. There was a twist: A secret Vietcong document captured near Saigon urged intense action before November 14 in anticipation of the Vietnam War Moratorium Demonstrations set for November 15 in many cities in America. The Vietcong planned to inflict a stunning defeat in "an effort to get the fighting in step with the peace marchers." The author, a member of Alpha Company who rode in on the last helicopter, offers unique insights into the story of the men who fought those three days in 1969.
Author : Gary Linderer
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307574652
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Eyes Behind the Lines written by Gary Linderer and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In mid-December 1968, after recovering from wounds susatined in a murderous mission, Gary Linderer returned to Phu Bai to comlpete his tour of duty as a LRP. His job was to find the enmy, observe him, or kill him--all the while behind enemy lines, where success could be as dangerous as discovery.
Author : Major Bruce H. Norton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 039917771X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Force Recon Diary, 1969 written by Major Bruce H. Norton and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite and highly trained, the 3d Force Recon's eight-man teams were assigned to obtain vital information about NVA operations. Alone, the men of these small teams were sent behind enemy lines, where they all knew that a single mistake could cost everyone their lives. United States Navy Hospital Corpsman Bruce Norton was the only navy corpsman to act as a Marine Force Recon Team Leader. In Force Recon Diary, 1969 Doc Norton chronicles his life, mission by mission, with the 3d Force Recon in the DMZ and the A Shau Valley. He describes the tense patrols, the supreme courage, the sacrifices—in ambushes and hot landing zones—that made this courageous company one of only two Marine units during the entire Vietnam War to receive the United States Army's Valorous Unit Citation.
Author : Bill Miller
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)
Download or read book On the Road in the Central Highlands written by Bill Miller and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the 250 photographs in this 8X10 Vietnam pictorial were made from slides and were shot using 35mm cameras. Many of them are so sharp and clear, they look as though they might have been taken yesterday. I arrived in Vietnam in the summer of 1968 with an Agfa 35mm camera that I had purchased while stationed in Germany. The camera only lasted about one week in Vietnam because it was the Monsoon season in the Central Highlands, and rust from the rain and high humidity ruined it. Since the unit I was in never went into the 4th Infantry Division basecamp, Camp Enari, in Pleiku where the PX was, I spent the first half of my Vietnam tour of duty without a camera to document the extraordinary events, places, and people I encountered. Then, early in 1969, I went on R&R, and while in basecamp on my way to Hong Kong, I bought an Olympus 35mm camera at the PX. So, it was only during the last half of my tour, the first half of 1969, that I took all of the photos that I have now. Al Hogue, who was in the same mechanized infantry scout squad as me, also took many pictures. Using his Canon Electra 35mm camera, his pictures were all shot during the last half of 1969. The majority of the pictures in this book were made by Al. Al has a good eye for photography and a talent for capturing a moment in time and creating pictures that say a lot. Our pictures bring back memories from more than fifty years ago and they mean a lot to us. We like to show them to our friends and family and other Veterans and tell them the stories associated with each one. Since most of the guys who served in Vietnam did not have cameras and therefore have no pictures, we decided to combine our photos to share with them and anyone else that might be interested in that extraordinary period of U.S. military history. The photographs in this book are pictures that you might have taken if you had traveled the roads in the Central Highlands in 1969: You would have taken pictures of villages and towns, Vietnamese people and Montagnard people, lots of children, water buffalo, rice paddies, scenic landscapes, plantations, and farms. You would have taken pictures of all sorts of military vehicles, attack helicopters, airplanes, and portraits of the young American soldiers who were serving there. You'd have photographed LZs (landing zones), Artillery Fire Support Bases, and other forward army outposts. In the back of the book, you will find images of actual 1969 military map sheets that show the locations where all of the photographs were made. The pictures here are not organized or grouped according to a subject or to create any sort of theme. Some photos have captions and some do not. There are no lengthy narratives or descriptions or stories told. There are no political opinions or conclusions. Just pictures. One picture, it has been said, is worth a thousand words. If that statement is accurate, the images in this picture book are worth more than 260,000 words.
Author : Samuel Zaffiri
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0891417060
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Hamburger Hill written by Samuel Zaffiri and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1999-12-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle for Ap Bia Mountain (Hill 937), was one of the fiercest of the entire Vietnam War.
Author : Al Hogue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781704754567
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (545 download)
Download or read book On the Road in the Central Highlands written by Al Hogue and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the 250 photographs in this book were made from slides. That is why they are so clear and with such true color. Many of them look as though they were taken yesterday. I arrived in Vietnam in the summer of 1968 with an Agfa 35mm camera that I had purchased while stationed in Germany. The camera only lasted about one week in Vietnam because it was the Monsoon season in the Central Highlands, and rust from the rain and high humidity ruined it. Since the unit I was in never went into the 4th Infantry Division basecamp, Camp Enari, in Pleiku where the PX was, I spent the first half of my Vietnam tour of duty without a camera to document the extraordinary events, places, and people I encountered. Then, early in 1969, I went on R&R, and while in basecamp on my way to Hong Kong, I bought an Olympus 35mm camera at the PX. So, it was only during the last half of my tour, the first half of 1969, that I took all of the photos that I have now.Al Hogue, who was in the same mechanized infantry scout squad as me, also took many pictures using his Canon Electra 35mm camera. His pictures were all shot during the last half of 1969. The majority of the pictures in this Vietnam pictorial were made by Al. Al has a good eye for photography and a talent for capturing a moment in time and creating pictures that say a lot. Our pictures bring back memories from more than fifty years ago and they mean a lot to us. We like to show them to our friends and family and other Veterans and tell them the stories associated with each one. Since most of the guys who served in Vietnam did not have cameras and therefore have no pictures, we decided to combine our photos to share with them and anyone else that might be interested in that extraordinary period of U.S. military history. The photographs in this book are pictures that you might have taken if you had traveled the roads in the Central Highlands in 1969: You would have taken pictures of villages and towns, Vietnamese people and Montagnard people, lots of children, water buffalo, rice paddies, scenic landscapes, plantations, and farms. You would have taken pictures of all sorts of military vehicles, attack helicopters, airplanes, and portraits of the young American soldiers who were serving there with you. You'd have photographed LZs (landing zones), Artillery Fire Support Bases, and other forward army outposts. On the last six pages, you will find images of actual 1969 military map sheets that show the locations where all of the photographs were made.The images in this pictorial are not organized or grouped according to a subject or to create any sort of theme. Some photos have captions and some do not. There are no lengthy narratives or descriptions or stories told. There are no political opinions or conclusions. Just pictures. One picture, it has been said, is worth a thousand words. If that statement is accurate, the images in this picture book are worth more than 250,000 words.
