Platoon Leader
A Memoir of Command in Combat
Written by James R. McDonough

Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-89141-800-9 (0-89141-800-8)

The story of a young man's indoctrination into combat in the Vietnam War, as an infantry platoon leader in the famed 173d Airborne Brigade. Read more >

Loon
A Marine Story
Written by Jack McLean

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-51016-7 (0-345-51016-X)

“Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his captivating memoir, Loon. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in... Read more >

In Retrospect
The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Written by Robert S. McNamara

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 19, 1996
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76749-7 (0-679-76749-5)

This new paperback edition of McNamara's controversial memoir includes a new Preface by McNamara and a new Appendix containing examples of the intense debate that erupted upon the book's original publication in 1995. Among the contributions to the Appendix are the New York Times editorial "Mr. McNamara's War," and sixteen other... Read more >

Valley of Death
The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War
Written by Ted Morgan

Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6664-3 (1-4000-6664-6)

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also... Read more >

Dak To
America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands
Written by Edward Murphy

Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-89141-910-5 (0-89141-910-1)

From their very first engagement with the North Vietnamese Army, when a whole company of paratroopers was nearly wiped out, to the savage, climactic battle for Hill 875, here is a riveting, hard-hitting account of how the Sky Soldiers plunged into some of Southeast Asia's most forbidding terrain, against a professional... Read more >

The Hill Fights
The First Battle of Khe Sanh
Written by Edward F. Murphy

Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-89141-849-8 (0-89141-849-0)

While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a... Read more >

Ripcord
Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970
Written by Keith Nolan

Format: Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: June 3, 2003
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-89141-809-2 (0-89141-809-1)

An important historical account of the last major American land offensive of the Vietnam War, waged by the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne. Read more >

Going After Cacciato

Written by Tim O'Brien

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: September 1, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0442-1 (0-7679-0442-7)

Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, the now classic novel of Vietnam, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked the war. Reality and fantasy merge in O’Brien’s fictional account of one private’s sudden decision to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic... Read more >

The Vietnam Reader
The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War
Edited by Stewart O'Nan

Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 20, 1998
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49118-1 (0-385-49118-2)

The Vietnam Reader is a selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, still photos, and popular song lyrics. All the strongest work is here, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye. Also included are... Read more >

Remembering War the American Way

Written by G. Kurt Piehler

Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: May 17, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-145-7 (1-58834-145-3)

Wars do not fully end when the shooting stops. As G. Kurt Piehler reveals in this book, after every conflict from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, Americans have argued about how and for what deeds and heroes wars should be remembered.

Drawing on sources ranging from government documents to Embalmer’s... Read more >

Once Upon a Distant War
David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles
Written by William Prochnau

Format: Trade Paperback, 564 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77265-1 (0-679-77265-0)

In Once Upon a Distant War Prochnau vividly brings to life the adventures of a small group of young, audacious, and driven war correspondents who first brought Vietnam to the American popular consciousness.  With the evocative eye of a novelist and the experience of a prize-winning journalist, Prochnau introduces us to men... Read more >

Everything We Had
An Oral History of the Vietnam War
Written by Al Santoli

Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-345-32279-1 (0-345-32279-7)

"Dead: 57, 661."

"Here are 33 who survived...We have tried to put into honest words the raw experience of what happened to us. We have reflected upon that experience, recalling, among other things, that we were once idealistic young people confronted by the awesomeness of fighting other human beings...

"Please understand that we... Read more >

Xin Loi, Viet Nam
Thirty-one Months of War: A Soldier's Memoir
Written by Al Sever

Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-89141-856-6 (0-89141-856-3)

From Da Nang to Cu Chi and the Mekong Delta, gunship crew chief Al Sever spent thirty-one months in Vietnam, fighting in eleven of the war’s sixteen campaigns. Every morning when his gunship lifted off, often to the clacking and muzzle flashes of AK-47s hidden in the dawn fog, Sever knew... Read more >

Armed Conflict
The Lessons of Modern Warfare
Written by Brian Steed

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: January 1, 2003
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-89141-803-0 (0-89141-803-2)

A military theorist and experienced armor officer, Brian Steed provides insights into the future of armed conflict.

He analyzes five battles, one each in Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Persian Gulf, and Somalia; placing all in an appropriate historical and geographic context. He also explores the specific strategies employed in each... Read more >

On Strategy
A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War
Written by Harry G. Summers

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: June 1, 1995
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-89141-563-3 (0-89141-563-7)

Summer's inspired analysis of America's war in Vietnam. Read more >

A Vietcong Memoir
An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
Written by Troung Nhu Tang

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 12, 1986
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-74309-7 (0-394-74309-1)

Truong Nhu Tang's vivid and powerful memoir "goes a long way toward explaining why America failed in Vietnam despite its greatly superior military power" (Chicago Tribune). When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one... Read more >

Bloods
Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Written by Wallace Terry

Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: July 12, 1985
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-345-31197-9 (0-345-31197-3)

This is Terry's acclaimed chronicle of the unique experience of African American soldiers fighting in Indochina.  

"An invaluable addition to the expanding legion of histories about the Vietnam War...a graphically illuminating but disquieting collection of 20 personal accounts reflecting the black military experience in Vietnam...Through their recollections of war, we see America's... Read more >

To Hanoi and Back
The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966-1973
Written by Wayne Thompson
Foreword by Richard P. Hallion

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-283-6 (1-58834-283-2)

After nearly eighteen months of the largely unsuccessful bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder, the US Air Force began to look for ways to overcome technological, geographical, and political challenges in North Vietnam and use limited air power more effectively. In 1972 the two Linebacker campaigns joined with other air operations... Read more >

Warriors
An Infantryman's Memoir of Vietnam
Written by Robert Tonsetic

Format: Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-89141-844-3 (0-89141-844-X)

On the ground, in the air, and behind the lines, grunts made life-and-death decisions every day—and endured the worst stress of their young lives.

It was the tumultuous year 1968, and Robert Tonsetic was Rifle Company commander of the 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry in Vietnam. He took over a group of grunts... Read more >

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Written by Dang Thuy Tram

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $13.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-34738-1 (0-307-34738-9)

“Remarkable. . . . A gift from a heroine who was killed at twenty-seven but whose voice has survived to remind us of the humanity and decency that endure amid—and despite—the horror and chaos of war.”
—Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine

Brutally honest and rich in detail, this posthumously published diary of... Read more >

Code-Name Bright Light
The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War
Written by George J. Veith

Format: Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: December 1, 1998
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-440-22650-5 (0-440-22650-3)

The history of the U.S. POW/MIA intelligence and wartime rescue operations has long remained concealed under the shroud of national security, unknown both to the public and to the families of the missing. George J. Veith has assembled an extensive range of previously unseen material, including recently declassified NSA intercepts, State... Read more >

Dear Mom
A Sniper's Vietnam
Written by Joseph T. Ward

Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 31, 1991
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-8041-0853-9 (0-8041-0853-6)

The letters Joseph War, one of the elite Marine Scout Snipers, wrote home reveal a side of the Vietnam war seldom seen. Whether under nigthly mortar attack in An Hoa, with a Marine company in the bullet-scarred jungle, on secret missions to Laos, or on dangerous two-man hunter-kills, Ward lived the... Read more >

Shooting at the Moon
The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos
Written by Roger Warner

Format: Trade Paperback, 456 pages
Publisher: Steerforth
On Sale: June 1, 1998
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-883642-36-5 (1-883642-36-1)

For a few years in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be running a perfect covert war in Laos — quiet, inexpensive, just enough arms to help Meo tribesmen defend their home territory from the Communist Pathet Lao. Then the American war in Vietnam spilled across the border. Roger Warner... Read more >

Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land
The Vietnam War Revisited
Written by Andrew Wiest

Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-78200-187-4 (1-78200-187-5)

From the Colonial War with France in the 1940s and 50s, through to the final evacuation of Saigon and beyond, each chapter of Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited, focuses on a different aspect of the Vietnam War. The 15 chapters are written by a diverse set... Read more >

Vietnam: A View From the Frontlines

Written by Andrew Wiest

Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-972-2 (1-84908-972-8)

Vietnam: A View from the Frontline traces the American experience of Vietnam from the war’s popular inception to its morale-crushing and bitter conclusion. Vietnam features a grunt’s-eye view of the conflict - from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands... Read more >