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Call Sign Rustic
The Secret Air War over Cambodia, 1970-1973
Written by Richard Wood
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $19.95
President Richard Nixon could not keep American ground troops in Cambodia beyond June 1970 without authorization from Congress, which was not forthcoming. Not wanting to desert the anti-communist Lon Nol regime, he ordered top-secret, round-the-clock air support over Cambodia, and the Rustics were born.
Author Richard Wood flew as one of the... Read more >
The Secret Air War over Cambodia, 1970-1973
Written by Richard Wood
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $19.95
President Richard Nixon could not keep American ground troops in Cambodia beyond June 1970 without authorization from Congress, which was not forthcoming. Not wanting to desert the anti-communist Lon Nol regime, he ordered top-secret, round-the-clock air support over Cambodia, and the Rustics were born.
Author Richard Wood flew as one of the... Read more >
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Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land
The Vietnam War Revisited
Written by Andrew Wiest
Format: eBook, 316 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $9.95
From the Introduction
In the end, then, the Vietnam War was a conflict of myriad complexities. It was a colonial war and a regional war. It was a total war and a limited war. It was a civil war, an insurgency and a conventional war - and indeed it varied from... Read more >
The Vietnam War Revisited
Written by Andrew Wiest
Format: eBook, 316 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $9.95
From the Introduction
In the end, then, the Vietnam War was a conflict of myriad complexities. It was a colonial war and a regional war. It was a total war and a limited war. It was a civil war, an insurgency and a conventional war - and indeed it varied from... Read more >
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Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land
The Vietnam War Revisited
Written by Andrew Wiest
Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
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 >
The Vietnam War Revisited
Written by Andrew Wiest
Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.95
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 >
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Vietnam Infantry Tactics
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $14.95
Osprey's study of the evolving US, Viet Cong and NVA tactics at battalion level and below throughout the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Beginning with a description of the terrain, climate and the unique nature of operations in this theater of war, author Gordon Rottman, a Vietnam veteran himself, goes on to explain how unit... Read more >
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $14.95
Osprey's study of the evolving US, Viet Cong and NVA tactics at battalion level and below throughout the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Beginning with a description of the terrain, climate and the unique nature of operations in this theater of war, author Gordon Rottman, a Vietnam veteran himself, goes on to explain how unit... Read more >
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The Tunnels of Cu Chi
A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
Written by Tom Mangold
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $7.99
At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough... Read more >
A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
Written by Tom Mangold
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $7.99
At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough... Read more >
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Line Doggie: Foot Soldier in Vietnam
Written by Charles Gadd
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
Charles Gadd served in Vietnam in late 1967 and 1968 and had experiences very similar to what most enlisted men endured. He describes the mud, blood, leeches, loss of friends, and low morale due to constant harassment by guerrillas. The author, a squad leader with the 101st Airborne, was wounded twice... Read more >
Written by Charles Gadd
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
Charles Gadd served in Vietnam in late 1967 and 1968 and had experiences very similar to what most enlisted men endured. He describes the mud, blood, leeches, loss of friends, and low morale due to constant harassment by guerrillas. The author, a squad leader with the 101st Airborne, was wounded twice... Read more >
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USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Adam Tooby
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.95
In many respects the most successful, versatile and widely-used combat aircraft of the post-war era the F-4 Phantom II was quickly adopted by the USAF after its spectacular US Navy introduction. It was so much better than any other USAF fighter at the time that Air Force generals were happy to... Read more >
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Adam Tooby
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.95
In many respects the most successful, versatile and widely-used combat aircraft of the post-war era the F-4 Phantom II was quickly adopted by the USAF after its spectacular US Navy introduction. It was so much better than any other USAF fighter at the time that Air Force generals were happy to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Adam Tooby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
In many respects the most successful, versatile and widely-used combat aircraft of the post-war era the F-4 Phantom II was quickly adopted by the USAF after its spectacular US Navy introduction. It was so much better than any other USAF fighter at the time that Air Force generals were happy to... Read more >
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Adam Tooby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
In many respects the most successful, versatile and widely-used combat aircraft of the post-war era the F-4 Phantom II was quickly adopted by the USAF after its spectacular US Navy introduction. It was so much better than any other USAF fighter at the time that Air Force generals were happy to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Vietnam: A View From the Frontlines
Written by Andrew Wiest
Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $25.95
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 >
Written by Andrew Wiest
Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $25.95
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 >
Vietnam: A View from the Front Lines
Written by Andrew Wiest
Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $9.99
Tracing the American experience of the Vietnam War from its popular inception to its morale-crushing and bitter conclusion, Vietnam: A View from the Frontlines is 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 >
Written by Andrew Wiest
Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $9.99
Tracing the American experience of the Vietnam War from its popular inception to its morale-crushing and bitter conclusion, Vietnam: A View from the Frontlines is 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 >
US Army Long-Range Patrol Scout in Vietnam 1965-71
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
Osprey's survey of the Long-Range Patrol Scouts of the US Army during the Vietnam War (1955-1975). The Vietnamese knew the Long-Range Patrol Scouts as "the men with green faces," a reference to the camouflage paint that they used. Operating in patrols of four to six men these men were like ghosts... Read more >
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
Osprey's survey of the Long-Range Patrol Scouts of the US Army during the Vietnam War (1955-1975). The Vietnamese knew the Long-Range Patrol Scouts as "the men with green faces," a reference to the camouflage paint that they used. Operating in patrols of four to six men these men were like ghosts... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The US Army in the Vietnam War 1965-73
Written by Gordon Rottman
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
This book provides detailed information about how US Army units were organised and operated in America's longest war. Vietnam Special Forces veteran Gordon L Rottman examines the different types of infantry battalions and the units that supported them, their training and organisation down to platoon level. Aspects of the US Army's... Read more >
Written by Gordon Rottman
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
This book provides detailed information about how US Army units were organised and operated in America's longest war. Vietnam Special Forces veteran Gordon L Rottman examines the different types of infantry battalions and the units that supported them, their training and organisation down to platoon level. Aspects of the US Army's... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The US Marine Corps in the Vietnam War
III Marine Amphibious Force 1965-75
Written by Ed Gilbert
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
This book covers the US Marine Corps in the Vietnam War, centring on the structure and function of the two Fleet Marine Force (FMF) divisions and the corps command level, III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF). This detailed examination of III MAF explores its infantry, armor, artillery, aviation, service and engineer... Read more >
III Marine Amphibious Force 1965-75
Written by Ed Gilbert
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
This book covers the US Marine Corps in the Vietnam War, centring on the structure and function of the two Fleet Marine Force (FMF) divisions and the corps command level, III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF). This detailed examination of III MAF explores its infantry, armor, artillery, aviation, service and engineer... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
USAF and VNAF A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War
Written by Byron Hukee
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
USAF Skyraider units were originally tasked to serve as quasi-training units for the fledgling VNAF. Equipped only with the two-seat models of the Skyraider, American pilots were required to have VNAF ‘observers’ in the aircraft for every mission. Eventually, this arrangement was changed as enough Vietnamese pilots were trained to man... Read more >
Written by Byron Hukee
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
USAF Skyraider units were originally tasked to serve as quasi-training units for the fledgling VNAF. Equipped only with the two-seat models of the Skyraider, American pilots were required to have VNAF ‘observers’ in the aircraft for every mission. Eventually, this arrangement was changed as enough Vietnamese pilots were trained to man... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Father, Soldier, Son
Memoir of a Platoon Leader In Vietnam
Written by Nathaniel Tripp
Format: eBook, 261 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.95
"Father, Soldier, Son will stand as one of the finest soldier memoirs of the Vietnam War . . . If all that has been written about the war in Vietnam, in fiction and nonfiction, has made it a familiar story to some, Tripp overcomes cliché by individualizing every well-known fact." --... Read more >
Memoir of a Platoon Leader In Vietnam
Written by Nathaniel Tripp
Format: eBook, 261 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.95
"Father, Soldier, Son will stand as one of the finest soldier memoirs of the Vietnam War . . . If all that has been written about the war in Vietnam, in fiction and nonfiction, has made it a familiar story to some, Tripp overcomes cliché by individualizing every well-known fact." --... Read more >
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US Navy A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War
Written by Rick Burgess and Zip Rausa
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of the A-1 Skyraider Units' participation in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Designed and built as a carrier-based attack aircraft in 1944, the A-1 reached frontline units too late to see combat in World War II (1939-1945). With the advent of jets in the late 1940s, the Skyraider was seen... Read more >
Written by Rick Burgess and Zip Rausa
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of the A-1 Skyraider Units' participation in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Designed and built as a carrier-based attack aircraft in 1944, the A-1 reached frontline units too late to see combat in World War II (1939-1945). With the advent of jets in the late 1940s, the Skyraider was seen... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
B-57 Canberra Units of the Vietnam War
Written by T Bell
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of B-57 Canberra Units during the Veitnam War period (1955-1975). While not receiving as much publicity as the F-105 and F-4 fighter-bombers, which took the fight into the heart of North Vietnam, the B-57 Canberra was nevertheless the first jet-powered American attack aircraft committed to the conflict. It was... Read more >
Written by T Bell
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of B-57 Canberra Units during the Veitnam War period (1955-1975). While not receiving as much publicity as the F-105 and F-4 fighter-bombers, which took the fight into the heart of North Vietnam, the B-57 Canberra was nevertheless the first jet-powered American attack aircraft committed to the conflict. It was... Read more >
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USAF and VNAF A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War
Written by Byron Hukee
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $22.95
USAF Skyraider units were originally tasked to serve as quasi-training units for the fledgling VNAF. Equipped only with the two-seat models of the Skyraider, American pilots were required to have VNAF 'observers' in the aircraft for every mission. Eventually, this arrangement was changed as enough Vietnamese pilots were trained to man... Read more >
Written by Byron Hukee
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $22.95
USAF Skyraider units were originally tasked to serve as quasi-training units for the fledgling VNAF. Equipped only with the two-seat models of the Skyraider, American pilots were required to have VNAF 'observers' in the aircraft for every mission. Eventually, this arrangement was changed as enough Vietnamese pilots were trained to man... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Bloods
Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Written by Wallace Terry
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
Price: $7.99
"Simply the most powerful and moving book that has emerged on this topic." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other, BLOODS features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race... Read more >
Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Written by Wallace Terry
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
Price: $7.99
"Simply the most powerful and moving book that has emerged on this topic." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other, BLOODS features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race... Read more >
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paperback.
A-6 Intruder Units of the Vietnam War
Written by Rick Morgan
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
Designed in the years following the Korean War and then manufactured for over 30 years starting in 1960, the A-6 quickly became the most capable attack aircraft in the US Navy’s stable. The first squadron, VA-75, made its initial deployment directly into combat in south-east Asia in 1965, and, over the... Read more >
Written by Rick Morgan
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
Designed in the years following the Korean War and then manufactured for over 30 years starting in 1960, the A-6 quickly became the most capable attack aircraft in the US Navy’s stable. The first squadron, VA-75, made its initial deployment directly into combat in south-east Asia in 1965, and, over the... Read more >
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US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $22.95
Twenty-five US Marine Corps squadrons flew versions of the Phantom II and 11 of them used the aircraft in Southeast Asia from May 1965 through to early 1973. Although one deployment was from an aircraft carrier, and included a successful MiG engagement, most missions were flown from land bases at Da... Read more >
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $22.95
Twenty-five US Marine Corps squadrons flew versions of the Phantom II and 11 of them used the aircraft in Southeast Asia from May 1965 through to early 1973. Although one deployment was from an aircraft carrier, and included a successful MiG engagement, most missions were flown from land bases at Da... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Twenty-five US Marine Corps squadrons flew versions of the Phantom II and 11 of them used the aircraft in Southeast Asia from May 1965 through to early 1973. Although one deployment was from an aircraft carrier, and included a successful MiG engagement, most missions were flown from land bases at Da... Read more >
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Twenty-five US Marine Corps squadrons flew versions of the Phantom II and 11 of them used the aircraft in Southeast Asia from May 1965 through to early 1973. Although one deployment was from an aircraft carrier, and included a successful MiG engagement, most missions were flown from land bases at Da... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
MiG-21 Units of the Vietnam War
Written by Istvan Toperczer
Illustrated by Mark Styling
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of the use of MiG-21 Units in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Having honed their piloting skills on the subsonic MiG-17 and transonic MiG-19, the Vietnamese Peoples’ Air Force (VPAF) received their first examples of the legendary MiG-21 supersonic fighter in 1966. Soon thrown into combat over North Vietnam, the guided-missile... Read more >
Written by Istvan Toperczer
Illustrated by Mark Styling
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of the use of MiG-21 Units in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Having honed their piloting skills on the subsonic MiG-17 and transonic MiG-19, the Vietnamese Peoples’ Air Force (VPAF) received their first examples of the legendary MiG-21 supersonic fighter in 1966. Soon thrown into combat over North Vietnam, the guided-missile... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
RF-8 Crusader Units over Cuba and Vietnam
Written by Peter Mersky
Illustrated by Tom Tullis
Format: eBook, 98 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird's first operational test came in the autumn of 1962 when its overflights of Cuba alerted the world to the likely... Read more >
Written by Peter Mersky
Illustrated by Tom Tullis
Format: eBook, 98 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird's first operational test came in the autumn of 1962 when its overflights of Cuba alerted the world to the likely... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
US Army AH-1 Cobra Units in Vietnam
Written by Jonathan Bernstein
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of AH-1 helicopters and their participation in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Bell’s AH-1 Cobra was the first dedicated helicopter gunship to reach frontline service anywhere in the world. Developed as a private venture by the manufacturer, and based on the mechanics of the ubiquitous UH-1 Huey, the Cobra proved... Read more >
Written by Jonathan Bernstein
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of AH-1 helicopters and their participation in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Bell’s AH-1 Cobra was the first dedicated helicopter gunship to reach frontline service anywhere in the world. Developed as a private venture by the manufacturer, and based on the mechanics of the ubiquitous UH-1 Huey, the Cobra proved... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
