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War Paint
The 1st Infantry Division's LRP/Ranger Company in Fierce Combat in Vietnam
Written by Bill Goshen
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/ Ranger company. Their base... Read more >
The 1st Infantry Division's LRP/Ranger Company in Fierce Combat in Vietnam
Written by Bill Goshen
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/ Ranger company. Their base... Read more >
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West Dickens Avenue
A Marine at Khe Sanh
Written by John Corbett
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the... Read more >
A Marine at Khe Sanh
Written by John Corbett
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $7.99
In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the... Read more >
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abridged audiobook download and a
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The Magnificent Bastards
The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968
Written by Keith Nolan
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $7.99
On April 29, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army is spotted less than four miles from the U.S. Marines’ Dong Ha Combat Base. Intense fighting develops in nearby Dai Do as the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, known as “the Magnificent Bastards,” struggles to eject NVA forces from this strategic position.
Yet the BLT... Read more >
The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968
Written by Keith Nolan
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $7.99
On April 29, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army is spotted less than four miles from the U.S. Marines’ Dong Ha Combat Base. Intense fighting develops in nearby Dai Do as the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, known as “the Magnificent Bastards,” struggles to eject NVA forces from this strategic position.
Yet the BLT... Read more >
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Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land
The Vietnam War Revisited
Edited by Andrew Wiest
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $21.95
From the Colonial War with France in the 1940s and 50s, through to the final evacuation of Saigon, each chapter of Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land focuses on a different aspect of the Vietnam War. The 15 chapters are written by a diverse set of expert authors including participants in... Read more >
The Vietnam War Revisited
Edited by Andrew Wiest
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $21.95
From the Colonial War with France in the 1940s and 50s, through to the final evacuation of Saigon, each chapter of Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land focuses on a different aspect of the Vietnam War. The 15 chapters are written by a diverse set of expert authors including participants in... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Mobile Strike Forces in Vietnam 1966-70
Written by Gordon Rottman
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $23.95
US Special Forces in Vietnam created and trained the Civilian Irregular Defense Group, a large paramilitary organization designed to operate out of fortified camps in remote areas and protect the local population from Viet Cong incursions, whilst conducting border surveillance, raids and combat patrols in the local area. Their fortified camps... Read more >
Written by Gordon Rottman
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $23.95
US Special Forces in Vietnam created and trained the Civilian Irregular Defense Group, a large paramilitary organization designed to operate out of fortified camps in remote areas and protect the local population from Viet Cong incursions, whilst conducting border surveillance, raids and combat patrols in the local area. Their fortified camps... Read more >
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Written by Dang Thuy Tram
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $9.99
At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks... Read more >
The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Written by Dang Thuy Tram
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $9.99
At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks... Read more >
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Written by Dang Thuy Tram
Read by Kim Mai Guest
Translated by Andrew X. Pham
Introduction by Frances Fitzgerald
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.00
At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks... Read more >
The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Written by Dang Thuy Tram
Read by Kim Mai Guest
Translated by Andrew X. Pham
Introduction by Frances Fitzgerald
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.00
At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Dak To
America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands
Written by Edward Murphy
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Price: $7.99
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America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands
Written by Edward Murphy
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Price: $7.99
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The Best and the Brightest
Written by David Halberstam
Read by David Clennon
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $9.00
David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country’s... Read more >
Written by David Halberstam
Read by David Clennon
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $9.00
David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country’s... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Flashback
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War
Written by Penny Coleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 238 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2007
Price: $16.00
With the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, once again America's men and women who have seen war close-up are suddenly expected to return seamlessly to civilian life. In Flashback, Penny Coleman tells the cautionary and timely story of posttraumatic stress disorder in the hope that we can sensitively assist those... Read more >
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War
Written by Penny Coleman
Format: Trade Paperback, 238 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2007
Price: $16.00
With the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, once again America's men and women who have seen war close-up are suddenly expected to return seamlessly to civilian life. In Flashback, Penny Coleman tells the cautionary and timely story of posttraumatic stress disorder in the hope that we can sensitively assist those... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Vietnam Airmobile Warfare Tactics
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $18.95
Osprey's study of airmobile tactics used in the Vietnam War (1955-1975).
• With its first major use in battle during the Vietnam War, the helicopter ushered in a radically different way of fighting, despite its proven vulnerability to ground fire. Either delivering troops into hostile territory and removing them after the fighting... Read more >
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $18.95
Osprey's study of airmobile tactics used in the Vietnam War (1955-1975).
• With its first major use in battle during the Vietnam War, the helicopter ushered in a radically different way of fighting, despite its proven vulnerability to ground fire. Either delivering troops into hostile territory and removing them after the fighting... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Bury Us Upside Down
The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Written by Rick Newman and Don Shepperd
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made.
In today’s wars, computers, targeting pods, lasers, and precision-guided bombs help... Read more >
The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Written by Rick Newman and Don Shepperd
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made.
In today’s wars, computers, targeting pods, lasers, and precision-guided bombs help... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Vietnam Firebases 1965-73
American and Australian Forces
Written by Randy E. M. Foster
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Price: $18.95
Impressive in terms of scale and structure, the Fire Support Base became a dominant element in ground maneuver during the Vietnam War. Initially a mobile base, it soon evolved into a semi-permanent and more sophisticated fortress as a result of enemy counterattacks and bombardments.
As a consequence, the majority of US and... Read more >
American and Australian Forces
Written by Randy E. M. Foster
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Price: $18.95
Impressive in terms of scale and structure, the Fire Support Base became a dominant element in ground maneuver during the Vietnam War. Initially a mobile base, it soon evolved into a semi-permanent and more sophisticated fortress as a result of enemy counterattacks and bombardments.
As a consequence, the majority of US and... Read more >
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Vietnam Riverine Craft 1962 - 75
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Hugh Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Price: $17.95
The southernmost region of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) encompassed the vast Mekong River Delta, and area covering 10,190 square miles. Three major rivers run through the Delta, the Song Hou Giang (aka Bassac) and the Song Mekong, which broke into three large rivers (Song My Tho, Ham Luong, and... Read more >
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Hugh Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Price: $17.95
The southernmost region of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) encompassed the vast Mekong River Delta, and area covering 10,190 square miles. Three major rivers run through the Delta, the Song Hou Giang (aka Bassac) and the Song Mekong, which broke into three large rivers (Song My Tho, Ham Luong, and... Read more >
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Blood Trails
The Combat Diary of a Foot Soldier in Vietnam
Written by Christopher Ronnau
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $7.99
BAPTISM BY FIRE
Chris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One... Read more >
The Combat Diary of a Foot Soldier in Vietnam
Written by Christopher Ronnau
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $7.99
BAPTISM BY FIRE
Chris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Viet Cong and NVA Tunnels and Fortifications of the Vietnam War
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Lee Ray and Chris Taylor
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $18.95
Field fortifications and tunnel systems are typically thought of as defensive and active protective measures, but the VC/NVA also employed them offensively. It was common for extensive field works to be constructed to support assaults and sieges on US fire-support bases and remote camps. Their tactics reflected attempts to counter the... Read more >
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Lee Ray and Chris Taylor
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $18.95
Field fortifications and tunnel systems are typically thought of as defensive and active protective measures, but the VC/NVA also employed them offensively. It was common for extensive field works to be constructed to support assaults and sieges on US fire-support bases and remote camps. Their tactics reflected attempts to counter the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The US Marine Corps in the Vietnam War
III Marine Amphibious Force 1965-75
Written by Ed Gilbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $25.95
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: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $25.95
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 >
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Black Virgin Mountain
A Return to Vietnam
Written by Larry Heinemann
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $13.95
In 1967 Larry Heinemann was sent to Vietnam as an ordinary soldier. It was the most horrific year of his life, truly altering him—and his family—forever. In his powerful memoir, Heinemann returns to Vietnam, riding the train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city and confronting the memories of his war... Read more >
A Return to Vietnam
Written by Larry Heinemann
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $13.95
In 1967 Larry Heinemann was sent to Vietnam as an ordinary soldier. It was the most horrific year of his life, truly altering him—and his family—forever. In his powerful memoir, Heinemann returns to Vietnam, riding the train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city and confronting the memories of his war... Read more >
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eBook.
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Father, Soldier, Son
Memoir of a Platoon Leader In Vietnam
Written by Nathaniel Tripp
Format: Trade Paperback, 261 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $14.95
Nathaniel Tripp grew up fatherless in a house full of women, and he arrived in Vietnam as a just-promoted second lieutenant in the summer of 1968 with no memory of a man’s example to guide and sustain him. The father missing from Tripp’s life had gone off to war as well... Read more >
Memoir of a Platoon Leader In Vietnam
Written by Nathaniel Tripp
Format: Trade Paperback, 261 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $14.95
Nathaniel Tripp grew up fatherless in a house full of women, and he arrived in Vietnam as a just-promoted second lieutenant in the summer of 1968 with no memory of a man’s example to guide and sustain him. The father missing from Tripp’s life had gone off to war as well... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Flashback
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War
Written by Penny Coleman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
With the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, once again America's men and women who have seen war close-up are suddenly expected to return seamlessly to civilian life. In Flashback, Penny Coleman tells the cautionary and timely story of posttraumatic stress disorder in the hope that we can sensitively assist those... Read more >
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War
Written by Penny Coleman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
With the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, once again America's men and women who have seen war close-up are suddenly expected to return seamlessly to civilian life. In Flashback, Penny Coleman tells the cautionary and timely story of posttraumatic stress disorder in the hope that we can sensitively assist those... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The First Battle
Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam
Written by Otto Lehrack
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $6.99
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Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam
Written by Otto Lehrack
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $6.99
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Masters of the Art
A Fighting Marine's Memoir of Vietnam
Written by Ronald Winter
Format: Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $7.99
No punches are pulled in this gripping account of Vietnam combat through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine helicopter crewman and door gunner with more than three hundred missions under his belt.
In 1968, U.S. Marine Ronald Winter flew some of the toughest missions of the Vietnam War, from the DMZ... Read more >
A Fighting Marine's Memoir of Vietnam
Written by Ronald Winter
Format: Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $7.99
No punches are pulled in this gripping account of Vietnam combat through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine helicopter crewman and door gunner with more than three hundred missions under his belt.
In 1968, U.S. Marine Ronald Winter flew some of the toughest missions of the Vietnam War, from the DMZ... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2005
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: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2005
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Unheralded Victory
The Defeat of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, 1961-1973
Written by Mark Woodruff
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $7.99
Along with a half million other young men, Mark Woodruff put his life on the line to serve his country in Vietnam. Like so many others, he returned home to find himself regarded not as a hero but as a humiliating reminder of the only war the United States ever lost... Read more >
The Defeat of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, 1961-1973
Written by Mark Woodruff
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $7.99
Along with a half million other young men, Mark Woodruff put his life on the line to serve his country in Vietnam. Like so many others, he returned home to find himself regarded not as a hero but as a humiliating reminder of the only war the United States ever lost... Read more >
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US Army Infantryman in Vietnam 1965-73
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Kevin Lyles
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2005
Price: $18.95
This book tells the compelling story of the average US infantryman in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Beginning with conscription, enlistment, Basic Training, and Advanced Individual Training at the Armed Forces Induction Center at Fort Polk (the infamous “Tigerland”), it goes on to explore the day-to-day realities of service in Vietnam, from... Read more >
Written by Gordon Rottman
Illustrated by Kevin Lyles
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2005
Price: $18.95
This book tells the compelling story of the average US infantryman in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Beginning with conscription, enlistment, Basic Training, and Advanced Individual Training at the Armed Forces Induction Center at Fort Polk (the infamous “Tigerland”), it goes on to explore the day-to-day realities of service in Vietnam, from... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
