Vietnamkriget

»Marco Smedbergs nya bok om Vietnamkriget är en utmärkt sammanfattning av den blodiga konflikten. Steg för steg speglar han kriget och har förklaringar till olika skeenden och svar på vad som hände. Smedberg är saklig och korrekt i boken som är fu...

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THE BESTSELLING STORY OF TWO GENERATIONS OF WOMEN WHOSE LIVES ARE CHANGED FOREVER BY THE VIET NAM WAR 'An epic account of Viet Nam's painful 20th-century history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling... Moving and riveting.' Viet Thanh N...

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»En perfekt bok för dem som vill lära sig lite mer om den konflikt som så länge präglat vår värld.» Dagbladet »det är omöjligt att lägga boken ifrån sig.» Dick Harrison, Svenska Dagbladet Det har gått nära 40 år sedan krigen i Vietnam tog slut 197...

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»Det är omöjligt att lägga boken ifrån sig.» Dick Harrison, Svenska Dagbladet Det här är den första moderna, politiskt neutrala bok på svenska som förklarar Vietnamkrigens bakgrund och olika händelser. I Vietnamkrigen förklarar Marco Smedberg den ...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator 'A masterful performance' Sunday Times 'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive mo...

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By January 1968 the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, announced a new phase of the war in which 'the end begins to come into view.' The North Vietnamese had different i...

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As the first book to call for an immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, Howard Zinn's Vietnam includes a powerful speech which he believed President Lyndon Johnson should have delivered to lay out the case for ending the war. Of the many books that ch...

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While the F105 Thunderchief was the USAF's principal strike weapon during the Rolling Thunder campaign, the US Navy relied on the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk for the majority of its strikes on North Vietnam. The Skyhawk entered service in 1956 and remaine...

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In April 1967, twenty-year-old Doug Hegdahl was knocked overboard from a U.S. Navy cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin. Initially believed to be a special ops commando, he was turned over to North Vietnamese who beat him and then turned him over to the ...

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'The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time' - John Le Carré The groundbreaking work of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film, Full Metal Jacket. Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for...

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'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation MuseumThe aeroscouts...

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'Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over' John le Car...

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This book introduces a much-needed theory of tactical air power to explain air power effectiveness in modern warfare with a particular focus on the Vietnam War as the first and largest modern air war. Phil Haun shows how in the Rolling Thunder, Co...

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Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert U.S. military unit in its time and contained only ...

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Extraordinary Valor is the true story of American Special Forces officer John Duffy, and South Vietnamese paratrooper, Lê V?n M?, as they fight to defend Charlie Hill, a key to holding Vietnam's Central Highlands during North Vietnam's 1972 Easter...

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Valérie André is one of the great military aviators of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat and one of the first three helicopter medevac pilots. Flying more than 150 helicopter rescue missions during the Fr...

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From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism. 'Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work' - Scotsm...

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The ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships ...

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"A GRIPPING CLASSIC. Exhaustively researched, The Hunter Killers puts you directly into a Wild Weasel fighter cockpit during the Vietnam War. Dan Hampton lets you feel it for yourself as no one else could."--Colonel LEO THORSNESS, Wild Weasel pilo...

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Using archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, István Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and 1968. One of the most successful communist jet f...

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"An ode to comic book storytelling while also being a satirical take on the military industrial complex from the soldier's perspective. Honest and insightful." (The Beat; A Best Comic of the Year) From noted cartoonist Rick Parker comes a powerful...

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A Guardian Best Book of the Year "A gripping study of white power?Explosive." -New York Times "Helps explain how we got to today's alt-right." -Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Returning to a country r...

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A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America's school curricula. In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me , a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and...

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