Vietnamkriget

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION A mighty achievement OCEAN VUONG Beautiful, brilliant R. F. KUANG Dazzling OBSERVER Will shatter your heart GLAMOUR Powerful SUNDAY TIMES An extraordinary story of the journey of one young family through...

Läs mer »

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.&apo...

Läs mer »

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 worlds most divisive modern co...

Läs mer »

This is the true story of 450 US soldiers, early in the Vietnam War, who found themselves surrounded by 2000 North Vietnamese regulars in the Ia Dang Valley, in what became the first major battle of the extended conflict.

Läs mer »

Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam.

Läs mer »

**The New York Times Bestseller** **The book of the landmark documentary, The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick** The definitive work on the Vietnam War, the conflict that came to define a generation, told from all sides by those who were ...

Läs mer »

"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 W...

Läs mer »

With an introduction by Kevin Powers. A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. ...

Läs mer »

The personal account of a guerrilla fighter in the French Foreign Legion, reveals the Nazi Battalion's inhumanities to Indochinese villagers.

Läs mer »

This is the true story of the legendary Vietnam War hero John Ripley, who braved intense enemy fire to destroy a strategic bridge and stall a major North Vietnamese invasion into the South in April 1972. Told by a fellow Marine, the account lays b...

Läs mer »

'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 Avia...

Läs mer »

Time after time during the Vietnam War, the United States sent Vietnamese spies and commandos behind enemy lines only to have them killed, captured or compromised into reporting back false information. This is a sobering account of the disastrous ...

Läs mer »

The 1968 Tet Offensive was the decisive battle for Vietnam. Masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, it was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. However, the bloody fighting for Saigon, Hue and ot...

Läs mer »

SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS' AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers shares the powerful account of an...

Läs mer »

John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from 1965 to 1970 and was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war. His documentary about a squad of U.S. troops, "The World of Charlie Company," received e...

Läs mer »

For many years, the day to day working and opinions of the Vietnamese Peoples'' Air Force (VPAF) has remained relatively unknown until the author uncovered rare first-hand accounts and many new photographs of VPAF operations over North Vietnam bet...

Läs mer »

The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America's worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame--from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam's surrender o...

Läs mer »

Although the F-4 Phantom II was the most important fighter-bomber to see action with all three American services during the Vietnam War, it was essentially a U.S. Navy design, and the carrier-borne squadron crews were its main operators in combat....

Läs mer »

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

Läs mer »

This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam? To answer that question Fredrik Logevall traces the forty-year path that led us from World War I to the first American casualties in 1959. Using fresh archive...

Läs mer »

Every war has its "bridge"--Old North Bridge at Concord, Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, the railway bridge over Burma's River Kwai, the bridge over Germany's Rhine River at Remagen, and the bridges over Korea's Toko R...

Läs mer »

This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'....

Läs mer »

No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich an...

Läs mer »

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and carefully chosen photographs, this study charts the SVD Dragunov rifles development, combat use and lasting legacy, from Vietnam to Syria. Developed as a medium-range sniping rifle in the Soviet Union d...

Läs mer »

"This is a terrific history of the Seventh Fleets vital service to the United States in the Vietnam War... remarkably researched and interpreted" - Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations, 20112015 and Commander Seventh F...

Läs mer »

The conclusion of the trilogy recounting the exploits of the Long-Range Patrol detachment of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airbourne Division, follows the soldiers through some of the fiercest fighting of their seven years in Vietnam. Original.

Läs mer »

A Guardian Best Book of the Year A gripping study of white powerExplosive. New York Times Helps explain how we got to todays alt-right. Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Returning to a country ripped ap...

Läs mer »

The U.S. Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP) in Vietnam was an enlightened gesture of strategic dissent. Recognizing that search-and-destroy operations were immoral and self-defeating and that the best hope for victory was "winni...

Läs mer »