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In winter 1953-54 the French army in Vietnam challenged its elusive enemy, General Giap's Viet Minh, to pitched battle. Ten thousand French paras and ... More

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During the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in February 1968 an Australian infantry company assaulted a North Vietnamese bunker complex. In the longest ... More

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By the end of January 1968 the American people thought their armed forces were winning in South Vietnam after three years of escalating confl ict. ... More

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The battle for Ap Bia Mountain (Hill 937), was one of the fiercest of the entire Vietnam War.

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"Unheralded Victory" is a revisionist history of the Vietnam war, charting the defeat of the Viet Cong. It investigates why the popular image of the ... More

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Even now something is missing from the history of Vietnam. Behind the burning sense of horror and betrayal the personal stories remain untold. No one ... More

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In "Vietnam", American author and professor, Christian G. Appy has created a staggering and monumental oral history of the type that is created only ... More

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A compelling and unique collection of photographs with complementary text.

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Vietnam was one of the most controversial wars of our time, and this book analyzes the military machine that went to war there. The author looks at ... More

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Why, Benedict Anderson once asked, did Javanese become Indonesian in 1945 whereas the Vietnamese balked at becoming Indochinese? In this classic ... More

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Colonel Bui Tin, scion of a line of mandarins who defied tradition by becoming a revolutionary, was one of Vietnam's most prominent journalists. His ... More

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On March 16, 1968, a battle-scarred U.S. fighting unit entered the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. There, a group of soldiers murdered 500 unarmed women ... More

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The Vietnam War tends to conjure up images of American soldiers battling an elusive enemy in thick jungle, the thudding of helicopters overhead. But ... More

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The insiders account of the Vietnam War, often called McNamara's War, by the man who was US Secretary of Defense when America invaded Vietnam.

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Early in the morning of 16 March 1968, a company of around 120 US infantrymen, later to be described as a "normal cross-section of American youth", ... More

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Compares performances of the British and U.S. Armies in Southeast Asia to isolate key variables that allowed or prevented successful adaptation to ... More

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Truman was reluctant to intervene, but two weeks later a UN resolution was passed setting up a unified command under the blue flag under General ... More

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A group of airmen tell the stories of their private war in Vietnam - tales of machines and men, luck and disaster, both tragic and funny, hair ... More

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During 1965 the Vietnam War was transformed into an American War. 'Escalation' brought the deployment of increasing numbers of United States ground ... More

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