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One Shot One Kill 45 reviews
Charles W. Sasser, Craig Roberts
Pocket, 1990
One Shot One Kill
+ Solid material worth the read
+ GREAT BOOK!
Very enjoyable and informative book. A relative suggested this book and I am glad that he did. I read the book and enjoyed every page.
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram 12 reviews
Dang Thuy Tram
Harmony, 2007
Extraordinary Book!
+ Audio edition is excellent
+ Cultural Understanding
+ The other side of the river....
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Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar7 reviews
Dorothy Fall
Potomac Books Inc., 2006
A Great Man
+ Fall of an Icon
+ Love Story, War Story, and Much More
+ If Only....
+ A Book for Generations
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Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam,
University Press of Kansas, 2002
What was for the United States a struggle against creeping Communism in Southeast Asia was for the people of North Vietnam a "great patriotic war" that saw its eventual victory against a military Goliath. The story of that conflict as seen through the eyes -- and the ideology -- of the North Vietnamese military offers readers a view of that era never before seen. Victory in Vietnam is the ...
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Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir 45 reviews
Danielle Trussoni
Henry Holt and Co., 2006
Avid Reader
+ Dark and gripping, yet full of hope
+ well written
This memoir is very well crafted. Danielle Trussoni uses the lens of her father's experiences in Viet Nam to tell her story. The Viet Nam experience not only affected him personally, but affacted the way he interacted with his wife and his children. The narrative overlay of the Viet Nam ...
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills212 reviews
Charles Henderson
Berkley, 1988
Just wow,
+ Marine Sniper
+ Delighted and Impressed!
+ A truly great story.
+ Great read
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam79 reviews
Neil Sheehan
Vintage, 1989
long read
+ "We had also, to all the visitors who came over, been one of the bright shining lies."
+ Refreshing for its different point of view - compelling read
this book was a long read. The wrighting was on the wall. No one paid attention.
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam113 reviews
Andrew X. Pham
Picador, 2000
Andrew's website is at www.andrewxpham.com, other info
+ A beautifully wrought return to one's complicated past
+ a random and beautiful encounter
+ . . arriving at the place where you started. . .and knowing it for the first time
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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-196540 reviews
Mark Moyar
Cambridge University Press, 2006
Outstanding and Objective
+ A very important study
+ Great Perspective
+ A revisionist stand that is needed
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An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia25 reviews
Bill Hendon, Elizabeth A. Stewart
Thomas Dunne Books, 2007
An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POW's Abandoned in Southeast Asia
+ An Enormous Crime indeed!
+ Better than Jensen-Stevenson's Kiss The Boys Goodbye! Not that that book is bad either
+ This book will break your heart......
+ Abandoned POWs in SouthEast Asia
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Jungle Rules: A True Story of Marine Justice in Vietnam6 reviews
Charles Henderson
Berkley Hardcover, 2006
Great story.
+ Jungle Rules
+ Entertaining and Authentic Fiction based on Fact
+ Fictionalized Account of a True Story
+ EXCELLENT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!
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Vietnam: A History62 reviews
Stanley Karnow
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997
Fully Referenced
+ George Ball had it right
Of all the books on the subject of what the people of Vn call The American War, this book stands out. It's written by someone who was actually there but not biased by having fought for one side or the other. Best of all it's fully referenced, Karnow backs up everything he says. It gives an ...
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam50 reviews
John A. Nagl
University Of Chicago Press, 2005
Theory From One Who Gets It
+ Amazing
To use a term that many in the military are fond of, Nagl "gets it." His understanding of counterinsurgency operations is both broad and deep, and his writing is smooth enough for the lay reader to comprehend without any difficulty.
Nagl's departure from the US Army will be a loss for this ...
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Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam3 reviews
Mark Moyar
Bison Books, 2007
A critical text on the Phoenix Project
+ the truth corrected.
I'm extremely glad to see that this important book has finally been republished and become available to a wider audience. I wrote my thesis in history on Phoenix, and Moyar's work was an invaluable resource, once I was finally able to get my hands on it. It is sadly relatively unique among works on ...
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Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent9 reviews
Larry Berman
Collins, 2007
You Cannot Have it Both Ways
+ Fantastic
+ Dad loved this book!
+ Interesting, and Eerie!
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The Best and the Brightest59 reviews
David Halberstam
Ballantine Books, 1993
History repeating itself
+ In the end They did get it wrong!!
+ The Best and the Brightest
+ The people behind the war
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We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam16 reviews
Harold G. Moore
Presidio Press, 2004
we were soldiers once and young
+ Viet Nam without the politics
+ This War--And This Book--Belong to Sherman, Not John Wayne
+ Read It!
+ The true story that inspired the great Mel Gibson film
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Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn From the Past3 reviews
New Press, 2007
ACUTE COMPARISON
+ Excellent studies
THIS IS A VERY USEFUL AND ORIGINAL COLLECTION, AND THE COMPARISON OF VIETNAM AND IRAQ IS VERY RELEVANT TO THE PROTRACTED WAR IN IRAQ. MANY OF THE ANALOGIES, SUCH AS THE USE OF 'CREDIBILITY,' ARE IDENTICAL. BUT THE SCOPE OF THE IRAQ DISASTER IS FAR GREATER GEOPOLITICALLY THAN THE INDOCHINA WAR ...
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American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day 23 reviews
Robert Coram
Little, Brown and Company, 2007
Terrific book, outstanding man, great life!
+ A Hero
+ American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day
+ American Patriot
+ No dusty history here: this is the stuff of legends. It's a great read.
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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam60 reviews
H. R. Mcmaster
Harper Perennial, 1998
A Timeless Classic!
+ Simply the Best!
+ A Lesson In Too Much Civilian Control Of The Military
+ LBJ and his assistant liars
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