Ron Kovic was a natural athlete, a shy teenager who dreamed of girls, loved baseball, God, John Wayne, John F. Kennedy and, above all, his country. A boy who yearned to be an American hero and who couldn't wait to enlist in the Marines and be shipped off to Vietnam to fight.vietnam war, 1961 - 1975, personal narratives, american, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - participation, american

fictionYoung steel worker from Pennsylvania is not prepared for the horrors of war in Vietnam vietnam, american, movie

The Vietnam war left an indelible mark on America. Not since the American Civil War has a conflict so divided her people.vietnam, saigon

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A brief history of FAC aircraft in Vietnam & in particular, The Cessna O-2A.forward air controller, 1st australian task force, cessna o-2a, aerial reconnaissance -- united states, vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- aerial operations, american

non-fictionAn outstanding addition to the library on the Vietnam War.vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- personal narratives, american, vietnam war (1961-1975)

The Living and the Dead reveals the Vietnam War as it has never been seen before - through the prism of the crucial, tangled decisions made by one man, US secretary of defense Robert McNamara. It illuminates those decisionby revealing the man; by turns cold and emotionally tumultruous; the numbers-worshipper who came to believe that the war tearing America apart was wrong, but continued to support its escalation. vietnam war, 1961-1975 - united states

The war billed on the marquee as a John Wayne shoot 'em up test of manhood turns out to be a warped version of Peter Pan. Vietnam was a brutal Neverneverland outside time and space, where little boys didn't have to grow up. They just grew old before their time.vietnam war, 1961-1975 - personal narratives, american

A work of passion and protest. One of the few good things to come out of the Vietnam Warvietnam war, 1961-1975 - personal narratives, american

Home to War is a superbly researched book that needed to be written. It sets forth in compelling detail a whole other dimension of America's tragic war in vietnam, which, until now, has never been completely captured.vietnam veterans against the war - history, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - protest movements - united states, south east asia, agent orange

Philip Caputo was in Vietnam as a young marine for sixteen months. He returned there ten years later, as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, to cover the final offensive of that war. united states. marine corps - biography, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - personal narratives, american

The Tet Offensive of 1968 was the turning point in the Vietnam War. The battle that catalyzed American public opinion against escalation.tet offensive, 1968, viet cong

On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with a letter, a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, A baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.vietnam veterans memorial (washington, d.c.), funeral rites and ceremonies - united states, purple heart, bronze star

A major contribution to our understanding of how and why U.S. POWs from the Vietnam War have become crucial icons of American culture in the 1980s and 1990s....Grunner effectively diagnoses and interpreters' a national psychopathology.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975, in mass media - united states., prisoners of war in mass media - united states.

The remarkable story of the secret letters from Nixon and Ford to the President of South Vietnam and the American promises that were never kept.This book provides significant new date on United States relations with South Vietnam from 1968 to 1975. An extraordinary collection of previously undisclosed exchanges of letters between Mr. Thieu and Presidents Nixon and Ford combine with the authors' interviews with may key Americans and Vietnamese to make this an important study.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- diplomatic history, vietnam - foreign relations - united states, president nixon, president ford

Every story is unique and what comes across is a book filled with pain, anger, guilt, pride in the USA, forgiveness, black and ironic humor, and above all what it means to those who went throught the national traumavietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - personal narratives, american, vietnam -- history -- 1945-1975

To the pilot sitting hot, sweating and uncomfortable in the cramped cockpit of a warplane over Vietnam, it was simple.vietnam war (1961-1975), vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- aerial operations, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- aerial operations, american

Fifty years ago America was engaged on two battlefronts - the fight over there, on the other side of the plant, and the one at home. 1961-1975 -- united states, vietnam war, con thien, my lai, saigon, operation prairie

Vietnam was the first war America lost. It left the country bitterly divided.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- missing in action -- united states, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 -- united states

The Vietnam War was a conflict so voilent, so bizarre that it left a whole generation of young Americans too shocked and scarred to understand the nightmare they had been throughvietnam - pictorial works, vietnam war (1961-1975), south, south east asia, american servicemen

Admidst all the rhetoric about 'saving Vietnam from the Communists' one fact is always conviently forgotten .... that Vietnam once had a Communist government. Furthermore, the peple chose it - on January 6, 1946, during the first ever allowed to the Vietnamese. It is obvious that this one fact completely negates America's stated purpose for being in Vietnam, because America can hardly claim to be helping the Vietnamese choose the kind of government they want when they made their choice years ago.vietnam war (1961-1975), vietnam war, 1961-1975 - pictorial works, vietnamese

378 photographs - including 136 in full colour - illustrate this spectular overview of US aviation during the war in Vietnam vietnam war, 1961-1975 - aerial operations, american - pictorial works, airplanes, military - united states - pictorial works

Introduction by Drew Middleton."Smart bombs" - remotely piloed munitions, operated by electro-optics and laser guides, able to knock out heavily-defenced bridges from miles away.vietnam war, 1961-1975 - aerial operations - american

Gregory Pemberton provides clear, scholarly, objective analysis of how Australia became involved in the Vietnam War. he unravels skillfully and systematically the complex skein of political and military events which led the Menzies Government to embark on this tragic commitment. He provides the most thorough and dispassionate account of Australian-American relations in the 1950s and 60s yet published.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - participation, australian, australia - foreign relations - 20th century., united states - foreign relations - 20th century.

Their mason was to evacuate American combat causalities. Their Hueys were flying ambulances. And their call sign DUST OFF was the most famous of the of the Vietnam Warvietnam war - military helicopters, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - participation, american, huey, "dust off"

In Ambush, Marshall examines the Battle of Dau Tieng (November 1966), a firefight typical of American vs. V.C. troop in actions in the early part of the war. vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - campaigns, battle of dau tieng

The Offering is the personal saga of an American fighting man in Vietnam.vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - personal narratives, american

The bomb run took seven seconds. But it seemed like an eternity as the F-105 dived straight toward the target.airplanes, military - united states, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - aerial operations, american

Solid, down to earth, and faithful in describing the way it was (for) one Marine Company Commander. 1961-1971 - personal narratives, american, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 - regimental histories - united states, united states. marine corps. marines, 26th. battalion

Over 200 photos, plus maps and drawings. 1961-1975 - aerial operations - american, vietnam war, 1961-1975 - naval operations, american, the gulf of tonkin