Saving Lives is a tribute to the life savers during the Vietnam War: the medics, corpsmen, nurses, doctors, and dustoff pilots who not only rescued but tried desperately to repair the estimated 200,000 soldiers, sailors, Marines, and civilians who we...Loe edasi...
Saving Lives is a tribute to the life savers during the Vietnam War: the medics, corpsmen, nurses, doctors, and dustoff pilots who not only rescued but tried desperately to repair the estimated 200,000 soldiers, sailors, Marines, and civilians who we...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621902997)
"e;We have been waiting for a book on war and memory about the American War in Vietnam-both about the Americans and the Vietnamese-in the new century of the Desert Wars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Susan Lyn Eastman has fulfilled that expectation, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2026, MP3, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster Audio, ISBN-13: 9781668123447)
Combining the dark intrigue of a Cold War thriller and the propulsive writing of a novel, Kennedys Coup is a landmark work that will change your understanding of Americas involvement in one of the most controversial and consequential wars in our hi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476657455)
As a young Vietnamese refugee, Hoangmai Pham suddenly lost her sense of safety and belonging when her family fled Saigon at the end of the war. Later her success in navigating life in America as a physician and health policy leader at the top of h...Loe edasi...
This book is a true story about love and duty during a time of war when two people fought through the daily struggles of living through intense storms to do their duty. This book tells the story of Jacks second tour in Vietnam and his wife Jeans li...Loe edasi...
This book is a true story about love and duty during a time of war when two people fought through the daily struggles of living through intense storms to do their duty. This book tells the story of Jacks second tour in Vietnam and his wife Jeans li...Loe edasi...
Share the experiences of an infantryman in Vietnam through the bitter fighting in the jungles east and north of Saigon, at the City of Ben Tre during the Tet Offensive and as the 9th Division fought in the northern Mekong Delta to keep the North Viet...Loe edasi...
Share the experiences of an infantryman in Vietnam through the bitter fighting in the jungles east and north of Saigon, at the City of Ben Tre during the Tet Offensive and as the 9th Division fought in the northern Mekong Delta to keep the North Viet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Newman Springs, ISBN-13: 9798890612854)
The narrative is powerful, well-written, often hair-raising. It is energetic and sorrowful writing. -Robert Bly, National Book Club Award winner and author of number 1 New York Times bestseller Iron JohnWill Stone is an Everyman in search of the mean...Loe edasi...
This book is about Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 61st Inf (C-1-61) of the 1st Brigade, 5th Division. The entire brigade was airlifted to South Vietnam and deployed in I Corps just south of the DMZ seperating North and South Vietnam in June of 196...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783975)
In Small Revolutionaries, Mai Anh Nguyen analyzes the life histories of young Vietnamese who participated in the military struggle against the United States and its South Vietnamese allies from 1955 to 1975. Their contributions took many forms: intel...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783982)
In Small Revolutionaries, Mai Anh Nguyen analyzes the life histories of young Vietnamese who participated in the military struggle against the United States and its South Vietnamese allies from 1955 to 1975. Their contributions took many forms: intel...Loe edasi...
Sari: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228025566)
The war in Vietnam was an ethical minefield for the medical humanitarians who volunteered to treat the injured and dying. The United States government used humanitarian aid as a counterinsurgency strategy and weapon of war. The Vietnamese people coul...Loe edasi...
Sari: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228025573)
The war in Vietnam was an ethical minefield for the medical humanitarians who volunteered to treat the injured and dying. The United States government used humanitarian aid as a counterinsurgency strategy and weapon of war. The Vietnamese people coul...Loe edasi...
Through the eyes of a Marine radioman, Sudden Death unveils the constant threat of death in Vietnams unforgiving jungles.His call sign said it all:Sudden Death. It didnt take George Uhl long into his tour to learn that in Vietnam death could be lur...Loe edasi...
Through the eyes of a Marine radioman, Sudden Death unveils the constant threat of death in Vietnams unforgiving jungles.His call sign said it all:Sudden Death. It didnt take George Uhl long into his tour to learn that in Vietnam death could be lur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Nov-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040586112)
Drawing upon Vietnamese, Chinese, former Soviet, and American sources, Ang Cheng Guan provides an updated and concise account of the Vietnam War (1954-1975) from the Vietnamese communists perspective.In the last few decades, discourse on the Second...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Nov-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040675045)
Drawing upon Vietnamese, Chinese, former Soviet, and American sources, Ang Cheng Guan provides an updated and concise account of the Vietnam War (1954-1975) from the Vietnamese communists perspective.In the last few decades, discourse on the Second...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476657981)
This memoir takes an unvarnished, first-hand look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of an infantrymans life in the Vietnam war zone. Depicting both the euphoria of success and the depression and remorse of failure, the real-life stories of Colon...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Naval Institute Press, ISBN-13: 9781682476772)
Spy Planes, Intruders, and Wild Weasels examines the emergence of electronic warfare and SEAD as critical components of air strategy during the Vietnam War. Utilizing declassified documents and firsthand accounts, Thomas Wildenberg provides a scholar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Naval Institute Press, ISBN-13: 9781682476772)
Spy Planes, Intruders, and Wild Weasels examines the emergence of electronic warfare and SEAD as critical components of air strategy during the Vietnam War. Utilizing declassified documents and firsthand accounts, Thomas Wildenberg provides a scholar...Loe edasi...
US soldiers in the 1960s and 1970s often referred to their daily fatigues as ODs, short for "e;olive drabs."e; Those ODs would come back from the cleaners so full of starch they needed to be cracked before they could be worn. The author share...Loe edasi...
There was no money for college when Terry Ashe graduated high school. The farm family of four was left destitute when Terrys dad, a highly decorated World War II veteran, was hit and severely disabled by an uninsured driver on the way to work. As th...Loe edasi...
It is 1969, and the American war in Vietnam is raging. The Australian government has agreed to the US Presidents request for military support in the struggle against Communism. Australia unhesitatingly responds by enforcing conscription. Twenty-ye...Loe edasi...
It was August 1964 when Congress overwhelmingly passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that President Johnson eagerly signed into law. In essence, it was an unofficial declaration of war against North Vietnam, carte blanche, without any checks or balan...Loe edasi...
A revelatory portrait of Robert S. McNamara, informed by newly discovered diaries, letters, and interviews with those closest to him.Robert S. McNamara was widely considered to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. He was an invaluable...Loe edasi...
"e;You cannot read Fallons book without gaining tremendous respect for those Marines who fought with courage and skill and served honorably where their country asked them to. I strongly recommend Hill 119 for those who wish to gain additional in...Loe edasi...
