 The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and
the End of the Vietnam War by Ralph Wetterham (June 2001)
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Last Battle |
 Phase Line Green : The Battle for Hue, 1968 by Nicholas Warr, Jack Shulimson (Introduction)
Great book about the fight for Hue City by Charlie 1st Bn. 5th Marines. This was my first
operation and after reading the book I found out what actually happened. All I remember is
being really scared. Allan Budvitis
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 Rites of Passage : Odyssey of a Grunt by Robert B. Peterson, Joni Peterson
(Introduction), J. Allen Kirsch (Editor)
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 The Killing Zone : My Life in the Vietnam War by Frederick Downs
This was the first book on the Vietnam War that I ever read. Since then, I've read every
other book that has come across my path. Mr. Downs' book was a landmark in Vietnam War
literature simply because he downright tells it like it was for him. Having sustained
extreme wounds, he managed to survive and write this book as well as one called
"Aftermath", which I strongly recommend as well. Amazon Review.
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 Ranger : Behind Enemy Lines in Vietnam (Military Illustrated) by Ron Field
A very good book
about the Army Rangers in Vietnam. It also gives detailed information of how and when the
Rangers first originated. Recommended by a MilitaryReadingList visitor.
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Hardcover |
 Chickenhawk : Back in the World : Life After Vietnam
by Robert C. Mason
This is an autobiography of a Vietnam War army helicopter pilot. Moving and graphic.
Recommended by Paul Kearns former Vietnam helicopter pilot.
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Paperback |
 Combined Action Platoons: The Marine's Other War In
Vietnam by Michael E.
Peterson
All Alone In Indian Country: That was how we described
it when we talked among ourselves in the 1960s. While not politically correct in the '90s,
it summarized how 5,000 select CAC/CAP Marines and Navy Corpsmen felt as they stood for
the first time in an isolated Vietnamese village, surrounded by jungle, terrifying
booby-traps, and thousands of supposedly hostile Vietnamese civilians. They were part of
the Marine Corps Combined Action Program, a program that placed a squad of Marines and one
Navy Corpsman in select villages across the I-Corps area of South Vietnam.
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Hardcover |
 Major General Nguyen Van Hieu, ARVN: A Revealing
Insight of the ARVN and a Unique Perspective of the Vietnam War by Tin Nguyen, Raymond R. Battreall (Introduction)
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Gone Native : An NCO's Story by Alan G.
Cornett
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Six Silent Men: (101st Lrp/Rangers, No 2) by Kenn Miller
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The Things They Carried : A Work of Fiction by Tim O'Brien
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Marine Sniper : 93 Confirmed Kills by
Charles Henderson, E. J. Land
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Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
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 We Were Soldiers Once...and Young : Ia Drang : The
Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by
Harold G. Moore, Joseph Galloway (Contributor)
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Fields of Fire by James Webb
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Ripcord by Keith William Nolan
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Hardcover |
A Bright Shining Lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
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Dispatches by Michael Herr
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365 Days by Ronald J. Glassner
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American Tragedy : Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War by David E. Kaiser
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Hardcover |
 Vietnam Veterans' Homecoming: Crossing the Line by Carey J. Spearman "Vietnam Veterans' Homecoming:
Crossing the Line" is a straightforward but diverse account of one man's post-war
journey toward homecoming and healing. It is a journey replete with memories of war
and childhood; of pain and sadness; of forgiveness and hope. It is a journey which
is just beginning, a mere thirty-plus years after the Vietnam War. Amazon Review.
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