Vietnam War

More than 25 years after the official end of the Vietnam War, "Dear America" allows readers to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served there. Excerpt in "Time" magazine.... More

Long out of print, this collection of seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. With a new Foreword by the author of "A People's History of the United States, " this book is a renewed call for independent analysis of America's role in the world.C... More

"A Companion to the Vietnam War" contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. These historiographical and narrative essays by leading historians examine the war in its most important contexts. The broad thematic coverage of the book includes the pol... More

Great powers are not supposed to lose wars, so how do leaders explain military defeat when it happens? "Media and the Politics of Failure" analyzes the American experience in Vietnam and the Soviet experience in Afghanistan to draw larger conclusions about how and why political leaders explain the e... More

In March 1971, Daniel Ellsberg gave "The New York Times" access to a classified government report revealing the secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg, a former Vietnam Marine, said he violated national security to protest an illegal war. The release of the Pentagon Papers exploded in controver... More

The Vietnam War was a thirty-year conflict that actually included several wars, cost billions of dollars, resulted in thousands of Vietnamese, French, and American deaths, and reverberated throughout the international community. Now in this new concise overview David Anderson lays out the origins, c... More

Out of the Sixties explores the tension between history and the self in the work of ten authors who came of age in the 1960s. Each chapter deals with a representative figure - George Lucas, Bruce Springsteen, Ann Beattie, Alice Walker. Wyatt argues that for each figure the resolution between the per... More

The death of legendary CIA operative Theodore G. “Ted” Shackley in December 2002 triggered an avalanche of obituaries from all over the world, some of them condemnatory. Pundits used such expressions as “heroin trafficking,” “training terrorists,” “attempts to assassinate Castro,” an... More

The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he r... More

The riveting, true story of the remarkable, but little known, Vietnam War campaigns fought inside 200 miles of secret tunnel networks around Saigon, between Viet Cong guerillas and special American forces.At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled ... More

In the spirit of the smash bestsellers "Flyboys" and "Black Hawk Down," "Tiger Force" puts readers in the middle of overwhelming military action and turmoil, telling the story of unspeakable atrocity and unquestionable heroism.... More

""This is the best personal narrative of a start-to-finish career of a fighter pilot I have ever seen...factually accurate...pleasantly readable. It will captivate the neophyte to the world of flying and the old-hand as well.""--Arthur H. Sanfelici, Editor, "Aviation History," . CLIMB ABOARD A JET F... More

Acclaimed author Bissell recounts his journey to Vietnam with his veteran father in this haunting and luminous book as they travel the country together and reflect on the war experience, both from someone who was there and from the son who grew up in its wake.In April 1975, as Saigon fell to the Nor... More

In the Tet Offensive of 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive countrywide attack on South Vietnam. Though the Communists failed to achieve their tactical and operational objectives, James Willbanks claims Hanoi won a strategic victory. The offensive proved that America's pro... More

A prominent American historian sheds light on how deeply etched memories of the devastating Vietnam War have altered America's political, social, and cultural landscape. Perhaps most important, the author explores the power of the Vietnam metaphor on foreign policy, particularly in Central America, ... More

Acclaimed historian Brinkley explores Senator John Kerry's tour of duty in Vietnam and odyssey from highly-decorated war veteran to outspoken antiwar activist, drawing on exclusive access to Kerry's personal diaries and letters home from Vietnam.Covering more than four decades, this is the first ful... More

Throughout the Vietnam War, military officials such as Matthew Ridgway, James Gavin, Maxwell Taylor, Harold K. Johnson, Wallace Greene, Victor Krulak, and John Paul Vann consistently warned against the peril of waging conventional war in Vietnam, while even advocates of U.S. involvement like William... More

With the same uncompromising style that characterized his breakthrough, Vietnam-era writings, "Toward a New Cold War" extends Chomsky's critique of United States foreign policy through the early 1970s to Ronald Reagan's first term.A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the ... More