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Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin is the riveting story of Navy pilot Lt. William Sharp’s high-speed ejection from his F-8 after being hit by enemy fire over North Vietnam and ultimately his escape.

Vietnam was the first war America lost on the ground. In this fascinating account, historian Nigel Cawthorne traces the conflict from its inception to its traumatic end. He looks at the political events that led tot he war and examines its impact upon both the Americans and the Vietnamese, whose battle for the independence of their country was to leave lingering scars upon the American psyche. Featuring striking war photography and useful maps, Vietnam: A War Lost and Won is an even-handed assessment of a conflict whose wounds would take a generation to heal.

The author is a former air A-4 Skyhawk pilot flying over North Vietnam in 1966, 1967, and 1968. The author was attached to Navy Attack Squadron VA-163 surviving the fire onboard the USS Oriskany, the intense daily battles with the Russian SA-2 missiles, 37mm, 57mm and 85mm guns in the most heavily defended areas in aviation history. The author took many combat photographs which are present throughout the book. VA-163 is the most decorated air squadron in the history of Naval Aviation.

Gunbird Driver is a memoir of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E's in Marine Observation Squadron 6.

Written posthumously, this book tells the story of USMC veteran Jeff Cochran. He joined the Marine Corps in 1968 and fought in some of the biggest and bloodiest battles in Vietnam. He suffered from severe PTSD. For years he wanted to tell his story, but digging into those memories would always cause too much pain. Twenty years ago his wife, Zia offered to help him write his story. After many attempts, it was never done. In 2018 Jeff died from complications to his exposure to Agent Orange. Zia decided to complete the story he longed to tell. Using the writings from a journal he kept, and historical documents, plus her own understanding of what he wanted told, she completed the book in his honor. It was his desire to have his family, friends, and people in general understand how the war and PTSD effected his life. How a 19 year old kid from Akron, Ohio left for boot camp and never returned. He returned in physical form, but was never the same mentally, emotionally or spiritually. This is a story that dives into the aftermath of war as a human experience, not from a military perspective.

Letters from THE HEART provides a fascinating look at history through the daily lens of an intelligent and articulate physician who was drafted to serve in Vietnam for a year.

One man's story, from the hills of East Tennessee to the battlefields of Vietnam ... and back.

In November 1968, 20-year-old Norman W. VanCor, a Recon Marine, would step off a Continental Airlines plane onto the tarmac in Da Nang, South Viet Nam and travel to Quang Tri on the bed of a 6-by truck, through mud and torrential rain. Quang Tri, the base camp and headquarters of Third Marine Division, Third Reconnaissance Battalion, Charlie Company, Team 2, would be his new home.This story chronicles VanCor's missions into the jungle with his four team members in "Ringlet." Countless missions in harm's way, five Marines would have to find the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), gather intelligence, break away to a helicopter rendezvous and return to base camp to report their findings. They ventured into the DMZ and beyond, and into the jungle's grip. Some missions were successful, others would end in fierce firefights and men would die. This story is VanCor's. His experiences are the heart and soul of the book. His legacy to his family is real, sometimes heart-wrenching and sometimes even a little humorous. VanCor writes about the mental state of being at war. His emotions come alive throughout the book with vivid detail that chronicles the everyday life in base camp as well as the graphic details of survival in the jungle with enemy eyes watching and ready to strike.

"Call Sign Dracula" provides an outstanding, valuable and worthy in-depth look into the life of a US Army Infantry soldier serving with the famed 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) in Vietnam. It is a genuine, firsthand account of a one-year tour that shows how a soldier grew and matured from an awkward, bewildered, inexperienced, eighteen-year-old country "bumpkin" from Kentucky, to a tough, battle hardened, fighting soldier.You will laugh, cry, and stand in awe at the true-life experiences shared in this memoir. The awfulness of battle, fear beyond description, the sorrow and anguish of losing friends, extreme weariness, dealing with the scalding sun, torrential rain, cold, heat, humidity, insects, and the daily effort just to maintain sanity were struggles faced virtually every day. And yet, there were good times. There was the coming together to laugh, joke, and share stories from home. There was the warmth and compassion shown by men to each other in such an unreal environment. You will see where color, race, or where you were from had no bearing on the tight-knit group of young men that was formed from the necessity to survive. What a "bunch" they were!... then the return to home and all the adjustments and struggles to once again fit into a world that was now strange and uncomfortable."Call Sign Dracula" is an excellent and genuine memoir of an infantry soldier in the Vietnam War.

"Behind the Red Curtain, a Memoir" is a true-life account told in the voice of a growing teenager. In this harrowing tale of coping and survival, the author walks readers into the metamorphosed world of a Vietnamese family inside fallen Saigon during the period following the end of the Vietnam War.

"Peter Arnett is the best reporter of the Vietnam War." --David Halberstam, Journalist and HistorianIn this intimate and exclusive remembrance of the Fall of Saigon, celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett tells the story of his role covering the controversial Vietnam War for The Associated Press from 1962 to its end on April 30, 1975. Arnett's clear-eyed coverage displeased President Lyndon Johnson and officials on all sides of the conflict. Writing candidly and vividly about his risks and triumphs, Arnett also shares his fears and fights in reporting against the backdrop of war.Arnett places readers at the historic pivot-points of Vietnam: covering Marine landings, mountaintop battles, Saigon's decline and fall, and the safe evacuation of a planeload of 57 infants in the midst of chaos. Peter Arnett's sweeping view and his frank, descriptive, and dramatic writing brings the Vietnam War to life in a uniquely insightful way for the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon.Arnett won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his Vietnam coverage. He later went on to TV-reporting fame covering the Gulf War for CNN."Saigon Has Fallen" includes 21 dramatic photographs from the AP Archive and the personal collection of Peter Arnett.

The most publicized single incident of the Vietnam war was the My Lai 4 massacre when on 16 March 1968 a company unit of the Americal Division while conducting its first combat assault in South Vietnam massacred over 400 innocent civilians, raped women, bayoneted livestock and burned down houses in the hamlet of My Lai 4. The reporting and investigation of the incident are discussed in detail as well as an explanation of how a bold cover-up was orchestrated by the two lower-level combat commanders who, concerned that their orders had been misinterpreted, desperately attempted to suppress knowledge of the extent of the massacre. Their efforts succeeded because of "incredible mismanagement" by the division's senior leaders who were responsible for investigating the incident. This book answers many of the perplexing questions concerning the My Lai incident which have arisen over time.

The Boys on Cherry Street is a collection of stories both humorous and heroic. The stories start with the zany and outrageous antics of the author and his college friends and continues through his U.S. Marine Corps training, flight school and service in Vietnam. There are many great books written about the Vietnam War-its heroes, their courage and sacrifice. However, this book is different in that it also shows the keen sense of humor that some men showed in some of the most stressful situations imaginable. It was this sense of humor that Boehm believe was part of their coping mechanism that got them through the tense situations of combat. The book is a salute to the young men of the Vietnam War Era who answered their country's call.