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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
If not now, when?	Jack Jacobs	A Medal of Honor recipient looks back at his own service—and ahead to America’s future.Jack Jacobs was acting as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. …	OL11947226W
What It Is Like to Go to War	Karl Marlantes	From the author of the New York Times bestseller Matterhorn, this is a powerful nonfiction book about the experience of combat and how inadequately we prepare our young men and women for war. …	OL16099615W
Uphill battle	Frank Scotton	"Frank Scotton, assigned to Viet Nam from 1962 to 1975, details counterinsurgency technique used and shares observations and conclusions about the challenges faced in the US's involvement in the Viet…	OL19979987W
Mourning headband for Hue	Nhã Ca	"Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nhã Ca arrives in the city to attend her father's funeral. Without warning, war erupts…	OL19988614W
A rumor of war	Philip Caputo	xxix, 354 pages ; 21 cm	OL20656639W
White Christmas in April	Toby Haynsworth	"The editors have re-created the last days of America's Vietnam experience. Using interviews, documents, photographs, maps, a glossary, and a chronology, the editors dissect "Operation Frequent Wind,…	OL21370774W
Body count: Lieutenant Calley's story, as told to John Sack	William Laws Calley	viii, 181 p. 23 cm	OL2183655W
Hunters & Shooters	Bill Fawcett	The U.S. Navy SEALs have long been considered among the finest, most courageous, and professional soldiers in American military history—an elite fighting force trained as parachutists, frogmen, demol…	OL274593W
In love and war	Jim Stockdale,Sybil Stockdale,James B. Stockdale	"This is the true story of Jim Stockdale, a navy fighter pilot shot down and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War; and his wife, Sybil, who, back home in California, carried on a valiant fight on be…	OL2926210W
Brothers in Arms	William Broyles	Broyles, former Newsweek editor, spent four weeks in Vietnam in 1984 visiting sites familiar from his days as a combat Marine, talking with people and asking probing and provocative questions. He int…	OL3288829W
The Girl in the Picture	Denise Chong	On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of t…	OL3498998W
The war managers	Douglas Kinnard	Tells the story of the Second Indochinese War from the perspectives of the United States Army General Officers who commanded there. This is not a history, nor is it a personal memoir; it is an attemp…	OL4093044W
In the combat zone	Kathryn Marshall	Features the stories of twenty women who served in Vietnam as nurses, decoders, secretaries, cartographers, clerks, air traffic controllers, and "Kool-Aid Kids."	OL4128689W
Patriots	Christian G. Appy	Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war?s path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span …	OL4291011W
Suicide Charlie	Norman L. Russell	One of the best books I've read so far about Vietnam war	OL4301728W
The death and life of Dith Pran	Sydney H. Schanberg	The article that lead to the making of the academy award winning film "The Killing Fields". The story outlines the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and Dith Prans tale of survival.	OL5477096W
Pathfinder	Richard R. Burns	An action-packed combat memoir by a veteran of the Pathfinders describes his role guiding helicopters into a landing zone to disembark troops, retrieve the wounded, or organize extractions, frequentl…	OL6017616W
Gone native	Alan G. Cornett	Green Beret medic Alan Cornett arrived in Vietnam in 1966 and spent seven years immersed in the country's culture and its people. He tells a no-holds barred story of an American soldier who made sacr…	OL7800584W
War For the Hell of It	Ed Cobleigh	Ed "Fast Eddie" Cobleigh served two tours of duty during the Vietnam air war, logging 375 combat sorties in the F-4 Phantom fighter/bomber. In War for the Hell of It, Cobleigh shares his perspectives…	OL8110068W
A rumor of war	Philip Caputo	The author recounts his experiences during the sixteen months he spent as a Marine infantry officer in the Vietnam war.	OL82000W