Pyle, Richard.

Summary: Relates the circumstances behind the deaths of four combat photographers in 1971 when their helicopter was shot down over Laos, and the efforts to locate the crash site and the photographers' remains twenty-seven years later.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2003

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Takiff, Michael

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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2003

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McDonald, Cherokee Paul.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2001

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Jones, Bruce E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Press 1987

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Stanton, Doug

Summary: A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017

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Kerrey, Robert

Summary: The author traces his experiences as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam, which led to his being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and describes his sheltered childhood and his search for the truth about his uncle's death in World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2002

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Tripp, Nathaniel

Summary: The author, a man whose father was terrorized by his World War II experiences, tells about his own stint as an infantry officer in Vietnam, and discusses how he overcame his fear of responsibility and learned to support and sustain the men in his care.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 1996

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Carlock, Chuck

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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Pub. Group 1995

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Ulander, Perry A.

Summary: "This intimate memoir by an American GI who served in Vietnam offers a powerful narrative for readers with an interest in the effects of war and violence, American involvement in Vietnam and how trauma can be a catalyst for transformation"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2016

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Summary: Examines the lives of nurses who served in the Vietnam War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Street Entertainment 2006

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Summary: The words 'My Lai' are seared into our memories of the Vietnam War, but few know what really happened in the small Vietnamese village on March 16, 1968. Now, drawing on 400 hours of recently discovered audio recordings and new interviews with participants, eye witnesses, and investigators, the complete story can finally be told about one of the most shocking atrocities in modern times, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010

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Barnes, H. Lee

Summary: There is the mythology of the Green Berets, of their clandestine, special operations as celebrated in story and song. And then there is the reality of one soldier's experience, the day-to-day loss and drudgery of a Green Beret such as H. Lee Barnes, whose story conveys the daily grind and quiet desperation behind the polished accounts of military heroics. Barnes tells what it was like to be a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2011

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Danziger, Jeff

Summary: "Jeff Danziger, one of the leading political cartoonists of his generation, captures the fear, sorrow, absurdity, and unintended but inevitable consequences of war with dark humor and penetrating moral clarity"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2021

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Hackworth, David H.

Summary: The commanding officer of an infantry battalion in Vietnam in 1969 recounts how he took over a demoralized unit of ordinary draftees and turned it into an elite fighting force, and describes its accomplishments.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rugged Land 2002

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Pedersen, Dan

Summary: "The founder of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons program, aka "TOPGUN," shares the untold story of how he and eight other young pilots revolutionized the art of aerial combat and created the center for excellence and incubator of leadership that thrives to this day."--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019

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Keith, Thomas H.

Summary: During the Vietnam era, many of the U.S. Navy SEALs never filed for a Purple Heart unless they were severly wounded. Thomas H. Keith, Master Chief, SEAL Team 2, is living proof. He carries a piece of shrapnel behind one lung, a reminder of the day he called in 40 mm mortar fire on the enemy that was trying to catch up to his crew as the crew hauled ass out of the bush. Not only did he never...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2009

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Summary: Growing up in post-WWII Germany, the son of a Nazi slain during the war, Dieter Dengler dreamed about becoming a pilot. At age 18 he emigrated to the United States and worked odd jobs until he was accepted into the Navy and began pilot training. He was sent to Vietnam around 1966 and on his first mission was shot down and taken prisoner. There, the Vietcong tortured him until Dengler engineered...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion 2001

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Musgrave, John

Summary: "A Marine's searing and intimate memoir about surviving Vietnam and its aftermath"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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McLean, Jack

Summary: Nothing could have prepared privileged-boy Jack McLean for the horror of Landing Zone Loon--a three-day battle that took place on a remote hill tucked into the border of North Vietnam and Laos in June 1968, killing twenty-seven men, wound nearly one hundred others, and leave several dozen survivors to defend an ever-shrinking perimeter with little water or ammo. A powerful coming-of-age...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009

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Calley, William Laws

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1971

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