From the author of the award-winning, best-selling novel Matterhorn, comes a brilliant nonfiction book about warIn 1968, at the age of twenty-three, Karl Marlantes was dropped into the highland jungle of Vietnam, an inexperienced lieutenant in command of a platoon of forty Marines who would live or die by his decisions. Marlantes survived, but like many of his brothers in arms, he has spent the last forty years dealing with his war experience. In What It Is Like to Go [...]
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Very Crazy, G.I.!: Strange but True Stories of the Vietnam War
AMERICAN BOYS AT WAR IN VIETNAM–AND INVOLVED IN INCIDENTS YOU WON’T FIND IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVESIn this compelling, highly unusual collection of amazing but true stories, U.S. soldiers reveal fantastic, almost unbelievable events that occurred in places ranging from the deadly Central Highlands to the Cong-infested Mekong Delta.”Finders Keepers” became the sacred byword for one exhausted recon team who stumbled upon a fortune worth more than $500,000–and managed, with a little AmericanSale Price: Read More
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Across The Fence: The Secret War In Vietnam
For eight years, far beyond the battlefields of Vietnam and the glare of media distortions, American Green Berets fought a deadly secret war in Laos and Cambodia under the aegis of the top secret Military Assistance Command Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group, or SOG.Go deep into the jungle with five SOG warriors surrounded by 10,000 enemy troops as they stack up the dead to build a human buttress for protection. Witness a Green Beret, shot in the back four [...]
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Vietnam War (The Politically Incorrect Guides)
The Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failureat least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe. Yet, Phillip Jennings sets the record straight in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War. In this latest P.I.G.”, Jennings shatters culturally-accepted myths and busts politically incorrect lies that liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling you for years. The Vietnam War was the most importantand successfulcampaign toSale Price: Read More
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Cherries : A Vietnam War Novel
It’s 1970 – they’re 18 years old – drafted and trained by the Army Infantry for five months – sent to Vietnam with others their age to fight in an unpopular war – dubbed “Cherries” by their more seasoned peers – nothing had prepared them for this nightmare – forced to become men overnight – working hard to learn the ropes and earn the acceptance and trust of fellow soldiers. Once they come under fire and witness death firsthand, a [...]
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Gun: A Visual History Book (Hardcover)
Description: The Gun A Visual History book is the perfect gift for anyone interested in firearms. From rifles and pistols to machine guns and grenade launchers, its pages showcase more than 300 guns. Read the hardcover gun book “A Visual History” for a comprehensive record of the weapons that spans the last 800 years. Regular price: 22.00 USD Our price: 22.00 USD
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Counselor A Life at the Edge of History (Hardcover) Book
Description: Read the Counselor A Life at the Edge of History book for a gripping memoir of the president’s closest adviser, Ted Sorensen. The book recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. The John F Kennedy Book is a compelling read for its insider’s perspective. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from legislative [...]
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SitRep Negative: A Year In Vietnam
In April 1968, we were a country at war with ourselves and increasingly with a small country halfway around the world: Vietnam. I don’t recall ever thinking about Vietnam when I started college in 1963. By 1968, it was all any of us could think about. The book begins with my being drafted into the Army and ends with my return to civilian life. I wrote this for my grandchildren, but it will give anyone some sense of what it [...]
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The War Above the Trees
The war as seen through the eyes of a helicopter crew member. What it was like to be on the work horse of the VietnamSale Price: Read More
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Goodbye Vietnam
This collection of fictional remembrances of a Marine during the Vietnam Conflict tells in a series of short pieces the particular horrors of the war through one man’s eyes. From boot camp and his love/hate for the Drill Sergeant, to his leaving Vietnam “packed in the back of a truck with all our paraphernalia and our travel brochures,” these metaphysical vignettes transport you deep into the dark world of our most controversialSale Price: Read More
