-
Bait
- The Battle of Kham Duc
- Narrated by: James D. McLeroy
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Bait
Buy for $15.56
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Death in the Highlands
- The Siege of Special Forces Camp Plei Me
- By: J. Keith Saliba
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
In fall 1965, North Vietnam's high command smelled blood in the water. The South Vietnamese republic was on the verge of collapse, and Hanoi resolved to crush it once and for all. The communists set their sights on South Vietnam's strategically vital West-Central Highlands. Their first target was the American Special Forces camp at Plei Me, remote and isolated along the Cambodian border.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Boting
- By William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). on 06-05-23
By: J. Keith Saliba
-
SOG Kontum
- Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia 1968-1969
- By: Joe Parnar, Robert Dumont
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
This book tells the story of the Teams operating out of FOB2 Kontum, near the tri-border area, in 1968-69. From recon missions over the fence to the heroic, and sometimes fatal efforts undertaken to try and rescue missing SOG members, the events are told through the words of the men themselves, supported by previously unreleased official documents.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Not good
- By Amazon Customer on 04-25-24
By: Joe Parnar, and others
-
Tango 1-1
- 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta
- By: Jim Thayer
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 38
LRPs were all volunteers. They were in the spine-tingling, brain-twisting, nerve-wracking business of Long Range Patrolling. They varied in age from eighteen to thirty. These men operated in precision movements, like walking through a jungle quietly and being able to tell whether a man or an animal is moving through the brush without seeing the cause of movement. They could sit in an ambush for hours without moving a muscle except to ease the safety off the automatic weapon in their hand at the first sign of trouble. These men were good because they had to be to survive.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Good mission storytelling!
- By Tina on 12-22-23
By: Jim Thayer
-
Born Twice
- Memoir of a Special Forces SOG Warrior
- By: Dale Hanson
- Narrated by: Dale Hanson
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 142
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 127
Dale Hanson takes us from a northern Minnesota boyhood to the incredible stresses of US special operations during the Vietnam War, the deadly world of MAC-V-SOG, the top-secret Special Forces project that conducted America’s secret war against the Communist forces on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Shrouded in mystery and equipped with exotic weaponry, SOG operators suffered casualty rates in excess of 100 percent for three successive years.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Politics
- By Anonymous User on 11-30-23
By: Dale Hanson
-
SOG Chronicles: Volume One
- By: John Stryker Meyer
- Narrated by: John Stryker Meyer
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 35
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
From 1964 to 1972, far beyond the battlefields of Vietnam and the glare of media distortions, American Green Berets and their indigenous troops fought a deadly secret war in Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam under the aegis of the top secret Military Assistance Command Vietnam—Studies and Observations Group, or simply SOG.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Too important
- By Jim on 10-25-22
-
Dutch
- From Rising Sun to the Rise of Jihad, Six Decades of Service
- By: Kim Kipling
- Narrated by: Kim Kipling
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 32
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Master Sergeant Jan W. “Dutch” Wierenga is a little known but highly respected Special Forces and CIA legend. He has served the USA for 60 years in total, in some of the most dangerous and difficult circumstances imaginable. Born in Indonesia in 1936, he and his family spent a total of four years imprisoned in Japanese and Indonesian internment camps under unspeakably harsh conditions. They were rescued under fire by British Gurkha troops in 1946. He was running jungle combat patrols by age 16, and emigrated to Holland by cargo ship in 1955.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
True American Hero
- By Gwen B on 03-17-22
By: Kim Kipling
-
Death in the Highlands
- The Siege of Special Forces Camp Plei Me
- By: J. Keith Saliba
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
In fall 1965, North Vietnam's high command smelled blood in the water. The South Vietnamese republic was on the verge of collapse, and Hanoi resolved to crush it once and for all. The communists set their sights on South Vietnam's strategically vital West-Central Highlands. Their first target was the American Special Forces camp at Plei Me, remote and isolated along the Cambodian border.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Boting
- By William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). on 06-05-23
By: J. Keith Saliba
-
SOG Kontum
- Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia 1968-1969
- By: Joe Parnar, Robert Dumont
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
This book tells the story of the Teams operating out of FOB2 Kontum, near the tri-border area, in 1968-69. From recon missions over the fence to the heroic, and sometimes fatal efforts undertaken to try and rescue missing SOG members, the events are told through the words of the men themselves, supported by previously unreleased official documents.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Not good
- By Amazon Customer on 04-25-24
By: Joe Parnar, and others
-
Tango 1-1
- 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta
- By: Jim Thayer
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 38
LRPs were all volunteers. They were in the spine-tingling, brain-twisting, nerve-wracking business of Long Range Patrolling. They varied in age from eighteen to thirty. These men operated in precision movements, like walking through a jungle quietly and being able to tell whether a man or an animal is moving through the brush without seeing the cause of movement. They could sit in an ambush for hours without moving a muscle except to ease the safety off the automatic weapon in their hand at the first sign of trouble. These men were good because they had to be to survive.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Good mission storytelling!
- By Tina on 12-22-23
By: Jim Thayer
-
Born Twice
- Memoir of a Special Forces SOG Warrior
- By: Dale Hanson
- Narrated by: Dale Hanson
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 142
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 127
Dale Hanson takes us from a northern Minnesota boyhood to the incredible stresses of US special operations during the Vietnam War, the deadly world of MAC-V-SOG, the top-secret Special Forces project that conducted America’s secret war against the Communist forces on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Shrouded in mystery and equipped with exotic weaponry, SOG operators suffered casualty rates in excess of 100 percent for three successive years.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Politics
- By Anonymous User on 11-30-23
By: Dale Hanson
-
SOG Chronicles: Volume One
- By: John Stryker Meyer
- Narrated by: John Stryker Meyer
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 35
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
From 1964 to 1972, far beyond the battlefields of Vietnam and the glare of media distortions, American Green Berets and their indigenous troops fought a deadly secret war in Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam under the aegis of the top secret Military Assistance Command Vietnam—Studies and Observations Group, or simply SOG.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Too important
- By Jim on 10-25-22
-
Dutch
- From Rising Sun to the Rise of Jihad, Six Decades of Service
- By: Kim Kipling
- Narrated by: Kim Kipling
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 32
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Master Sergeant Jan W. “Dutch” Wierenga is a little known but highly respected Special Forces and CIA legend. He has served the USA for 60 years in total, in some of the most dangerous and difficult circumstances imaginable. Born in Indonesia in 1936, he and his family spent a total of four years imprisoned in Japanese and Indonesian internment camps under unspeakably harsh conditions. They were rescued under fire by British Gurkha troops in 1946. He was running jungle combat patrols by age 16, and emigrated to Holland by cargo ship in 1955.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
True American Hero
- By Gwen B on 03-17-22
By: Kim Kipling
-
We Saved SOG Souls
- 101st Airborne Missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos During the Vietnam War
- By: Roger Lockshier
- Narrated by: Justin Smallbridge
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 129
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 114
During the Vietnam War, far from the halls of Congress, snooping reporters, loving family members, and conventional US military forces in South Vietnam, a deadly, top-secret war was conducted for eight years across the fence in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam by small Green Beret-led reconnaissance teams.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
SOG stories are the best
- By Anonymous User on 02-14-23
By: Roger Lockshier
-
Tiger Bravo's War
- By: Rick St. John
- Narrated by: David L. White
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 53
Tiger Bravo’s War follows a band of young paratroopers, from the same battalion in the elite 101st Airborne Division portrayed in Stephen Ambrose’s World War II best seller Band of Brothers, during their first year in combat in the Vietnam War - from a bayonet charge in War Zone D and street fighting during the 1968 Tet Offensive, to a rescue mission of a surrounded platoon and rock and roll in the company mess hall, and much more.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Vietnam from an Officer's Perspective...
- By Michael Richards on 05-11-18
By: Rick St. John
-
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
- Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
- By: Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,329
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,067
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 2,058
In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. How these men persevered makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The truth
- By Bobbyg on 10-08-19
By: Harold G. Moore, and others
-
Point Man
- By: Chief James Watson, Kevin Dockery
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 144
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 131
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 130
Chief Petty Officer James "Patches" Watson was there at the start. One of the first to come out of the famed Underwater Demolition Team 21, he was an initial member—a "plank owner"—of America's deadliest and most elite fighting force, the U.S. Navy SEALs. Through three tours in the jungle hell of Vietnam, he walked the point—staying alert to trip wires, booby traps, and punji pits, guiding his squad of amphibious fighters on missions of rescue, reconnaissance, and demolition—confronting a war's unique terrors head-on, unprotected . . . and unafraid.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
one off the best ones
- By Chuck Moore on 04-19-23
By: Chief James Watson, and others
-
SOG
- The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
- By: John L. Plaster
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,119
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,920
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 1,902
John Plaster’s riveting account of his covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War is “a true insider’s account...this eye-opening report will leave readers feeling as if they’ve been given a hot scoop on a highly classified project” (Publishers Weekly). Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most secret elite US military unit to serve in the Vietnam War - so secret that its very existence was denied by the government.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
More, give me more.
- By LEE on 03-06-19
By: John L. Plaster
-
Across the Fence: Expanded Edition
- The Secret War in Vietnam
- By: John Stryker Meyer
- Narrated by: John Stryker Meyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,567
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,366
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 1,366
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 times and left for dead, who survives to fight savagely against incredible odds to complete his missions.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great Great Great
- By Stuta on 02-26-20
-
Chickenhawk
- By: Robert Mason
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,098
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,893
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 1,894
With more than half a million copies sold, Robert Mason's Chickenhawk is one of the best-selling books ever written about the Vietnam War. Fascinated with flying from a young age, Mason earned his private pilot's license even before graduating high school. He enlisted in the army in 1964 and endured an extremely challenging "weeding out" process in an effort to fly helicopters. Sent to Vietnam, he survived more than 1,000 air combat missions despite the violence and brutality exploding all around him.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Best
- By richard olson on 08-21-15
By: Robert Mason
-
The Eyes of the Eagle
- F Company LRPs in Vietnam, 1968
- By: Gary A. Linderer
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 350
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 307
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 306
Gary Linderer volunteered for the Army, then volunteered for Airborne training. When he reached Vietnam in 1968, he was assigned to the famous "Screaming Eagles," the 101st Airborne Division. Once there, he volunteered for training and duty with F Company 58th Inf, the Long Range Patrol company that was "the Eyes of the Eagle." The Eyes of the Eagle is an accurate, exciting look at the recon soldier's war. There are none better.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Loved it
- By Dan on 03-16-20
By: Gary A. Linderer
-
Rice Paddy Recon
- A Marine Officer's Second Tour in Vietnam, 1968-1970
- By: Andrew R. Finlayson
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 84
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
A young US Marine officer recounts his experiences of the Vietnam War over a 19-month period. He graphically describes what it was like to perform three distinct combat missions: long-range ground reconnaissance in the Annamite Mountains of I Corps, infantry operations in the rice paddies and mountains of Quang Nam Province, and special police operations for the CIA in Tay Ninh province. Using official Marine Corps unit histories, CIA documents, and his weekly letters home, the author relies almost exclusively on primary sources in providing an accurate and honest account.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Somnipherous
- By Cameleer on 09-10-21
-
A Tiger Among Us
- A Story of Valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
- By: Bennie G. Adkins, Katie Lamar Jackson, Chuck Hagel - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms, Bennie G. Adkins - preface
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 126
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 112
While the rain and mist of an early March moved over the valley, then-Sergeant First Class Bennie Adkins and 16 other Green Berets found themselves holed up in an undermanned and unfortified position at Camp A Shau, a small training and reconnaissance camp located right next to the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail, North Vietnam's major supply route. And with the rain came the North Vietnamese Army in force. Filled with the sights, smells, and sounds of a battle fought in the middle of a tropical forest, A Tiger Among Us is a riveting tale of bravery, valor, skill, and resilience.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
None Better
- By CaptBarrel on 11-19-18
By: Bennie G. Adkins, and others
-
Vietnam Saga: Exploits of a Combat Helicopter Pilot
- By: Stan Corvin Jr.
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 199
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 182
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 180
Vietnam Saga is a very personal story of Stan Corvin's often perilous times in the US Army as a two-tour combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam. It is a true-life story of soldiers who fought for freedom and often for their very lives. Vietnam Saga is also a story about the meaning of life. Standing back from his war experience, Stan reflects on his ever-present faith and how it carried him through this challenging period of his life.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Highly Recommend Vietnam Chopper Pilot Experiences
- By Cycletrash56 on 02-24-18
By: Stan Corvin Jr.
-
Good to Go
- The Life and times of a Decorated Member of the U.S. Navy's Elite Seal Team Two
- By: Harry Constance, Randall Fuerst
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,163
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,046
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,050
Good to Go is Constance's powerful, firsthand account of his three tours of duty as a member of America's most elite, razor-sharp stealth fighting force. It is a breathtaking memoir of harrowing missions and covert special-ops - from the floodplains of the Mekong Delta to the beaches of the South China Sea - that places the listener in the center of bloody ambushes and devastating firefights. But Constance's extraordinary adventure goes even farther - beyond 'Nam.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Unfortunately this book was not "Good to Go"
- By JWalkup on 12-18-15
By: Harry Constance, and others
Publisher's summary
An account of the battle of Kham Duc, one of the least known and most misunderstood battles in the American Phase of the Second Indochina War (1959 to 1975).
The strategic potential of the three-day attack of two NVA regiments on Kham Duc—a remote and isolated Army Special Forces camp—on the eve of the first Paris peace talks in May 1968, was so significant that former President Lyndon Johnson included it in his memoirs. This gripping, original, eyewitness narrative and thoroughly researched analysis of a widely misinterpreted battle at the height of the Vietnam War radically contradicts all the other published accounts of it. In addition to the tactical details of the combat narrative, the authors consider the grand strategies and political contexts of the US and North Vietnamese leaders.
Related to this topic
-
Days of Valor
- An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War
- By: Robert Tonsetic
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
During the War, Vietnam's coast had to be protected against Viet Cong ambushes and smuggling. The U.S. forces had destroyers, cruisers and gargantuan aircraft carriers, none suited for inshore patrol. This is the story of the Brown Water Navy, the garage-band flotilla assembled to do the job. Douglas Branson has been to Vietnam several times, including trips in 1966, 1995 and 2011. The first time, he was a 22-year-old, Brown Water Navy lieutenant JG. Subsequent visits were as a consultant/tourist.
By: Robert Tonsetic
-
Four Hours of Fury
- The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Operation and the Final Push into Nazi Germany
- By: James M. Fenelon
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than 2,000 Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war’s largest airdrop, all major objectives had been seized....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
personal and powerful.
- By TXcustomer on 07-09-19
By: James M. Fenelon
-
Bloody Okinawa
- The Last Great Battle of World War II
- By: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 100
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Very Technical
- By J.Brock on 07-16-21
By: Joseph Wheelan
-
Tiger Bravo's War
- By: Rick St. John
- Narrated by: David L. White
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 53
Tiger Bravo’s War follows a band of young paratroopers, from the same battalion in the elite 101st Airborne Division portrayed in Stephen Ambrose’s World War II best seller Band of Brothers, during their first year in combat in the Vietnam War - from a bayonet charge in War Zone D and street fighting during the 1968 Tet Offensive, to a rescue mission of a surrounded platoon and rock and roll in the company mess hall, and much more.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Vietnam from an Officer's Perspective...
- By Michael Richards on 05-11-18
By: Rick St. John
-
Uncommon Valor
- The Recon Company that Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included America’s Most Decorated Green Beret
- By: Stephen L. Moore
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 700
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 626
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 624
Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert US military unit in its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army's Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors operated in small teams, going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance, sabotaging North Vietnamese Army ammunition, and far more.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Pass this one by
- By WE Cleghorn on 01-21-21
By: Stephen L. Moore
-
Saipan
- The Battle that Doomed Japan in World War II
- By: James H. Hallas
- Narrated by: Tim Dixon
- Length: 22 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 353
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 313
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 311
The story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches, in hellish volcanic landscapes in places like Purple Heart Ridge, Death Valley, and Hell's Pocket, under a commander known as "Howlin' Mad." Naval combat: carriers battling carriers from afar, fighters downing Japanese aircraft, submarines sinking carriers. Marine-army rivalry. Fanatical Japanese defense and resistance. A turning point of the Pacific War. James Hallas reconstructs the full panorama of Saipan in a way that no recent chronicler of the battle has done.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Outstanding!
- By Patrick on 03-08-20
By: James H. Hallas
-
Days of Valor
- An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War
- By: Robert Tonsetic
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
During the War, Vietnam's coast had to be protected against Viet Cong ambushes and smuggling. The U.S. forces had destroyers, cruisers and gargantuan aircraft carriers, none suited for inshore patrol. This is the story of the Brown Water Navy, the garage-band flotilla assembled to do the job. Douglas Branson has been to Vietnam several times, including trips in 1966, 1995 and 2011. The first time, he was a 22-year-old, Brown Water Navy lieutenant JG. Subsequent visits were as a consultant/tourist.
By: Robert Tonsetic
-
Four Hours of Fury
- The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Operation and the Final Push into Nazi Germany
- By: James M. Fenelon
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than 2,000 Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war’s largest airdrop, all major objectives had been seized....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
personal and powerful.
- By TXcustomer on 07-09-19
By: James M. Fenelon
-
Bloody Okinawa
- The Last Great Battle of World War II
- By: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 100
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Very Technical
- By J.Brock on 07-16-21
By: Joseph Wheelan
-
Tiger Bravo's War
- By: Rick St. John
- Narrated by: David L. White
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 53
Tiger Bravo’s War follows a band of young paratroopers, from the same battalion in the elite 101st Airborne Division portrayed in Stephen Ambrose’s World War II best seller Band of Brothers, during their first year in combat in the Vietnam War - from a bayonet charge in War Zone D and street fighting during the 1968 Tet Offensive, to a rescue mission of a surrounded platoon and rock and roll in the company mess hall, and much more.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Vietnam from an Officer's Perspective...
- By Michael Richards on 05-11-18
By: Rick St. John
-
Uncommon Valor
- The Recon Company that Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included America’s Most Decorated Green Beret
- By: Stephen L. Moore
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 700
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 626
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 624
Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert US military unit in its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army's Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors operated in small teams, going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance, sabotaging North Vietnamese Army ammunition, and far more.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Pass this one by
- By WE Cleghorn on 01-21-21
By: Stephen L. Moore
-
Saipan
- The Battle that Doomed Japan in World War II
- By: James H. Hallas
- Narrated by: Tim Dixon
- Length: 22 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 353
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 313
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 311
The story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches, in hellish volcanic landscapes in places like Purple Heart Ridge, Death Valley, and Hell's Pocket, under a commander known as "Howlin' Mad." Naval combat: carriers battling carriers from afar, fighters downing Japanese aircraft, submarines sinking carriers. Marine-army rivalry. Fanatical Japanese defense and resistance. A turning point of the Pacific War. James Hallas reconstructs the full panorama of Saipan in a way that no recent chronicler of the battle has done.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Outstanding!
- By Patrick on 03-08-20
By: James H. Hallas
-
Normandy '44
- D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 517
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 461
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 456
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Excellent account of Normandy but be weary...
- By S. H. Moore on 02-22-20
By: James Holland
-
Leyte 1944
- The Soldiers' Battle
- By: Nathan N. Prefer
- Narrated by: Jones Allen
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 341
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 308
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 306
When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!" More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake the Philippines from the Japanese. The place of his re-invasion was the central Philippine Island of Leyte. Much has been written about the naval Battle of Leyte Gulf that his return provoked, but almost nothing has been written about the three-month long battle to seize Leyte itself.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Very well Researched..
- By jbnimble on 04-19-14
By: Nathan N. Prefer
-
Rice Paddy Recon
- A Marine Officer's Second Tour in Vietnam, 1968-1970
- By: Andrew R. Finlayson
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 84
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
A young US Marine officer recounts his experiences of the Vietnam War over a 19-month period. He graphically describes what it was like to perform three distinct combat missions: long-range ground reconnaissance in the Annamite Mountains of I Corps, infantry operations in the rice paddies and mountains of Quang Nam Province, and special police operations for the CIA in Tay Ninh province. Using official Marine Corps unit histories, CIA documents, and his weekly letters home, the author relies almost exclusively on primary sources in providing an accurate and honest account.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Somnipherous
- By Cameleer on 09-10-21
-
The Frozen Chosen
- The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
- By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 84
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 73
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the US Marine Corps to be the Corps' finest hour. Fourteen Medals of Honor, a record for any American battle, and 85 Navy Crosses attest to the intensity of the battle.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Fascinating story, very bad narration
- By Mat J Monk on 03-31-17
-
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
- A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
- By: Tom Mangold, John Penycate
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 109
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 95
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 94
At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: US soldiers small and wiry enough to maneuver through the guerrillas’ narrow domain. The brave souls who descended into these hellholes were known as “tunnel rats”. Armed with only pistols and K-bar knives, these men inched their way through the steamy darkness where any number of horrors could be awaiting them.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Very sadly informative
- By Kenneth Riley on 05-27-22
By: Tom Mangold, and others
-
The Hardest Place
- The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley
- By: Wesley Morgan
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 172
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 150
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 149
Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of America’s two-decade-long Afghan war.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A walk through time
- By Brandon Kennedy on 04-12-21
By: Wesley Morgan
-
Sicily '43
- The First Assault on Fortress Europe
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 170
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 151
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 150
On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion 11 months later: 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops came ashore or were parachuted onto Sicily, signaling the start of the campaign to defeat Nazi Germany on European soil. Operation HUSKY, as it was known, was enormously complex, involving dramatic battles on land, in the air, and at sea. Yet, despite its paramount importance to ultimate Allied victory, and its drama, very little has been written about the 38-day Battle for Sicily.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great writing, great narration, interesting topic
- By ItalCali on 08-02-21
By: James Holland
-
In Mortal Combat
- Korea, 1950-1953
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 229
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 190
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 190
In this brilliant narrative of America's first limited war, Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves, employing scrupulous archival research and interviews as the bases for the drama and accuracy of his writing. In Mortal Combat reveals Mao's prediction of the date and place of MacArthur's Inchon landing, Russia's indifference to the war, Mao's secret leadership of the North Korean military, and the true nature of both sides' treatment and repatriation of POWs.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Slightly disappointed
- By Patrick on 09-02-19
By: John Toland
-
Guadalcanal Marine
- By: Kerry L. Lane
- Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
In Guadalcanal Marine, Lt. Col. Kerry L. Lane recounts the dark reality of combat experienced by the men of the 1st Marine Division fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester. With 80 gripping photographs and his text, he brings to life the struggles of his companions as they achieve these two astonishing victories.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
I want to give a very honest review.
- By Jfm on 07-12-15
By: Kerry L. Lane
-
Grunts
- Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II through Iraq
- By: John C. McManus
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
From the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die comes a sweeping narrative of six decades of combat, and an eye-opening account of the evolution of the American infantry. From the beaches of Normandy and the South Pacific Islands to the deserts of the Middle East, the American soldier has been the most indispensable - and most overlooked - factor in wartime victory.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Unfiltered First Hand Look at War
- By Peter Taylor on 01-07-21
By: John C. McManus
-
Our Vietnam Wars, Volume 2
- As Told by More Veterans Who Served
- By: William F. Brown
- Narrated by: Eddie Frierson
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 21
Want to know what Vietnam was really like? From a Marine sniper in Hue, to a medevac dust-off pilot going into a hot LZ, Navy Corpsmen, A-6 pilots taking out bridges and SAM sites in North Vietnam, a nurse on the USS Repose, combat medics deep in the jungle, machine gunners in I-Corps, mechanics working on the rolling deck of a big carrier on Yankee Station, squad leaders on infantry sweeps in “the Arizona Territory”, truck convoys under fire, riverine patrol boats in the Delta, and much more....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Absolutely terrific!!!
- By Dano on 08-14-20
By: William F. Brown
-
By Water Beneath the Walls
- The Rise of the Navy SEALs
- By: Benjamin H. Milligan
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 22 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 414
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 371
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 370
How did the US Navy - the branch of the US military tasked with patrolling the oceans - ever manage to produce a unit of raiders trained to operate on land? And how, against all odds, did that unit become one of the world’s most elite commando forces, routinely striking thousands of miles from the water on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, even Central Africa?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Extra. Ordinary.
- By Anonymous User on 12-15-21
People who viewed this also viewed...
-
Mission of Honor
- A Moral Compass for a Moral Dilemma
- By: Jim Crigler
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 15
Most of us never get to test ourselves in combat. As a UH-1 Helicopter pilot flying in the jungle highlands of South Vietnam, Warrant Officer Jim Crigler and the men he flew with were tested daily. Coming of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s was challenging for most young men of that era. Throw in drugs, free love, draft notices, the Vietnam War, and a country deeply divided, and you have one of the most important books of this genre. This true story is a raw, bold, introspective autobiography.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A New Perspective
- By Ann on 07-16-23
By: Jim Crigler
-
Snake Driver! Cobras in Vietnam
- By: Bob Rosenburgh
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Filled with action-packed eyewitness accounts of the development, fielding and Vietnam battle experiences of the U.S. Army's Cobra attack helicopter, Snake Driver! is the true story of the world's first-ever chopper built strictly for attack. It's one riveting account after another of the most powerful rotary-wing aircraft ever made as courageous pilots used its massive firepower to destroy the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army.
By: Bob Rosenburgh
-
All Expenses Paid
- By: John Launer
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
John Launer, a United States Army Combat Infantryman in the Vietnam War, details his horrific experiences during that time. Setting the record straight that soldiers were not drug addicts, murderers, and baby killers, Launer documents that American media bias led to the public misunderstanding of the war. The action within is violent, bloody, and never ending, leading many veterans to devastating physical and psychological trauma upon their return home to the USA.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I loved the details that he experienced
- By Anonymous User on 04-09-24
By: John Launer
-
Every Mother's Son
- 77 Days at Khe Sanh
- By: K.M. Loftin
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 22
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Every man serving in Vietnam was "Every Mother's Son". In 1968, the Marine helicopter crews during the 77-day Siege of Khe Sanh risked everything every day to keep the surrounding Marine hill positions alive and viable. The North Vietnamese Army committed more than 20,000 troops to destroying the Marine hill positions and the Khe Sanh Combat Base. The small Marine outposts were transformed into highly effective kill zones, as the enemy slammed the landing zones with rockets, mortars, artillery, and automatic weapons fire.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Too long coming
- By David on 10-29-20
By: K.M. Loftin
-
The Village
- By: Bing West
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 175
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 154
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 154
Few American battles have been so extended, savage, and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such "Combined Action Platoons" (CAPs) are not a lost footnote about how the war could have been fought; only the villagers remain to bear witness. This is the story of 15 resolute young Americans matched against two hundred Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought, and died; and why the villagers remember them to this day.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
It is like you were there!
- By Gina on 06-17-21
By: Bing West
-
Mighty Men of Valor: With Charlie Company on Hill 714-Vietnam, 1970
- By: John G. Roberts
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 3
THE SCREAMING EAGLES IN VIETNAM 1970: the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne have been in combat against the elusive Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army for nearly seven years. In this memoir, author John G. Roberts tells the story of the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, the "Widow Makers" of the 101st Divisions' 1st Brigade. Written in the often crude language of the combat infantryman, Roberts describes what it was like to confront the enemy during close combat in the triple-canopied jungles of I Corps, west of the Song Bo River. As part of Operation Texas Star, the 502nd ...
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great first hand account
- By Kyle Stradley on 03-25-24
By: John G. Roberts
-
Mission of Honor
- A Moral Compass for a Moral Dilemma
- By: Jim Crigler
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 15
Most of us never get to test ourselves in combat. As a UH-1 Helicopter pilot flying in the jungle highlands of South Vietnam, Warrant Officer Jim Crigler and the men he flew with were tested daily. Coming of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s was challenging for most young men of that era. Throw in drugs, free love, draft notices, the Vietnam War, and a country deeply divided, and you have one of the most important books of this genre. This true story is a raw, bold, introspective autobiography.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A New Perspective
- By Ann on 07-16-23
By: Jim Crigler
-
Snake Driver! Cobras in Vietnam
- By: Bob Rosenburgh
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Filled with action-packed eyewitness accounts of the development, fielding and Vietnam battle experiences of the U.S. Army's Cobra attack helicopter, Snake Driver! is the true story of the world's first-ever chopper built strictly for attack. It's one riveting account after another of the most powerful rotary-wing aircraft ever made as courageous pilots used its massive firepower to destroy the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army.
By: Bob Rosenburgh
-
All Expenses Paid
- By: John Launer
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
John Launer, a United States Army Combat Infantryman in the Vietnam War, details his horrific experiences during that time. Setting the record straight that soldiers were not drug addicts, murderers, and baby killers, Launer documents that American media bias led to the public misunderstanding of the war. The action within is violent, bloody, and never ending, leading many veterans to devastating physical and psychological trauma upon their return home to the USA.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I loved the details that he experienced
- By Anonymous User on 04-09-24
By: John Launer
-
Every Mother's Son
- 77 Days at Khe Sanh
- By: K.M. Loftin
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 22
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Every man serving in Vietnam was "Every Mother's Son". In 1968, the Marine helicopter crews during the 77-day Siege of Khe Sanh risked everything every day to keep the surrounding Marine hill positions alive and viable. The North Vietnamese Army committed more than 20,000 troops to destroying the Marine hill positions and the Khe Sanh Combat Base. The small Marine outposts were transformed into highly effective kill zones, as the enemy slammed the landing zones with rockets, mortars, artillery, and automatic weapons fire.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Too long coming
- By David on 10-29-20
By: K.M. Loftin
-
The Village
- By: Bing West
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 175
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 154
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 154
Few American battles have been so extended, savage, and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such "Combined Action Platoons" (CAPs) are not a lost footnote about how the war could have been fought; only the villagers remain to bear witness. This is the story of 15 resolute young Americans matched against two hundred Viet Cong; how a CAP lived, fought, and died; and why the villagers remember them to this day.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
It is like you were there!
- By Gina on 06-17-21
By: Bing West
-
Mighty Men of Valor: With Charlie Company on Hill 714-Vietnam, 1970
- By: John G. Roberts
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 3
THE SCREAMING EAGLES IN VIETNAM 1970: the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne have been in combat against the elusive Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army for nearly seven years. In this memoir, author John G. Roberts tells the story of the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, the "Widow Makers" of the 101st Divisions' 1st Brigade. Written in the often crude language of the combat infantryman, Roberts describes what it was like to confront the enemy during close combat in the triple-canopied jungles of I Corps, west of the Song Bo River. As part of Operation Texas Star, the 502nd ...
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great first hand account
- By Kyle Stradley on 03-25-24
By: John G. Roberts
-
Policing Saigon
- By: Loren W. Christensen
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Policing Saigon isn't Platoon or Apocalypse Now, but the story of Loren W. Christensen's experience as a military policeman (MP) in a city of millions at a time when chaos and fear reigned. As a 23-year-old from a small town in Washington State, the author was plunged into a chaotic city of brawling servicemen, prostitutes, racial violence, enemy rockets, riots, and death. It was a place that would give him a unique opportunity to see up close a different side of the Vietnam War and its effect on the human condition.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Raw, honest, unhinged
- By H. D. Martinez on 04-12-23
-
Surprised at Being Alive
- An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond
- By: Robert F. Curtis
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 95
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 84
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn't your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft in exactly the right spot to take it out of the sky. Whichever way it happens, it wasn't your day.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
An Exciting Vietnam war history book it is not.
- By Peter Leo on 07-05-20
By: Robert F. Curtis
-
A Filthy Way to Die
- Collected Memories of the Vietnam War
- By: Ed Linz
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The author, a retired Navy Commander, presents a unique view of the Vietnam War while providing an understanding of the horror, brutality, chaos, and insanity of war. His interviews with 61 members of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1965 who served during the war in Vietnam include candid, first-hand accounts of American action on the ground, in the air, on the rivers, and offshore. Their stories involve Marines fighting bloody battles for hills soon abandoned after being captured; Naval aviators watching their wingman being shot down on missions targeting meaningless targets while Hanoi ...
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Mispronunciation of towns, regions, some terms
- By Michael D. Stuart on 04-05-24
By: Ed Linz
-
Holding the Line
- The Naval Air Campaign in Korea
- By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Holding the Line chronicles the carrier war in Korea from the first day of the war to the last, focusing on frontline combat while also describing the technical development of aircraft and shipboard operations and how these all affected the broader strategic situation on the Korean Peninsula.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Get to the point
- By J.Brock on 12-30-19
-
The Gunny
- A Vietnam Story
- By: Raymond Hunter Pyle
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 153
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 142
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 142
Frank Evans is a Navy sailor willing to do whatever is necessary to become a Marine. He's tough enough - and he has a general interested in his success. But success is measured in many ways. Frank finds out combat and the Marine Corps' definition of success change a man.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
I did not realize it was fiction.....
- By J LAN on 09-26-19
-
Company of Heroes
- A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam
- By: Eric Poole
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
In his two decades as a reporter, author Eric Poole racked up more than 30 regional and national awards while interviewing presidents and other luminaries. Here Poole recounts the experiences of a band of US soldiers in Vietnam, including the heroics of Leslie Sabo, Jr., who died saving his comrades and finally received his Medal of Honor some 42 years after his act of breathtaking courage.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
a good true story
- By Philip Bellerjeau Sr. on 03-30-24
By: Eric Poole
-
Fire Base Illingworth
- An Epic True Story of Remarkable Courage Against Staggering Odds
- By: Philip Keith
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 81
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 72
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
In the early morning hours of April 1, 1970, more than four hundred North Vietnamese soldiers charged out into the open and tried to overrun FSB Illingworth. The battle went on, mostly in the dark, for hours. Exposed ammunition canisters were hit and blew up, causing a thunderous explosion inside the FSB that left dust so thick it jammed the hand-held weapons of the GIs. Much of the combat was hand-to-hand. In all, twenty-four Americans lost their lives and another fifty-four were wounded.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The Most of Courageous Soldier's
- By Pamela Dale Foster on 09-08-14
By: Philip Keith
-
Sherman Lead
- Flying the F-4D Phantom II in Vietnam
- By: Gaillard R. Peck Jr., Lt. Gen. Walter D. Druen - foreword, Gen. Richard E. Hawley - foreword
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 23
-
Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 19
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 19
Sherman Lead is the gripping story of a year flying the F-4 in combat during the Vietnam War, told through the eyes of a fighter pilot. Operating out of Ubon Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand in 1968-69, Gail Peck and his squadronmates in the 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing were tasked with flying combat missions into North Vietnam and Laos. The F-4 was heavily involved in the air-to-ground mission at this time, with targets being well defended by enemy anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Story of a Patriot
- By Slick on 02-17-22
By: Gaillard R. Peck Jr., and others
-
Operation Tailwind
- Memoirs of a Secret Battle in a Secret War
- By: Barry Pencek
- Narrated by: Dan Nachtrab
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The Studies and Observations Group was a covert American military unit in Vietnam that specialized in clandestine cross-border operations in Laos and Cambodia. In September 1970, sixteen Green Berets and one-hundred-twenty Montagnard mercenaries departed on Operation Tailwind, the largest and deepest raid in SOG history.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Well Researched
- By David S. on 03-01-24
By: Barry Pencek
-
Catkiller 3-2
- An Army Pilot Flying for the Marines in the Vietnam War
- By: Raymond G. Caryl
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Catkiller 3-2 provides unique insights into the role of the tactical air controller, airborne (TACA) in I Corps as seen through the eyes of one of the pilots who flew low-flying, unarmed, single-engine aircraft in support of marine ground units during the Vietnam War. When Gen. William Westmoreland changed the marines' role in I Corps into a combat one, the Marines found themselves in need of more fixed wing aircraft to handle the TACA missions.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Enjoyed this book.
- By David Kocol on 08-23-23
By: Raymond G. Caryl
-
Call Sign Dracula
- My Tour with the Black Scarves, April 1969 to March 1970
- By: Joe Fair
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Call Sign Dracula provides a 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, 18-year-old country bumpkin from Kentucky, to a tough, battle-hardened fighting soldier.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Offensive racists term
- By J. Gossard on 03-04-24
By: Joe Fair
-
Just Another Day in Vietnam
- By: Col (Ret) Keith M. Nightingale
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Uniquely adopting a third-person omniscient point of view, Nightingale eschews the "I" of memoir in favor of multiple perspectives and a larger historical vision that afford equal time and weight to ally and enemy alike. Examples of the many perspectives based on real-life characters include: Hu, a VC "informant" whose false information led the Rangers straight into the jaws of a ferocious ambush; General Tanh, the COSVN commander; Major Nguyen Hiep, the 52d Ranger Commander; and Ranger POWs later returned by the North.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Micro Study of a Viet Nam Battle
- By Stephen on 02-10-24
What listeners say about Bait
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Patriot
- 08-12-23
Excellent storytelling about an incredible battle
I can’t believe I’ve never heard about this battle after reading so many books on the Vietnam war. This is an excellent book and well researched. I thought the narration was very good.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 04-26-24
Great Story of Bravery
Great historical recount of sacrifices made by and of brave men. Would recommend as a good listen.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!