Battle for Skyline Ridge
The CIA Secret War in Laos
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In late 1971, the People's Army of Vietnam launched Campaign "Z" into northern Laos, escalating the war in Laos with the aim of defeating the last Royal Lao Army troops. The NVA troops numbered 27,000 and brought with them 130mm field guns and T-34 tanks, while the North Vietnamese air force launched MiG-21s into Lao air space. General Giap's specific orders to this task force were to kill the CIA army under command of the Hmong war lord Vang Pao and occupy its field headquarters in the Long Tieng valley of northeast Laos.
They faced the rag-tag army of Vang Pao, fewer than 6,000 strong and mostly Thai irregulars, recruited by the Thai army to fight for the CIA in Laos. Despite the odds being overwhelmingly in the NVA's favor, the battle did not go to plan. It raged for more than 100 days, the longest in the Vietnam War, and it all came down to Skyline Ridge. As at Dien Bien Phu, whoever won Skyline, won Laos. Against all odds, the NVA lost, their 27,000-man invasion force decimated.
James E. Parker, Jr., served in Laos. Over many years he pieced together his own knowledge with CIA files and North Vietnamese after-action reports in order to tell the full story of the battle of Skyline Ridge.
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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 five 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 ...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good read!
- De B F en 04-03-25
De: John G. Roberts
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Hill 29 Vietnam 1968
- 8th Cav/Blue Ghost
- De: Gareth Style
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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It has been almost two years since this book has been published. It has sold over 2,000 copies and over 850,000 pages have been read through Kindle Unlimited memberships. The book has also just been released as an Audio Book, if you have read this book through Kindle Unlimited, it would be a rewarding experience to hear it being read. You also get a special rate to purchase it as an Audio Book. Vietnam veterans from around the country have contacted me and have had positive things to say about the book. It has been rated #1 quite a few times and has spent a loot of time being rated in the ...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Chronicle of story flowed well.
- De Anonymous User en 03-23-25
De: Gareth Style
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All Expenses Paid
- De: John Launer
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exposing a lot of truth.
- De David A. Daily en 12-03-24
De: John Launer
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Mission of Honor
- A Moral Compass for a Moral Dilemma
- De: Jim Crigler
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An outstanding story
- De Craig Stapel en 02-19-25
De: Jim Crigler
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GROUND ATTACK
- A Viet Nam War Novel
- De: David L Allin
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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There was a truce on New Year’s Day, 1968, and Third Brigade of 25th Infantry Division used the respite to build a new fire support base near the Cambodian border, in a vast forested area of Viet Nam called War Zone C. They called it Fire Support Base Burt, manned by two infantry battalions and three batteries of artillery. When the truce ended at midnight, January 1, the Communist forces in the area responded by launching a massive assault on the base. Vastly outnumbered, the American soldiers repelled attack after attack and eventually forced the enemy to withdraw after suffering ...
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5 out of 5 stars
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AI mispronounciation
- De Anonymous User en 11-09-24
De: David L Allin
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Uncommon Valor
- The Recon Company that Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included America’s Most Decorated Green Beret
- De: Stephen L. Moore
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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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.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pass this one by
- De WE Cleghorn en 01-21-21
De: Stephen L. Moore
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Saving Bravo
- The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
- De: Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator who knew our most important secrets crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a story!
- De Kindle Customer en 02-27-19
De: Stephan Talty
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Flying from the Black Hole
- The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam
- De: Robert O. Harder
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots - their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people who operated the bomber, three wore navigator wings - two of those men were also bombardiers, the other an electronic warfare officer. Without the navigator-bombardiers in particular, executing the nuclear war strike plan or flying Southeast Asian bombing sorties would have been impossible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Today I learned something new.
- De Rob Wilson en 02-20-21
De: Robert O. Harder
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Fading Memories of an Old Soldier: Vietnam 1968-1970
- De: Elvis Bray
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 3 h y 24 m
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This is a collection of short stories of missions I flew during my two years in Vietnam in 1968-1970, or stories about men I flew with in Vietnam. Most are non-fiction and two are fiction based on real life events.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story
- De Dario Perryman en 02-20-25
De: Elvis Bray
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Tango 1-1
- 9th Infantry Division LRPs in the Vietnam Delta
- De: Jim Thayer
- Narrado por: Corey M. Snow
- Duración: 5 h y 38 m
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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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book marred by the reader
- De Amazon Customer en 04-26-23
De: Jim Thayer
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Dead Silent
- De: Michael Trout
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 3 h y 23 m
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This is the fourth in a series of true stories about a young helicopter pilot's tour of duty in Vietnam.
De: Michael Trout
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Vietnam Rough Riders
- A Convoy Commander's Memoir
- De: Frank McAdams
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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In the Vietnam War, American "rough riders" drove trucks through hostile territory delivering supplies, equipment, ammunition, weapons, fuel, and reinforcements to troops fighting on the war's ever-shifting front lines. But, all too often, the convoys themselves became the front lines. Frank McAdams, a Marine Corps lieutenant, learned that the hard way during a tour of duty that began right after the 1968 Tet Offensive and the siege at Khe Sanh.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written and well read.
- De Jennifer Jordan en 06-25-23
De: Frank McAdams
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Bloody Sixteen
- The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 During the Vietnam War
- De: Peter Fey
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey's gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany's three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16). Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated bombing campaign against North Vietnam, and accounted for a quarter of all the naval aircraft lost during Rolling Thunder. The Johnson administration's policy of gradually applied force meant that Oriskany arrived on station just as previous restrictions were lifted and bombing raids increased.
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Great Listen!
- De MeathookWX en 09-21-18
De: Peter Fey
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The Village
- De: Bing West
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It is like you were there!
- De Gina en 06-17-21
De: Bing West
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What Now, Lieutenant?
- De: Robert O. Babcock
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Every now and then a work comes along that is so simple and refreshing in its originality that it immediately captures the spirit of American fighting men throughout the ages. Such is this work by Bob Babcock. What makes this work unique is that it is based upon his wartime writing as it occurred, without the softening of time and the refining of modern memory applied to past experience. In it you will find the thinking of a young officer as he struggles to take in all that he is responsible for while experiencing everything himself for the first time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Robo Cop Lullaby
- De Gavin en 04-19-20
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Hell in a Very Small Place
- The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
- De: Bernard B. Fall
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 19 h y 40 m
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Like Gettysburg, Stalingrad, Midway, and Tet, the battle at Dien Bien Phu - a strategic attack launched by France against the Vietnamese in 1954 after eight long years of war - marked a historic turning point. By the end of the 56-day siege, a determined Viet Minh guerrilla force had destroyed a large tactical French colonial army in the heart of Southeast Asia.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The complete story of Dien Bien Phu
- De Arius en 09-30-16
De: Bernard B. Fall
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Walking Point
- An Infantryman's Untold Story
- De: Michael H. Cunningham
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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Que Son Valley is actually a large area of hills and valleys just to the west of Da Nang, Viet Nam. During the 1960s, units from the US Marines and US Army engaged the 2nd North Vietnamese Division in heavy and close combat. Our mission was to keep the enemy from capturing the cities of Da Nang, Tam Ky, and Chu Lai and to pacify the area. We did prevent the enemy from capturing these vital cities, but the area was far from pacified.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This sounds bad but... Annoying
- De David en 06-19-18
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Reluctant Warrior
- A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam
- De: Michael C. Hodgins
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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By the spring of 1970, American troops were ordered to pull out of Vietnam. The Marines of First Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel "Wild Bill" Drumright, were assigned to cover the withdrawal of First Marine Division. The Marines of First RECON Bn operated in teams of six or seven men. Heavily armed, the teams fought a multitude of bitter engagements with a numerically superior and increasingly aggressive enemy. Michael C. Hodgins served in Company C, First RECON Bn (Rein), as a platoon leader. In powerful, graphic prose, he chronicles his experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gem hidden in plain sight
- De LEE en 01-02-19
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Battle for Skyline Ridge
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- Brian Earle
- 03-05-20
Detailed account of the secret war in Laos
Detailed account that reads more like a history than a story. For someone interested in the content it is an excellent account.
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- Riceguard
- 05-17-20
Good read.
As someone of Hmong descent. Its refreshing to learn a bit about the order of battle within the Laotian Civil War.
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