South Vietnam

Combining the dark intrigue of a Cold War thriller and the propulsive writing of a novel, Kennedy’s Coup is a landmark work that will change your understanding of America’s involvement in one of the most controversial and consequential wars in our history. Based on a decade of research and...

The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America's worst foreign policy disaster of the twentieth century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the January 27, 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam's surrender on April 30, 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit.

…Ben Het has tanks in the wire! “Hawk Claw is engaging,” the pilot reports firing the first TOW missile ever from a helicopter in combat. Fire Base Delta had already been over run and Fire Base Charlie was fighting for its life. How much would fall before the North Vietnamese army was knocking on the doors of the key city of Kontum? This was the third phase of the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive Campaign of 1972. Standing across the country between them and the fall of Saigon was a poorly led South Vietnamese Army, brave South Vietnamese soldiers, and US Advisors. How much ground ...

“In Reclaiming the Vietnam War, Michael Griffith dissects the critical controversies of the Vietnam War and deftly separates the myths from the realities.” -- DR. MARK MOYAR, William P. Harris Chair of Military History, Hillsdale College, and author of Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968. "There are scores of Viet Nam history books, some of questionable value, others unique and valuable for a number of reasons. Reclaiming the Vietnam War is a noteworthy work, distinguished by a number of factors. . . . This is a very valuable and useful book." -- BILL LAURIE, former U.S. Army ...

From Larry J. Musson comes an authentic account of combat with an airborne company in the waterlogged rice paddies and demanding jungles of South Vietnam. Share the experiences of fighting men under punishing conditions, extreme temperatures, and intense monsoon rains as they search for the enemy in the rugged mountains and teeming lowlands. Relive all the terror, humor, and sadness of one man's tour of duty with real-life action in spectacular, stunning detail.

In 1972 a North Vietnamese offensive of more than 30,000 men and one hundred tanks smashed into South Vietnam and raced to capture Saigon. All that stood in their way was a small band of 6,800 South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers and militiamen, and a handful of American advisors with U.S. air support, guarding An Loc, a town sixty miles north of Saigon and on the main highway to it.

Pho and conical hats dancing in your head? That’s a sweet start, but honey, you’re just scratching the surface! Let your friendly, occasionally sarcastic Saigonese local, Mai, take you by the hand and maybe gently nudge you away from a tourist trap or two. This isn't your parents' guided tour. You've got a savvy local friend showing you the real Vietnam – the one beyond the clichés. Remember: we're a country, not a war. Mai spills the ca phe sua da on everything: Busting those "Vietnam facts" your uncle told you after watching Platoon. Navigating the beautiful chaos of city traffic (...

Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research...

James Lee Burke’s most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this New York Times bestselling mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana: an “enthralling yet grim novel that…will captivate, start to finish” (Publishers Weekly). Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the...

An inside account of the South Vietnamese elites who strove to carry on the war against the Communists during the US Army’s withdrawal. The book is a personal memoir of the author’s service as a US Army advisor during the end stages of America’s involvement in Vietnam. During the period 1970–71, the US was beginning to draw down its combat forces, and the new watchword was “Vietnamization.”

In early February of 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive, Private First Class Gregory V. Short arrived in Vietnam as an 18-year-old US Marine. Amid all of the confusion and destruction, he began his tour of duty as an 81mm mortarman with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, which was stationed at Con Thien near the DMZ.

The 1972 Easter Offensive was a four-prong attack into South Vietnam. An Loc astride Highway 13 from Cambodia to Saigon was a strategic target from the North Vietnamese Army. A handful of US Army Advisors were determined to deny this prize to the North Vietnamese Army that came at them in the form of three divisions. Rallying the South Vietnamese defenders, they would curtail all attempts to seize this strategically important town. The Battle of An Loc presents the actions of the battle in the sequence they occurred and credits those that fought there. The conversations are what would have ...

Donald Duncan wanted be the best soldier possible. He was regular Army, then Airborne, then Green Beret. In Vietnam, he led reconnaissance patrols deep into enemy-held territory to assess the strength of the Viet Cong, the communist guerrillas. He returned home with questions about Vietnam. Did the peasants on the farms in South Vietnam want another foreign power in their country? Were they as anti-communist as Americans, or anti-foreigner? What did their attitudes mean to the success of the intervention of United States in Vietnam? He went even further as you will see. He asked if South ...

"The tension in Hart’s story never lets up, and you’ll find yourself unable to break away — disc after disc (or page after page) — long past your bedtime." -- NJ.com This program includes a letter read by the author “We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die...

It's 1963. George Wallace, the new governor of Alabama, has declared "Segregation forever!" Simon Klein and his family, Jews from St. Paul, Minnesota, have moved to the small town of Picketville, Alabama, where Simon must finish his senior year of high school. He is as mystified of the South as Southerners are of a Jew. While gathering information for a story he is writing for his high school paper, he becomes friends with Cecilia Goodwin, a Black girl. They have much in common. Sitting together on her porch swing, they talk about the Civil Rights movement, literature, the looming Vietnam ...

A short biographical sketch of South Vietnam's most famous journalist, Nguyen Tu.

In his 80s, Peter William Tremayne recounts 60 years of high-risk adventures from all corners of the world: as far south as Antarctica, as deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, as high as the peaks of the Himalaya, to name just a few. Often reckless, always challenging, Peter realizes it’s time to share his escapades before his luck, or time runs out. The incredible flying and climbing adventures of one of New Zealand’s most unique mountaineers and pilots, yet unsung and forgotten in his country of birth.

Not all battles are fought on the battlefield. In 1988, Master Gunnery Sergeant Amos Murdoch retires from the Marine Corps to join fellow veterans Solly Pinkus and Jonny Edwards in launching the 3M Detective Agency. Their modest goal of investigating workman’s comp claims is upended when they are drawn into the murder of a disgraced homosexual Marine. A routine inquiry uncovers a chilling conspiracy rooted in the Vietnam War of twenty years ago, forcing the trio to confront not only the sins of the Corps but also secrets they’ve kept for years. As their bonds are tested and danger ...

As 1975 dawned, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) prepared for a final series of campaigns to conquer the territory of South Vietnam, leading to a chain of events that culminated with the fall of Saigon and some of the most infamous footage in 20th century America’s history. The Fall of Saigon: The History of the Battle for South Vietnam’s Capital and the End of the Vietnam War examines how the war ended.

Hi. This book has a new "Update After Covid" chapter that brings you up to speed so far. My name is Peter LeGrove, and I'm here to tell you my boots on the ground experience, about what it's like to get a job teaching English in Vietnam. I did it and it isn't easy, so I'll try to make it easier for you. Now I have spent most of my life travelling around the globe teaching English. From Mexico to Indonesia then onto China via Hong Kong. And the biggest change over the last few years, is how countries have tightened up on visas, and how long you can stay inside the country. Only a few years ...