From Publishers Weekly Miller served with the Army in Vietnam from 1966 to ’72, winning the Medal of Honor and six Purple Hearts. Writing with Army captain Kureth he here discusses the attractions of combat: “I loved it. I couldn’t get enough.” Miller is aggressively outspoken and repugnant about the business of killing (“Genuine killers [...]
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 [...]
Review “Discloses what the American military and political leadership largely misunderstood: the nature of Vietnamese society, the confrontation with colonialism and Western values, the resistance of the intellectuals, and the culture of the people.” — Herbert Mitgang, New York Times”Jamieson ranges over the entire sweep of Vietnamese political culture, using as his window of observation [...]
DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have been updated to include expanded hotel and restaurant listings, better maps, enhanced itineraries, and easier-to-read print. –This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. (more…)
Borne from the Southeast Asian guidebook that The International Herald Tribune’s Thai Day hailed as a guide with depth and color that most of [its] competitors lack, To Vietnam With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur launches the To Asia With Love series. This beautiful, full-color guidebook features a collection of personal essays by [...]
BAPTISM BY FIREChris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against [...]
“The Rough Guide to Vietnam” is the essential guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of one of Southeast Asia’s most enticing destinations. Using expert advice explore the best attractions of Ho Chi Minh City, roam the best Vietnamese markets, shopping, temples, national parks and then slow the pace down with a trip to the [...]
Provides a comprehensive look at both sides of the Vietnam War through a collection of personal tales and delves into the political and military events in the United States and elsewhere that originally caused the war and the brought it to an end. Reprint. TV tie-in.” (more…)
Review Lonely Planet guidebooks are, quite simply, like no others.’ –New York Times–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Experience the best of Vietnam with Lonely Planet. Our 10th edition is so full of practical information that you’ll be watching the sunset from a junk on Halong Bay, [...]
“The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”Army TimesIn 1967 Frederick Downs arrived in Vietnam as a green but determined twenty-three-year-old infantry lieutenant. In the months of brutal combat to follow, Downs was to face the most lethal and loathsome dangers, all the while following orders, keeping his [...]