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 [...]
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Amazon.com Exactly why was America in Vietnam? This remarkable and essential seven-volume series–six years in the making and originally broadcast on public television in 1983–tells the agonizing history of Vietnam’s lengthy conflicts with some of the largest powers on Earth. While the primary focus is on the United States’ miserable efforts to prop up a [...]
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 [...]
Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010: Matterhorn is a marvel–a living, breathing book with Lieutenant Waino Mellas and the men of Bravo Company at its raw and battered heart. Karl Marlantes doesn’t introduce you to Vietnam in his brilliant war epic–he unceremoniously drops you into the jungle, disoriented and dripping with [...]
Item Name: National Geographic: Inside the Vietnam War; Studio: Nat’l Geographic Vid Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/03/2008 Rating: Nr (more…)