Viet Nam War Books

Administrator’s note.

The Viet Nam War was, unquestionably, America’s longest war and a war that deeply divided America in the sixties and seventies. It has incited many authors, historians and scholars, military and civilian alike, to analyze and write about this complex war.

Vietamericanvets.com is creating this page to post those Viet Nam War Books which we feel confident will provide our readers with impartial, truthful account of that past conflict.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Viet Nam War (Paperback)

Customer review: This is an extremely well written and well-documented book. Pres Kennedy observed that the real enemy of truth is not the lie but the myth. This book goes a long way to confront and refute so many of the fallacies and myths about the war and the soldiers who fought it. I just wish this were required reading in high schools and colleges to offset the Zinn/Chomsky propaganda.

News From Nowhere: Television and the News (Paperback)

Customer review: Edward Jay Epstein's News From Nowhere provides a focus on television and the news, probing the decision-making processes involved in network programming and news presentations and showing how internal politics often dictate the content and direction of television coverage. An excellent view on television content.

Radical Son: A Journey Through Our Times (Hardcover)

Customer review: He began to realize that his radical politics had turned moral norms upside down, making heroes out of thugs, bombers and murderers and demonizing ordinary decent Americans. This caused many years of soul-searching. When he re-emerged, his whole worldview had changed. Like I said, powerful. Read it and cry for a lost generation.

Silence Was a Weapon: The Vietnam War in the Villages (Hardcover)

Customer review: A down to earth personal perspective on how the Viet Cong was able to recruit, maintain their force and fight the US and South Vietnams armed forces. It gives a view of how and why the insurgency was successful among a rural people. The story holds some valuable lessons that can be appled today to the current conflict.

Portrait of the Enemy (Hardcover)

Target America: The Influence of Communist Propaganda on U.S. Media (Paperback)

Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Honor and Triumph (Hardcover)

Customer review: Ride the Thunder is fresh in every respect, well-written, and often thrilling. Most of it you have never read before.

Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN (Hardcover)

Customer review: With firsthand research, Wiest provides the crucial missing voices, those of the South Vietnamese often misportrayed, overshadowed, and underappreciated by their powerful American allies.

A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam (Paperback)
by Lewis Sorley "WHEN, IN JANUARY 1964, General William C. Westmoreland was sent to Vietnam as deputy to General Paul Harkins-and became, a few months later, his successor..." Published by Harvest/HBJ Book.

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (Hardcover)
by Mark Moyar "FROM ALL DIRECTIONS, FROM HANOI AND FROM THE SURROUNDING countryside, several hundred thousand Vietnamese converged on a large square called the Place Puginier, next to..." Published by Cambridge University Press; 1st edition.

The Battle Of An Loc (Twentieth-Century Battles) (Hardcover)
by James H. Willbanks. Published by Indiana University Press.

Vietnam at War: The History, 1946-1975 (Hardcover)
by Lt. Gen. Phillip B. Davidson – Published by Presidio Press.

Whitewash/Blackwash: Myths of the Viet Nam War

by Bill Laurie & R.J. Del Vecchio.  Available at TechConsultServ@Juno.com

Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972 (Modern Southeast Asia Series) (Hardcover)
by Lewis Sorley (Introduction) "During 1968 major changes took place in just about every aspect of the war in Vietnam..." Published by Texas Tech University Press.

Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War (Hardcover)
by James H. Willbanks. Published by University Press of Kansas.

The Tet Offensive: A Concise History (Hardcover)
by James H. Willbanks – Published by Columbia University Press.

A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey (Hardcover)
by Quang X. Pham.  Published by Ballantine Books.  

A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement (Paperback)
by Pierre Asselin "By 1968, the United States had been heavily involved in Vietnam for nearly three years..."  Published by The University of North Carolina Press.

No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by Larry Berman "By 1968 Lyndon Johnson had become a war president..." 

Published by Free Press.

More Than a Soldier's War: Pacification in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by Edward P. Metzner.  Published by Texas A&M University Press.

Peace Is Not at Hand (Hardcover)
by Sir Robert Thompson. Published by Chatto & Windus.

Vietnam : The Necessary War (Hardcover)
by Michael Lind.  Published by Free Press.

ARVN: Life And Death in the South Vietnamese Army (Modern War Studies) (Hardcover)
by Robert K. Brigham "In the Republic of Vietnam of the mid-1960s, as in the United States, citizens' attitudes toward military service varied widely-and underwent momentous change.  Published by University Press of Kansas.

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