What Was the Vietnam War? (O'Connor Jim)(Paperback)

What Was the Vietnam War? (O'Connor Jim)(Paperback)

Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the Civil Rights Movement. Five US presidents were convinced that American troops could end a war in

What Was the Battle of Gettysburg? (O'Connor Jim)(Paperback)

'Four score and seven years ago...' begins Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So how did Union troops stop General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North? With

The Case Against French Colonization (Translation): by Ho Chi Minh (Ho Chi Minh)(Paperback)

Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, tells what motivated a nation of illiterate peasants to sacrifice millions of their own people to defeat some of the world's most technologically advanced military machines: Japanese, French, and American. Ho explains what the Vietnamese

I Was Only Nineteen (Schumann John)(Paperback / softback)

The powerful and moving picture book about the Vietnam War based on the unforgettable song originally sung by

The Vietnam War (Ward Geoffrey)(Paperback)

Rolling Thunder 1965-68: Johnson's Air War Over Vietnam (Hallion Richard P.)(Paperback)

The bombing campaign that was meant to keep South Vietnam secure, Rolling Thunder became a byword for pointless, ineffective brutality, and was a key factor in America's Vietnam defeat. But in its failures, Rolling Thunder was one of the most influential air campaigns of the Cold War. It spurred

The Vietnam War (Hall Mitchell)(Paperback)

The Vietnam War examines this conflict from its origins up until North Vietnam's victory in 1975. Historian Mitchell K. Hall's lucid account is an ideal introduction to the key debates surrounding a war that remains controversial and disputed in American scholarship and collective memory.　 The

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Fitzgerald Frances)(Paperback)

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 and

Vietnam War US & Allied Combat Equipments (Rottman Gordon L.)(Paperback)

During the years of the Vietnam War, U.S. forces used three major types of equipment sets, with numerous modifications for particular circumstances. Different equipment was also used by Special Forces, the South Vietnamese, and other allied ground troops.Vietnam War US & Allied Combat Equipments

Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story (Laurence John)(Paperback)

John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from its early days, through the bloody battle of Hue in 1968, to the Cambodian invasion. He was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war, however, the traumatic stories Laurence covered became a personal burden that

Mig-17/19 Aces of the Vietnam War (Toperczer Istvan)(Paperback)

Charles Dickens (Eldridge Jim)(Paperback)

Charles Dickens was a famous writer who lived in the 19th century. Discover what life was like for Charles, from spending his childhood working in a factory to finding a job as a law clerk and starting his writing

Vietnam - An Epic History of a Tragic War (Hastings Max)(Paperback / softback)

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War. Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the

Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War (Rasimus Ed)(Paperback)

Memories Unleashed: Vietnam Legacy (Small Carl Rudolph)(Pevná vazba)

A memoir of the Vietnam War written as a series of short stories.This memoir of the Vietnam War is structured as a series of short stories that convey the emotional and physical landscape of the Vietnam War. It is a window into the war from the perspective of the author, who served in a rapid

The First Vietnam War (McHale Shawn F.)(Pevná vazba)

Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945-54), except in the south. He shows how broad swaths of Vietnamese people were uneasily united in 1945 under the Viet Minh Resistance banner, all opposing the French attempt to reclaim

The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History (DK)(Pevná vazba)

The Vietnam War remains one of the most heroic and heartbreaking events in history. This definitive guide charts the unforgettable story of the world's first televised war.Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative guide chronicles America's fight against Communism

Only Child (O'Connor Frank)(Paperback)

Frank O'Connor was a shy child from a Cork slum who somehow became aware that there was something grander beyond his life and the lives around him.'Frank O'Connor's early life of Michael O'Donovan belongs with the best of its kind. It is that of a man who has made his life important to others

Australia's Vietnam: Myth Vs History (Dapin Mark)(Paperback)

When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn't alone. In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded

Vietnam's American War (Asselin Pierre)(Paperback)

Communist forces in the Vietnam War lost most battles and suffered disproportionally higher casualties than the United States and its allies throughout the conflict. The ground war in South Vietnam and the air war in the North were certainly important in shaping the fates of the victors and losers,

The Spy Who Loved Us: The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game (Bass Thomas A.)(Paperback)

What Was Pearl Harbor? (Demuth Patricia Brennan)(Paperback)

A terrifying attack On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died, and the United States was propelled into World

1913 - The World before the Great War (Emmerson Charles)(Paperback / softback)

'If Downton Abbey still colours your impression of what Britain was like on the cusp of the First World War, 1913 could be a useful corrective' Scotsman2018 marks the centenary of the end of the Great

Black Ops, Vietnam: The Operational History of Macvsog (Gillespie Robert M.)(Pevná vazba)

During the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization that consisted of personnel from Army Special Forces, the Air Force, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance units, and the CIA