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  • Revelation

    A Novel of the Vietnam War

    by Ned Ricks ...
    "Ricks captures Vietnam's dust, heat, and 'fog of war' as only someone who was there can do. His book took me back in a heartbeat: It was so vivid I could almost SMELL it again!"-Ross Rainwater, LTC, Aviation, USA (Retired), 1st Cavalry Division, 197071Set in the dust, heat, forests and mud of Vietnam's Central Highlands, Revelation is a story drawn from actual historical events. The conflict, the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Matterhorn

    A Novel of the Vietnam War

    Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Rumor of War

    The Classic Vietnam Memoir (40th Anniversary Edition)

    by Philip Caputo ...
    The New York Times BestsellerSidney Hillman Foundation Award Winner"Heartbreaking, terrifying, and enraging. It belongs to the literature of men at war." —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe 40th anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—with a new foreword by Kevin Powers. The Pulitzer Prize-wi... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Marine Sniper

    93 Confirmed Kills

    The explosive true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam War.There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has only been one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock.He stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy lines—on their own ground. And each time, he emerged from the jungle having done his duty. His record is one of the finest in military history, with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

    My Life in the Vietnam War

    “The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”—Army TimesAmong the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zone tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant to face lethal danger, to follow orders, and to search for the conviction and then the hope that this war was worth the sacrifice. The book includes a new chapter ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • 15 Months in SOG

    A Warrior's Tour

    "When we cross the border: no ID, and it's kiss yourself good-bye if Charlie gets ahold of you."In Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command's Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) fielded small recon teams in areas infested with VC and NVA. Because SOG operations suffered extraordinary casualties, they required extraordinary soldiers. So when Capt. Thom Nicholson arrived at Command and Control ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Acceptable Loss

    An Infantry Soldier's Perspective

    In just ten months in Vietnam, he was overrun, shot up, but not underworked—he survived fifty-four missions as point man. He has one hell of a story to tell.You didn't get into the Rangers without volunteering, and you didn't stay on point unless you liked it. But after watching most of his buddies die in a firefight when his LRRP team was overrun by the NVA, Kregg Jorgenson volunteered to serve ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • One More Sunrise

    Memoir of a Combat Infantryman in Viet Nam

    by Curtis P. Gay ...
    After spending a year in Germany as a security guard with the 50th Ordnance Company, Curtis Gay went to Viet Nam as a Private First Class. Six months later he was a Sergeant in the 25th Infantry Division and experienced some of the most intense fighting of the war. This book is his story.Curtis spent a year as a Drill Sergeant at Fort Dix, New Jersey before leaving the Army in 1968. After a long ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Hill 488

    For some, Hill 488 was just another landmark in the jungles of Vietnam. For the eighteen men of Charlie Company, it was a last stand—this is the stirring combat memoir written by Ray Hildreth, one of the unit's survivors.On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • What A Life: How the Vietnam War Affected One Marine

    by Randy Kington ...
    As a young enlisted man, Randy Kington served on the front line with some of the first Marine combat units in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. Kington describes his transformation from boy to man and the training that allowed him to survive nine months of some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War. The good times of comradeship and of helping the underprivileged are contrasted with the life and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not Going Home Alone

    A Marine's Story

    Experience the pain, the pride, and the triumph of the Marine CorpsAll the members of 1st Lt. James J. Kirschke’s mortar platoon and then rifle platoon knew the stakes: the Marines are America’s military elite, expected to train harder, fight longer, sacrifice more. Kirschke led by example in the hotly contested zone just south of the DMZ and in the dangerous AnHoa region southwest of DaNang. ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • On Patrol with the SAS

    Sleeping with Your Ears Open

    by Gary McKay ...
    On Patrol with the SAS takes the reader into the heart and soul of the men of the Australian Army's Special Air Services Regiment. It provides a clear insight into the rigours of the SAS selection process, training for war in Papua New Guinea, then in graphic and sometimes raw and brutal detail into combat behind enemy lines in Borneo and South Viet Nam.'It is an engrossing soldier's story. One in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD