books about: 1961-1965     books:     1961-1965      At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace Claude Anshin Thomas Shambhala, 2006 Transformation of a Vietnam Veteran The Vietnam War has produced its share of memoirs but few have the impact that author and veteran Claude Anshin Thomas has in his inspiring book "At Hell's Gate". It is odd in a spiritual way, that he published his book a year after my own autobiography "A Spiritual ...             Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did Loren Baritz The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 Hard book to put down This is a remarkable book that I found very hard to put down. If you are interested in discovering why we went to war, and how we lost it, Backfire if for you. The author avoids the usual mantra of both the left and the right and gives us what may be the most ...             Migs Over North Vietnam: The Vietnamese People's Air Force in Combat 1965-1975 Roger Boniface Hikoki Publications, 2008 Until now, the day-to-day working and opinions of the Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) has remained relatively unknown. For the first time, this book focuses on the pilots and, using rare first-hand accounts and many new photographs, analyzes their fighter operations over North Vietnam between 1965 and 1975. Frank opinions are voiced on how ...             Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965 Michael R. Beschloss Simon & Schuster, 2002 Another outstanding work by Michael Beschloss!! "Reaching For Glory" is another outstanding book from the great presidential historian Michael Beschloss. You will feel like a fly on the wall as LBJ speaks to many politicos, Jackie, Bobby, etc. Get this! Vince Palamara Secret service expert, History Channel, author ...             Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S) Francis French, Colin Burgess University of Nebraska Press, 2007 Into That Silent Sea I am an Apollo astronaut who entered the space program in 1966, and I knew and worked with most of the Americans that are profiled in this book. In the intervening years I have met most of the Russians also profiled. I was in the space business for many years, ...             An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia Bill Hendon, Elizabeth A. Stewart Thomas Dunne Books, 2007 An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POW's Abandoned in Southeast Asia As a disabled american veteran of the VietNam era I am shocked and deeply disturbed that our (United States) Government left our brave military servicemembers, who were taken prisoners of war during the VietNam conflict, in captivity. We must actively seek the ...             America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 with Poster (4th Edition) George C Herring McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2001 A Great Account of American Grand Strategy in Vietnam Like many people here, I read this book for a college class concerned with providing an explanation of the numerous questions that arise whenever one ponders America in Vietnam, like why it was there, and why it lost. Any student or curious reader should find this work ...             Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003 how and why our government lies to us A year into the Iraqi war, an increasing number of people are comparing the debacle to the quagmire that was Vietnam. In one interview about the American torture of Iraqi prisoners, even Secretary of State Colin Powell made an unsolicited comparison with the Mai Lai ...             We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway Harper, 2008 wistful and weepy Hal Moore sums up his interesting life in this short book. It's only partially tied to the 1965 battle in the Ia Drang Valley. Still, he describes moving events in 1993 when he, Joe Galloway, a few veterans and a couple of former North Vietmanese officers meet to ...             Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 Mark Moyar Cambridge University Press, 2006 Outstanding and Objective This is the best analysis of history, of any kind, in the last 50 years. It is criminal that we are void of outstanding teaching of historical events in recent time. Your book is a terrific study of Vietnam and the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1965. I was also surprised ...             Vietnam Firebases 1965-73: American and Australian Forces (Fortress) Randy E. M. Foster Osprey Publishing, 2007 Serious military libraries will want all these histories. Randy E.M. Foster's VIETNAM FIREBASES 1965-73: AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN FORCES considers artillery fire support bases of the Freeworld forces, surveying their use as troop shelters and command centers, their defense, and their key strategic role during the war. Serious ...             Vietnam Zippos: American Soldiers' Engravings and Stories (1965-1973) University Of Chicago Press, 2007 Edwards - not Buchanan - wrote this tale While reading this extraordinary and unique book it is obvious that Edwards put the time and effort into this project and Buchanan packaged it. Yet Buchanan seems to want all the credit. She alone is listed as the author, but what did she actually do? She wrote a ...             The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Vintage Departures) Tom Bissell Vintage, 2008 "Would you stop the car? I'd like your help beating my son." This is a searing, honest, and yes, fair account of a young man's reconciliation with his father, against the backdrop of a return to Vietnam. The dialog Tom records is almost too good to be true, but it's coming out of his tape recorder, so there it is. The ...             They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 David Maraniss Simon & Schuster, 2003 Like "Stolen Valor," one of the more important books on Vietnam As the public affairs officer for the 1st Infantry Division brigade that has the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment "Black Lions," the legacy unit of the 2-28 IN battalion so well chronicled in Maraniss' book, I have been seeking as much information on the Black ...             At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961-1965 Jo Freeman Indiana University Press, 2003 Thorough, fair and accurate It is the most through and, to my mind, >most fair-minded treatment of those events and their >meaning. I speak as a graduate student in English at Berkeley from >1961 to 1968 (with one year away teaching in the >South) and I received my degree to become a professor ...          products you might be interested in search for books australian, battlefields, departures, engravings, trailblazers, vietnamese      toavi.com    web we recommend Like "Stolen Valor," one of the more important books on Vietnam randomly chosen book: Statistics: Principles and Methods