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Loon
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- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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"Kids like me didn't go to Vietnam", writes Jack McLean in his must-listen memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. "Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war", he writes. It didn't remain that way for long.
A year later, after boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and stateside duty in Barstow, California, the Vietnam War was reaching its peak. McLean, like most available Marines, was retrained at Camp Pendleton, California, and sent to Vietnam as a grunt to serve in an infantry company in the northernmost reaches of South Vietnam. McLean's story climaxes with the horrific three-day Battle for Landing Zone Loon in June, 1968. Fought on a remote hill in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam, McLean bore witness to the horror of war and was forever changed. He returned home six weeks later to a country largely ambivalent to his service.
Written with honesty and insight, Loon is a powerful coming-of-age portrait of a boy who bears witness to some of the most tumultuous events in our history, both in Vietnam and back home.
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Dead Center
- A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War
- By: Ed Kugler
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there - the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at 17, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966. As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts.
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If not the best certainly tied for the best
- By Rose Dawn Blanton on 08-04-15
By: Ed Kugler
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
- Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
- By: Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 16 hrs
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In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. How these men persevered makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating.
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The truth
- By Bobbyg on 10-08-19
By: Harold G. Moore, and others
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Chickenhawk
- By: Robert Mason
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
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With more than half a million copies sold, Robert Mason's Chickenhawk is one of the best-selling books ever written about the Vietnam War. Fascinated with flying from a young age, Mason earned his private pilot's license even before graduating high school. He enlisted in the army in 1964 and endured an extremely challenging "weeding out" process in an effort to fly helicopters. Sent to Vietnam, he survived more than 1,000 air combat missions despite the violence and brutality exploding all around him.
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Best
- By richard olson on 08-21-15
By: Robert Mason
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Kill Anything That Moves
- The Real American War in Vietnam
- By: Nick Turse
- Narrated by: Don Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were "isolated incidents" in the Vietnam War, carried out by a few "bad apples." However, as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this pioneering investigation, violence against Vietnamese civilians was not at all exceptional. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to "kill anything that moves."
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A book that shakes you to your core
- By Gary Yevelev on 04-26-15
By: Nick Turse
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On Full Automatic
- Surviving 13 Months in Vietnam
- By: William V. Taylor Jr.
- Narrated by: Michael Curtis
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Eighteen-year-old Marine recruit William V. Taylor, Jr. and his brother Marines are assembled into a new reaction force that is immediately tested in the fire of a bloody conflict known as Operation Beaver Cage. After a traumatic first fight, they push through back-to-back operations with little time to rest or reflect. Those who survive will return home ensnared by everlasting memories of a real but entirely surreal nightmare. Now, after more than 50 years of holding everything in, Taylor shares his experience in explicit—and often horrific—detail.
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Great story telling!
- By Josh on 03-28-23
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SOG Kontum
- Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia 1968-1969
- By: Joe Parnar, Robert Dumont
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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This book tells the story of the Teams operating out of FOB2 Kontum, near the tri-border area, in 1968-69. From recon missions over the fence to the heroic, and sometimes fatal efforts undertaken to try and rescue missing SOG members, the events are told through the words of the men themselves, supported by previously unreleased official documents.
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Lack of preparation
- By Donald on 08-20-24
By: Joe Parnar, and others
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Vagabonds
- Tourists in the Heart of Darkness
- By: Nick Brokhausen, Jeff Miller
- Narrated by: Andrew B. Wehrlen
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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1978 - a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over 40 years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on five continents.
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Wrong narrator
- By Charles Harris on 12-15-21
By: Nick Brokhausen, and others
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Saving Bravo
- The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
- By: Stephan Talty
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator who knew our most important secrets crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him.
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What a story!
- By Kindle Customer on 02-27-19
By: Stephan Talty
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We Few
- US Special Forces in Vietnam
- By: Nick Brokhausen
- Narrated by: George Spelvin
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
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Is there such a thing as funny war genre ??
- By dax on 11-04-18
By: Nick Brokhausen
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No Way Out
- A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan
- By: Mitch Weiss, Kevin Maurer
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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In a remote enemy-held valley in Afghanistan, a Special Forces team planned to scale a steep mountain to surprise and capture a terrorist leader. But before they found the target, the target found them. The team was caught in a deadly ambush that threatened not only their lives but the entire mission. The elite soldiers fought huddled for hours on a small rock ledge as rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine-gun fire rained down on them.
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Great book
- By Retired Recruiter on 03-31-17
By: Mitch Weiss, and others
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Things I'll Never Forget
- Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam
- By: James M. Dixon
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Things I’ll Never Forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being drafted into the Army or volunteering for the Marine Corps. These are his memories of funny times, disgusting times and deadly times. The author kept a journal for an entire year; therefore many of the dates, times and places are accurate. The rest is based on memories that are forever tattooed on his brain. This is not a pro-war book, nor is it anti-war. It is the true story of what the Marine Corps was like in the late 1960’s.
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Accurate Description
- By USMC VIETVET on 07-02-19
By: James M. Dixon
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Through the Valley
- My Captivity in Vietnam
- By: William Reeder Jr.
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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In 1971 William Reeder was a senior captain on his second tour in Vietnam. He had flown armed, fixed-wing OV-1 Mohawks on secret missions deep into enemy territory in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam, on his first tour. He returned as a helicopter pilot eager to experience a whole new perspective as a Cobra gunship pilot. Believing that Nixon's Vietnamization would soon end the war, Reeder was anxious to see combat action. To him, it appeared that the Americans had prevailed, beaten the Viet Cong, and were passing everything over to the South Vietnamese Army so Americans could leave.
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Humbled
- By Pilotdog on 07-26-24
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- D. K. Parshall
- 06-11-23
One of the Best Books about life of a Marine
The book is very well written in the first person and the narrator is par excellence.
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- Julia
- 04-20-23
Loon
I’ve read about 25 books on the Vietnam War.
This is by far one of the best I’ve ever read.
I couldn’t put the book down.
Very well narrated also.
If I had to give one criticism.
Being that the book was published in 2009.
I wish Author Jack McLean would have filled us in on how some of the guys he served with at LOON are doing now, including himself.
I would like to know what happened to Captain Negron and if he made it out of Vietnam.
Along with guys like Matthews, Tillery and Camacho, just to name a few.
But all in all, it was a fantastic book.
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- peter brumlik
- 07-12-24
Great book. Horrible narration.
sensitive honest account of one Marines odyssey completely ruined by the narrator wannabe actor who felt that he had to dramatize the prose.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-31-23
A very good true story
Although there wasn’t a lot of action in this story, it was still very good. The narration was excellent !
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- Vance Dickenson
- 05-26-24
Loon
Jack McLean is a very good author, his account of his late teens, his experience the Marine Corps and Vietnam are vivid, insightful and heartfelt. Loon is worth reading.!
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- LEE
- 05-02-19
Besides a production issue, excellent.
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The author was the first Vietnam vet to gain admission to Harvard. But it's not all roses; he was exposed to Agent Orange on top of having buddies get killed before his eyes.
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Top quality storytelling skills by Chris Ciulla.
Production quality was problematic. You need to alternately raise and lower volume in places. When you don't raise volume fast enough, you need to go back 30 seconds to catch it.
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This is a real easy listen, the type of book one finishes. One finds out about NVA use of long-range heavy artillery, and how this rendered U.S. operations ineffective in some areas toward war's end. Heavy artillery isn't like mortars. It helped me understand what went wrong for the U.S. at Khe Sanh.
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- Jamison
- 07-19-24
Narration ruined it
Great story, but the narrator ruined. Constantly talking in this weird grumbly, breathy, whispery voice that makes the book seems like he’s doing a script read for an audition of a movie. Do yourself a favor and read the book instead of listening to
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- Mr Dangerous
- 07-31-20
Didn't hook me...
I was hoping for a new engaging take on Vietnam. Felt like id heard it before. Same old same old. But if you've never read a true war story you might like it. I quit after 2.5 hours.
Cuilla gave an okay read.
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