Vietnam War

A fascinating insight into notable speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history had gone down a different path....

Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator....

At the heart of A Republic, Not an Empire is a well-written history of U.S. foreign policy beginning with the end of the American Revolution....

The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day....

There is no surer way to make history come alive than to contemplate those moments when the world's future...

This fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington is a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails....

On November 18, 1967, Private First Class Davis' artillery unit was hit by a massive enemy offensive. At 21 years old, he resolved to face the onslaught and prepared to die....

The Image of the Enemy examines how seven countries analyzed and used intelligence to understand their main adversary....

The candid memoir of a young doctor who reluctantly accepts a military commission and spends a year behind the front lines of the Vietnam War....

In 31 Days, Barry Werth takes listeners inside the White House during the tumultuous days following Nixon's resignation and the swearing-in of America's "accidental president", Gerald Ford....

Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved, and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora....

James Webb, author of Fields of Fire, the classic novel of the Vietnam War, has written an extraordinary memoir of his early years....

JFK, Conservative is sure to appeal to conservative readers - and will force liberals to reconsider one of their icons....

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family’s ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication....

Grady Myers was an artistic but aimless teenager in 1968, when, desperate for troops, the U.S. Army overlooked his extreme nearsightedness and transformed him into Hoss, an M-60 machine gunner....

In 1973 US participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North. But in early 1975, when North Vietnamese forces began a full-scale assault, Congress refused to send aid....

Taking Charge brings you into the room with an American political legend, still hated and revered a quarter century after his death....

In this book Brian D. Laslie examines the revolution in pilot instruction that Red Flag brought about after Vietnam....

An intimate and compelling account of the most brutal infantry warfare and is also a critique of the mishandling of America's departure from Indochina....

Relive six decades of flying helicopters, including an extended tour in Vietnam and the mountains of Afghanistan, with a little Iraq, Kuwait, and National Guard thrown in. Chasson relives it all for us in this gritty and honest memoir — with humility, humor, and gratitude....