Vietnam War

When a soldier leaves for war, those left behind often wonder what their loved ones are experiencing....

The Gunner and the Grunt is written in the voices of two soldiers who fought in the same battles as members of the same recon unit but from different angles....

This is the word for word account of one man's experience in Vietnam at the end of the conflict. He dictated his story to me, his wife, in March ...

“A moving testimonial to the lads who answered their country’s call and whose devotion is brought to life in this searing, captivating account ...

It was the first war we could not win....

He was a young American soldier - and the most powerful man in a remote rural District of Vietnam....

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....

Former president George Bush has no plans to write his autobiography, so this collection of letters, diary entries, and...

Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" ( Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history....

On Easter morning, 1972, Marine captain John Ripley braved intense enemy fire to blow up a bridge...

From the earliest days of his 34-year military career, Victor "Brute" Krulak displayed a remarkable facility for applying creative ways of fighting to the Marine Corps....

While the 77-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh....

Struggling with a recession... European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans... A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s....

The M16 rifle is one of the world’s most famous firearms, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam War and, indeed, as the US military’s standard service rifle until only a few years ago. But the story of the M16 in Vietnam is anything but a success story....

In this brilliant narrative of America's first limited war, John Toland shows yet again why, for over two decades, he has been one of this country's most respected and popular military historians. Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves....

A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigation....

A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance....

A riveting account of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president - from the best-selling author of One Minute to Midnight....

An intimate portrait of an iconic American from the men closest to him....

A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history."....