Vietnam War

Christian G. Appy now examines the relationship between the war's realities and myths and its impact on our national identity....

Following the myths and legends about Nazis recruited by the French Foreign Legion to fight in Indochina, Eric Meyer's new book is based on the real story of one such former Waffen-SS....

With A Continent Erupts, acclaimed military historian Ronald H. Spector draws on letters, diaries, and international archives to provide a comprehensive military history and analysis of these little-known but decisive events....

The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments—drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes....

In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life....

At the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and development in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America....

President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts to serving the public....

At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked....

This book presents six principles practiced within the POW organizational culture that can be used to develop high-performance teams everywhere....

During the last four years of Richard Nixon's life, Monica Crowley served as his foreign-policy assistant and political confidante - a trusted member of the small circle of advisers...

With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare...

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....

This is part two of a series of true stories about a young helicopter pilot's tour of duty in Vietnam.

With 11 chapters by top libertarian scholars on all aspects of defense, this book edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe it represents an ambitious attempt to extend the idea of free enterprise to the provision of security services....

The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history....

Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served in the jungles of Vietnam....

Our DANTES study guides are different! The A History of The Vietnam War Dantes/DSST Study Guide teaches you everything that you need to know to pass the DSST test. This study guide is more than just sample test questions....

Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss have uncovered the last great secret of the Vietnam War....

David Pietrusza unpacks the most ingloriously iconic headline in the history of presidential elections to reveal the 1948 campaign's backstage events and recount the brawl fought against the background of an erupting Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, the birth of Israel, and more....

Where There Were No Innocents is a true-to-life story of the Vietnam War written by a former Green Beret....