Vietnam War

Wars have played a crucial role in defining the US and its place in the world. No one is better equipped to analyze this in depth than retired US Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark, former NATO Supreme Commander....

In 1968, the Republican Convention was a display of congeniality and unity, despite the various factions each supporting a separate candidate....

He was the plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president, yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century....

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Revenge of Geography comes a sweeping yet intimate story of the most influential humanitarian you’ve never heard of - Bob Gersony, who spent four decades in crisis zones around the world....

While serving as a crew chief aboard a US Air Force Rescue helicopter, Airman First Class William A. Robinson was shot down and captured in Ha Tinh Province....

The American war in Vietnam has left many long-lasting scars that have not yet been sufficiently examined. The worst of them were inflicted in a tiny area bounded by the demilitarized zone between North and South and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in neighboring Laos....

Blind Ambition is an autobiographical account of a young lawyer who accelerated to the top of the Federal power structure to become Counsel to the President at 30 years of age....

"Grand strategy" is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring....

The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942 - illuminating the white flags of surrender against the nighttime sky....

Two brothers - Chuck and Tom Hagel - who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's lives. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together....

The searing account of a war crime and one soldier's heroic efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice....

Struggling to reassert control over their Indochinese colonies after WW II, the French established a huge air-land base in Dien Bien Phu. But when the opposing VPA began massing its forces against the base in 1953, French commanders seized the chance to draw their enemy into a battle....

Jeff Danziger, one of the leading political cartoonists of his generation, captures the fear, sorrow, absurdity, and unintended but inevitable consequences of war with dark humor and penetrating moral clarity....

In this gripping memoir, a former marine returns to Vietnam to try to make sense of the war. Previously published as Brothers in Arms, this edition includes a new preface by the author....

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

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement....

A fast-paced inside account of the breakneck speed with which President Obama began making critical decisions and assuming the burdens of office....

Ike in Love and War shows the hidden sacrifices that made Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower remarkable. It probes the mission that was driving him: the quest to reconcile his skill as a fighter with his mother's pacifism, which led him to become the greatest peacekeeper of his age....

On June 13, 1971, the front page of the New York Times announced the existence of a 7,000-page collection of documents containing a secret history of the Vietnam War....

In 1965, Col. Thomas "Jerry" Curtis's helicopter was shot down over North Vietnam. He was immediately captured....