Vietnam War Books

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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam 4.34 avg rating β€” 32,454 ratings
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam 4.24 avg rating β€” 12,399 ratings
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Matterhorn
Matterhorn 4.27 avg rating β€” 46,463 ratings
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating β€” 337,467 ratings
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Dispatches
Dispatches 4.22 avg rating β€” 21,213 ratings
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A Rumor of War
A Rumor of War 4.17 avg rating β€” 15,736 ratings
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Chickenhawk
Chickenhawk 4.27 avg rating β€” 14,802 ratings
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Street Without Joy
Street Without Joy 4.22 avg rating β€” 2,347 ratings
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Vietnam: A History
Vietnam: A History 4.13 avg rating β€” 7,806 ratings
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Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu 4.30 avg rating β€” 2,148 ratings
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam 4.24 avg rating β€” 4,959 ratings
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The Big Buddha Bicycle Race
The Big Buddha Bicycle Race 4.47 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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The Girl From Hanoi
The Girl From Hanoi
by: Tom Myers
3.55 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior
About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior 4.38 avg rating β€” 5,902 ratings
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The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam 4.28 avg rating β€” 738 ratings
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SOG: Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
SOG: Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam 4.36 avg rating β€” 1,970 ratings
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HuαΊΏ 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
HuαΊΏ 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam 4.33 avg rating β€” 7,778 ratings
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In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War 4.10 avg rating β€” 3,482 ratings
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Across The Fence: The Secret War In Vietnam
Across The Fence: The Secret War In Vietnam 4.50 avg rating β€” 2,075 ratings
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills 4.31 avg rating β€” 10,590 ratings
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 4.31 avg rating β€” 7,317 ratings
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Fields of Fire
Fields of Fire 4.21 avg rating β€” 7,680 ratings
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The Best and the Brightest
The Best and the Brightest 4.27 avg rating β€” 12,645 ratings
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The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War 4.54 avg rating β€” 2,155 ratings
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Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam 4.43 avg rating β€” 2,685 ratings
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In Country
In Country 3.59 avg rating β€” 2,857 ratings
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Born on the Fourth of July
Born on the Fourth of July
by: Ron Kovic
3.89 avg rating β€” 5,161 ratings
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Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam 3.99 avg rating β€” 4,792 ratings
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Black Ops Vietnam: The Operational History of MACVSOG
Black Ops Vietnam: The Operational History of MACVSOG 3.67 avg rating β€” 49 ratings
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Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1975
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1975 4.31 avg rating β€” 153 ratings
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Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles
Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles 4.25 avg rating β€” 272 ratings
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam 4.08 avg rating β€” 2,382 ratings
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Boots: An Unvarnished Memoir of Vietnam
Boots: An Unvarnished Memoir of Vietnam 3.90 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
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Seven in a Jeep
Seven in a Jeep
by: Ed Gaydos
4.16 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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Ho B-52
Ho B-52 3.89 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Okay Okay: Holy Sh*t Vietnam
Okay Okay: Holy Sh*t Vietnam 4.62 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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The Village
The Village
by: Bing West
4.22 avg rating β€” 1,351 ratings
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The Element of Surprise: Navy Seals in Vietnam
The Element of Surprise: Navy Seals in Vietnam 4.20 avg rating β€” 618 ratings
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The Sorrow of War
The Sorrow of War 4.09 avg rating β€” 10,792 ratings
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CW2
CW2 3.79 avg rating β€” 132 ratings
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The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam
The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam 4.24 avg rating β€” 1,170 ratings
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SEALS in Vietnam: U.S. Navy Commandos in the Vietnam War
SEALS in Vietnam: U.S. Navy Commandos in the Vietnam War 3.56 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Bright Light: Untold Stories of the Top Secret War in Vietnam
Bright Light: Untold Stories of the Top Secret War in Vietnam 4.40 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam
Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam 4.18 avg rating β€” 217 ratings
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Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam 4.29 avg rating β€” 1,735 ratings
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Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War
Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War
by: Ed Kugler
4.28 avg rating β€” 1,252 ratings
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Vietnam At War: The History 1946-1975
Vietnam At War: The History 1946-1975 3.84 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
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Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War
Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War 4.23 avg rating β€” 265 ratings
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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,861 ratings
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Better Times Than These
Better Times Than These 3.88 avg rating β€” 396 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1963-1973
The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1963-1973 3.65 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
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CIA and the House of Ngo: Covert Action in South Vietnam, 1954-63
CIA and the House of Ngo: Covert Action in South Vietnam, 1954-63 3.50 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam 4.15 avg rating β€” 241 ratings
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War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam
War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam 3.86 avg rating β€” 44 ratings
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Facing the Phoenix: The CIA & the Political Defeat of the United States in Vietnam
Facing the Phoenix: The CIA & the Political Defeat of the United States in Vietnam really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968
Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968
by: NhΓ£ Ca
4.06 avg rating β€” 140 ratings
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The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos
The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos 3.89 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency
Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency 3.89 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,696 ratings
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On The Frontlines Of The Television War: A Legendary War Cameraman In Vietnam
On The Frontlines Of The Television War: A Legendary War Cameraman In Vietnam 4.21 avg rating β€” 62 ratings
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Secret War
Secret War 4.07 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 3.82 avg rating β€” 845 ratings
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A Shau Valor: American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963–1971
A Shau Valor: American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963–1971 4.37 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
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Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975
Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 3.99 avg rating β€” 167 ratings
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War 4.03 avg rating β€” 300 ratings
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace 4.12 avg rating β€” 4,293 ratings
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Child of War, Woman of Peace
Child of War, Woman of Peace 3.85 avg rating β€” 240 ratings
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Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of Vietnam's Madame Nhu
Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of Vietnam's Madame Nhu 3.70 avg rating β€” 1,249 ratings
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Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire 4.02 avg rating β€” 103 ratings
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Worth Fighting for
Worth Fighting for really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Following the Flag
Following the Flag it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Forgotten Soldiers: What Happened to Jacob Walden?
Forgotten Soldiers: What Happened to Jacob Walden? 4.14 avg rating β€” 125 ratings
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The Art Book
The Art Book 3.86 avg rating β€” 164,233 ratings
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All They Left Behind
All They Left Behind 4.67 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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My Vietnam War
My Vietnam War 3.75 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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The Ravens
The Ravens 4.24 avg rating β€” 759 ratings
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Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience
Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience 4.18 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
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The Girl From Hanoi
The Girl From Hanoi
by: Tom Myers
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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The Gomorrah Principle
The Gomorrah Principle 4.49 avg rating β€” 661 ratings
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Write Home for Me : A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam
Write Home for Me : A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam 3.65 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
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Hearts, Minds, and Coffee
Hearts, Minds, and Coffee 4.61 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
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Captain Bullens War the Vietnam War Diar
Captain Bullens War the Vietnam War Diar 4.04 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Triumph of the Absurd: A Reporter’s Love for the Abandoned People of Vietnam
Triumph of the Absurd: A Reporter’s Love for the Abandoned People of Vietnam 4.42 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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Reaper 6
Reaper 6 4.09 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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Seven Years in Hanoi
Seven Years in Hanoi 4.01 avg rating β€” 148 ratings
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One Month, 20 Days, and a Wake UP: One man's story of what it meant to be a PJ
One Month, 20 Days, and a Wake UP: One man's story of what it meant to be a PJ 4.15 avg rating β€” 92 ratings
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China Wind
China Wind really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Mission of Honor: A moral compass for a moral dilemma
Mission of Honor: A moral compass for a moral dilemma 4.64 avg rating β€” 212 ratings
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Chasing SAM: My Vietnam War, August 1965-August 1966
Chasing SAM: My Vietnam War, August 1965-August 1966 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War
Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War 3.91 avg rating β€” 182 ratings
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Survivor Love Thy Enemy
Survivor Love Thy Enemy 4.50 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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The Vietnam War Reexamined
The Vietnam War Reexamined really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Time To Hunt (Bob Lee Swagger, #3)
Time To Hunt (Bob Lee Swagger, #3) 4.29 avg rating β€” 11,386 ratings
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Long Daze at Long Binh: The humorous adventures of two Wisconsin draftees trained as combat medics and sent off to set up a field hospital in South Vietnam
Long Daze at Long Binh: The humorous adventures of two Wisconsin draftees trained as combat medics and sent off to set up a field hospital in South Vietnam 4.02 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
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Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There
Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There 4.24 avg rating β€” 1,249 ratings
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Cong Catchers: A Soldier's Memories of Vietnam
Cong Catchers: A Soldier's Memories of Vietnam 4.22 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Bloodstained Sea - The Odyssey of the Vietnamese Boat People
Bloodstained Sea - The Odyssey of the Vietnamese Boat People
by: Chau Thuy
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Doom Pussy
The Doom Pussy 3.94 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Sweden
Sweden 3.50 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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