‎Vietnam war‎

‎Tugwell, Maurice‎

‎Airborne to Battle: A History of Airborne Warfare 1918-1971‎

‎A study of airborne warfare analysing significant operations such as the battle for Crete, the allied invasion of Sicily, D-Day and Arnhem, Suez in 1956 and the U.S. Air Mobile Division in Vietnam. With Index and bibliographical references.‎

‎Turner Fred‎

‎Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory‎

‎NY: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1996. 1st printing. Fine/VG dust jacket. viii 277 p. notes biblio filmography index 8vo; Anchor Books/Doubleday hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 10119 ISBN : 0385475632 9780385475631

‎Uhlig Jr. Frank ed‎

‎Vietnam: The Naval Story‎

‎Annapolis: Naval Institute Press 1987. 2nd printing. VG/VG dust jacket name on front endpaper. viii 515 p. photos maps index large 8vo; Naval Institute Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 2374 ISBN : 0870210149 9780870210143

‎US Government‎

‎Vietnam: The View Beyond the Battle‎

‎Washington D.C. U.S.A.: US Government 1966 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 10 1/2h x 8w. A nice 76 page magazine with lots of black & white pictures of Vietnam living during the beginning of the conflict. Printed under the idea we were going to win the war and rebuild the country our way. WELL! That certainly didn't happen but in 1966 there was lots of optimism. US Government paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 025840

‎Van Geirt‎

‎Guerre du Viet-Nam. La piste Ho Chi Minh‎

‎Journaliste grand reporter, l'auteur a vécu sur le terrain la guerre du Viet-Nam à Hue puis pendant l'offensive du Têt. Il nous livre "le récit poignant d'une guerre aveugle (.) Portraits, anecdotes, interviews, récits, commentaires et analyses se succèdent pour nous restituer le drame du plus long et du plus infernal conflit de ce siècle". fort vol in8, 21x15, relié, très bel état intérieur, 340pp + catalogue photographique en fin de volume. Tallandier 1971 ref/259‎

Bookseller reference : CZC-10664

‎Van Staaveren Jacob‎

‎Interdiction in Southern Laos 1960-1968‎

‎Washington D.C.: Center for Air Force History 1993. 360 pages with several photos and color maps. History of Air Force operations to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos from 1960-1968. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Center for Air Force History paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 001517

‎Van Zanten William‎

‎Don't Bunch Up: One Marine's Story‎

‎New York NY: Presidio Press 2006. Wraps have mild wear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. . Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Presidio Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 114775Y ISBN : 0891418644 9780891418641

‎Veith George J.‎

‎Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. Pow Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War‎

‎Free Pr 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-good clean condition. Remainder mark on bottom outside page edges. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.00. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Illustrated. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 408 pages. At the end of Code-Name Bright Light former Army captain George J. Veith reports the surprising results of a straw poll he took of former military personnel involved in the effort to liberate American POWs. More than half think that when the United States evacuated Vietnam in 1973 Yanks were left behind enemy lines. Veith is no conspiracy freak. He believes strongly that the military made a sincere effort to rescue captured troops and argues his case well yet he also reveals a troubled operation that did not liberate a single soldier due to a combination of its own incompetence and clever Viet Cong tactics. This important chapter of the Vietnam War has been largely ignored until the late 1990s partly because so many relevant documents took that long to be declassified. Veith makes a genuine contribution to the historical understanding of the conflict one that ought to engage those still wondering about men whose fates remain unknown. From Library Journal Popular and academic works on U.S. prisoners of war continue to play a central role in Vietnam War literature and historiography. But even as the number of such titles proliferate the quality of the research and the political bias of the writers have long been issues. Although a definitive scholarly volume awaits the opening of Vietnam's archives Veith's research in the U.S. records places his study on American rescue attempts in the forefront of the discussion. The author a specialist on POWs/MIAs presents a tightly written challenging essay on the ill-starred rescue efforts of the Joint Personnel Recovery Center and associated units in Vietnam and Laos. The catalog of bureaucratic inertia interservice rivalries and incredible bad luck combined to frustrate the numerous missions of American and Vietnamese special forces. An arresting and dramatic story supported by exceptional research this is an essential purchase for Vietnam War collections in academic and public libraries. Free Pr Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 039893 ISBN : 0684835142 9780684835143

‎Veith George J.‎

‎Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War‎

‎NY: Free Press 1998. 1st printing. VG/Fine dust jacket gift inscription front endpaper. xx 408 p. frontis map photos notes glossary index 8vo; Free Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 11520 ISBN : 0684835142 9780684835143

‎Viet Ha Mai/Wagner Jr. Louis C. foreword‎

‎Steel and Blood: South Vietnamese Armor and the War for Southeast Asia‎

‎Annapolis: Naval Institute Press 2008. 1st printing. Fine/Fine dust jacket. xii 460 p. photos maps appendices notes biblio index 8vo; Naval Institute Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 53090 ISBN : 1591149193 9781591149194

‎VIETNAM WAR.‎

‎Anti Guerilla Operations in South East Asia.‎

‎Singapore: Produced under the direction of C-in-C Far East Land Forces. 1963. Octavo 215 x 139 mm. Punched and cord-tied in original green cloth-backed boards printed title panel to the front board. Numerous illustrations to the text some folding plates. Minor rust mark on front cover. An excellent copy. First edition the back cover states: "Printed by RAOC Royal Army Ordnance Corps Printing Press FARELF Far Eastern Land Forces 8211 - 2500 print run. 12 / 62". Scarce: OCLC records just one copy Australian War Memorial; no copy located by Copac in British and Irish institutional libraries. A fascinating manual classified as "Restricted". "The aim of the authors of this work has been to produce a single comprehensive manual which will serve as a handbook for unit commanders and their subordinates. It provides an account of the country the people and the tactics a potential guerilla enemy may probably useÂ… It is a truism that too prolonged study of enemy organisation and tactics leads to a feeling that our own are somehow inferior. This is a dangerous state of mindÂ… It must not be forgotten that British and Commonwealth forces have a unique record in being successful in both promoting and suppressing guerilla movements. This experience together with the experience of other armies and a study of the latest guerilla tactics have been drawn upon in writing this manual" Introduction. Divided into four concise but detailed sections covering "The Setting" "Operations" "Training" and "Air Support" respectively this manual is an iteration of Brigadier Francis Hassett's interim handbook for warfare in Vietnam: "Brigadier Hassett a veteran of big battles at Tobruk in North Africa and Maryang San in Korea tested and codified Australian counter-revolutionary warfare methods with the 28th Commonwealth Brigade in Malaya. Hassett's biographer says that Hassett was 'astonished' that the French had 'allowed their force to be wiped out at Dien Bien Phu' and that he 'wanted to know how to organise equip and train for this type of warfare'Â… Hassett's shock at the fall of the French garrison comes through. He could not believe it. He became so fascinated with the nature of French operations in Indo-China particularly the fall of Dien Bien Phu that in 1962 his 28 Brigade's training area at Terendak incorporated an airstrip and a model fortified Viet Minh village on which attacks were practised. These developments first surprised then persuaded his British superiors. He so purposefully plied them with a copy of Fall's Street Without Joy that they even asked him to compile a training pamphlet for the British Army—'Indo-China style'. This was Anti-Guerilla Operations in South-East Asia which he wrote with the assistance of British officers" Lockhart The Minefield: An Australian Tragedy in Vietnam. pp. 19-20. [Singapore?:] Produced under the direction of C-in-C Far East Land Forces. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 113553

‎Vietnam War‎

‎FOREIGN AFFAIRS APRIL 1968 VIETNAM‎

‎1968. One complete issue of Foreign Affairs with four articles on Vietnam: "Must we Invade the North by Roger Hilsman; "Squaring the Error" by Robert Thompson; "Complexities of Negotiation" by Chester Cooper and "Power in a Sieve" by Hamilton Fish Armstrong. Sm.4to. original wraps. VG light wear. . unknown‎

Bookseller reference : a85160

‎Vietnam War‎

‎LES VRAIS ET LES FAUX SECRETS DU PENTAGONE "The True and False Secrets of the Pentagon"‎

‎Hanoi: Le Courrier du Viet Nam 1971. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Small 8vo. Original wraps. Covers a little worn with some soil. Slight lean. Toning overall. Still sound. Very good. Text in French. 138pp. <br/><br/>Scarce North Vietnam propoganda published in the wake of the release of the Pentagon Papers. Coming the same year as Daniel Ellsberg's leak which was published in June of that year this represents an early and possible first official response to the revelations contained therein. From the introduction: "It is repugnant for honest people to believe that the government of a country with the reputation of the United States had for many years premeditated prepared and planned down to the most minute details a systematic aggression a criminal war of genocide against a small people a tiny country situated more than 10000 kilometers from America�s frontiers; to think that this government for many years has deliberately and knowingly lied to cover up the crime to hide its plans and deceive the American people the US Congress and America�s allies as well as its friends and supporters throughout the world" translated from the French. The nine-page introduction is followed by a "documents" section the bulk of the book which in addition to excerpts from the Pentagon Papers also contains Presidential speeches Kennedy Johnson interspersed with North Vietnamese statements and commentary. Though OCLC some two dozen copies worldwide only four of those are in the US Harvard Yale Cornell and Columbia with none currently in trade as of April 2017. A significant and uncommon work of Communist propoganda from the height of the Cold War and the Vietnam conflict. Le Courrier du Viet Nam paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 20268

‎Vietnam War.‎

‎Reporting Vietnam.‎

‎N.Y. Library of America 1998. Hard Cover. Two volumes: 858 857 p. 64 p. of plates illus. map; 21 cm. Vol. 1 contains 80 articles published between 1959-1969; vol. 2 contains articles published between 1969-1975. This anthology is about journalism and how it influences our perception of war. Many journalists were as young as the soldiers. A departure from the usual fare of the Library of America. New copies in publisher's shrinkwrap. Stock#101294. N.Y., Library of America, 1998 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 101294

‎VIETNAM WAR. KOLPACOFF Victor.‎

‎The Prisoners of Quai Dong.‎

‎Secker & Warburg London. 1967. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 214 pages. The author's first novel set in a U.S. Army military stockade.Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Secker & Warburg, London. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : VIETNAMW009346

‎VIETNAM WAR‎

‎WAR - VIETNAM! - Memorabilia for the US Armed Forces‎

‎Halstead Press 1967-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Halstead Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : mon0001667259

‎Vietnam War‎

‎ANNOTATED VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM CAPTURING SCENES IN HONG KONG SAIGON AND PAGO PAGO EARLY IN THE VIETNAM WAR‎

‎Hong Kong Saigon Da Nang Pago Pago and other places 1963. Eighty-seven photographs most in color most about 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches including twelve slightly larger photographs laid in. Narrow quarto. Photograph album of black textured cloth gilt label on front board. Photographs in generally nice condition. Very good. An interesting collection of color and black- and-white vernacular photographs taken by an unidentified Navy Midshipman or Marine serving in southeast Asia in the early years of American involvement in Vietnam. Twenty- four images are captioned on the verso often identifying the time and place of the photographs some of which were taken on ship and others on the ground. The majority of the photographs emanate from 1963 either from the caption or a date stamp in the margin of the photographs. They feature street scenes and various buildings in Hong Kong and Vietnam views from the serviceman's ship shots of servicemen gathered in the mess hall views of fishing and various buildings in Pago Pago and more. <br> <br> The captions provide a good cross-section of the nature of the photographs a sampling of which read: "President Diems & Madame Nhus Palace being constructed - They were working on it when I came Feb 1963 August"; "Boulevard going towards Saigon August 63"; "Boats at river front Saigon August 63"; "Company Area V.T.T. Heli. Co. August 1963"; "Da Nang - S. Viet Nam"; "Chinese painting the ship - this is in Hong Kong"; "Bura boat alongside the ship selling goods in Hong Kong"; "One of the boats people live on in Hong Kong. Notice the laundry drying on the top"; "Governor's Home Pago Pago"; "Ships boat fishing party Pago Pago"; and others. The loose photographs feature naval subjects such as the hospital ship U.S.S. Sanctuary an officer named "Hamilton" and two shots of a young man onboard the ship who might be the compiler of the present album. <br> <br> A nice collection of early Vietnam War vernacular photography with useful annotations. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM55578

‎Vietnam War‎

‎LES VRAIS ET LES FAUX SECRETS DU PENTAGONE "The True and False Secrets of the Pentagon"‎

‎Hanoi: Le Courrier du Viet Nam 1971. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Small 8vo. Original wraps. Covers a little worn with some soil. Slight lean. Toning overall. Still sound. Very good. Text in French. 138pp. <br/><br/>Scarce North Vietnam propoganda published in the wake of the release of the Pentagon Papers. Coming the same year as Daniel Ellsberg's leak which was published in June of that year this represents an early and possible first official response to the revelations contained therein. From the introduction: "It is repugnant for honest people to believe that the government of a country with the reputation of the United States had for many years premeditated prepared and planned down to the most minute details a systematic aggression a criminal war of genocide against a small people a tiny country situated more than 10000 kilometers from AmericaÂ’s frontiers; to think that this government for many years has deliberately and knowingly lied to cover up the crime to hide its plans and deceive the American people the US Congress and AmericaÂ’s allies as well as its friends and supporters throughout the world" translated from the French. The nine-page introduction is followed by a "documents" section the bulk of the book which in addition to excerpts from the Pentagon Papers also contains Presidential speeches Kennedy Johnson interspersed with North Vietnamese statements and commentary. Though OCLC some two dozen copies worldwide only four of those are in the US Harvard Yale Cornell and Columbia with none currently in trade as of April 2017. A significant and uncommon work of Communist propoganda from the height of the Cold War and the Vietnam conflict. Le Courrier du Viet Nam paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 20268

‎VIETNAM WAR‎

‎The Pentagon Papers: William Bundy's Annotated Copy‎

‎<p>William Bundy's 5-volume set of the <i>"Senator Gravel Edition"</i> of the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> with annotations marginal notes and two legal-size pages with handwritten notes arranged chronologically.</p> <b>VIETNAM WAR.</b>Books. <i>The Pentagon Papers</i>. Boston: Beacon Press 1971-1972. First Editions. Five paperback books volumes I-IV in green printed covers volume V in orange. 5¾ x 9 inches each. Pages varies by volume. Volume V <i>Critical Essays</i> edited by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn has a Beacon Press review copy slip taped to the half-title and an address label paperclipped to the same page. The label is addressed to Bundy as editor of <i>Foreign Affairs</i> and has a handwritten date <i>"9/25/72."</i><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Defense Secretary Robert McNamara commissioned a massive study later called the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> in 1967 and appointed Pentagon arms control director Leslie Gelb as the project's supervisor. Gelb hired 36 military officers civilian policy experts and historians to write the study's monographs. The <i>Pentagon Papers</i>included 4000 pages of actual documents from the years 1945–67. Daniel Ellsberg with the aid of his friend Anthony Russo leaked most of the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> to <i>New York Times</i>reporter Neil Sheehan who began publishing excerpts on June 13 1971. Ellsberg later said that the documents "demonstrated unconstitutional behavior by a succession of presidents the violation of their oath and the violation of the oath of every one of their subordinates." Portions of the "Papers" were subsequently published by Beacon Press. The present copy is William Bundy's set of that edition.</p><p>The <i>Pentagon Papers</i> revealed steps the Johnson and Nixon administrations had taken to escalate the war in Vietnam without informing the public. President Nixon argued that Ellsberg was guilty of felony treason under the 1917 Espionage Act because he had no authority to publish classified documents. Though the <i>Times</i> had been advised not to publish they did so claiming the First Amendment right to publish information essential to citizens' understanding of their government. Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell obtained a federal court injunction forcing the <i>Times</i> to cease publication. After the <i>Times</i> appealed the case reached the Supreme Court. A separate case involving the <i>Washington Post's</i>publication of articles based on Ellsberg's leaks also reached the highest court. In June 1971 the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the injunctions were unconstitutional. As Senator Mike Gravel writes in the introduction "We were told that we had to fight on the continent of Asia so that we would not have to battle on the shores of America. One can accept these arguments only if he has failed to read the Pentagon Papers."</p><p><b>William Putnam Bundy</b> 1917-2000 graduated from Yale University and worked as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950s. He had a long distinguished service government in the CIA and in the Defense Department. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in March 1964. His brother McGeorge Bundy was Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Kennedy and Johnson from 1961-1966. Both are considered primary architects of America's involvement in Vietnam. In <i>The Best and the Brightest</i> David Halberstam stated that during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations William Bundy's name "would probably be on more pieces of paper dealing with Vietnam over a seven-year period than anyone else's." The publication of <i>The Pentagon Papers</i> represented something of a personal defeat for Bundy who at the time had a 1100-page unfinished manuscript in which he selectively paraphrased from classified papers in his possession. The manuscript was rendered unpublishable by the appearance of these volumes.</p><p><b>McGeorge Bundy</b> 1919-1996 brother of William Bundy was one of President Kennedy's closest advisors on national security and he continued to fill that role for President Johnson during the period of escalation of the Vietnam War. He left government service in 1966 to head the Ford Foundation and then returned to university teaching and writing in 1979.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Very Good. Some wear to covers.</p> paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 21291

‎Vo Nguyen Giap‎

‎Viet Nam People's War Has Defeated U.S. War of Destruction‎

‎<p>Thin card covers unprinted on spine. Lightly scuffed covers; few small light stains on covers; tightly bound; clean interior. 12mo 76 pp.</p> Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 16821

‎Walker Paul D.‎

‎Jungle Dragoon. The memoir of an Armoured CAV Platoon Leader in Vietnam‎

‎Novato CA: Presidio. 1999. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. v with Black and White Photographs. 230 pages . 1st Edition. Hardback. Presidio hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIB221819 ISBN : 0891416897 9780891416890

‎Ward Don AUTOGRAPHED‎

‎The Faces Behind the Names: The Vietnam War: Volume II‎

‎np: The Memorial Press 1999. 1st printing. VG/VG dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR xiv 229 p. photos map 4to; The Memorial Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 58473

‎Warner Denis‎

‎Certain Victory: How Hanoi Won the War‎

‎Kansas City: Sheed Andrews & McMeel 1978. 1st American printing. Fine/Fine dust jacket. xvi 295 p. frontis map map notes index 8vo; Sheed Andrews & McMeel hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 14472 ISBN : 0836262018 9780836262018

‎Warner Smith‎

‎Covert Warrior Fighting the CIA's Secret War in Southeast Asia and China 1965-1967 the Vietnam War Memoir of Warner Smith‎

‎Vietnam War: Presidio Press 1996. 231 pgs. Jacket has slight edge wear. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Presidio Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 004092 ISBN : 0891415971 9780891415978

‎Warr Nicholas‎

‎Phase Line Green: The Battle for Hue 1968‎

‎Annapolis Maryland U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press 1997. Larger book black boards very bright gilt lettering on spine 235 pages photo section. DJ glossy beneath mylar with photo of Marines firing amid city ruins on front and spine green and black back. DJ has light wear to back bookfold edge. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Naval Institute Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 37655 ISBN : 1557509115 9781557509116