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26644.) ->Pacific Affairs, spring 2004. PB:University of
British Columbia: , 2004. 164 pgs., $2.5 Wraps journal, a
20228.)
->Reflections of Vietnam and Beyond, Charter Issue. PB:Reflections, Inc.:
Chanhassen, MN, 1986. 58
pgs., $10 Wraps, a magazine, inscribed by editor, a
v/g copy. A magazine that encluraged vets to reflect on their
war
experiences. Cover blurb that it is a magazine where the reader is the writer.
3272.) ->The Congressional Medal of Honor Library: Vietnam, The Names, The
Deeds. PB:Dell Publishing Co.:
New York, 1986. 1st Edition 238 pgs., $7.5
Wraps mass market ed., a v/g copy. This work was extracted from 'The
Congressional Medal of Honor.' Historical background of the Medal of Honor award
prepared by Sharp and
Dunnigan Publications in 1984.
25987.) ->Vietnam
Courier, No. 11 1985. PB:: Hanoi, 1985. 32 pgs., $5 Wraps, a v/g copy. Special
article by
Truong Chinh on Forty Years of Struggle and Victory.
20135.) ->Vietnam Cultural Window., No. 9-Decmeber 1998. PB:Giay phep xuat ban:
Hanoi, 1998. 32 pgs., $5
Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Lady Borton is
listed as a Senior Editor to this magazine publicaiton.
34115.) ->The
Pentagon Papers: The Senator Gravel Edition: The Defense Department History of
the U.S.
Decesionmaking on Vietnam, Volume IV of a V Volume Set.. Wraps trade
ed., a v/g copy.
31664.) ->Vietnames Studies, New Series No.19: Special
Issue On Lang Son.. Wraps trade ed., some creasing of
cover, o/w a v/g copy.
23837.) 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION PUBLICAITON, FALL 1969: ->Rendezvous With
Destiny, 101st Airborne Division
(Airmobile), Winter 1969 Issue. PB:: , 1969.
32 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.
23838.) 101st AIRBORNE
DIVISION PUBLICATION, WINTER 1969. ->Rendezvous With Destinry: 101st Airborne
Division (Airmobile). PB:: , 1969. 32 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus
copy.
32755.) ABRAHAM, TOM: ->The Cage: An Englishman in Vietnam.
HC:Bantam Press: New York, 2002. 1ST Edition
299 pgs., $6 Price clipped,
light foxing of page edges, o/w a v/g plus copy in a fine d/j. Personal memoir
of
English officer who served in Vietnam from 167/8 with the lst Calvary
Division.
5214.) ACKLAND, Compiler LEN ->Credibility Gap: A Digest of the
Pentagon Papers. PB:National Peace
Literature Service: Philadelphia, PA,
n.d.. 123 pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Book contains a foreward by
Anthony Russo who helped Daniel Ellsberg in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the
press.
2782.) ADAIR, DICK: ->Dick Adair's Saigon: Sketches and Words From
the Artist's Journal. HC:John Westherhill, Inc.:
New York, 1971. 1st Edition
144 pgs., $15 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Small piece of d/j misssing top edge
along
spine. Another copy, $12.50, a v/g copy in a good plus d/j. D/J chipped
and pieces misisng on front and back. Book
captures the street scenes of
Saigon. Adair was in Saigon from 1965-1970.
2902.) ADAIR, GILBERT:
->Vietnam On Film: From the Green Berets to Apocalypse Now. HC:Proteus
Publishing
Co.: New York, 1981. 190 pgs., $12.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus
d/j. The book depicts how public opinion and
changing events during and after
the Vietnam War were reflected in movies on the war. Good discussion and the
book contains many scences from the movies discussed.
30947.) ADAMS, Ed.
ALYSSA: ->Eddie Adams: Vietnam. HC:Umbrage Editions: Brooklyn, NY, 2009. 1ST
Edition
223 pgs., $29.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j. The best photo-journalist
book of the Vietnam published to date.
More than pictures, it has commentary
on Eddie Admas by leading correspondents of the Vietnam War. Harold
Buell
provides an introduction to the photographs of Eddie Adams, some of his most
famous ones and others never
published before. Book was edited by his wife.
3447.) ADAMS, SAM: ->War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir. HC:Steerforth
Press: South Royalton, Vt., 1994.
1st Edition 251 pgs., $5.95 A fine copy in
a fine d/j. Author was a CIA analyst in Vietnam and claims he fought
estimates given on the number of the enemy in Vietnam, claiming Johnson was
kidding the country on the progress
being made in the war After resigning
from the CIA in 1973, he went public over the issue through the CBS
television documentary, 'The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception.' He died in
1988 and the book is
uncompleted, having ended with the TET offensive.
However, up to that point, it is a very interesting memoir of his
expereince
in Vietnam.
8.) ADLER, Ed. BILL: ->Letters From Vietnam. HC:Ballantine
Books: New York, 2003. 1st Edition 245 pgs., $2.95 A
mint copy in a mint d/j.
Author canvassed both Vietnam and the United States for these letters. His only
criterion for
their selection was that they be written by people invovled in
the war and their authors have something to say.
Introduction by Al Santoli.
3672.) ADLER, RENATA: ->Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.: Sharon
v. Time. HC:Alfred A. Knopf:
New York, 1986. 1st Edition 243 pgs., $2.95 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. An analysis as well as account of the libel suits
of
Generals Westmoreland and Sharon against CBS and Time respectively.
7058.) AGENT ORANGE COURT DOCUMENT: ->Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class
Action and Claim Form,
re. Agnet Orange.. PB:United States District Court
Eastern District: New York, 1984. 11 pgs., $12.5 An original
document with a
claim form to a Vietnam veteran that was sent out by the United States District
Court, Eastern
District of New York.
31876.) AHERN, Jr. THOMAS L.:
->Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency. HC:University of Kentucky
Press: Lexington, KY, 2010. 1ST Edition 450 pgs., $29.95 A mint copy in a mint
d/j Author examines the
organizational culture of the CIA and other U.S.
agencies engaged in counterinsurgency in Vietnam. Ne also
exposes the fatl
weaknesses of the South Vietnamese government and the results of the CIA's
failure to comprehend
the political dynamics that defined the struggle
between the Viet Cong and the Saigon government.
11.) AIR AMERICA
ITEM: ->Air Facilities Data South Vietnam and Cambodia. PB:: , 1973. REP.
Edition 208 pgs.,
$17.5 A photocopied reprint in same handbook format as
original. Handbook used by Air America personnel in
Vietnam. Date is listed
as 1 April 1973.
20232.) AIR COMBAT MAGAZINE EDITORS: ->Air War Over
Vietnam. PB:Air Combat Magazine: Canoga Park,
CA, 1984. 98 pgs., $1.95 Wraps,
magazine, a v/g copy. This issue contains 14 articles on different aspects of
the air
22522.) AIR PROGRESS MAGAZINE, ->Air War Vietnam. PB:Challenge
Publications: Canoga Park, CA, 1981.
98 pgs., $5 Front cover has been
creased, and repaired, o/w a good plus copy reading copy. Contians 13 articles
on
the air war in Vietnam, ranging from SAC and the B-52 to Wild Weasels.,
9279.) ALEXANDER, ROY & CHARLES W. SASSER: ->Taking Fire: The True Story of
a Decorated Chopper Pilot.
PB:St. Martin's Press: New York, 2002. 1st Edition
305 pgs., $6 Wraps mass market ed., a mint copy. Personal
memoir of a five
foot, three inches tall Huey pilot in Vietnam.
9566.) ALI, TARIO and
SUSAN WATKINS: ->1968: Marching in the Streets. HC:Bloomsbury Publishing:
London,
1998. 2nd Edition 224 pgs., $12.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
Book provides a worldwide perspective on the
year of 1968 as a year in
protest, not only in this country but in France, Czechoslovakia, Pakistan, etc..
Many photos
but it is accompanied by a very concise text that captures the
spirit of the times of 1968.
26708.) ALLEN, GEORGE W.: ->None So Blind: A
Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam. HC:Ivan
R. Dee:
Chicago, 2001. 296 pgs., $2.99 Ex-library, a v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
D/J has been kept in mylar
cover. Author served for 30 years as an
intelligence analyst with the army, Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA.
He seved three years in Vietnam.
31262.) ALLEN, MICHAEL J.: ->Until the Last
Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War.
HC:University of
North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC, 2009. 1ST Edition 433 pgs., $27 A mint
copy in a mint d/j.
The author analyzes the effects that activism by POW and
MIA families had on U.S. politics before and after the
Vietnam War's official
end. He argues that POW/MIA activism prolonged the hostility between the United
States and
Vietnam even as the search for missing becamse the vbasis for
closer ties between the two countries in the 1990s.
27568.) ALLISON,
WILLIAM THOMAS: ->Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American
War.
HC:Univeristy Press of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 2007. 1st Edition 230 pgs.,
$29.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Author
provides an overview of how the
military justice system responded to crimes and infractions both inside and
outside
the Vietnam combat zone. He provides a well-rounded picture of daily
life for military lawyers in Vietnam and the
completities of trying to impose
military law and justice in a foreign culture not accustomered to Westrn-style
democracy.
12.) ALVAREZ, Jr. EVERETT and ANTHONY S. PITCH:->Chained Eagle.
HC:Donald I Fine, Inc.: New York, 1989.
1st Edition 308 pgs., $2.95 A v/g
plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Alvarez was the first American POW of the Vietnam
War and he was held in captivity for 8 and half years.
2837.) ALVAREZ,
Jr. EVERETT with SAMUEL SCHREINER, Jr.->Code of Conduct. HC:Donald I. Fine,
Inc.: New
York, 1991. 1st Edition 235 pgs., $2.95 Remainder mark bottom edge,
o/w a v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Title
picks up where the author's
first book 'Chained Eagle' left off, focusing on his self-healing from the war.
15.) AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: ->Peace In Vietnam: A New Approach
In Southeast Asia. HC:Hill
and Wang, Inc.: New York, 1966. 1st Edition 112
pgs., $10 PB:Hill and Wang, Inc.: New York, 1966. 4th Edition
112 pgs., $6
Ex-library, a v/g copy. Wraps a trade size ed., name on enpaper, o/w a v/g copy.
Bronsom P. Clark was
the Convener for this report which was prepared by a
committee of eight persons.
25610.) AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL & VIETNAM
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS:->Vietnam Report: Not
In Vain, An Independent
Fact-Finding Mission to South Vietnam. PB:American Security Council: New York,
1974.
51 pgs., $5 Wraps photocopied reprint, a fine copy. This fact finding
mission was made during January 12th thorugh
January 22, 1974.
22694.)
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOREIGN AREA STUDIES PROGRAM: ->U.S. Army Area Handbook for
Vietnam.
PB:Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1962. 513 pgs., $12.5
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Study
prepared for the Department of Army.
Research and writing were completed in September of 1962.
19.) AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY FOREIGN AREA STUDIES PROGRAM:->Area Handbook For North Vietnam.
PB:Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1967. 494 pgs., $12.5 Vinyl
cover, a v/g copy. Research and
writing of this publication was completed
December 15th, 1966.
20.) AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FOREIGN AREA STUDIES
PROGRAM:->Area Handbook For South Vietnam,
Research Completed 1966.
HC:Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1967. 510 pgs., $9.95 A v/g
plus
copy. Research and writing of the hardcover volume was completed April,
15th, 1966.
27.) AMTER, JOSEPH A.: ->Vietnam Verdict: A Citizen's
History. HC:Continuum Publishing Company: New York,
1982. 400 pgs., $10 a
fine copy in a v/g plus d/j. Dust jacket blurb states that this book
reconstructs, year by year,
the record of a 28 year-long political,
diplomatic and military failure. Author a lawyer and banker with a life long
interest in foreign affairs.
6082.) ANDERSON, Ed. DAVID: ->Facing My Lai:
Moving Beyond the Massacre. HC:University Press of Kansas:
Lawrence, KS,
1998. 1st Edition 237 pgs., $9.95 A mint copy in a fine d/j. This book is an
attempt to enable
readers to hear what conference participants said at a
conference held on My Lai at Tulane University in 1994.
28.) ANDERSON,
CHARLES R.: ->The Grunts and Vietnam: The Other War. HC:Presido Press: San
Rafael, Ca.,
1976. 5th Edition 204 pgs., $2.99 PB:Berkely Books: New York,
1984. 2nd Edition 236 pgs., $1.99 A fine copy in a
v/g d/j. Wraps, a mass
market ed., a v/g copy. Account of a Marine Company during one 58 day operation.
Author
served as a Marine in Vietnam in 1969 and it is written from this
experience.
3377.) ANDERSON, CHARLES R.: ->Vietnam: The Other War.
HC:Presidio Press: Novato, Ca., 1982. 1st Edition 218
pgs., $12 PB:Warner
Books: New York, 1990. 1st Edition 211 pgs., $5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps,
a mass market
ed., a v/g copy. A description of life in the rear with the
beer as the author calls it. He describes the service and
support troops
stationed at Da Nang where he served beginning in the summer of 1968.
20136.) ANDERSON, CHRISTOPER J.: ->Grunts: U.S. Infantry in Vietnam.
PB:Stackpole Books: Mechanicsburg,
PA, 1998. 72 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a
mint copy. A photo book with photos obtained from the National
Archives.
Photos depicts the American soldier and his equipment.
20727.) ANDERSON,
DAVID L.: ->The Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War. HC:Columbia University Press:
New
York, 2002. 1st Edition 352 pgs., $5.95 PB:Columbia Univeristy Press: New
York, 2002. 1st Edition 352 pgs., $3.95 A
mint copy in a mint d/j. Wraps a
trade ed., a mint copy. This work provides 11 sections on the Vietnam War,
beginning with Studying the Vietnam War and ending with the Aftermath of the
War. title is part of the Columbia
Guide to American History and Cultures
series.
4732.) ANDERSON, TERRY: ->The Movement and the Sixties: Protest
in America From Greensboro to Wounded
Knee. HC:Oxford University Press: New
York, 1995. 1ST Edition 500 pgs., $10 A v/g copy. D/J has chipping top of
spine, o/w a v/g d/j. An excellent social history of the sixties and the author
focuses on the in-between period of
Greensboro in 1960 with the end of the
protest period coming with Wounded Knee in 1973 when the U.S. Army
came home
from Vietnam.
29.) ANDERSON, WILLIAM C.: ->Bat-21. PB:Bantam Books: New York,
1983. 11th Edition 222 pgs., $6 Wraps a
mass market ed., a v/g copy. Account
of search and rescue of USAF pilot Lt. Colonel Iceal E. Hambleton.
4775.)
ANDREWS, OWEN, C. DOUGLAS ELLIOT, and LAURENCE I. LEVIN:->Vietnam: Images from
Combat
Photographers. HC:Starwood Publishing Inc.: Washington, D.C., 1991. BC
Edition 106 pgs., $12.5 A fine copy in a
v/g plus d/j. An excellent but not
well known photo book on the Vietnam War. Photos were carefully selected from
the National Archive's collection and they portray scenes not duplicated in
other books. Photos are primarily black
and white.
7429.) ANONYMOUS: ->War
Vietnam: A Pictorial Record of the Forces in Southeast Asia. HC:Halsted Press
Ltd.:
Sydney, Australia, n.d.. 256 pgs., $100 A v/g copy, 9 and half by 13
inch picture book, printed circa 1968. Book
conains photos depiciting the
main bases in Vietnam, photos of leaders from LBJ to Genral Westmoreland, scenes
from R&R Centers, etc.. Contains a very broad range of picutres depicting an
upbeat protrayal of the Vietnam
experience. Some text and detailed captions
of the photos.
2362.) ANSON, ROBERT SAM: ->War News: A Young Reporter in
Indochina. HC:Simon & Schuster: New York,
1989. 1st Edition 317 pgs., $1.99 A
fine copy in a v/g plus d/j. Personal memoir of a Time correspondent who went
to Vietnam in 1969. He was captured in Cambodia by North Vietnamese in 1970 and
later released.
6163.) ANTON, FRANK with TOMMY DENTON:: ->Why Didn't You
Get Me Out?: Betrayal in the Viet Cong Death
Camps: The Truth about Heroes,
traitors, & Those Left Behind. PB:St. Martin's Paperbacks: New York, 2000. 1st
Edition 234 pgs., $6 Wraps mass market ed., a fine copy. Account by a former POW
held captive in jungle camps
and he maintains that the U.S. knew where he and
others were but they were not rescued for fear sources would be
compromised.
5441.) ANZENBERGER, Jr. , JOSEPH F.: ->Combat Art of the Vietnam War.
HC:McFarland & Co.: Jefferson, N.C.,
1986. 133 pgs., $20 Ex-library, o/w a
v/g plus copy. Book seeks to present representative works of combat art and a
few of the artists' stories. Author worked with the Vietnam Veterans Arts Group
in preparing this book. Art work depict
the many dimensions of the war,
including two works on veterans after the war.
21687.) APPY, CHRISTIAN
G.: ->Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides. HC:Viking Press: New
York, 2003. 1st Edition 574 pgs., $2.99 Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a fine
copy in a fine d/j. A collection of
interviews of 135 persons, representing
all sides of the Vietnam War, both Vietnamese and Americans, supporters
and
opponents of the war.
32.) APTHEKER, HERBERT: PREFACES BY STAUGHTON LYND
and THOMAS HAYDEN:->Mission To Hanoi.
PB:International Publishers: New York,
1966. 1st Edition 128 pgs., $12.5 Wraps, a trade size ed., some soiling outer
edges, o/w a v/g copy. Author accompanied Staughton Lynd and Tom Hayden in
December of 1965 to Hanoi. Book
has prefaces by these two traveling
companions and it contains 18 pp. of photos.
9022.) ARCHER, Jr. CHALMERS:
->Green Berets in the Vanguard: Inside Special Forces, 1953-1963. HC:Naval
Institute Press: Annapolis, MD, 2001. 2nd Edition 139 pgs., $3.95 A mint copy in
a mint d/j. A general survey
account of the history of the Special Forces
during the time period stated in the title. Author served in Laos and
includes a chapter on his experience there. This chapter raises questions as to
whether he had the capability to
discern fact from rumors heard while serving
there.
34.) ARCHER, JULES: ->Ho Chi Minh: Legend of Hanoi. HC:Macmillian
Company: New York, 1971. 2nd Edition
199 pgs., $2.99 Ex-library, a v/g copy
in a v/g d/j. Book is written for Junior-High students, non-ideological in
25398.) ARCHER, MICHAEL: ->A Patch of Ground: Khe Sanh Remembered.
PB:Hellgate Press: Central Point, Or,
2004. 1st Edition 192 pgs., $15 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. Personal memoir of a Marine who served at Khe sanh
8440.) ARLEN, MICHAAEL J.: ->Living Room War. PB:Tower Publications: New
York, 1969. 283 pgs., $5 Wraps
mass market ed, foxing of pages edge, o/w a
v/g copy. Arlen was a noted TV critic for the New Yorker and this book
contain 40 of his articles. A large number deal with the Vietnam War along with
other issues of the sixties.
3542.) ARLEN, MICHAEL J.: ->The View From
Highway 1: Essays on Television. HC:Farrar Straus & Giroux: New
York, 1976.
1st Edition 293 pgs., $10 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. A collection of 21 essays on
television with one essay
on the Vietnam War title The View From Highway 1.'
35.) ARMBRUSTER, FRANK E., RAYMOND D. GASTIL, HERMAN KAHN, WILLIAM PFAFF &
EDMUND->Can We Win
In Vietnam? HC:Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers: New York,
1968. 427 pgs., $5 some pages underlined, o/w a
v/g copy. Authors are a team
of Hudson Institute political-military analysts who debate question in depth as
to
whether we can win in Vietnam. Armbruster and Gastil argue in the
affirmative whereas Pfaff and Stillman argue
that the war is not winable.
3934.) ARNETT, PETER: ->Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35
Years in the World's War Zones.
HC:Simon & Schuster: New York, 1994. 1st
Edition 463 pgs., $3.99 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Two hundred thirty
four
pages are devoted to Vietnam, 12 pages to Laos. A must read for anyone
interested in the subject of the press
and the Vietnam War.
3193.) ARNOLD,
JAMES R.: ->The First Domino: Eisenhower, the Military and America's Intevention
in Vietnam.
HC:William Morrow & Co.: New York, 1991. 1st Edition 444 pgs.,
$12.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. A good account of
U.S. policy toward Vietnam
from World War II through the Eisenhower Administration. Author has done
extensive
archival research.
37.) ARNOLD, JAMES R.: ->The Illustrated
History of the Vietnam War: Armor. HC:Bantam Books: New York, 1987.
BC
Edition 158 pgs., $12 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Book is a popularly written
history of the use of armour and it is
38.) ARNOLD, JAMES R.: ->The
Illustrated History of the Vietnam War: Artillery. HC:Bantam Books: New York,
1987.
BC Edition 158 pgs., $12 PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1987. 1st Edition
158 pgs., $7.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
plus d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g
copy. Books focuses on use of Fire Support Bases in Vietnam.
3265.)
ARNOLD, JAMES R.: ->The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War: Rangers.
PB:Bantam Books: New York,
1988. 1st Edition 158 pgs., $8.5 Wraps trade ed.,
a v/g copy. A concise and well illustrated account of the Rangers.
23567.) ARRIGHI, JEAN: ->L'Epreuve Du Guerrier: Recits De Guerres.
PB:Indo-Editions: Paris, 2003. 212 pgs.,
$24.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
French text.
39.) ASHABRANNER, BRENT: ->Always To Remember: The Story of
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
PB:Scholastic, Inc.: New York, 1992. 3rd
Edition 100 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A very concise story of
the Vietnam Memorial accompanied by a fine collection of black and white photos.
Written at a level for Junior
High students, it is of value for the adult
reader as well.
40.) ASHMORE, HARRY S. and WILLIAM C. BAGGS:->Mission To
Hanoi. HC:G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1968.
1st Edition 369 pgs., $3.95
PB:Berkeley Books: New York, 1968. 369 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Wraps a
mass market ed., a v/g copy. Title is a special report from the
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions that
provides a chronology of
American involvement in Vietnam.
32846.) ASIAN SURVEY, AUGUST 1970,
->Vietnam: Politics, Land Reform and Development in the Countryside.
Wraps
trade ed., a v/g copy. The full issue is devoted to land issues in Vietnam by 9
noted scholars; Race, Oppkin,
Goodman, Woodside, Bullington, Donnell, Salter,
Bredo and Prosterman.
9437.) ASPEN INSTITUTE PUBLICATION, NOVEMBER 1988:
->Recommendations for the New Administration on
United States Policy Toward
Indochina. PB:Aspen Institute: Queenstown, MD, 1988. 15 pgs., $4 Wraps, a v/g
copy. The recommendations in this paper are the product of a year of discussion
and debate by the Indochina's
Policy Forum.
9438.) ASPEN INSTITUTE
PUBLICATION: ->The American-Vietnamese Dialogue, Volume 7, No. 2. PB:Aspen
Institute: Queenstown, MD, 1992. 54 pgs., $5 Wraps, a v/g copy. This is a report
of the third annual American-
Vietnamese Dialogue held February 11-14, 1992
in Nadi, Fiji.
9439.) ASPEN INSTITUTE PUBLICATION: ->The
American-Vietnamese Dialogue, Volume 8, No. 2. PB:Aspen
Institute:
Queensland, MD, 1993. 74 pgs., $5 Wraps a v/g copy. This is a report of the
fourth annual American-
Vietnamese Dialogue conference held February 8-11,
1993 in Lanai, Hawaii.
9440.) ASPEN INSTITUTE PUBLICATION: ->The
American-Vietnamese Dialogue. PB:Aspen Institute:
Queensland, MD, 1991. 52
pgs., $5 Wraps a v/g copy. This is a report of the second American-Vietnamese
Dialogue
held February 11-14, 1991 at Round Hill in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
9443.) ASPEN INSTITUTE PUBLICATION: ->The Challenge of Indochina: An
Examination of the U.S. Role,
Volume 7, No. 3. PB:Aspen Institute:
Queensland, MD, 1992. 46 pgs., $5 Wraps a v/g copy. This is a report from a
conference held for key Congressional staff members at the Jonson Foundation's
Wingspread Conference in Racine,
Wisconsin, May 8-10, 1992.
9442.) ASPEN
INSTITUTE PUBLICATION: ->The Challenge of Indochina: An Examination of the U.S.
Role,
Volume 8, No. 4. PB:Aspen Institute: Queensland, MD, 1993. 70 pgs., $5
Wraps a v/g copy. This report is from a
conference for key Congressional
staff members at the Johnson Foundation's Wingspread Conference Center in
Racine, Wisconsin, held form April 30-May 2, 1993.
9441.) ASPEN INSTITUTE
PUBLICATION: ->The Challenge of Inodchina: An Examination of the U.S. Role.
PB:Aspen Institute: Queensland, MD, 1991. 40 pgs., $5 Wraps a v/g copy. This is
a report of a conference held for
key Congressional staff members at the
Johnson Foundation,Wingspread Conference Center, Race Wisconsin, April
19-21,
1991.
24850.) ASPERY, ROBERT B.: ->War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in
History, Volume II. HC:Doubleday & Co.:
New York, 1975. BC Edition 802 pgs.,
$12 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. This second volume by Aspery focuses on
Vietnam
as to the role of guerilla warfare from Dien Bein Phu , the TET Offensive to the
withdrawal of American
troops from Vietnam.
20726.) ASSELIN, PIERRE: ->A
Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement.
PB:University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC, 2002. 1st Edition 320
pgs., $20.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. The author traces the secret
negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973. Author argues that the
Vietnam War was determined not on the battlefield, but at the negoitating table.
2986.) ATKINSON, RICK: ->The Long Gray Line. HC:Houghton Mifflin: Boston,
1989. BC Edition 592 pgs., $1.99
A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Throgh
the experiences of 3 West Point graduates from the class of 66, the author
covers our nation's social history and Vietnam experience over a 25 year period.
He conducted over 200 interviews
and he had the cooperation of the U.S.
Military Academy.
41.) ATLANTC MONTHLY APRIL 1985, ->A Veteran's Return to
Vietnam. PB:: , . 26 pgs., $1.5 A fine copy. The
article is written by
William Broyles.
2939.) ATLANTIC MONTHLY 1991, DECEMBER: ->The
POW/MIA Myth. How the White House and Hollywood
Combined to Foster a National
Fantasy. PB:: , . 21 pgs., $2.5 A fine copy. No postage charge if ordered with
another book. Article written by H. Bruce Franklin.
31691.) AUCKLAND VIET
NAM COMMITTEE, ->The Paris Agreements On Viet Nam and the Agreement On Laos.
Wraps, a v/g copy. Contains the full unabridged texts of (1) The Peace Areements
On Viet Nam and Laos, (2) The
Protocols to the Agreements, (3) The Act of the
International Conference On Viet Nam plus a Loose Supplementary
Insert with
Text of the June 13th Joint Communique of the D.R.V.N. and the U.S..
290.) BAIN, CHESTER A.: ->Vietnam: The Roots of Conflict. PB:Prentice-Hall,
Inc.: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1967.
1st Edition 184 pgs., $1.99 Wraps a trade
ed., a v/g copy. Author provides basic background material on Vietnam for
the
general reader. Served with USIA in Vietnam.
291.) BAIN, DAVID HAWARD:
->Aftershocks: A Tale of Two Vietnams. HC:Methuen, Inc: New York, 1980. 1st
Edition
241 pgs., $2.99 PB:Penguin Books: New York, 1986. 250 pgs., $1.99 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. .Wraps a trade ed., a
v/g copy. Book is an account of
a Vietnam vet who raped and strangled the teenage daughter of a Saigon
intellectual refugee in 1977. A very compassionate account of both families
involved in this tragedy.
292.) BAKER, MARK: ->Nam: The Vietnam War
in the Wods of the Men and Women Who Fught There. HC:William
Morrow & Co.:
New York, 1981. 4th Edition 324 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Book
is one of the early
oral histories of the Vietnam War which finally reached a
wide audience and told of the experiences of those who
served in Nam.
293.) BALABAN, JOHN: ->Remembering Heaven's Face: A Moral Witness In Vietnam.
HC:Poseidon Press: New York,
1991. 1st Edition 334 pgs., $3.99 PB:Simon &
Schuster: New York, 1992. 1st Edition 334 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus
copy in a
v/g plus d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Author served with IVS in
Vietnam as a conscientious
objector, going there in 1967. He returned to
Vietnam in 1989 and it a very moving account as he tries to make
sense out of
the experiences of the war.
3053.) BALL, GEORGE W.: ->Diplomacy For a Crowded
World: An American Foreign Policy. HC:Atlantic-Little,
Brown: New York, 1976.
1st Edition 356 pgs., $12 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. First part of the book deals
with what the
author calls cleaning up the aberrations of foreign policy of
which he views Vietnam as one. Remainder of the book
deals with what he calls
breakage and unfinished business and revising our institutions in order to carry
out foreign
policy.
25114.) BALL, GEORGE W.: ->Three and a Half
Superpowers. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1968. 9 pgs., $3 A
v/g copy. A 9
page article by George Ball writtenMarch 29th, 1966 issue of Lfe Magazine.
1252.) BALLARD, JACK: ->Development and Employment of Fixed-Wing Gunships,
1962-1972. HC:Office of Air
Force History: Washington, D.C., 1982. 326 pgs.,
$15 Ex-library, o/w a v/g plus copy. Title is part of the the United
States
Air Force in Southeast Asia.
21350.) BARBER, LUCY G.: ->Marching On
Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition.
HC:University of
California Press: Berkeley, CA, 2002. 1st Edition 323 pgs., $12.5 A mint copy in
a mint d/j. A
history of protest marches on Washington with a chapter devoted
to the Vietnam War protests in Washington.
296.) BARITZ, LOREN:
->Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us
Fight the
Way We Did. HC:William F. Morrow & Co.: New York, 1985. 1st Edition
393 pgs., $2.99 PB:Ballantine Books: New
York, 1986. 7th Edition 392 pgs.,
$1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g copy. Author
argues that our military and political defeat in Vietnam had its roots deep in
American culture.
5258.) BARKER, DAN A.: ->Warrior of the Heart.
PB:Burning Cities Press: Chevy Chase, MD, 1992. 275 pgs., $7.5
Wraps trade
ed., light staining bottom edge & curling bottom tip of cover, o/w a v/g copy. A
personal memoir of a
Marine that focuses on the comradery of the Marine life
experience in Vietnam. Published by arrangement with
Vietnam Generation,
Inc..
22164.) BARNES, JEREMY: ->The Pictorial History of the Vietnam War.
HC:Gallery Books: New York, 1988. 1st
Edition 206 pgs., $10 A v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. A large size book, 10 by 14 inches, filled with photos covering the
20071.) BARNET, RICAHRD J. and MARCUS G. RASKIN:->An American Manifesto:
What's Wrong with America and
What We Can Do About It. PB:New American
Library: New York, 1970. 1st Edition 92 pgs., $5 Wraps mass market
ed.,
foxing of page edges, o/w a v/g copy. Cover blurb states this is a responsible
radical alternative to violent
protest.
297.) BARNET, RICHARD J.: ->Roots
of War. HC:Atheneum: New York, 1972. 1st Edition 350 pgs., $1.99 A v/g
copy
in a v/g d/j. Book is an investigation of the forces in American life that
continue to propel the United States into
7819.) BARRELON, PIERRE,
BROSSARD de CORBIGNY, CHARLES LEMIRE, and GASTON CAHEN:->Cities of
Nineteenth
Century Colonial Vietnam; Hanoi, Saigon, Hue, and the Champa Ruins. PB:White
Lotus Press:
Bangkok, 1999. REP. Edition 236 pgs., $19.5 Wraps trade ed.,
light fading top edge of cover, o/w a fine copy. Early
reports by French
writers on Indochina, the first being by Barrelon in 1859. The other appeared in
Le Tour du
Monde from 1878 to 1907. Translated with an introduction by Walter
E.J. Tips.
3645.) BARRETT, DAVID M.: ->Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and
His Vietnam Advisers. PB:University Press
of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 1993. 3rd
Edition 279 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author contends that
Johnson was not simply an irratonal hawk but it was his rational advisory system
that produced flawed and fatal
policies.
26709.) BARTHOLOMEW-FEIS, DIXEE
R.: ->The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War Against
Japan.
HC:University Press of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 2006. 1st Edition 446 pgs., $28 A
mint copy in a mint d/j. A
book on the realtionship between Ho Chi Minh and
the OSS.
44.) BASKIR, LAWRENCE M. and WILLAIM A.
STRAUSS: Foreward by FATHER THEODORE M. HESBURGH:-
>Chance and Circumstance:
The Draft, The War and the Vietnam Generation. HC:Albert A. Knopf, Inc.: New
York,
1978. 1st Edition 312 pgs., $12.5 Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Book deals with
questions as to how 9,000,000 American men
eligible for the draft manage to get themselves deferred or exempted,
etc..
Authors served as senior officials of President Ford's Clemency Board.
5922.) BASS, THOMAS A.: ->Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home. HC:Soho Press:
New York, 1996. 278 pgs.,
$1.99 PB:Soho Press: New York, 1996. 278 pgs.,
$2.99 A very fine copy in a fine d/j. Wraps trade, an uncorrected
proof with
publisher press release enclosed. Book deals with Amerasian children of the
Vietnam War who are now
living in this country as adults.
23704.) BATES,
MILTON J.: ->The Wars We Took to Vietnam; Cultural Conflict and Storytelling.
PB:University of
California Press: Berkeley, 1996. 1st Edition 328 pgs., $7.5
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author brings out the
domestic schisms in this
country as the Vietnam War was being fought and how they shaped our
understanding of
the war as reflected in memoirs, plays, poems, and novels.
3933.) BATES, TOM: ->RADS: The 1970 Bombing of the Army Math Research Center at
the University of Wisconsisn
and Its Aftermath. HC:Harper Collins Publishers:
New York, 1992. 1st Edition 465 pgs., $3.95 A v/g plus copy in a
v/g plus
d/j. A well researched account of this bombing and provides a good history of
the sixties as well.
45.) BATOR, VICTOR: ->Vietnam: A Diplomatic Tragedy:
Origins of U.S. Involvement. HC:Faber and Faber Ltd.:
London, 1967. 271 pgs.,
$7.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author draws heavily on periodicals, newspaper
articles and
goverment pubilcations for this book. It is a well researched
book for the time in which it was written.
46.) BAXTER, GORDON: ->13/13
Vietnam Search and Destroy. HC:World Publishing Co.: Cleaveland, OH, 1967.
1st Edition 120 pgs., $120 Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. . A photo essay
book dedicated to the men of India
Company, 3rd Battalion, lst Marines.
Introduction by Chet Huntley who defends U.S. commitment to Vietnam on
moral
grounds.
3979.) BECKER, ELIZABETH: ->America's Vietnam War: A Narrative
History. HC:Houghton Mifflin: New York, 1992.
1st Edition 211 pgs., $5
Ex-library, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book states that is narrative history
and is for young
adult readers. It does appear to give a good blanace to the
American involvement in Vietnam.
6698.) BEESLEY, STANLEY: ->Vietnam: The
Heartland Remembers. PB:University of Oklahoma Press: Norman,
OK, 1988. 2nd
Edition 194 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. A compilation of memoiries
of those who served
in Veitnam from our nation's heartland.
7508.)
BEHR, EDWARD: ->Bearings: A Foreign Correspondent's Life Behind the Lines.
HC:Viking Press: New York,
1978. 1st Edition 316 pgs., $2.95 A v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. Three chapters of this book are devoted to the author's
23787.)
BEIDLER, PHILIP D.: ->Late Thoughts On An Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam.
HC:University of Georgia
Press: Athens, GA, 2004. 1st Edition 213 pgs., $6.99
A mint copy in a mint d/j. The author feels that the Vietnam
War is being
transformed into a matrix of fantasy and myth used to promote perpetual warfare,
and the war has failed
to fracture our sense of providential destiny and
geopolitical invincibility.
20728.) BELKNAP, MICHAL R.: ->The Vietnam War
On Trial: The My Lai Massacre and Court-Martian of Lieutenant
Calley.
PB:University Press of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 2002. 1st Edition 298 pgs., $15
Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. Book takes the readers through every state of
the trial, from pre-trial investigations to actual courtroom
exchanges among
prosecutors, defendent, witnesses, and judges.
51.) BELL, DANA: ->Air War
Over Vietnam, Volume III. PB:Arms and Armour Press: London-Melbourne-Harrisburg,
1983. 68 pgs., $5 A wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A photo book with captions
identifying aircraft and their use in
53.) BELL, DANA: ->Air War Over
Vietnam: Two Warbird Illustrated in One Volume. HC:Arms and Armour Press:
London, 1982. BC Edition 68 pgs., $8.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. This
edition contains volumes one and two of
Bell's 4 volumes on the air war in
Vietnam.
54.) BELL, DANA: ->Vietnam Warbirds In Action. HC:Arms & Armour
Press: London, 1986. 200 pgs., $7.5 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. A photo book of
planes that were used in Vietnam. Book is a combined edition of Air War Over
Vietnam, Volumes I, II and IV first published by the author in paperback.
3994.) BENAVIDEZ, ROY P. with JOHN R. CRAIG:->Medal of Honor. HC:Brassey's:
Washington, D.C., 1995. 2ND
Edition 234 pgs., $12 PB:Potomac Books: Dulles,
VA, 2005. REP. Edition 211 pgs., $6 A very fine copy in a v/g plus
d/j. D/J
has 1/2 inch tear on front top edge corner, o/w a very clean and bright d.j.
.Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
Benavidez was the last Vietnam veteran to be
awarded the Medal of Honor. This book is his story of his life and
Vietnam
experrience. Foreward by H. Ross Perot.
56.) BENDELL, DON: ->The B-52
Overture. PB:Dell Publishing Co.: New York, 1992. 1st Edition 160 pgs., $6
Wraps mass market, a v/g copy. Wraps original. Account of the North Vietnamese
assault on Special Forces Camp A-
242, Dak Peke in 1969-1970. Author risked
court martial to accept a brigadier's secret commission in the
Montagnard
FULRO combat force and he was invovled in the battle described in the book.
3943.) BENDER, DAVID L.: ->The Vietnam War: Opposing Viewpoints.
PB:Greenhaven Press: St. Paul, MN, 1990.
2nd Edition 240 pgs., $1.99 Wraps a
trade ed., a v/g copy. Book is part of the Opposing Viewpoints Series.
57.) BENDER, Eds. DAVID L. and GARY E. McCUEN:->The Indochina War: Why Our
Policy Failed.
PB:Greenhaven Press: Anoka, Minnesota, 1975. 122 pgs., $1.99
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. There are 16
contributors followed by exercises
for group discussion. Written for high school market.
2880.) BENJAMIN,
BURTON: ->Fair Play: CBS, Genreral Westmoreland, and How a Television
Documentary Went
Wrong. HC:Harper and Row: New York, 1988. 1st Edition 218
pgs., $2.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. CBS chose the
author to conduct an
inquiry into the TV documentary 'The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Decemption.'
This is his
account of the complete investigation. Book contains an
introduction by Walter Cronkite.
4398.) BERGERUD, ERIC M.: ->Red Thunder,
Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam.
PB:Penguin
Books: New York, 1994. 2nd Edition 328 pgs., $3.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus
copy. Account of the
25th Infantry which served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1971.
61.) BERMAN, LARRY: ->Lyndon Johnson's War. HC:W. W. Norton and Co.: New
York, 1989. 1st Edition 254 pgs.,
$2.99 PB:W.W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1991.
4th Edition 254 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps trade ed.,
a v/g
plus copy. Excellent summary of policy debate from 1965-1968. Book also deals
with question of enemy
number debate, drawing heavily on transcripts of
Westmoreland's lawsuit trial against CBS.
9384.) BERMAN, LARRY: ->No
Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam. HC:Free Press: New
York, 2001. 1st Edition 334 pgs., $2.95 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. The
best book to date on the Paris
negotiations based on recent declassified
transcripts of these negotiations.
27525.) BERMAN, LARRY: ->Perfect Spy:
The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An. HC:Smithsonian Books:
New York,
2007. 1st Edition 328 pgs., $12.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. A well researched
account of a Vietnamese
Communist agent who worked for Time Magazine during
the Vietnam War.
5756.) BERRIGAN, DANIEL ->Absurd Convictions, Modest
Hopes: Conversations After Prision With Lee Lockwood.
HC:Random House: New
York, 1972. 227 pgs., $7.5 Ex-library, a v/g copy. These conversations covers
Berrigan's
imprisonment for burning draft records, his 'rebirth' in prison,
and his observations on the failure of the peace
movement.
8662.)
BERRIGAN, DANIEL and ROBERT COLES: ->The Geography of Faith: Conversation
Between Daniel
Berrigan When Underground, and Robert Coles. HC:Beacon Press:
Boston, MA, 1971. 179 pgs., $6 Thirty-one
pages have inked markings or
underlinings, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. A discussion between Coles and
Berrigan on
a variety of subjects while he was in hiding during 1970.
63.) BERRIGAN, DANIEL: ->Night Flight To Hanoi: War Diary with 11 Poems.
HC:Macmillian Publishing Co.: New
York, 1968. 1st Edition 140 pgs., $2.99 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book contains a war diary with 11 poems.
27676.)
BERRIGAN, DANIEL: ->The Dark Night of Resistance. HC:Doubleday & Co.: New York,
1971. 181 pgs., $2.5
Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book was written by
Berrigan during the four months he was resisting arrest and
8350.)
BERRIGAN, DANIEL: ->The Dark Night of Resistance. HC:Doubleday & Co.: New York,
1971. 1st Edition 181
pgs., $15 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. This book was
written by Daniel Berrigan during the four months he was resisting
arrest and
living underground. In this book, he set forth his vision of what can become.
5989.) BERRIGAN, DANIEL: ->The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. HC:Beacon
Press: Boston, MA, 1970. 123 pgs.,
$7.5 PB:Beacon Press: Boston, MA, 1971.
3rd Edition 123 pgs., $1.99 Initials on enpaper, o/w a v/g plus copy.
Wraps
trade ed, previous owner's inititals on enpaper, o/w a v/g plus copy. This is
the dramatization of the courtroom
proceedings of the trial of the nine
charged with destroying draft records, on May 17, 1968, in Catonsville,
Maryland.
64.) BERRY, JOHN STEVENS ->Those Gallant Men: On Trial In
Vietnam. HC:Presido Press.: Novato, Ca., 1984. BC
Edition 173 pgs., $1.99 A
v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author was chief defense counsel for II Field
Force in
Vietnam, 1968-1969. Account of his experiences including the defense
of one of the Green Berets accused of
murdering a double agent.
3269.)
BERRY, Jr. F. CLIFTON: ->The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War: Gadget
Warfare. PB:Bantam Books:
New York, 1988. 1st Edition 158 pgs., $7.5 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g copy. Author served in Vietnam as an operations
officer of
the 196th Light Infantry Brigade. He is very knowledable of his subject and as
all the books in this series, it
is well illustrated.
9829.) BESCHLOSS,
Ed. MICHAEL: ->Reaching For Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes,
1964-
1965. HC:Simon & Schuster: New York, 2001. 1st Edition 475 pgs., $2.99
PB:Simon & Schuster: New York, 2002.
1st Edition 475 pgs., $1.99 A mint copy
in a mint d/j. Wraps trade ed., remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a v/g plus
copy. The tapes of Johnson's presidency during the 1964-65 years. Important
insights on his thinking about the
Vietnam War are included.
5992.)
BESCHLOSS, Ed. MICHAEL: ->Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes,
1963-1964. HC:Simon &
Schuster: New York, 1997. 1st Edition 591 pgs., $2.95 A
mint copy in a mint d/j. This edition of the tapes of the
Johnson's
presidency includes the Tonkin Gulf crisis and unveil his tortured early doubts
about the invovlement in
Vietnam.
21183.) BESCHLOSS, MICHAEL: ->Reaching
For Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965.
PB:Simon &
Schuster: New York, 2002. 1st Edition 474 pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed., a very fine
copy. Book provides
insights on Johnson's real views on the Vietnam War as
opposed to his many public statements.
8360.) BIBBY, Ed. MICHAEL: ->The
Vietnam War and Postmodernity. PB:Univeristy of Massachusetts Press:
Amherst,
MA, 2000. 1st Edition 242 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. The book
contains a collection of essays
on postmodern cultural criticism and theory
in respect to the Vietnam War.
303.) BILTON, MICHAEL and KEVIN SIM:->Four
Hours In My Lai. HC:Viking Press: New York, 1992. 1st Edition 430
pgs., $3.99
Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. The book grew out
of the documentary
film on My Lai made for Yorkshire Television's First
Tuesday program in Britain, and Station WGBH in Boston, part of
PBS. The
authors interviewed both survivors and perpetrators of the massacre.
26171.) BIRCHIM, BARBARA with SUE CLARK: ->Is Anybody Listening: A True Story
About the POW/MIAs in the
Vietnam War. PB:AuthorHouse: Bloomington, IN, 2005.
476 pgs., $25 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An account
by the wife of Special
Forces Lieutentant as to the obstacles she has faced trying to determine her
husband's fate
who was reported as being MIA in 1968 and later KIA in 1971.
6806.) BIRD, KAI: ->The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William
Bundy: Brothers in Arms. HC:Simon and
Schuster: New York, 1998. 496 pgs.,
$3.99 Ex-library, o/w a v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. A biography of two key
advisors to Kennedy and Johnson in respect to the Vietnam War.
6161.)
BIRDWELL, DWIGHT: ->A Hundred Miles of Bad Road: An Armored Cavalryman In
Vietnam, 1967-68.
HC:Presidio Press: Novato, CA, 1997. BC Edition 218 pgs.,
$5 Ex-library, a v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Personal
memoir of an
armored cavalryman who won the Silver Star and Purple Heart during the TET
Offensive.
3975.) BISHOP, Ed. CHRIS: ->Vietnam War Diary. HC:Military
Press: New York, 1990. 1st Edition 256 pgs., $6 A
fine copy in a v/g d/j. A
day by day diary of the Vietnam War, listing key events from January, 1964 to
April 30th,
1975. Book is a large size picture book size with 100 color and
220 black and white photos.
22611.) BLACK, ROBERT W.: ->A Ranger Born: A
Memoir of Combat and Valor >From Korea to Vietnam.
HC:Ballantine Books: New
York, 2002. 1st Edition 317 pgs., $2.99 PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 2003. 1st
Edition
366 pgs., $1.99 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Wraps mass market ed., a
mint copy. Memoir of an Airborne Ranger who
served both in Korea and Vietnam.
The heart of the book is the yearsthe author served in Vietnam in Long An
Province, beginning in 1967.
9585.) BLACKMAN, ALLAN: ->Face to Face with Your
Draft Board. PB:World Without War Council: Berkeley, CA,
1969. 90 pgs., $12.5
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Book is designed for conscientious objectors,
though the book
blurb states it is for anyone wishing to have a personal
appearance before their draft board.
4773.) BLAIR, ANNE: ->Lodge in
Vietnam: A Patriot Abroad. HC:Yale University Press: New Haven, CT., 1995. 1st
Edition 200 pgs., $30 Review copy with review laid in, a mint copy in a mint
d/j. The book focuses on Lodge's
ambassadorship from 1963 to June of 1964.
She draws upon Lodge's collected papers, including an unpublished
memoir, as
well interviews with former U.S. officials who served with Lodge. It clearly
shows that Lodge was in the
mold of a 19th century diplomat who did not have
the skills or temperament to run a modern diplomatic mission.
This of course
proved to be a disaster.
305.) BLAKEY, SCOTT: ->Prisoner At War: The Survival
of Commander Richard A. Stratton. HC:Doubleday and Co.:
New York, 1978. 1st
Edition 397 pgs., $12.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. D/J has chipping top & bottom
of spine.
Account of Navy pilot Stratton's six year ordeal as a POW and a
story also of his wife's effort to hold the family
together which included
three sons. A sister of Stratton was an anti-war activist.
25034.)
BLIGHT, JAMES G. and JANET B. LANG: ->The Fog of War: Lessons from the Life of
Robert S. McNamara.
PB:Rowan and Littlefield Publishers: Lanham, MD, 2005.
307 pgs., $19.95 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy.
Book is based on the
academy award film by Errol Morris. It is more than a companion volume to film
as it has
newly classified documents and excellent commentary by the authors.
A must reading for Secretary Rumsfield and I
offer any customer $100.00 if
they can persuade either President Bush or Secretary Rumsfield to read it. .
31621.) BLIGHT, JAMES G., JANET M LANG, and DAVID A. WELCH: ->Vietnam If
Kennedy Had Lived: Virtual JFK.
HC:Rowan and Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 2009.
1ST Edition 421 pgs., $19.5 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j.
Authors
provide what they feel is compelling arguments that John K. Kennedy was ready to
end the U.S.
involvement in Vietnam.
307.) BLOCK, MICKEY and WILLIAM
KIMBALL:->Before the Dawn. HC:Daring Books: Canton, Ohio, 1988. BC
Edition
192 pgs., $2.99 PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1989. 3rd Edition 217 pgs., $1.99 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Wraps a mass market edition ed., a v/g copy. Personal
memoir of a Navy Seal Commando who served in Vietnam.
29300.) BLONDELL,
ANTHONY J.: ->Honor and Sacrifice: The Montagnards of Ba Cat, Vietnam.
HC:Hellgate Press:
Central Point, OR, 2000. 1ST Edition 319 pgs., $9.95 A
mint copy in a mint d/j. An account of a Sp[ecial Forces
team sent to work
with the Montagnards in Bac Cat. Author was a member of that team and goves an
account of
how the South Vietnamese sabotaged that effort.
33224.) BLUHM,
RAYMOND K.: ->Vietnam War: A Chronology of War. HC:Universe Publishing: New
York, 2010.
1ST Edition 296 pgs., $25 A mint copy in an illustrated padded
cover. A large size photo book that provides a well
illustrated history of
the Vietnam War with a detailed chronology of the war starting in January of
1950 when the
Soviet Union and the People's Repbulc of .China recognized the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
391.) BOETTIGER, Editor JOHN R.:
->Vietnam and American Foreign Policy. PB:D. C. Heath and Co.: Lexington,
Mass., 1968. 150 pgs., $1.99 Wraps, outer edges browning, cover some creasing,
o/w a v/g copy. Title is part of
9467.) BONG-WRIGHT, JACKIE: ->Autumn
Cloud: From Vietnamese War Widow to American Activist. HC:Capital
Books.,
Inc.: Sterling, VA, 2001. 1st Edition 311 pgs., $25 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
Personal memoir of
Vietnamese woman who escaped from Vietnam with three young
children. Her husband was to become her
country's prime minister when he was
assassinated. Later in the states, she remarried and in 1981 she was selected
as one of the year's ten outstanding Asian-American in America.
393.) BONIOR,
DAVID E., STEVEN M. CHAMPLIN and TIMOTHY KOLLY:->The Vietnam Veteran: A History
of
Neglect. HC:Praeger Publishers: New York, 1984. 200 pgs., $6 PB:Praeger
Publishers: New York, 1986. 200 pgs.,
$3 Name blacked out on enpaper, o/w a
v/g copy in v/g d/j. Wraps trade ed., inscribed by Kolly, a v/g copy. David
Donior is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives who served stateside
during the Vietnam War. The authors
argue that our nation's institutions
energies are focused on the ideology and morality of the war and ignored the
individual veteran.
34121.) BORCH, FREDERIC L.: ->Judge Advocates In Combat:
Army Lawyers in Military Operations from Vietnam to
Haiti. HC:Center of
Military History: Washingotn, DC, 2001. 1st Edition 413 pgs., $7.5 A mint copy.
No d/j.
394.) BORNET, LOVLEFF: ->Something To Declare. HC:Harvill Press
Ltd.: London, 1957. 180 pgs., $19.5 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. This is an
account of two French Customs officers captured by Japanese who did not
surrender after
end of war. They escaped through the Central Highlands and
went on to Saravane where they were assisted by a
Chinese opium smuggler. A
real period piece.
66.) BOSILJEVAC, T.L.: ->Seals: UDT/Seal Operations in
Vietnam. HC:Paladin Press: Boulder, CO, 1990. 256
pgs., $10 PB:Ivy Books: New
York, 1991. 4th Edition 272 pgs., $6 Light stain spot top edge, o/w a v/g plus
copy in a
fine d/j. Wraps mass marrket ed., a mint copy. A history of the
SEALS in Vietnam written by Naval officer who has
served in various SEAL
commands.
2.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: A
Collision of Cultures. HC:Boston
Publishing Co.: Boston, 1984. 1st Edition
192 pgs., $12 A fine copy in a v/g plus d/j. This is volume 12 in the
3.)
BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: A Nation Divided:
The War At Home,
1945-1972. HC:Boston Publishing Co.: Boston, MA, 1984. 3rd
Edition 192 pgs., $7.5 Scrape on foredge of front
4.) BOSTON PUBLISHING
COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: A War Remembered: Voices From
Vietnam. HC:Boston Publishing Co.: Boston, 1986. 2nd Edition 192 pgs., $10 A v/g
copy. This is volume 19 in the
5.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS:
->The Vietnam Experience: America Takes Over. HC:Boston
Publishing Co.:
Boston, 1982. 1st Edition 192 pgs., $10 A v/g copy. The fourth volume in the
Vietnam Experience
6.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam
Experience: Combat Photographer. HC:Boston
Publishing Co.: Boston, 1983. 2nd
Edition 176 pgs., $6 A v/g copy. This is volume 8 in the Vietnam Experience
67.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: Contagion
of War. HC:Boston
Publishing Co.: Boston, 1983. 6th Edition 192 pgs., $6 A
v/g copy. This is volume 5 in the Vietnam Experience
69.) BOSTON
PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: Fighting for Time.
HC:Boston
Publishing Co.: Boston, 1983. 192 pgs., $10 A v/g copy.
4149.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: Flags Into
Battle. HC:Boston
Publishing Co.: Boston, 1987. 1st Edition 192 pgs., $15 A
v/g plus copy. An account of eight major units that were
70.) BOSTON
PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: Nineteen Sixty-Eight.
HC:Boston
Publishing Co.: Boston, 1983. 2nd Edition 192 pgs., $10 A v/g copy.
This is volume 6 in the Vietnam Experience
71.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY
EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: Passing the Torch. HC:Boston
Publishing
Co.: Boston, 1981. 3rd Edition 208 pgs., $10 Scratching on front cover and back
cover, o/w a v/g copy..
This is the 2 volume in the Vietnam Experience
series.
72.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience:
Rain of Fire: The Air War, 1968-
1975. HC:Boston Publishing Co.: Boston,
1985. 2nd Edition 192 pgs., $10 A v/g plus copy. This is volume 14 in
73.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: Raising the
Stakes. HC:Boston
Publishing Co.: Boston, 1982. 6th Edition 192 pgs., $12 A
v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Another copy, $10.00, a v/g
copy. This is volume
3 in the Vietnam Experience series.
74.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY
EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: Setting the Stage. HC:Boston
Publishing
Co.: Boston, 1981. 191 pgs., $10 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. This is the first
volume in the Vietnam
75.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The
Vietnam Experience: South Vietnam On Trial: The Test of
Vietnamization,
1970-1972. HC:Boston Publishing Co.: Boston, 1984. 1st Edition 192 pgs., $6 A
v/g copy. This is
volume 10 in the Vietnam Experience series.
76.)
BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: The Aftermath.
HC:Boston
Publishing Co.: Boston, 1985. 2nd Edition 191 pgs., $10 A v/g copy.
78.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: The Fall
of the South: The
Communist Offensive of 1975. HC:Boston Publishing Co.:
Boston, 1985. 1st Edition 191 pgs., $10 A v/g copy. This
is volume 16 in the
Vietnam Experience series.
68.) BOSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The
Vietnam Experience: The False Peace. HC:Boston
Publishing Co.: Boston, MA,
1985. 2nd Edition 191 pgs., $10 A v/g plus copy.
79.) BOSTON PUBLISHING
COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: The North. HC:Boston Publishing
Co.: Boston, MA, 1986. 2nd Edition 192 pgs., $12 A v/g copy.
80.) BOSTON
PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: Thunder From Above: The
War in
the Air Through 1968. HC:Boston Publishing Co.: Boston, 1984. 2nd
Edition 192 pgs., $6 A v/g copy. This is
volume 9 in the Vietnam Experience
series.
3112.) BOSTON PUBLISHING GROUP EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience:
Images of War. HC:Boston Publishing
Co.: Boston, 1986. 2nd Edition 192 pgs.,
$12 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Another copy, a v/g copy. This volume
focuses on the dramatic photos depicting the war. Text by Robert Stone.
7047.) BOSTON PUBLISHING GROUP: ->The Vietnam Experience: 25 Volume Set.
HC:Boston Publishing Co.:
Boston, . 0 pgs., $250 A twenty-five volume set,
there is some scratching and some volumes have tips of covers
81.) BOSTON
PUBLSIHING COMPANY EDITORS: ->The Vietnam Experience: Tools of War. HC:Boston
Publishing
Co.: Boston, 1985. 2nd Edition 176 pgs., $12 A v/g plus copy in a
v/g d/j. Another copy, $10.00, some scratching
of cover, o/w a v/g copy. This
is volume 13 in the Vietnam experience series.
1253.) BOWERS, RAY L.:
->Tactical Airlift. HC:Office of Air Force History: Washington, D.C., 1983. 899
pgs., $25
A v/g plus copy.. Title is part of the United States Air Force in
Southeast Asia series.
84.) BOWMAN, Ed. JOHN S.: Introduction by FOX
BUTTERFIELD:->The Vietnam War: An Almanac. HC:World
Almanac Publicaitons: New
York, 1985. 1st Edition 512 pgs., $12.5 PB:World Almanac Publications: New York,
1985. 512 pgs., $7.5 A fine copy in a fine d/j Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
First 355 pages provide a chronology of
Vietnam, starting with early history
by year, then with specific dates starting from September 22nd, 1940 through to
November 11th, 1984.
7227.) BOWMAN, Ed. JOHN S: ->The Vietnam
War: Day By Day. HC:Mallard Press: Hong Kong, 1989. 224 pgs.,
$12.5 A v/g
plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. The book provides an almost daily account of
events, beginning in
September 1857 through November 11, 1984 which is the
day a statue of three infantrymen is dedicated at the
Vietnam War Memorial.
During the height of the war, there is a day by day account of the war.
Excellent reference
with an introduction by Fox Butterfield. This particular
edition has more photos and is larger in size than the other
editions but it
does not have the biographies, or articles about land, air and irregular forces
that these editions have.
9555.) BOYD, ALICIA J.: ->Shadows of a
Vietnam Veteran: Silent Victims. PB:Truman Publishing Co.: Kansas,
MO, 2000.
1st Edition 153 pgs., $17.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Personal memoir of a
wife and her family
3695.) BRADFORD, ALFRED S.: ->Some Even Volunteered:
The First Wolfhounds Pacify Vietnam. HC:Praeger
Publishers: Westport, CT.,
1994. BC Edition 178 pgs., $5 A fine copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author relates the
story of
the First Battalion of the Twenty-Seventh Infantry Regiment of the
25th Infantry Division as they pacified the district
of Tri Tam.
100.)
BRANDON, HEATHER: ->Casualties: Death In Vietnam, Anguish & Survival In America
HC:St. Martin's Press:
New York, 1984. 1st Edition 357 pgs., $7.5 Title page
removed, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. An oral history of those
who loss loved
ones in Vietnam. Author worked for the Veterans Administration 's Vet Center
counseling program.
2378.) BRANDON, HENRY: ->The Retreat of American
Power. HC:Doubleday & Co.: New York, 1973. 1st Edition
368 pgs., $2.95 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Author argues that Nixon and Kissinger changed American
policy for years
to come and that Defense Secretary Melvin Laird presented
obstacles to this change.
101.) BRASS, ALISTER: ->Bleeding Earth: A
Doctor Looks At Vietnam. HC:William Heinemann Ltd.: Melbourne,
1968. 1st
Edition 189 pgs., $15 Ex-library, front of d/j pasted on front cover, a v/g
copy.m edge on back of d/j.
Author is an Australian who was the Editor of the
'Medical Journal of Australia.' A descriptive account of hospitals,
medical
clinics and refugee camps which he toured. Book contains a foreword by Harrison
E. Salisbury.
102.) BRELIS, DEAN and JILL KREMENTZ:->The Face of South
Vietnam. HC:Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1968. 1st
Edition 250 pgs., $15 Wear
and some scarring of spine, o/w a v/g copy;. A black and white photo book of
South
Vietnam, first 112 pages is text with the balance containing black and
white photos. Anti-war in tone. Text is by
Brelis, photos by Jill Krementz.
104.) BRENNAN, Ed. MATTHEW: ->Hunter-Killer Squadron: Aero-Weapons, Aero Scouts,
Aero Rifles, Vietnam:
1965-1972. PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1992. 2nd Edition
317 pgs., $6 Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g copy.
Author edited these
accounts that came as a result of his first two books, Brennan's War and
Headhunters.
103.) BRENNAN, MATTHEW: ->Brennan's War: Vietnam 1965-69.
HC:Presidio Press: Novato, CA, 1985. 1ST
Edition 275 pgs., $6 PB:Pocket
Books: New York, 1986. 5th Edition 290 pgs., $2.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. D/J
has
chipping top & bottom of spine and top edge. Wraps a mass market ed., a
v/g copy. Author made over 400
helicopter assaults with the First Air Cavalry
Division reconnaisance squadron in Vietnam from 1965-1969. After
Vietnam, he
went on to earn a PhD in anthropology at Harvard.
106.) BREWIN, BOB and
SYDNEY SHAW:->Vietnam on Trial: Westmoreland vs. CBS. HC:Atheneum: New York,
1987. 1st Edition 288 pgs., $3.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. The authors
bring out in this book not only an
account of the trial but how the documents
declasified and the testimonies given by Rusk, McNamara, and Rostow
provided
new insights on the Vietnam War.
3388.) BRIANTAIS, JEAN-MARIE, COMITE
SUD-VIETNAMIEN POUR LA DENONCIATION des CRIMES de
GUERRE et.al.:->Les
massacres la guerre chimique en asie du sud-est. PB:Cahiers Libres: Paris, 1970.
136 pgs.,
$12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Book is outgrowth of the
War Crimes Tribunal held in Stockholm led by
Bertrand Russell. Collection of
papers by participants in this event. French text.
26125.) BRIGHAM,
ROBERT K.: ->ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army. HC:University
Press of
Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 2006. 1st Edition 178 pgs., $15 A mint copy in
a mint d/j. An account more of the enlisted
men in ARVN rather than its
officer corps. Author draws on many Vietnamese sources that focuses on troop
morale
and motivation within the context of traditional Vietnamese society.
He describes the conscription policy that forced
men into the army for
indefinite periods with a shameful lack of training and a shameful lack of
training, a
dimension that has not been previously explored in studies on the
Vietnam War.
22727.) BRINKLEY, DOUGLAS: ->Tour of Duty: John Kerry and
the Vietnam War. HC:William Morrow & Co.: New
York, 2004. 1st Edition 546
pgs., $1.99 A mint copy in a mint d/j. An account of Kerry's experience in
Vietnam and
his involvement later with the anti-war movement.
7737.)
BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE, ->Recent Exchanges Concerning Attempts to Promote a
Negotiated Settlement
of the Conflict in Viet Nam. PB:Her Majesty's
Stationery Office: London, 1965. 129 pgs., $7.5 Wraps in a card
cover, a v/g
copy. Publication ocnsists of 63 documents.
7259.) BRITTAN, DOLLY: ->The
People of Vietnam. HC:Rosen Publishing Group: New York, 1997. 1st Edition 24
pgs., $12.95 Library binding, a mint copy. A children's book written for
elementary children, illustrated by color
108.) BRODRICK, ALAN HOUGHTON:
->Little China: The Annamese Lands. HC:AMS Press: New York, 1974. Rep.
Edition 332 pgs., $35 A v/g plus copy. Though author views title as a travel
book, it portrays colonial thought in
Vietnam just prior to World War II.
Author travelled widely there in 1939 and this book is a rare period piece which
fortunately captured a picture of Vietnam shortly before the Japanese
occupation.
31631.) BROOKE, EDWARD W.: ->The United States and the
Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Indochina.
Wraps trade ed., owner name
on fornt cover, a v/g copy. Senator Brooke was the ranking Republican member of
the
Subcommittee on Operations, Committee on Appropriations.
110.)
BROUGHTON, JACK: Foreword by TOM WOLFE:->Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi
and Washington.
HC:Crown Publishers, Inc.: New York, 1988. BC Edition 300
pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author's
thesis is that
Washington's oversupervision of the air war was fatal in terms of its being
effective. Author flew a F-105
in Vietnam.
111.) BROUGHTON, JACK:
Introduction by HANSON W. BALDWIN:->Thud Ridge. PB:Bantam Books: New York,
1985. 1st Edition 237 pgs., $2.5 Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g copy. Author
was an Air Force pilot in Vietnam who
charges that tactics utilized in
Vietnam led to the death or imprisonment of over 900 pilots.
118.) BROWN,
Eds. SAM and LEN ACKLAND: Introduction by MAYOR JOHN V. LINDSAY:->Why Are We
Still In
Vietnam? HC:Random House: New York, 1970. 2nd Edition 144 pgs., $10
PB:Vintage Books: New York, 1970. 1st
Edition 144 pgs., $5 A v/g copy in a
good plus d/j. Wraps mass market size ed., a v/g copy. Brown helped organize
studends for McCarthy and Ackland worked with IVS in Vietnam, then with the Rand
Corporation. Book contains
articles by Jeffrey Record, D. Gareth Porter, Tran
Van Dinh, Senator McGovern, et al..
7125.) BROWN, FRED LEO: ->Wall of
Blood. PB:Combat Ready publishing: Palos Heights, IL, 1992. 1st Edition
296
pgs., $1.99 Wraps trade ed., inscribed by author, a mint copy. Though it states
it a first edition, there is a
reference to another book printed in 1994.
Personal memoir of Vietnam veteran dealing with his PSTD.
26169.) BROWN,
JIM: ->Impact Zone: The Battle of the DMZ in Vietnam, 1967-1968. HC:University
of Alabama
Press: Tuscaloosa, Al., 2004. 277 pgs., $27.95 A mint copy in a
mint d/j. This is the author's account of his battle
experiences along the
DMZ, including Khe Sanh and Con Thien. He served with the Marines as a First
Lieutenant
of an artillery unit.
114.) BROWN, JOHN M. G.: ->Rice Paddy
Grunt: Unfading Memories of the Vietnam Generation. HC:Regnery
Gateway, Inc.:
Lake Bluff, Il., 1986. BC Edition 356 pgs., $10 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus
d/j. Account of an
5242.) BROWN, RICHARD L.: ->Palace Gate: Under Siege
in Hue City: TET January 1968. HC:Schiffler Publishing
Ltd.: Atglen, PA,
1995. 1st Edition 192 pgs., $24.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Author was an Air
Force Lietenant
Colonel at the time of the TET Offensive in Hue. His
responsibilities were advising General Truong on Air Force
support and
leading Forward Air Controllers responsible for the area Between the DMZ and
DaNang. This is his
account of the battle in and around Hue.
115.) BROWN,
ROBERT McAFEE, ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL and MICHAEL NOVAK:->Vietnam: Crisis of
Conscience.
PB:Association Press: New York, 1967. 127 pgs., $5 Wraps mass
market edition, a v/g copy. Written by three leaders
from America's three
major faiths, calling upon Protestants, Catholics and Jews to act in order to
stop the Vietnam
war.
3698.) BROWN, Series Editor ASHLEY: ->The Green
Beret: U.S. Special Forces From Vietnam to Delta Force.
PB:Villard Books: New
York, 1986. 2nd Edition 96 pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Book first
published by Orbis
in London. Concise text and excellent selection of photos
depicting missions of the Special Forces with 64 pages
devoted to Vietnam.
117.) BROWN, WELDON A.: ->The Last Chopper: The Denouement of the American Role
in Vietnam, 1963-1975.
HC:Kennikat Press: Port Washington, NY, 1976. 1st
Edition 371 pgs., $7.5 Account covers the years of 1963-1975.
The author
draws heavily on newspaper sources.
3135.) BROWNE, CORINNE: ->Casualty: A
Memoir of Love and War. HC:W.W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1981. 1st
Edition 219
pgs., $12.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Memoir of the author who became
attracted to a chapel built
in New Mexico by the parents whose son was killed
in Vietnam. At this chapel, she encounters another Vietnam
veteran who is
emotionally scarred by the war.
4858.) BROWNE, MALCOLM W.: ->The New Face of
War. A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. This edition brings the reader up
to date from
his first book written in 1965.
119.) BROWNE, MALCOLM W.: ->The New Face
of War. HC:Bobbs-Merrill: Indianapolis, IN, 1965. 1st Edition 284
pgs., $3.95
A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author was an AP reporter in Vietnam, noted for having
taken the photo of the
Buddhist monk Quang Duc in 1963 who burned himself
alive. In this book, he views Vietnam as vital to United
States interest.
4150.) BROWNMILLER, SUSAN: ->Seeing Vietnam: Encounters of the Road and Heart.
HC:Harper Collins: New
York, 1994. 1st Edition 228 pgs., $10 A fine copy in a
fine d/j. Observations by the author who went to Vietnam
after the lifting of
travel restrictions by the U.S. in 1992.
120.) BROYLES, Jr. WILLIAM:
->Brothers In Arms: A Journey From War to Peace. HC:Alfred A. Knopf: New York,
1986. 1st Edition 284 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Sppine of d/j
faded but no chipping. . Account of
author's return visit to Vietnam in 1984
where he visited Hanoi, then I Corps at Da Nang. He served at Da Nang as a
Marine lieutenant in 1969.
3073.) BRUNE, LESTER H. and RICHARD DEAN
BURNS:->America and the Indochina Wars, 1945-1990: A
Bibliographical Guide.
HC:Regina Books: Claremont, CA., 1992. 286 pgs., $12 Wear bottom of spine and
bottom
tips of cover slightly bent, o/w a v/g copy. No dust jacket. This work
supplements the two earlier volumes by Richard
Dean Burns and Milton
Leitenberg--The Vietnam Conflict: Its Geographical Dimensions, Political Trauma
& Military
Developments (1973) and The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos,
1945-1982: A Bibliographical Guide (1984) as
it emphasizes books, articles
and dissertations since 1980. Contains 3,550 entries broken down in very useful
subject
categories.
26913.) BRUNET, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE:
->Gendarmes-Parachutistes en Indochine, 1947-1953. PB:Indo Editions:
Paris,
2005. 342 pgs., $24.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. French text, preface by
General Marcel Bigeard.
122.) BRYAN, C. D. B.: ->Friendly Fire. HC:G. P.
Putnam's Sons: New York, 1976. 1st Edition 380 pgs., $2.5
PB:Bantam Books:
New York, 1977. 7th Edition 437 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps a
mass market ed.,
scrape on backcover, o/w a v/g copy. Account of an
infantryman killed by friendly fire who was in a unit commanded
by Norman
Schwarzkopf, then a Lt. Col. in Vietnam. Book describes a meeting between
Schwarzkopf and parents
of the infantryman who were in the peace movement.
32571.) BUCHANAN, WILLIAM L.: ->Full Circle: A Marine Rifle Company in
Vietnam. A mint copy in a mint d/j.
An account of of the Mrines of G Compnay,
2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment in Vietnamb
26091.) BUCHANAN, WILLIAM L.:
->Full Circle: A Marine Rifle Company in Vietnam. HC:Baylaurel Press: Mill
Valley, CA, 2003. BC Edition 263 pgs., $12 A very fine copy in a fine d/j. An
account of G Company, 2nd
Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment duirng 1967 in
Vietnam.
1180.) BUCKINGHAM, Jr. WILLIAM A.: ->Operation Ranch Hand:
The United States Air Force and Herbicides in
Southeast Asia, 1961-1971.
PB:Office of Air Force History: Washington, DC, 1982. 252 pgs., $12.5 Wraps
trade
ed., name on outside cover, o/w a v/g plus copy. Written by William A.
Buckingham.
28295.) BUNDY, WILLIAM P.: ->American Policy in Southeast
Asia. PB:United States Information Agency:
Washington, DC, 1965. 20 pgs.,
$1.5 Wraps booklet, a v/g copy. Booklet contains the text of a speech given by
Bundy on January 23rd, 1965 before the Washington Chamber of Commerce,
Washington, Missouri. No postage
charge if ordered with another title.
6606.) BUNDY, WILLIAM: ->A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the
Nixon Presidency. HC:Hill and
Wang: New York, 1998. 1st Edition 647 pgs.,
$3.95 Ex-library, o/w a v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. A critical
assessment of Nixon's and Kissinger's conduct of foreign policy thorugh secrecy
and deception.
129.) BURCHETT, WILFRED G.: ->Grasshoppers and Elephants:
The Viet Cong Account of the Last 55 Days of the
War. PB:Uriaen Books: New
York, 1977. 1st Edition 265 pgs., $5 Wraps, a trade size edition, a v/g copy.
Only one
chapter deals with the actual fall of Saigon and it is not an
eyewitness account on his part. Other chapters deal with
events up to the
fall and and 4 chapters deal with events after the fall.
128.)
BURCHETT, WILFRED G.: ->Vietnam: Inside Story of the Guerilla War.
HC:International Publishers: New York,
1965. 253 pgs., $7.95 PB:International
Publishers: New York, 1968. 3RD Edition 252 pgs., $3.95 A v/g copy in a
v/g
d/j. Wraps, trade size ed., a v/g plus copy. An eyewitness account based on
author's stay with the NLF in late
1963 and the first three months of 1964.
130.) BURCHETT, WILFRED: ->Vietnam Will Win. PB:Guardian Book: New York, 1970.
2nd Edition 230 pgs., $7.5
Wraps trade ed, a v/g copy.
30952.) BURGESS,
RICHARD R. and ROSARIO M. ROUSE: ->US Navy A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam
War.
PB:Osprey Publishing Ltd.: London & New York, 2009. 1ST Edition 96 pgs.,
$20.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.in
The A-1 attack and EA-1F electronic
countermeasures aircraft saw action in Vietnam from 1960-1969. Both authors
were naval aviators who served in Vietnam.
131.) BURKE, JOHN P. and FRED
I. GREENSTEIN with the collaboration of LARRY BERMAN and->How Presidents
Test
Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965. PB:Russell Sage Foundationn: New
York, 1989. 331 pgs.,
$2.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Book copares
the Vietnam decisions of two presidents, Eisenhower and
Johnson, whose
leaderrship styles and advisory systems diverged sharply.
133.) BURRUSS,
L. H. BUCKY: ->Mike Force. PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1989. 1st Edition 255
pgs., $6 Wraps
mass market ed., a v/g copy. Paperback original, author served
2 years as a Mike Force officer in Vietnam.
31926.) BURTON, EDWARD: ->The
Swedish-American Press and the Vietnam War. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
This
study examines how the Swedish-American newspapers dealt with Sweden's support
of the FNL and shelterred
American deserters during the Vietnam War.
134.) BUTLER, DAVID: ->The Fall of Saigon. HC:Simon & Schuster: New York, 1985.
1ST Edition 510 pgs., $2.99
PB:Dell Publishing Co.: New York, 1986. 527 pgs.,
$1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g
copy Author
was an NBC reporter in Saigon at time of its fall.
21573.) BUZZANCO,
ROBERT and ASAD ISMI: ->Informed Dissent: Three Generals and the Vietnam War.
PB:Vietnam Generation & Burning Cities Press: Chevy Chase, MD, n.d.. 58 pgs.,
$7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus
copy. Contains essays by Robert Buzzanco and
Asad Ismi.
9429.) BYRD, BARTHY: ->Home Front: Women and Vietnam.
PB:Shameless Hussy Press: Berkeley, CA, 1986. 68
pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a
v/g copy. Book provides the stories of nine women that paid the price of the
Vietnam
War in terms of dealing with their husbands, sons or brothers coming
home from the war with either and/or both the
emotional and the physical
wounds of Vietnam.
27941.) CAIRNS, J. F.: ->The Eagle and the Lotus: Western
Intervention in Vietnam, 1847-1968. HC:Lansdowne
Press: Melbourne, Australia,
1969. 1st Edition 250 pgs., $7.5 Ex-library, a v/g copy. A view of an Australian
critic
23537.) CALLAWAY, Jr. JOSEPH W.: ->Mekong first Light.
HC:Ballantine Books: New York, 2004. BC Edition 256
pgs., $12 PB:Ballantine
Books: New York, 2004. 1st Edition 256 pgs., $6.99 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
Wraps a mass
market ed., a mint copy. Personal memoir a Platoon leader who
went to Vietnam in Decmeber of 1966.
9463.) CALVIN, LINDA and SANDY
STRAIT: ->What Was it Like in Vietnam? PB:Trillium Press: Unionville, NY,
1992. 130 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy. Linda Calvin is a high
school teacher who over the years had
Vietnam veterans speak to her classes.
Book contains part of their stories and questions students have asked. These
questions were sent to other veterans across the country and some of the
responses are in the book.
142.) CAMERON, JAMES: ->Here Is Your Enemy:
James Cameron's Complete Report From North Vietnam. HC:Holt
Rinehart Winston:
New York, 1965. 1st Edition 143 pgs., $12.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
Author a British
correspondent who went to North Vietnam in December of 1965.
Met with Ho Chi Minh and Pham Van Dong.
144.) CAMP, Jr. RICHARD D. with
ERIC HAMMEL:->Lima-6: A Marine Company Commander in Vietnam.
HC:Atheneum: New
York, 1989. 1st Edition 295 pgs., $10 PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1990. 2nd
Edition 331 pgs.,
$5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps a mass market
ed., a v/g plus copy. Personal memoir of a Marine captain
who commanded Lima
Company, 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines from 1967 through the siege of Khe Sanh.
2398.) CAMPBELL, ALEX: ->Unbind Your Sons: The Captivity of America In Asia.
HC:Liveright Publishing Corp.:
New York, 1970. 366 pgs., $2.99 PB:Liveright
Publishing Corp.: New York, 1970. 366 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in
a v/g
plus d/j. Wraps a trade sized ed., a v/g plus copy.
145.)
CAMPER, FRANK: ->L.R.R.P.: The Professional. PB:Dell Publishing Co.: New York,
1988. 4th Edition 254
pgs., $2.99 Wraps mass market, a fine copy. Author's
account as a member of a Long Range Combat Patrol in
Vietnam. He served in
Vietnam from August, 1966 to June, 1967.
146.) CANH, NGUYEN VAN:
->Vietnam Under Communism, 1975-1982. HC:Hoover Institution Press: Stanford, CA,
1983. 1st Edition 295 pgs., $7.5 Ex-library, a v/g copy. No d/j. Author was an
active member of the Dai Viet and
and he was deputy dean of the faculty of
law at the University of Saigon when South Vietnam fell in 1975.
147.)
CAPPS, WALTER H.: ->The Unfinished War: Vietnam and the American Conscience.
HC:Beacon Press:
Boston, 1982. 1st Edition 177 pgs., $3.99 PB:Beacon Press:
Boston, 1982. 1st Edition 177 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in
a v/g d/j. Wraps a
trade size ed., a fine copy. Author was professor of religious studies at
University of Califonia at the
time of writing this book.
3960.) CAPUTO,
PHILIP: ->Means of Escape. HC:Harper Collins: New York, 1991. 1st Edition 405
pgs., $5.99
PB:Harper Collins: New York, 1991. 1st Edition 405 pgs., $1.99 A
v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps a trade size
ed., a v/g plus copy.
This book is the author's journey through lands torn by war, including Vietnam.
It is also a very
personal voyage for him and though not focused on Vietnam
per se, one who served there can relate to this book.
148.) CAPUTO,
PHILLIP: ->A Rumor of War. HC:Holt Rinehart Winston: New York, 1977. 1st Edition
346 pgs.,
$19.502 PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 1984. 19th Edition 346 pgs.,
$6 Price clipped, o/w a v/g plus copy in a v/g
plus d/j. D/J in mylar cover.
Another copy, a Book Club ed., $7.50, a v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps,
a trade
size complimentary copy, a v/g copy. Author landed with the first
U.S. ground combat unit in March of 1965 at Da
Nang. He was a young Marine
infantry officer and this is his personal memoir of a 16 month tour. This is one
of the
outstanding personal accounts of the Vietnam War.
4781.) CARD,
JOSEFINA J.: ->Lives After Viet-Nam.: The Personal Impact of Military Service.
HC:Lexington Books:
Lexington, MA, 1983. 184 pgs., $12.5 Bookplate on
enpaper, o/w a fine copy in a poor d/j. Study based on 1,500
men who
completed high school in 1963. These men were first examined as ninth graders in
part of a larger effort
called Project TALENT, which detailed the boys'
academic abilities, their personalities, and their plans for further
schooling and work. The author then examines these men at age 36, dividing them
into three groups, those who
served in Vietnam, those who served in the
military but not in Vietnam , and those who did not serve in the military.
20548.) CAREY, DAVE: ->The Ways We Choose: Lessons For Life From a POW's
Experience. PB:BookPartners,
Inc.: Wilsonville, Oregon, 2000. 2nd Edition 163
pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Personal memoir a Navy
POW who was
shot down and captured in 1967. Most of the book recounts his experience as a
POW and the last
two chapters are devoted to lessons learned from his POW
experience.
149.) CARHART, TOM: ->The Offering. HC:William Morrow & Co.:
New York, 1987. 1st Edition 305 pgs., $2.99 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author a
West Point graduate who went to Vietnam upon graduation in 1996, commanding a
long-range reconnaissance platoon. Book is an honest account of this experience.
4638.) CARLOCK, CHUCK: ->Firebirds. HC:Summit Publishing Group:
Arlington, TX, 1995. 2nd Edition 285 pgs.,
$10 PB:Bantam Books: New York,
1997. 2nd Edition 304 pgs., $5 Inscribed by author, name on enpaper, o/w a v/g
plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g plus copy. Personal
memoir of a combat chopper pilot in
Vietnam.
7943.) CAUTE, DAVID: ->The
Year of the Barricades: A Journey Through 1968. HC:Harper & Row: New York, 1988.
1st Edition 514 pgs., $15 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. The author puts the
protests in this country across an
international canvas. An excellent work.
25316.) CAWTHORNE, NIGEL: ->Vietnam: A War Lost and Won. PB:Arcturus
Publishing Ltd.: London, 2003. 240
pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus
copy. A general history of the Vietnam War which is described as the first war
America lost to an ill-equipped peasant army.
26227.) CBS NEWS SPECIAL
REPORT, ->Mr. Thieu and the Fragile Truce. PB:CBS News: New York, 1973. 10
pgs., $1.99 Wraps original of transcript of interview with President Thieu by
Charles Collingwood and Bernard Kalb
150.) CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT:
->Vietnam Perspective. PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1965. 112 pgs., $10
Wraps
trade edition, cover faded, o/w a v/g copy. Book contains the four-part
broadcast series that CBS News did on
the Vietnam War. Analysis by Walter
Cronkite.
8132.) CBS VIDEO LIBRARY: ->The Vietnam War: America Pulls
Back. PB:: , 1985. 0 pgs., $7.5 A used video.
Narated by Walter Cronkite,
running time 60 and a half minutes..
8133.) CBS VIDEO LIBRARY: ->The
Vietnam War: Courage Under Fire. PB:: , 1985. 0 pgs., $7.5 A used video.
Narated by Walter Cronkite, running time 63 minutes.
8130.) CBS VIDEO
LIBRARY: ->The Vietnam War: Fire From the Sky. PB:: , 1985. 0 pgs., $7.5 A used
video.
Video is narrated by Walter Cronkite, running time 64 minutes.
8138.) CBS VIDEO LIBRARY: ->The Vietnam War: The Elusive Enemy. PB: 1: , 1985. 0
pgs., $7.5 A used video. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, running time 57 minutes.
8135.) CBS VIDEO LIBRARY: ->The Vietnam War: The End of the Road. PB: 1: ,
1985. 0
pgs., $7.5 A used video. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, running time 59
minutes.
8136.) CBS VIDEO LIBRARY: ->The Vietnam War: The Seeds of
Conflict. PB:: , 1985. 0 pgs., $7.5 A used video.
Narrated by Walter
Cronkite, running time 58 minutes.
151.) CEBULASH, MEL: ->Man In a Green
Beret and Other Medal of Honor Winners. PB:Scholastic Book Services:
New
York, 1969. 1st Edition 125 pgs., $2.5 Wraps mass market ed., a v/g copy. Book
written for Junior Highs,
contains accounts of Medal of Honor winners in all
wars with 5 being from the Vietnam War.
5794.) CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL
STUDIES, CORNELL UNIVERSITY:l ->The Air War in Indochina:
Preliminary Report.
PB:Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, 1971. 202 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g
plus copy. This
study was subsequently published by Beacon Press in 1972 with
Raphael Littauer and Norman Uphoff as editiors.
20216.) CENTER FOR
WAR/PEACE STUDIES OF NEW YORK FRIENDS GROUP:->Understanding Vietnam:
Background Units 1-4. PB:Center War/Peace Stuidies: New York, 1967. 242 pgs.,
$20 Wraps trade eds., all 4
volumes are v/g copies. Volume I has slight
fading of front cover. A 4 volume set, with the first volume covering the
beginning of US involvement, the second volume is titled Edge of Chaos as it
deals with the decision to intervene,
the third voume is titled 'Why
Vietnam,' and the last volume is titled 'Alternatives for Americans.'
The
last two volumes were printed in 1968.
26235.) CENTRE INTERNATIONAL
d'INFORMATION pour la DENONCIATION des CRIMES de GUERRE
PUBLICATION:->Crimes
de Guerre au Vietnam: 4 annees d'escade ll'education la 4 zone. PB:: Paris,
1969. 53
pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed., cracking of spine reparied, o/w a v/g
copy. French text with many photos.
157.) CHALIAND, GERARD: Preface by
PHILIPPE DEVILLERS: Translated by PETER WILES:->The Peasants of
North
Vietnam. PB:Penguin Books: Baltimore, Md., 1969. 244 pgs., $2.5 Wraps, cover has
shop worn appearance,
moderate soiling outer edges & enpapers, o/w a v/g
copy. Book is an outcome of a five-week tour among the
villages of three
provinces in the Red River delta during October and November of 1967. Book
originally published
in France in 1968.
6776.) CHAMBERS, LARRY: ->Death In
the A Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-70. HC:Ivy Books:
New
York, 1998. BC Edition 240 pgs., $7.5 Stamp not for resale on enpaper, o/w a
fine copy in a v/g plus d/j..
Memoir of unit that acted as the eyes and ears
fo the 101st in the A Shau Valley.
3190.) CHANOFF, DAVID and DOAN VAN
TOAI:->Portrait of the Enemy: The Other Side of the War in Vietnam.
HC:I. B.
Tauris Pubklishers: London, 1985. 215 pgs., $3.95 A fine copy in a fine d/j.
Book consists of a wide range
of interviews with North Vietnamese soldiers,
Vietcong guerillas, opposition leaders and common people from both
North and
South Vietnam.
160.) CHARLTON, MICHAEL and ANTHONY MONCRIEFF:->Many Reasons
Why: The American Involvement In
Vietnam. HC:Hill and Wang: New York, 1978.
1st Edition 250 pgs., $12.5 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Title originally
published in England. Book consists of interviews for BBC contemporary history
series. Some of the persons
interviewed are George Ball, William Bundy, Dean
Rusk, General Westmoreland and Nguyen Cao Ky.
8773.) CHASE, Eds. HAROLD
W. & ALLEN H. LERMAN:->Kennedy and the Press: The News Conferences.
HC:Thomas
Y. Crowell Co.: New York, 1965. 555 pgs., $12 A v/g copy in a v/g d/. Book has
an extensive index so
that statements on particular subjects or persons can
be found. Introduction by Pierre Salinger.
30162.) CHATHAM HOUSE STUDY
GROUP, ->Collective Defence In South East Asia: The Manila Treaty and Its
Implications. PB:Royal Institute of International Affairs: London, 1956. 1ST
Edition 197 pgs., $6 Wraps, cover
taped and remains a tight reading copy.
24453.) CHAUMONT GUITRY, GUYde: ->Lettres D'Indochine. HC:AMS: New York,
1971. REP. Edition 222 pgs.,
$12.5 A mint copy. Personal memoir of a french
enlistee who went to Vietnam in 1947. French text. Originally
published by
Editions Alsatia in Paris in 1951.
163.) CHESLEY, LARRY: ->Seven Years In
Hanoi: A POW Tells His Story. HC:Bookcraft Publishers: Salt Lake City,
Ut.,
1973. 4th Edition 158 pgs., $10 A v/g copy. Author was an Air Force officer who
was shot down in 1966.
7831.) CHINH, Compiler TRAN TRUNG: ->The Province
of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. PB:GIOI Publishers: Hanoi, 1994.
115 pgs., $12.5 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g copy. This is primarily a guide book of the province.
3904.) CHINNERY, PHIL: ->Air War in Vietnam. HC:Exeter Books: New York, 1987.
1st Edition 192 pgs., $3.99 A
v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. A large size
illustrated book covering the air war in Indochina, beginning with Dien
Bien
Phu. Some picutres of aircraft used in Laos. Text gives an overall description
of the air war.
166.) CHINNERY, PHILIP D.: ->Life On the Line: Stories of
Vietnam Air Combat. HC:St. Martin's Press: New York,
1988. 1st Edition 256
pgs., $6 Ligth spot on foreedge, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. D/J has chipping
top of spine
and bottom of backcover. Thirty six accounts of air combat in
Vietnam, ranging from FAC missions to Linebacker II
raids over Hanoi.
Paperback edition is titled Full Throttle.
8479.) CHITTENDEN, VARICK A.:
->Vietnam Remembered: The Folk Art of Marine Combat Veteran Micheal D.
Cousino, Sr. PB:University Press of Mississippi: Jackson, MS, 1995. 1st Edition
72 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade size ed.,
a fine copy. Michael D. Cousino is a
diabled Marine veteran who served in Vietnam. His folk art recalls his
experiences.
8506.) CHONG, DENISE: ->The Girl in the Picture: The Story of
Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War.
HC:Viking Press: New York,
1999. 1st Edition 373 pgs., $10 Price clipped, o/w a fine copy in a fine d/j.
Memoir of
the Kim Phuc who was burned by napalm in an air attack in 1972. The
photograph of her running from her village
was seen around the world. Later,
she was used as a pawn of the Vietnamese Communist and she eventually fled
to
Canada.
168.) CHRISTIAN, DAVID and WILLIAM HOFFER:->Victor Six: The Saga of
America's Youngest, Most Decorated
Officer In Vietnam. HC:McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co.: New York, 1990. 1ST Edition 256 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy
in a v/g plus d/j. Account of a unique infantry unit under the command of
Lieutentant Christian that engaged in
clandestine operations in Cambodia.
Last half of book deals with his experiences after Vietnam.
5921.)
CHRISTOPHER, RENNY: ->The Viet Nam War, The American War: Images and
Representations in Euro-
American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives.
PB:University of Massachusetts Press: Boston, 1995. 341 pgs., $9.95
Wraps
trade ed., a very fine copy. Author seeks to present how the 'other side '
experienced the war, stating that
Americans have so emphatically excised the
Vietnamese from narratives about a war fought in their own country.
Many
would question the assumptions of the book. Any serious scholar or veteran sees
the war as a real tragedy for
the Vietnamese people.
31662.) CHRONICLE OF
WAR MAGAZINE, ->Chronicle Of War Vietnam, Summer 1990, Volume 2, No. 2. Wraps,
4123.) CHRONICLE OF WAR: VIETNAM: 1990, SUMMER:->Chronicle of War., Volume
2, Number 2 PB:: , . 82
pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy. Articles on Ia Trang,
seabees, Task Force 116, etc..
401.) CHUNG, Ed. LY QUI: ->Between Two
Fires: The Unheard Voices of Vietnam. HC:Praeger Publishers: New
York, 1970.
1st Edition 119 pgs., $5 PB:Praeger Publishers: New York, 1970. 119 pgs., $1.99
Ex-library, a v/g copy
in a v/g d/j. Wraps, a trade size ed, a v/g copy.. The
book has an introduction by Frances Fitzgerald, prefatory notes
by Arthur
Dommen.
7995.) CHURCHILL, JAN: ->Hit My Smoke! Forward Air Controllers in
Southeast Asia. PB:Sunflower University
Press: Manhattan, KS, 1997. 220 pgs.,
$25.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author draws heavily on FAC
personnel
who served in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Book contains an excellent selection
of photographs.
31610.) CIA INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM, ->The Organization,
Activities, and Objectives of the Communist
Front in South Vietnam. Wraps
photocopied in sofcard cover, a fine quality repritn.
3146.) CIVIC
EDUCATION SERVICE, Eds. ->Two Viet Nams in War and Peace. PB:Civic Education
Service:
Washington, D.C., 1967. 144 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade size ed., a v/g
copy. Written for High School students with a
good historical overview
followed by discussion questions on each chapter.
23521.) CLARK, Compiler
and Editor GREGORY R.: ->Quotations On the Vietnam War. HC:McFarland & Co.:
Jefferson, NC, 2001. 294 pgs., $3.95 A mint copy with laminated cover. A
dictionary of words and quotations
during the Vietnam War arranged in
chronological order. Quotations are taken from such sources as battlefield
remarks, placards, news articles, news articles, presidential pronouncements,
and press conferences sound bites.
Source notes and index.
87.) CLARK,
JOHNNIE M.: ->Guns Up! PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 1984. 9TH Edition 357
pgs., $5 Wraps a
mass market ed., a v/g copy. Cover blurb states book is
about a Marine machine gunner's own exciting true story.
Author also wrote
'Semper Fidelis, ' a Vietnam novel.
6903.) CLARK, THEKLA: ->Children In
Exile. HC:Ecco Press: New York, 1998. 1st Edition 179 pgs., $2.99 A fine
copy
in a fine d/j. Account of a family that adopts an ethnic Chinese refugee family
from Vietnam and then a family
1118.) CLARKE, JEFFREY J.: ->Advice and
Support: The Final Years, 1965-1973. HC:Government Printing Office:
Washington, D.C., 1988. 561 pgs., $17.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Written by
Jeffrey Clarke.
89.) CLELAND, MAX: ->Strong At the Broken Places.
HC:Chosen Books: Lincoln, VA, 1980. 156 pgs., $1.99 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j.
Author lost both legs and an arm during the Vietnam War. Book is an account of
his recovery
through spiritual help. He later became administrator of the
Veterans Administration under President Carter.
2982.) CLIFFORD, CLARK
with RICHARD HOLBROOKE:->Counsel to the President. HC:Random House: New York,
1991. 709 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
91.) CLIFFORD,
GEOFFREY: Text by JOHN BALABAN:->Vietnam: The Land We Never Knew. PB:Chronicle
Books:
San Francisco, 1989. 1st Edition 144 pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., a
v/g plus copy. Clifford was a chopper pilot in
Vietnam, Balaban first went to
Vietnam as a CO in 1967. Book depicts the beauty of Vietnam with excellent
landscape shots and photos of the ordinary Vietnamese at work and other
activities.
20722.) CLIFTON, Coordinating Editor MERRITT: ->Those Who
Were There: Eyewitness Accounts of the War in
southeast Asia, 1956-1975, and
Aftermath. HC:Dust Books: Paradise, CA, 1984. 297 pgs., $20 A v/g plus copy in a
v/g d/j. This is an annotated bibliography of books, articles, and topic related
magazines, covering writings both
factual and imaginative.
5976.) CLINTON,
JAMES: ->The Loyal Opposition: Americans in North Vietnam, 1965-1972.
HC:University Press of
Colorado: Niwot, CO, 1995. 1st Edition 310 pgs., $9.95
Name on enpaper, o/w a fine copy in a fine d/j. This is a
collection of
interviews with Americans who publicly opposed the Vietnam War and who traveled
to Hanoi to
demonstrate their commitment toward ending the war.
169.)
CLODFELTER, MICHAEL: ->Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months: A Soldier's Memoir. Wraps
mass market ed.,
a v/g copy. Account of an infantryman who went to Vietnam in
1965, extended six months so as to escape a behind
the lines assignment to a
combat one. He was injured by a boobytrap and was awarded the Purple Heart.
5927.) CLUBB, OLIVER: ->The United States and the Sino-Soviet Bloc in
Southeast Asia. HC:Brookings Institution:
Washingotn, DC, 1962. 173 pgs.,
$7.5 Ex-library, a paperback in library binding, a v/g copy. Study seeks to
consider problems of developing a broad policy framework for Southeast Asia,
7973.) CLYMER, Ed. KENTON J.: ->The Vietnam War: Its History, Literature and
Music. PB:Texas Western Press:
El Paso, TX, 1998. 1st Edition 194 pgs., $15
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book is a compilation of the papers by 10
scholars presented at a public symposium in 1996 at El Paso, Texas.
28122.) COBLEIGH, ED: ->War for the Hell of It: A Fighter Pilot's View of
Vietnam. PB:Berkeley Publishing Group:
New York, 2005. 1st Edition 273 pgs.,
$10 Wraps trade ed., reminader mark bottom edge, o/w a v/g copy. Author
served two tours in Vietnam, logging 375 combat sorties and over 1,000 hours of
combat time in the F-4D Phantom
II fighter/bomber.
170.) COE, CHARLES:
->Young Man In Vietnam. HC:Four Winds Press: New York, 1969. 2nd Edition 109
pgs., $12
PB:Scholastic, Inc.: New York, 1990. 1st Edition 115 pgs., $6
Library binding, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps a mass
market ed., a fine
copy. An account of a young Marine Lieutenant's tour in Vietnam. Written for
young young
readers, it is such an honest portrayal of war that it would be
banned in some schools.
7804.) COFFIN, TRISTRAM: ->Senator Fulbright.
HC:Rupert Hart-Davis: London, 1966. 378 pgs., $10 A v/g copy.
Written when a
lot of attention was given to Senator Fulbright's opposition to the Vietnam War
and the book focuses
171.) COHEN, Ed. STEVEN: ->Vietnam: Anthology
and Guide to a Television History. PB:Alfred A. Knopf: New
York, 1983. 466
pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Book is a summary and collection of
documents that follow
the order of the television series 'Vietnam: A
Television History.'
21351.) COHEN, Eds. ROBERT and REGINALD E.
ZELNIK:->The Free Speech Movement: Reflections On Berkeley
in the 1960s.
PB:University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, 2002. 1st Edition 618 pgs., $12
Wraps trade ed., a
fine copy. Book consists of a number of essays on the Free
Speech Movement, including its roots and aftermath.
172.) COLBY, WILLIAM
with JAMES McCARGAR:->Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's
Sixteen-Year
Involvement In Vietnam. HC:Contemporary Books, Inc.: Chicago,
1989. 1st Edition 438 pgs., $1.99 Stain on
bottom and foredges, o/w a v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Book is Colby's account of America's sixteen year involvement
in
Vietnam. He argues that had we adopted the tactics recommended by the CIA,
South Vietnam would be a free
independent nation today.
9864.) COLE, DAVID
C.: ->Financing Provincial and Local Government in the Republic of Vietnam.
PB:University
Microfilms: Ann Arbor, MI, 1969. REP. Edition 302 pgs., $12.5
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A dissertation by author
for his doctorate
degree in 1959 at the University of Michigan. It describes, analyzes, and
considers ways for
improving the provincial governmental revenue system in
the Republic of Vietnam.
5134.) COLE, WENDY M.: ->Vietnam. HC:Chelsea
House: New York, 1989. 5th Edition 111 pgs., $1.99 A mint
copy. A title for
young readers, part of the Chelsea House 'Places and Peoples of the World '
series.
173.) COLEMAN, J. D.: ->Incursion. A v/g plus copy in a good plus
d/j. D/J has scraping spots but no chipping.
Account of the Cambodian
incursion. Author particpated in the operation.
9576.) COLLIER, Eds. PETER
and DAVID HOROWITZ: ->Second Thoughts: Former Radiclas Look Back At the
Sixties. PB:Madison Books: Lanham, MD, 1989. 271 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a
v/g copy. Book is part memoir
and part analysis of the New Left by former
editors of Ramparts as they tell of their own personal intellectual
journey..
20746.) COLTON, LARRY: ->Goat Brothers. HC:Doubleday and Co.: New York,
1993. 1st Edition 559 pgs., $12 A
very fine copy in a v/g plus d/j. A
portrayal of the lives of five fraternity brothers at the University of
California in the
early sixites, two of whom went to Vietnam. The author is
one of the five and he looks back at their lives to see how
they cope with
the sixties and afterwards.
20808.) COLVIN, JOHN: ->Volcano Under Snow: Vo
Nguyen Giap. HC:Quartet Books Ltd.: London, 1996. 336 pgs.,
$6 Staining outer
edges, inside pages not efffected, a good plus reading copy in a slightly
stained d/j./w a goo
Author argues that Giap's single-mindedness and his
understanding of North Vietnam's ability to sustain the war
would eventually
bring victory.
20423.) COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES: ->Lessons To
Be Learned From the Management of
Commodities Remaining From Terminated
Indochina Economic Assistance Programs. PB:General Accounting
Office:
Washington, DC, 1976. Rep. Edition 71 pgs., $5 Wraps photocopied reprint ed., a
v/g copy. This is a report to
the Congress by the Comptroller General. Report
dated October 20th, 1976.
8192.) CONBOY, KENNETH & DALE ANDRADE: ->Spies
and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in
North Vietnam.
HC:University Press Of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 2000. BC Edition 347 pgs., $10 A
very fine copy in
a fine d/j. An account of the United States effort to send
Vietnamese operatives to North Vietnam, an effort that
proved to be a
disaster. A well researched effort.
3375.) CONDOMINAS, GEORGES: ->L'Exotique
Est Quotidien: Sar Luk, Vietnam Central.. PB:Plon: Paris, France,
1965. REV.
Edition 664 pgs., $25 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. French text, contains 30
illustrations and 3 maps.
Excellent study of a Montagnard village.
177.) CONDOMINAS, GEORGES: Trnaslated from the French by ADRIENNE FOULKE:->We
Have Eaten the Forest:
The Story of a Montagnard Village In the Central
Highlands Viet.. HC:Hill and Wang: New York, 1977. 1st Edition
423 pgs., $7.5
PB:Hill and Wang: New York, 1977. 1st Edition 423 pgs., $2.99 A v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. Wraps a
trade size ed., a v/g plus copy. Author spent more than a
year with a Montagnard village in 1948 and this book is his
journal while
there. It was first published in France in 1957 and it was bought to the
attention of the publisher by Dr.
Louis Leakey.
23.) CONLEY, MICHAEL
CHARLES: IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS:->The Communist Insurgent Infrastructure In South
Vietnam: A Study of Organization and Strategy. HC:American University:
Washington, D.C., 1967. 469 pgs., $25
A v/g plus copy. Research & writing was
completed in November of 1966. Study was conducted under a contract
with the
U.S. Army.
181.) CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL OF THE LAWYERS COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN
POLICY TOWARDS VIETNAM:-
>Vietnam and International Law: An Analysis of the
Legality of the U.S. Military Involvement. PB:O'Hare Books:
Flanders, N.J.,
1967. 160 pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Book produced by a group of
international lawyers
who conclude that the military involvement of the
United States in Vietnam violates international law. Richard A.
Falk served
as Chairman of this committee.
7255.) COOK, JOHN L.: ->Rescue Under Fire: The
Story of Dust Off in Vietnam. HC:Schiffer Publishing Ltd.: Atglen,
PA, 1998.
175 pgs., $24.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Account of the men who flew
evacuation helicopters.
185.) COOPER, CHESTER L.: Foreward by W. Averell
Harriman:->The Lost Crusade. HC:Dodd, Mead & Co.: New
York, 1970. 1ST Edition
559 pgs., $2.5 PB:Fawcett Publications, Inc.: Greenwich, Conn., 1972. 640 pgs.,
$1.99 A
v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g copy.
Author sets forth his view on how U.S. became
involved in Vietnam and how
that commitment escalated out of control. Foreward by W. Averell Harriman.
4777.) COPPIN, EZRA: ->My War Beyond Vietnam. PB:Regal Books: Ventura.
CA, 1985. 2nd Edition 208 pgs., $6
Wraps mass market size ed., a v/g copy. A
personal memoir of a Marine who enters Teen Challenge ministry after
serving
in Vietnam. Book previously published under the title 'To Proud to Die.'
21345.) CORBETT, JOHN: ->West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanh.
HC:Ballantine Books: New York, 2003.
1st Edition 205 pgs., $2.99 A mint copy
in a mint d/j. Personal memoir of a young Marine's experience during the
191.) CRAWFORD, ANN CADDELL: Illus. Hau Dinh Cam with foreward by HENRY CABOT
LODGE:->Customs and
Culture of Vietnam. HC:Charles E. Tuttle Co.: Rutland,
Vt., 1969. 9th Edition 259 pgs., $2.99 A v/g copy in a v/g
d/j. A concise
popular written book on Vietnam with black and white illustrations.
7189.) CROSSROADS, VOLUME 7, NO. 2, 1992: ->Vietnamese Poetry and History.
PB:Center for Southeast Asian
Studies: Dekalb, Il., 1992. 190 pgs., $12 Wraps
trade ed, a mint copy. There are four articles in this issue dealing
7251.) CULBERTSON, JOHN J.: ->A Sniper in the Arizona, 2nd Battalion, 5th
Marines, in the Arizona Territory,
1967. HC:Ivy Books: New York, 1999. BC
Edition 269 pgs., $3.95 Not for reslae stamped on enpaper, o/w a very
fine
copy in a very fine d/j. Memoir of a Marine who was in a unit patrolling the
paddy dikes, mud, and mountains of
the Arizona Territory southwest of Da
Nang.
5818.) CULBERTSON, JOHN: ->Operation Tuscaloosa: 2nd Battalion, 5th
Marines, at An Hoa, 1967. PB:Ivy
Books: New York, NY, 1997. 2nd Edition 243
pgs., $5 Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g plus copy. Author served as
point
man for the lead squard of Homtel Company, 2/5.
24103.) CUMMINGS, DELANO:
->Moon Dash Warrior: The Story of an American Indian in Vietnam, A Marine From
the Land of the Lumbee. HC:Signal Tree Publications: Rockbridge Baths, VA, 1998.
2nd Edition 266 pgs., $4 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Personal memoir of a Lumbee
Indian from Robeson County, North Carolina who served in
Vientam as a United
States Marine.
8535.) CURREY, CECIL B.: ->Victory At Any Cost: the Genius of
Viet Nam's Gen Vo Nguyen Giap. PB:Brassey's:
Dulles, VA, 1999. 1st Edition
401 pgs., $9.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A well received biography of Giap.
27526.) DALLEK, ROBERT: ->Parnters In Power: Nixon and Kissinger.
HC:HarperCollins: New York, 2007. 1st
Edition 740 pgs., $27.5 A mint copy in
a mint d/j. A fascinating account of the relationship between President
Nixon
and Henry Kissinger by a noted historian.
4784.) DALLOZ, JACQUES: ->La
guerre d'Indochine: 1945-1954. PB:Editions du Seuil: Paris, 1987. 314 pgs.,
$19.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. French text, book has very detailed
footnotes and a bibliography.
20215.) DALY, JAMES A. and LEE BERGMAN:
->Black Prisoner of War: A Conscientious Objector's Vietnam
Memoir.
PB:University Press of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 2000. Rep. Edition 312 pgs., $6
Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. Memoir of a black soldier held captive for than
five years by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese and
subsequently accused
9and acquitted) of collaboration with the enemy. First published in 1975 under
the title 'A
Hero's Welcome.'
6068.) DALY, JAMES and LEE BERGMAN: ->A
Hero's Welcome: The Conscience of Sergeant James Daly vs. the
United States
Army. HC:Bobb-Merrill: Indiana[polis, IN, 1975. 1st Edition 267 pgs., $15 A v/g
plus copy in a v/g
d/j. Wraps paperback ed., a mint copy which is titled
Black Prisoner of War. Account of a POW who spoke out against
the war while
in captivity. On his return, he was charged with treason but the charges were
later dismissed. s Army.
199.) DANG, NGHIEM: ->Viet-Nam: Politics and
Public Administration. HC:East-West Center Press: Honolulu, Hi.,
1966. 437
pgs., $12.5 A v/g plus copy in a poor d/j. Author was an administrator in North
Vietnam during the early
40's. He was Professor and Vice Rector of the
National Institute of Administration in Saigon at the time this book
was
written.
202.) DAREFF, HAL: ->The Story of Vietnam: A Background Book for
Young People. HC:Parents Magazine Press:
New York, 1966. 256 pgs., $2.99
PB:Avon Books: New York, 1967. 1st Edition 174 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy.
Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g copy. This is a book written for Junior High
grades. Includes an account of U.S.
involvement.
23539.) DAUM, Eds.
ANDREAS W., LLOYD C. GARDNER, and WILFRIED MAUSBACH:->America, the Vietnam War,
and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives. PB:Cambridge
Univeristy Press: New York, 2003. 1st
Edition 371 pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade
ed., a fine copy. The book presents new perspectives on the Vietnam War, its
global repercussions, and the role the war had on modern history.
9500.)
DAVID, GILBERT: ->Chroniques Secretes D'Inodchine (1928-1946, Volume I and II.
PB:Editions
:L'Harmattan: Paris, 1994. 861 pgs., $75 Wraps trade eds., a mint
two volume set. French text.
203.) DAVIDSON, PHILLIP B.: ->Vietnam At
War: The History 1946-1975. HC:Presidio Press: Novato, Ca., 1988. BC
Edition
758 pgs., $2.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Author served in Vietnam as chief
intelligence officer, (J-2
25993.) DAVIES, BRUCE and GARY McKAY: ->The
Men Who Persevered: The AATTV-the Most Highly Decorated
Australian Unit of
the Viet Nam War. PB:Allen & Unwin: Crows Nest, Australia, 2005. 418 pgs., $35
Signed by
author, wraps trade size ed., a mint copy. An account of Australian
military instructors known as the Australian Army
Training Team Vietnam.
31264.) DAVIES, BRUCE: ->Battle of Ngok Tavak: Allied Valor and Defeat in
Vietnam. PB:Texas Tech University
Press: Lubbock, TX, 2009. 1St Edition 242
pgs., $22.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Account of a battle in the
western
jungle of Vietnam near Laos that provides insights tnto the challenges that U.s.
and Allied forces faced when
fighting in Vietnam.
204.) DAVIES, PETER and
BOARD OF CHURCH AND SOCIETY OF UNITED METHODIST CHURCH:->The Truth
About Kent
State: A Challenge To the American Conscience. PB:Noonday Press: New York, 1973.
2nd Edition 242
pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Book is an
indictment of the Ohio National Guard and of the way the Nixon
Administration
handled the tragedy.
3517.) DAVIS, LARRY: ->Gunships: A Pictorial History of
Spooky. HC:Squadron/Signal Publications: Carrollton, TX,
1982. BC Edition 64
pgs., $12 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Excellent photos with brief text.
8792.) DAVIS, VERNON E.: ->The Long Road Home: U.S. Prisoner of War Policy
and Planning in Southeast Asia.
HC:Office of the Secretary of Defense:
Washingotn, DC, 2000. 613 pgs., $12 A mint copy in a mint d/j. A history
of
U.S. policy on POWs during the Vietnam War, up and including Operation
Homecoming.
205.) DAWSON, ALAN: ->Fifty-Five Days: The Fall of South
Vietnam. HC:Prentice-Hall, Inc.: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
1977. 1st Edition
366 pgs., $12.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author spent 7 years in Vietnam and he
was the Saigon
Bureau Manager for UPI during his last two years in Vietnam.
He left in Septmber of 1975 after being asked to leave
by the new regime.
207.) DE PONCINS, GONTRAN: Translated from the French by BERNARD
FRECHTMAN:->From a Chinese City.
PB:Trackless Sands Press: Palo Alto, CA,
1991. REP. Edition 256 pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. A
description of Cholon in 1955 by a Frenchman. Contains drawings depicting life
of Cholon.
30803.) DEAN, CHUCK: ->How Far's the Enemy? Wraps mass market
size ed., a v/g plus copy. An account of a
teenager who served in Vietnam,
coming home with many personal problems, until recovering through his Christian
5782.) DeBENEDETTI, CHARLES ->An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of
the Vietnam Era.
PB:Syracuse University Press: New York, 1990. 3rd Edition
495 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy. Book
provides an
interpretive history of the antiwar movement in the United States. Author traces
the beginnings of the
anti-war movement back to the emergence of a liberal
peace movement against atmospheric nuclear testing from
1955 to 1963, then
point sout how extremist elements came to dominant the movement.
9853.)
DEBRIS, JEAN-PIERRE and ANDRE MENRAS:->We Accuse. PB:Indochina Mobile Education
Project:
Washington, DC, 1973. 93 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.
An account of the South Vietnamese prison
system for political prisoners by
two French teachers on a French government exchange program in South Vietnam.
They themselves spent two and half in prison in South Vietnam.
2744.)
DeFOREST, ORRIN and DAVID CHANOFF:->Slow Burn: The Rise and Bitter Fall of
American Intelligence in
Vietnam. HC:Simon & Schuster: New York, 1990. 1st
Edition 294 pgs., $1.99 PB:Simon & Schuster: New York,
1990. 280 pgs., $7.5 A
v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps, an Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof
copy, $7.50,
a fine copy. DeForest served as Chief of Military Region III
with the CIA from 1968 to the fall of Saigon.
6191.) DENENBERG, BARRY:
->Voices From Vietnam. PB:Scholastic Inc.: New York, 1995. 251 pgs., $6 Wraps
mass market ed., a v/g plus copy. An account of what it was like to be in
Vietnam by the men who served there. It
claims not to be a history of the
Vietnam War but it is fact a history written for young adults.
5800.)
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PUBLICATION: ->POW-MIA Fact Book. PB:Department of
Defense:
Washngton, DC, 1987. 33 pgs., $7.5 Wraps booklet format, a fine
copy. Book provides a breakdown by state as to
9182.) DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE, ->The Pentagon Papers: Senator Gravel Edition, the Defense Department
History of United States Decisionmaking On Vietnamm, Volume I. PB:Beacon Press:
Boston, 1971. 632 pgs.,
$12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. This is Volume I
of the 5 volume Senator Gravel Edition.
904.) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,
->The Pentagon Papers: Senator Gravel Edition: The Defense Department
History
of United States Decisionmaking On Vietnam, Volume II. PB:Beacon Press: New
York, 1971. 831 pgs.,
$7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. This is part of the
edition of the Pentagon Papers that was made public by Senator
Mike Gravel of
Alaska in 1971 of which there were 5 volumes..
31420.) DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE, ->The Pentagon Papers: The Senator Gravel Edition: The Defense
Department History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam, Volume 3. Name on
enpaper, o/w a v/g plus
copy. This is volume 3 of the 5 volume Senator Gravel
edition.
26234.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN, ->President Thieu of the
Republic of Vietnam Visits the United
States. PB:Government Printing Office:
Washington, DC, 1973. 35 pgs., $1.5 Wraps bulletin, a v/g copy. Two
pages are
devoted to President Thieu's trip. No postage if ordered with another book.
26202.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN, FEBRUARY 12, 1973: ->Agreement
Concluded On Ending the War
and Restoring Peace In Viet-Nam. PB:Government
Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1973. 39 pgs., $12.5 Wraps
bulletin, small
tape scar on front cover, o/w a v/g plus copy. Contains address by President
Nixon, News Conference
of Dr. Kissinger, and Texts of Agreements and
Protocols.
25761.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE BULLETIN: ->Secretary Kissinger
Interviewed for NBC Today Show & (2)
President Ford's News Conference.
PB:Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1975. 39 pgs., $2.5 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g copy. Kissinger's interview was hold on May 5th, 1975 and
Ford's news conference was held on May
6th, 1975.
25763.) DEPARTMENT OF
STATE BULLETIN: ->U.S. Recovers Merchant Ship Seized By Cambodian Navy & (2)
Texts of Secretary Kissinger's News Conference. PB:Government Printing Office:
Washingotn, DC, 1975. 47 pgs.,
$2.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. News
conferneces of Kissinger's werre held in St. Louis and Kansas City on May
12th and 13th of 1975 respectively.
1065.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION:
->Agression From the North: The Record of North Viet-Nam's
Campaign To
Conquer South Viet-Nam. PB:Government Printing Office: Washington, 1965. 64
pgs., $12.5 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g copy. This is the infamous white paper
issued by the State Department.
26236.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION:
->Current Foreign Policy: Congress, the President, and the War
Powers.
PB:Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1971. 12 pgs., $1.5 Wraps
bulletin, a fine copy. A
bulletin issued by the State Department's Bureau of
Pulibc Affairs. No postage charge if ordered with a book.
26238.)
DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION: ->Current Foreign Policy: Viet-Nam: The
Negotiating Process.
PB:Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1972. 12
pgs., $1.5 Wraps bulletin, a v/g copy. A buuletin issued
by the State
Department's Bureau of Public Affairs. No postage charge if ordered with a book.
4817.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION: ->Foreign Relations of the
United States: 1964-1968, Volume II,
Vietnam: January-June 1965.
HC:Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996. 798 pgs., $35 A mint copy.
No d/j. General Editor: Glenn W. LaFantasie, Editors: David C. Humphrey, Ronald
D. Landa, and Louis J. Smith.
220.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION: JOHN
P. GLENNON, Editor In Chief:->Foreign Relations of the
United States:
1955-1957, Volume I, Vietnam. HC:Government Printing Office: Washington, DC,
1985. 912 pgs.,
6360.) DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATIONS: ->Foreign
Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume
IV, Vietnam 1966.
HC:Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998. 1019 pgs., $35 A mint copy.
No d/j.
26237.) DEPPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION: ->Current Foreign
Policy: A Program for Peace in Viet-Nam.
PB:Government Printing Office:
Washington, DC, 1971. 7 pgs., $1.5 Wraps bulletin, a fine copy. A bulletin
issued by
the State Department's Bureau of Public Affairs. No postage charge
if ordered with a book.
25751.) DESBARATS, JACQUELINE and KARL D.
JACKSON:->Political Violence in Vietnam: the Dark Side of
Liberation.
PB:Indochina Report: Singapore, 1986. 31 pgs., $2.5 Wraps a v/g copy.
402.) DEUEL, AUSTIN: ->Vietnam: Even God Is Against Us. HC:Impressions West:
Escondido, Ca., 1988. 146 pgs.,
$35 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Author
served as a combat artist with the USMC in Vietnam in 1967. Book
contains 49
original paintings and vignettes by the author with accompanying text that
express his verbal impressions
as well. The text is substantial and this
combined with quality art make it one of the best art books to date on the
Vietnam War.
3737.) DEVANEY, JOHN: ->The Vietnam War. HC:Franklin Watts: New
York, 1992. 1st Edition 63 pgs., $18.95
Library binding, mint as purchased
new. Written for elementrary students, begins with the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
3192.) DI LEO, DAVID L.: ->George Ball, Vietnam, and the Rethinking of
Containment. HC:University of North
Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 1991. 1st
Edition 265 pgs., $15 PB:University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill,
1991. 1st Edition 265 pgs., $7.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps trade
ed., a v/g plus copy. A well researched
account that profiles Ball's
opposition to the United State's role in Vietnam and evaluates the impact of his
dissent
on the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon adminstrations.
21020.) DI ST.
THECLA, ADRIANO: ->A Small Treatise on the Sects Among the Chinese and
Tonkinese: A Study of
Religon in China and North Vietnam in the 18th Century.
PB:Cornell Southeast Asia Program: Ithaca, NY, 2002.
351 pgs., $32.5 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. This treatise was written by a Roman Catholic priest in
1750. There
is a facsimile copy of the original text in the book and the page
numbers of this copy is not included in the number
of pages given above.
404.) DICTIONARY: ->Vietnamese-English Dictionary. PB:Charles E. Tuttle Co.:
Rutland, Vt, 1997. 5th Edition
568 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
Compiled by Nguyen Dinh Hoa. Dictionary is from Vietnamese to
4596.)
DICTIONARY: ->Vietnamese-English/English-Vietnamese Dictionary. PB:Hippocrene
Books , Inc.: New
York, 1995. 5th Edition 501 pgs., $19.95 Wraps trade ed.,
mint as purchased new. Contains over 12,000 entries,
Vietnamese words fully
romanized, English pronunciation fully indicated, appendix of English synonyms
and
antonyms and appendix of modern Vietnamese terms.
405.) DIEM, BUI with
DAVID CHANOFF: ->In the Jaws of History. HC:Houghton Mifflin, Inc.: Boston,
Mass., 1987. 1st
Edition 367 pgs., $3.99 Ex-library, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g
d/j. Author is former South Vietnamese Ambassador to
the United States from
1967-1972. He also held a number of other significant posts in the Vietnam
goverment,
including being a member of the delagation to the 1954 Geneva
Conference. One of the best books to date from a
Vietnamese perspective.
21395.) DIEN, KHONG: ->Population and Ethno-Demography in Vietnam.
PB:Silkworm Books: Chiengmai,
Thailand, 2002. 1st Edition 207 pgs., $29.5
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This study focuses on the last two
decades. It
analyzes the ethnic groups and sub-groups by name, geographical distribution,
and linguistic origin.
Other factors covered are population structure,
population growth, and the relationship between population and
socio-economic
development.
229.) DIETZ, TERRY: ->Republicans and Vietnam, 1961-1968.
HC:Greenwood Press: Westport, Ct., 1986. 1st
Edition 184 pgs., $7.5 A fine
copy. Book reviews role of Republican Party while out of power during the
Vietnam
War. Author interviewed a significant number of Congressional
learders for this book.
230.) DILLARD, WILLARD SCOTT: ->Sixty Days To
Peace: Implementing the Paris Peace Accords Vietnam, 1973.
PB:National
Defense University Press: Washington. D.C., 1982. 240 pgs., $6 A wraps trade
ed., a v/g copy. Book
relates experiences of the US Delegation, Four-Party
Joint Military Commission and the MACV in South Vietnam in
1973. Author was a
member of this delegation serving in the capacity of US Delagation Historian.
231.) DINH, NGUYEN THI: ->No Other Road To Take: Memoir of Mrs. Nguyen Thi
Dinh. PB:SEAP Cornell
University: Ithaca, N.Y., 1976. 77 pgs., $15.95 Wraps
monogrpah, a mint copy. Ms. Dinh became a member of the
Presidium of the NFL
Central Committee in 1964. She became Deputy Commander of South Vietnam
Liberation
Armed Forces in 1965.
6368.) DINH-HOA, NGUYEN: ->Essential
English-Vietnamese Dictionary. PB:Charles E. Tuttle Co.: Rutland, VT,
1997.
8th Edition 316 pgs., $14.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
232.) DISSENT,
1966, MARCH-APRIL: ->Vietnam & 'The Great Society.' PB:: , 1966. 0 pgs., $3 This
issue
contains three articles relating to the issue of Vietnam by A. Philip
Randolph, Jack Rader and Irving Howe.
6607.) DO, KIEM and JULIE KANE:
->Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War. HC:Naval Institute Press:
Annapolis, MD, 1998. 2nd Edition 233 pgs., $7.5 A mint copy in a very fine d/j.
Kiem Do was deputy chief of staff
for operations of the South Vietnamese Navy
and as Saigon was falling, he carried out the evacuation of 35 ships
and some
thirty thousand at-risk South Vietnamese. He also gives an account of his life
in the navy from fighting
against the Binh Xuyen pirates to sea battle
between China and South Vietnam.
22050.) DOAN VAN PHUC, ->Tu Vung Cac
Phuong Ngu Ede. HC:Universite Nationale de Ha Noi: Hanoi, 1998.
167 pgs., $25
A mint copy. Vietnamese text.
25597.) DOBRYNIN, ANATOLY: ->In Confidence:
Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents
HC:Times Books: New
York, 1995. 2nd Edition 672 pgs., $3.99 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. An
excellent
reference for viewing the Russian-American diplomatic relationships
during the Vietnam War.
22156.) DOCKERY, Eds.. KEVIN and BILL
FAWCETT: ->The Teams: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy Seals.
HC:Willaim
Morrow & Co.: New York, 1998. BC Edition 283 pgs., $10 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
plus d/j. A collection
of oral histories of SEALS who tell of their
experiences.
8729.) DOCKERY, KEVIN: ->Free Fire Zones: The True Story of
U.S. Navy Seal Combat in Vietnam.
HC:HarperCollins Publishers: New York,
2000. BC Edition 234 pgs., $12 PB:HarperCollins Publishers: New York,
2000.
1st Edition 234 pgs., $6.5 A very fine copy in a v/g d/j. D/J has small tear
along top edge of spine. Wraps
mass market ed., a mint copy. An account of
what the author regards as the greatest SEAL mission in Vietnam.
30131.)
DOCKERY, KEVIN: ->Operation Thunderhead: The True Story of Vietnam's Final POW
Rescue Mission-and
the Last Navy Seal Killed In Country. HC:Berkeley
Publishing Group: New York, 2008. 1ST Edition 294 pgs., $23.95
A mijnt copy
in a mint d/j. A very informative account and of interest as to how our POW's
were treated by the
North Vietnamese, both of whom rtried to escape and what
happen to those that made no attempt to escape.
22594.) DOCKERY,
MARTIN J.: ->Lost In Translation, Vietnam: A Combat Advisor's Story.
HC:Ballantine Books:
New York, 2003. 1st Edition 254 pgs., $2.95 A mint copy
in a mint d/j. Memoir of a combat advisor to ARVN
beginning in 1962 that
reveals how poorly train the ARVN was, incompetent, and unwilling to fight for a
government every bit as corrupt as that of the French colonial empire it
replaced.
9256.) DOLAN, EDWARD F.: ->America After Vietnam: Legacies of a
Hated War. HC:Franklin Watts Inc.: New York,
1989. 1st Edition 160 pgs., $6
Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. A book written for Junior High readers. He
lists
five legacies: (1) Alienation on the part of vets, (2) invisible legacy
of psychological trauma on part of vets, (3) Agent
Orange, (4) anguish on the
part of families of MIAs and POWs, and (5) the legacy of refugees coming to this
country.
9424.) DOLAN, EDWARD F.: ->MIA: Missing in Action, A Vietnam
Drama. HC:Franklin Watts: New York, 1989. 1st
Edition 128 pgs., $10 Remainder
mark top edge, enpaper removed, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. A general survey
on the issues surrounding the POW/MIA controversy. Written for high school
students but it does provide a good
background for anyone not familiar with
the issues involved.
9032.) DOLAN, Jr. EDWARD F.: ->Amnesty: The American
Puzzle. HC:Franklin Watts: New York, 1976. 1st Edition
102 pgs., $7.5
Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author chronicles amnesty in American
history and explores the
differing points of view about amnesty of Vietnam
era draft evaders, deserters, and those dishonorably discharged.
He concludes
the issue must be resolved if the country's wound from the war are to be healed.
233.) DON, TRAN VAN: ->Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam. PB:Presidio Press:
Novato, Ca., 1987. 1st Edition 274
pgs., $4.95 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus
copy. Author was a General in the South Vietnamese Army and also served
for a
time as Defense Minister and Vice Premier of South Vietnam. Provides a detailed
account of the coup against
Diem.
234.) DONAHUE, JAMES C.: ->No Greater
Love. HC:Daring Books: Canton, Oh., 1989. 2nd Edition 267 pgs., $10
Signed by
author, a fine copy in a v/g d/j. Another copy, Book Club editon, $2.99, a very
fine copy in a v/g plus d/j.
An account of one days's battle which the author
was involved in with seven other Green Berests and a company of
Camboidan
volunteers. Author served with 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam as a medic.
7287.) DONLON, ROGER: ->Beyond Nam Dong. HC:R and N Publishers:
Leavenworth, KS, 1998. 11th Edition 225
pgs., $10 Signed by author, a mint
copy in a mint d/j. Written by the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in
Vietnam. Author describes his life of teamwork while growing up in a family of
12, then team work with his 12 man
Special Forces squad in Vietnam, followed
by his marriage to a young Vietnamese widow.
5889.) DONNELL, JOHN C. &
GERALD C. HICKEY: ->The Vietnamese 'Strategic Hamlets': A Preliminary Report.
PB:Rand Corporation: San Monica, CA, 1962. 29 pgs., $5 Wraps monograph, a
photocopied reprint. A critique of
the Strategic Hamlet program in the early
years.
2455.) DONOVAN, ROBERT J.: ->Nemesis: Truman and Johnson In the
Coils of War In Asia. HC:St. Martin's Press:
New York, 1984. 1st Edition 216
pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. The book covers the interventions of the
United
States under Presidents Truman and Johnson in Asia.
2456.)
DOOLEY, AGNES W.: ->Promises To Keep: The Life of Dr. Thomas A. Dooley. A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j.
Author is the mother of Dr. Tom Dooley.
8748.)
DOOLEY, GEORGE E.: ->Battle for the Central Highlands: A Special Forces Story.
PB:Ballantine Books:
New York, 2000. 1st Edition 274 pgs., $5 Wraps mass
market ed., a mint copy. An account of the role of the Special
Forces in the
Central Highlands. Author served two tours in Vietnam with the Special Forces.
94.) DOOLEY, THOMAS A.: ->Deliver Us From Evil. A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Tom
Dooley's account of how he
assisted Vietnamese refugees going south after
1954.
2568.) DOOLEY, TOM: ->Before I Sleep...The Last Days of Dr. Tom
Dooley. HC:Farrar, Straus & Cudahy: New York,
1961. BC Edition 275 pgs., $2.5
Writing on enpaper, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Edited by James Monahan.
1363.) DORAIS, LOUIS-JACQUEST, LISE PILON-LE and NGUYEN HUY:->Exile In a
Cold Land: A Vietnamese
Community in Canada. PB:Yale Center for International
and Area Studies: New Haven, CT.., 1987. 220 pgs.,
$15.5 Wraps trade ed., a
mint copy. Written by Louis-Jacques Dorais, Lise Pilon-Le and Nguyen Huy.
9258.) DORLAND, GIL: ->Legacy of Discord: Voices of the Vietnam War Era.
HC:Brassey's: Washingotn, DC, 2001.
1st Edition 249 pgs., $15 A fine copy in
a fine d/j. Book contains excerpts of 19 interviews by the author with major
participants of the Vietnam War ranging from Daniel Ellsberg to Henry Kissinger.
95.) DORLAND, PETER AND JAMES NANNEY: ->Dust Off: Army Aeromedical
Evacuation. PB:Center for Military
History: Washington, DC, 2006. 134 pgs.,
$7.5 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy. This study chronicles the early
problems of medical evacuation in Vietnam, recounts the valorof several of the
Dust Off crews, and describes the
procedures and equipment used to speed
movement of patients to in-theater Army hospitals. Dorland served as a
Dust
Off pilot in Vietnam.
7173.) d'ORLEANS, HENRI: ->Around Tonkin and Siam: A
French Colonialist View of Tonkin, Laos and Siam (1892).
PB:White Lotus Ltd.:
Bangkok, 1999. REP. Edition 374 pgs., $21.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Prince
Henri
d'Orleans visited Hanoi, the Red River regions, the Upper Black River
to Lai Chau, Luangprabang and parts of Siam
in 1892 and this is his account
of these travels. Book is well illustrated with period pieces and there is an
excellent
introduction by Walter E. J. Tips.
22610.) DORR, Eds. ROBERT
F. and CHRIS BISHOP: ->Vietnam Air Warfare: The Story of the Aircraft, the
Battles,
and the Pilots Who Fought. HC:Chartwell Books, Inc.: Edison, NJ,
1996. 256 pgs., $19.95 A mint copy in a mint
d/j. A highly illustrated and
informative guide to combat war planes used by the USAF and VNAF. Portions of
the
text have appeared in different form in Air War South Vietnam and Air War
Hanoi by Robert Dorr.
96.) DORR, ROBERT E.: ->Vietnam: Combat From the
Cockpit. HC:Motorbooks International: Ocseola, Wi., 1989.
128 pgs., $20 A
fine copy in a fine d/j. Book contains remembrances of 30 combat fliers from the
Vietnam War
which is combined with 80 full-color photos of the planes they
flew.
3981.) DORR, ROBERT F.: ->Air War South Vietnam. HC:Arms and Armour
Press: London, 1990. 160 pgs., $20 A
v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author
traces the build up of US forces beginning in 1961 through the 'Farm Gate'
training missions to the end with the fall of Saigon in 1975.
97.) DORR,
ROBERT F.: ->Vietnam Mig Killers: Deadly Duel Over Vietnam. HC:Motorbooks
International: Osceola,
W., 1988. 128 pgs., $20 Name on inside cover, o/w a
fine copy in a v/g plus d/j. A photo book coupled with a brief
text on
aircraft during the Vietnam War. Photos are in color.
98.) DOUGAN, CLARK,
STEPHEN WEISS and EDITORS of BOSTON PUBLISHING CO.:->The American Experience
In Vietnam. HC:W. W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1988. 1st Edition 352 pgs., $6 A
v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
Format similiar to Boston Publishing Co.
series. Covers period of first American advisors to the fall of Saigon.
Excellent photos.
99.) DOWDY, HOMER E: ->The Bamboo Cross. HC:Hodder &
Stroughton Ltd.: London, 1967. 3rd Edition 239 pgs.,
$2.99 PB:Hodder and
Stoughton: London, 1968. 2nd Edition 223 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. An
account of
two Montagnard tribesmen who were involved in rallying their
people against the Communist.
237.) DOWNS, FREDERICK: ->No Longer
Enemies, Not Yet Friends: An American Soldier Returns to Vietnam. HC:W.
W.
Norton & Co.: New York, 1991. 1st Edition 352 pgs., $2.99 Review copy with
review laid in, a fine copy in a v/g
plus d/j. Author is the director of the
Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service for the Veterans Adminstration. He served
in Vietnam and was seriously wounded, losing his left arm.
28937.) DOYLE,
Eds. JEFF AND JEFFREY GREY: ->Australia R&R: Representations and
Reinterpretations of
Australia's War in Vietnam. Wraps trade ed., a fine
copy.
20081.) DOYLE, JEFF, JEFFREY GREY, and PIERCE:->Australia's Vietnam
War. HC:Texas A&M University Press:
College Station, TX, 2002. 1st Edition
218 pgs., $39.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j. This book seeks to show the
consequences the Vietnam War had in Australia through an evaluation of the
literature arising from the war, the
manner in which the country memorialized
its veterans. There is also an interesting chapter on protest and dissent
on
the war in Australia.
31594.) DRACHMAN, EDWARD R.: ->United States Policy
Toward Vietnam, 1940-1945. A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
241.) DRAPER,
THEODORE: ->Abuse of Power. PB:Viking Press: New York, 1967. 244 pgs., $6 Wraps
trade ed., a
v/g copy. A critical account of how the U.S. became involved in
Vietnam.
3274.) DRENDEL, LOU: ->Aircraft of the Vietnam War: A Pictorial
Review. HC:Aero Publishers, Inc.: New York, 1980.
BC Edition 64 pgs., $3.99 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book depicts different types of aircraft used in the
Vietnam War
6778.) DRENDEL, LOU: ->Gunslingers in Action: Aircraft No.
Fourteen. PB:Squadron Signal Publications:
Carrollton, TX, 1974. 49 pgs., $10
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A book on depicitng the types of choppers used by
4787.) DRENDEL, LOU: ->The Air War in Vietnam. PB:Arco Publishing Inc.: New
York, 1981. 5th Edition 95 pgs.,
$8.5 Wraps trade ed., slight curling of
cover tips, o/w a v/g copy. The book was reviewed by the Department of
Defense and the corrections suggested were incorporated into the material
presented in the book.
20555.) DREYFUS, GASTON: ->Gaston Dreyfus: Lettres
du Tonking, 1884-1886. PB:Editions L;Harmattan: Paris,
2001. 207 pgs., $24.5
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Dreyfus was a military doctor serving in Tonkin.
French text.
26060.) DREZ, RONALD J. and DOUGLAS BRINKLEY:->Voices of
Courage: The Battle for Khe Sanh, Vietnam.
HC:Bulfinch Press: New York, 2005.
1st Edition 186 pgs., $2.99 Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a fine copy in a
fine d/j. An account of the battle of Khe Sanh with excellent photos and icludes
2 audio CDS from Khe Sanh
veterans. A must collectable item for any Khe Sanh
vet.
7175.) DRINAN, ROBERT F.: ->Vietnam and Armageddon: Peace, War and the
Christian Conscience. HC:Sheed &
Ward: New York, 1970. 210 pgs., $2.99 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Spine of d/j has scrape as prior owner had
aurthor's
initial tape to spine. Author is Jesuit who was Dean of the Boston College Law
School from 1956 to 1969
and a Corresponding editor for America, the national
Catholic magazine.
26926.) DROR, Introductions and Annotations OLGA and
K. W. TAYLOR: ->Views Of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam.
PB:SEAP Cornell
University: Ithaca, NY, 2006. 290 pgs., $25.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
Christoforo Borri
writes on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin.
244.) du BERRIER, HILAIRE: ->Background to Betrayal: The Tragedy of Vietnam.
HC:Western Islands: Belmont,
Mass., 1965. 316 pgs., $6 A v/g copy. No d/j.
Author opposed U.S. backing of Diem, stating U.S. should have
backed Bao Dai.
Introduction to book by Ralph Welch of the John Birch Society.
22263.)
DUC, NGUYEN PHU: ->The Viet Nam Peace Negotiations: Saigon's Side of the Story.
PB:Dalley Book
Service: Christiansburg, VA, 2005. 1st Edition 463 pgs.,
$15.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author served as
National Security
Advisor to President Thieu and he was a participant in many of the meetings
between US
representatives and President Thieu. In 1972, he was sent by Thieu
to meet with President Nixon over the GVN's
concerns about the agreements
reached between the US and North Vietnam negotiated by Kissinger. Edited by
Arthur Dommen with an introduction by him.
9901.) DUFF, et al EDWARD:
->The Burden of the Berrigans. PB:Holy Cross Quarterly: Worcester, MA, 1971. 80
pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A publication in which 10 contributors
crtique the Berrigans and their anti-
5076.) DUFFY, Eds. DAN and KALI TAL:
->Nobody Gets Off the Bus: The Viet Nam Generation Big Book.
PB:Vietnam
Generation, Inc.: Woodbridge, CT, 1994. 424 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a very
fine copy. This
publication contians a wide range of articles on the war,
poetry , book reviews etc..
33165.) DUIKER, WILLIAM J.: ->Ho Chi
Minh: A Life. PB:Hyperion: New York, 2000. 1ST Edition 692 pgs., $7.5
Wraps
trade ed., a very fine copy.
3380.) DUIKER, WILLIAM J.: ->Vietnam: Nation in
Revolution. PB:Westview Press: Boulder, Co., 1983. 6th Edition
171 pgs.,
$2.95 Wraps trade size ed., a v/g plus copy. Author traces the evolution of
Vietnam from the precolonial
period to the end of Vietnam War in 1975. The
last three chapters deal with the current phase of the Vietnamese
revolution
since the Communist tiumph in 1975.
6262.) DUIKER, WILLIAM: ->Vietnam:
Revolution in Transition. PB:Westview Press: Boulder, CO., 1995. 2nd
Edition
250 pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., remainder mark top edge, o/w a v/g plus copy.
This is the second edition. A
comprehensive account of the overall context of
Vietnam's national experience from pre-colonial times to the
present.
2916.) DUNCAN, DONALD: ->The New Legions. HC:Random House: New York, 1967. 1st
Edition 275 pgs., $2.99
PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1967. 1st Edition 214
pgs., $1.99 Price clipped, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps, a
mass market
ed., a v/g copy. Account by a sergeant in the Green Berets of his experience in
Vietnam and why he is
opposed to the war. This author and his book were very
popular in the anti-war movement.
26199.) DUNCANSON, DENNIS: ->If Hanoi
Wins: A Commonwealth of Red Dominoes. PB:Quadrant: Sydney,
Australia, 1970. 8
pgs., $1.5 Wraps booklet, a v/g plus copy. No postage charge if order with a
book. Quadrant is a
publication of the Australian Association of Cultural
Freedom located in Sydney, Australia.
5063.) DUNSTAN, SIMON: ->Armour of
the Vietnam Wars. PB:Osprey Publishing: London, 1985. 40 pgs., $10
Wraps
trade ed., a fine copy. Author briefly describes North Vietnamese, ARVN, U.S.
Army, and Marine armour
7060.) DUPUIS, J.: ->A Journey to Yunnan and the
Opening of the Red River to Trade. PB:White Lotus Press:
Bangkok, 1998. REP.
Edition 105 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., top tip of cover bent, o/w a v/g plus
copy. Originally
published as Voyage au Yunnan et Ouverture du Fleuve Rouge
au Commerce, 1880 in Annales du Musee Guimet,
Vol. I, pp. 139-201. Dupuis was
a French tradeer who journeyed up the Red River in 1872-1873.
251.)
DURRANCE, DICK: Introduction by RON KOVIC:->Where War Lives: A Photographic
Journal of Vietnam.
PB:Noonday Press: New York, 1988. 1st Edition 148 pgs.,
$2.95 Wraps a trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Author served in
Vietnam with the
Army Special Photographic Office from 1967 to 1968 and this book is his personal
selection of
photos taken during this period.
8652.) DURSTEWITZ, JEFF and
RUTH WILLIAMS: ->Younger Than That Now: A Shared Passage from the Sixties.
HC:Bantam Books: New York, 2000. 1st Edition 343 pgs., $2.99 Small bump on
bottom edge of front cover, o/w a
v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Memoirs of
two persons who started a correspondence in 1969, she a proper girl and
school editor from Yazoo City, MS and he a reporter for a school paper from Long
Island. They continued a
relationship for over 30 years. Their letters
provide an excellent social history of the issues raised by the sixties.
3322.) EBERT, JAMES R.: ->A Life in a Year: The American Infantryman in Vietnam,
1965-1972. HC:Presidio Press:
Novato, Ca., 1993. 1st Edition 406 pgs., $1.99
A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Book focuses on the life of the
'grunt' in
Vietnam, drawing upon interviews with over 50 infantrymen who served in Vietnam.
253.) EDELMAN, Ed. BERNARD: ->Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam. HC:W.
W. Norton & Co.: New York,
1985. 3rd Edition 316 pgs., $2.99 A v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. . Book contains letters sent to the New York Vietnam
Veterans
Memorial Commission as one of their projects when establishing the New York
Vietnam Memorial.
3980.) EDIGER, Compiler MAX and DORIS LONGACRE,
Ed.->Release Us From Bondage: Six Days in a Vietnamese
Prison. PB:Mennonite
Central Committee: Akron, PA, 1974. 28 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade size ed., a v/g
plus copy.
Contains poetry and art work by prisoners of the South Vietnam
government. Publication provides a critique of the
South Vietnamese prison
system which estimated that there were over 100,00 political prisoners held by
the Thieu
regime.
7115.) EDWARDS, RICHARD: ->The Vietnam War. HC:Rourke
Enterprises, Inc.: Vero Beach, FL, 1986. 77 pgs., $12
Libray binding, a v/g
copy. Book is part of a Flashpoints series on conflicts in the world written for
Junior High
254.) EFFROS, Compiler WILLIAM G.: ->Quotations Vietnam:
1945-1970. PB:Random House: New York, 1970.
248 pgs., $1.99 Wraps trade ed.,
a v/g copy. Selection of quotations reflects an anti-war bias as one can tell by
the
255.) EGENDORF, ARTHUR: ->Healing From the War: Trauma and
Transformation After Vietnam. HC:Houghton
Mifflin: Boston, 1985. 1st Edition
324 pgs., $1.99 Name on enpaper, o/w a v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author a
psychologist and Vietnam veteran who deals with the trauma of war and the
process of healing that can take occurr.
256.) EHRHART, W. D.:
->Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine's Memoir. PB:McFarland & Co.: Jefferson, NC,
1983. 2nd Edition 311 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Another
copy, $5.00, a wraps mass market ed.,
spine slightly cocked, o/w a v/g copy.
A memoir by one of the leading writers of Vietnam War literature. He served
with the Marines in Vietnam and afterwards became active in The Vietnam Veterans
Against the War.
6384.) EHRHART, W.D.: ->Busted: A Vietnam Veteran in
NIxon's America. HC:University of Massachusetts Press:
Amherst, MA, 1995. 1st
Edition 146 pgs., $15 With complimnets from the author slip laid in, a mint copy
in a mint
d/j. Another copy, $10.00, a fine copy in a fine d/j. This is the
third book in Ehrhart's Vietnam War trilogy. The book
explores the
contradiction between law and justice in Nixon's America and an examination of
why the wounds
inflicted on the United States by the war are so slow to heal.
5966.) EHRHART: W.D.: ->In the Shadow of Vietnam: Essays, 1977-1991.
HC:McFarland & Company: New York,
1977. 195 pgs., $7.95 A mint copy. Contains
23 essays by Ehrhart ranging from flag burning to teaching the
3017.) EILERT,
RICK: ->For Self and Country. HC:William Morrow & Co.: New York, 1983. 2nd
Edition 304 pgs.,
$7.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author was a young Mrine
corporal who was severly wounded in Vietnam from a bobby
trap and spent a
year in the hospital recovering. Since then, he had 39 operations but he married
his teenage
sweeheart and has two children. Book is his story of this
journey.
8925.) EISNER, WILL: ->Last Day in Vietnam: A Memory.
PB:Dark Horse Comics, Inc.: Milwaukie, OR, 2000. 2nd
Edition 76 pgs., $10.95
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A series of 5 cartoon stories of the a GIs
experience in Vietnam
as they became short timers. There is also one cartoon
story with a Korea setting.
7426.) ELLIOTT, DUONG VAN MAI: ->The Sacred
Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family.
HC:Oxford
University Press: New York, 1999. 1st Edition 506 pgs., $7.5 A v/g plus copy in
a v/g plus d/j. The author
tells the story of her family over four
generations, from the 19th century to the present. Her father served the French
colonial regime while her sister joined the Communist guerillas.
9587.)
ELLIOTT, PAUL: ->Vietnam: Conflict and Controversy. HC:Arms and Armour: London,
1996. 192 pgs., $10
Remainder mark bottom edge and part of d/j, o/w a v/g
plus copy in a v/g d/j. The book provides a detailed look at
the forces
within the American military that contributed to what he conisers was the defeat
in Vietnam. Issues
coverred are use of Agent Orange, the Phoenix Program,
one-year tours of duty, etc..
260.) ELLSBERG, DANIEL: ->Papers on the
War. PB:Simon & Schuster: New York, 1972. 1st Edition 309 pgs., $6
Wraps a
trade ed, a v/g copy. Book contains essays by the author that offer his
explanation of U.S. policies and
strategies. Included is an essay titled
'Murder In Laos.'
20729.) ELLSBERG, DANIEL: ->Secrets: A Memoir of
Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. HC:Viking Press: New
York, 2002. 1st Edition
498 pgs., $7.5 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. Ellsberg provides a very
detailed account
of his making the Pentagon Papers public.
5288.) ELY,
JOHN HART: ->War and Responsibility: Constitutional Lessons of Vietnam and Its
Aftermath.
HC:Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1993. 1ST Edition
244 pgs., $7.5 Name on enpaper, o/w a very fine
copy in a very fine d/j. The
author analyzes the constitutional ambiguities of the American involvement in
Vietnam
and concludes with a proposed revised version of the War Powers
Resolution.
8467.) EMBASSY OF VIET-NAM PUBLICATION: ->Doing Business in
Vietnam: Legal and Commercial
Considerations. PB:Viet-Nam Council on Foreign
Relations: , 1971. REP. Edition 118 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade size
21692.)
EMERING, EDWARD J.: ->Viet Cong: A Photographic Portrait. HC:Schiffer Publishing
Ltd.: Atglen, PA,
1999. 200 pgs., $39.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
Photographs are divided under 7 groups: Viet Cong Guerillas,
main force Viet
Cong, Viet Cong gatherings, Viet Cong weapons, Viet Cong awards, Viet Cong
artistic troupes, and
Viet Cong jungle life. Only 7 pages of text with the
rest of the book devoted to black and white photographs.
262.) EMERSON,
GLORIA A.: ->Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins From
a Long War.
HC:Random House: New York, 1977. 3rd Edition 406 pgs., $1.99
PB:Harocurt Brace Jovanovich: New York, 1978.
1st Edition 422 pgs., $1.99 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A journalistic account of
the feelings
about the Vietnam War by a good cross section of Americans,
ranging from veterans to war resisters Inlclueded are
Vietnamese as well.
Author covered the Indochina War for the New York Times and it is one of the
earlier works
dealing with the aftermath of the war as to the impact it made
on our society.
6403.) ENGELBRECHT, CHARLES: ->The Guns Fell Silent and
the War Began. PB:Engelbrecht and Associates:
Laurel, MA, 1987. 213 pgs.,
$12.5 Wraps trade ed., inscribed by author, a v/g plus copy. A memoir on the
problems
of adjusting to civilian life by a former Marine veteran who served
six years in Vietnam.
263.) ENGELMANN, LARRY: ->Tears Before the Rain: An
Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam. HC:Oxford
University Press: New
York, 1990. 1st Edition 375 pgs., $1.99 A fine copy in a v/g plus d/j. Book
contains 70 oral
histories on the fall of Vietnam, both American and
Vietnamese observers.
5219.) EPSTEIN, MITCH: ->Vietnam: A Book of Changes
HC:W.W. Norton and Company: New York, NY, 1997. 1st
Edition 176 pgs., $9.95
Name on enpaper, o/w a very fine copy in a very fine d/j. A photo book of
present day
Vietnam which depicts its colonial past and the American impact
with the present changes that are occurring in the
country.
28813.)
ERENRICH, Ed. SUSIE: ->Kent and Jackson State, 1970-1990. PB:Vietnam Generation,
Inc.: Woodbridge,
CT., 1995. 2ND Edition 180 pgs., $19.5 Wraps trade ed., a
mint copy. A collection of essays, songs, photographs,
articles, and
testimonies of people who lost the most at these two schools.
265.)
ERICSON, DON and JOHN L. ROTUNDO:->Charlie Rangers. PB:Ivy Books: New York,
1989. 19th Edition 306
pgs., $2.99 Wraps mass market ed., mint as purchased
new. Account of Charlie Company, 75th Infantry, that formed
six-man team of
whom the authors were members and whose tours were from 1969-1971. Thwese teams
specialized in ambushing the the enemy.
7920.) ERNST, JOHN: ->Forging a
Fateful Alliance: MIchigan State University and the Vietnam War. PB:Michigan
State University Press: East Lansing, MI, 1998. 165 pgs., $7.95 Wraps trade ed.,
a mint copy. A valuable study on
the role Michigan State University played in
America's early efforts at nation-building in South Vietnam and the part
it
played in the Eisenhower's Administration commitment to Ngo Dinh Diem and South
Vietnam.
267.) ESPER, GEORGE and the ASSOCIATED PRESS:->The Eyewitness
History of the Vietnam War: 1961-1975.
PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 1983.
1st Edition 209 pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade ed., 9 by 12 inches, a v/g copy. A
chronological narrative with photos drawn from the Associated Press files.
3027.) ESTEP, JAMES: ->Comanche: Company Commander In Vietnam. HC:Presidio
Press: Novato, Ca., 1991. 1st
Edition 254 pgs., $2.99 A mint copy in a mint
d/j. Personal memoir of an army officer who served four tours in
Vietnam. He
served as a special forces non-commissioned and commissioned officer, an
infantry company officer,
and an ARVN advisor. Most of the book is about his
experience as a company commander in the famed lst Cavalry
Division during
1967 and 1968.
270.) ETHELL, JEFFREY and ALFRED PRICE:->One Day In a Long
War: May 10, 1972, Air War, North Vietnam.
HC:Random House: New York, 1989.
217 pgs., $5.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. A chronicle of the launch
6083.) EVANS, Jr. DANIEL and CHARLES W. SASSER:->DOC: Platoon Medic.
HC:Pocket Books: New York, 1998.
BC Edition 248 pgs., $2.95 A v/g plus copy
in a v/g plus d/j. Memoir of Daniel Evans, a platoon medic who went
to
Vietnam in October of 1968. Foreword by Colonel David H. Hackworth.
27139.) EYMANN, Eds. MARCIA A. and CHARLES WOLLENBERG:->What' Going On:
California and the Vietnam
Era. HC:University of California Press: Berkeley,
2004. 1st Edition 209 pgs., $12.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Book
develops
the themes of the Oakland Museum's national touring exhibition having the same
title as this book. The
exhibit centered on events between 1965 and 1975 and
examined the legacy of those years in California today
thorugh 500
artifacts--documents, news accounts, photographs, film clips, musical excertps,
and personal documents.
5218.) EZELL, Narrator EDWARD ->Reflections On
the Wall: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. HC:Stackpole Books:
Harrisburg, PA,
1987. 1st Edition 160 pgs., $4.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book contains a
excellent selection of
black and white photographs by the Smithsonian
Institute.
275.) FALK, Ed. RICHARD A.: ->The Vietnam War and
International Law, Vol. 4: The Concluding Phase.
PB:Princeton University
Press: Princeton, N.J., 1976. 1051 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.
276.) FALK, Ed. RICHARD A.: ->The Vietnam War and International Law, Volume
3, The Widening Context.
PB:Princeton University Press: Princeton, N.J.,
1973. 951 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. This volume
covers the
Cambodian incursion, war crimes, the constitutional debate on the Vietnam War,
special questions of
international law, prospects for settlement, world order
perspectives, and documentary appendices,
7495.) FALK, Ed. RICHARD A.:
->The Vietnam War and International Law, Volume II. PB:Princeton University
Press: Princeton, NJ, 1969. 1270 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
278.) FALK, Ed. RICHARD A.: ->The Vietnam War and International Law: Volume I.
PB:Princeton University Press:
Princeton, N.J., 1968. 633 pgs., $7.5 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g plus copy.
23726.) FALL, BERNARD B.: ->Communist POW
Treatment In Indochina. PB:Military Review: Fort Leavenworth,
KS, 1958. 12
pgs., $1.5 Photocopied reprint, no postage charge if ordered with another book.
Article is from the
279.) FALL, BERNARD B.: ->Hell In a Very Small Place:
The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. HC:J. B. Lippincott Co.:
Philadelphia, 1967. 4th
Edition 515 pgs., $2.99 Ex-library, a v/g copy. No d/j. The account is a classic
among
accounts of significant military battles in history.
280.) FALL,
BERNARD B.: ->Last Reflections on the War. HC:Stackpole Books: Mechanicsburg,
PA, 1967. 1ST
Edition 288 pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy in a good d/j. Book contains
19 articles and transcripts composed by Fall
between 1964 and his death in
1967. The last transcript is a tape made on the day he was killed on February
21st,
1967. Includes a preface by Dorothy Fall.
281.) FALL, BERNARD B.:
->Street Without Joy. HC:Stackpole Co.: Harrisburg, Pa., 1994. 5th Edition 408
pgs.,
$22.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. A very vivid account of the military
and political dimensions of the Vietnam War
during the French involvement
with the concluding chapters dealing with the beginning of the American
involvement. This reprint edition contains an introduction by George Herring.
282.) FALL, BERNARD B.: ->The Two Viet-Nams: A Political and Military
Analysis, Second Revised Edition.
HC:Frederick A. Praeger, Pub.: New York,
1964. Rev. Edition 507 pgs., $10 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. This second
revised
edition has 507 pages whereas the initial revised edition had 493 pages.
22431.) FALL, BERNARD B.: ->The Viet-Minh Regime: Government and Administration
In the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam. PB:Dalley Book Service:
Christiansburg, VA, 2003. Rep. Edition 196 pgs., $25 Wraps monograph
reprinted in spiral bound soft cover, a mint copy. This is a revised and
enlarged edition of Fall' work published by the
Institute of Pacific
Relations and issued jointly with the Southeast Asia program of Cornell
University. Permission to
reprint this study by Dalley Book Service was given
by Bernard Fall's wife, Dorthy Fall.
283.) FALL, BERNARD B.: ->Viet-Nam
Witness: 1953-1966. HC:Frederick A. Praeger, Pub.: New York, 1970. 8th
Edition 363 pgs., $4.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. This is a selection of Fall's
writings from 1953 to 1966, including an
introduction, commentary and
epilogue assessing the war's possible future course.
26697.) FALL,
DOROTHY: ->Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar. A mint copy in a mint
d/j. Bernard Fall's
conducted interviews for this book in the United States,
France, and Vietnam over 30 years nad drew from her
husband's correspondence,
authobiographical writings, and notes written in Vietnam, and from official U.s.
government files revealed here for the first time. A chapter is given to the FBI
surveillance of Bernard Fall.
Foreward by David Halberstam.
287.) FANNING,
LOUIS A.: ->Betrayal In Vietnam. HC:Arlington House Pubishers: New Rochelle,
N.Y., 1976. 256
pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author was a professor
of history at State University of New York at the itime of
the book's
writing. It represents a conseravtive backlash to the way we pulled out of
Vietnam. A period piece.
30141.) FARINACCI, DONALD J.: ->Last Full
Measure of Devotion: A Tributre to America's Heroes of the Vietnam
War..
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author provides accounts of persons who performed
courageously during their
4361.) FAWCETT, Ed. BILL: ->Hunters and
Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy Seals in Vietnam. HC:Wiliam
Morrow
& Co.: New York, 1995. 1st Edition 350 pgs., $4.95 A fine copy in a fine d/j.
The book contains 15 oral
histories of U.S. Navy Seals who served in Vietnam.
The book was written with the cooperation of the UDT/SEAL
Museum and UDT/SEAL
Association.
32706.) FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT, ->Delaware: A Guide to the
First State. HC:Viking Press: New York, 1938.
1ST Edition 549 pgs., $10
Ex-library in a nicely rebound library binding with gold lettering on spine,
foxing of 40
some pageses including the title page, o/w a v/g copy.
4788.) FIGLEY, Ed. CHARLES R.: ->Stress Disorders Aong Vietnam Veterans: Theory,
Research, and Treatment.
HC:Brunner/Mazel Publishers: New York, 1978. 2nd
Edition 326 pgs., $6 Name on enapper, o/w a v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. This book
contains articles by 5 specialists in the fields of mental health and veterans
affairs who address the
human costs of war in terms of long-term
psychological difficulties resulting from war-related experiences.
5220.)
FINAN, JOHN: ->Guns and Blood for Butter. HC:Vantage Press: New York, NY, 1969.
1st Edition 183 pgs.,
$10 Inscribed by the author, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Author was policeman for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police
Department and a
World War II veteran. In this book privatley printed book, he aruges against
U.S. invovlement in
Vietnam.
311.) FINCHER, E. B.: ->The Vietnam War.
HC:Franklin Watts: New York, 1980. 7th Edition 87 pgs., $1.99 A v/g
copy in a
v/g d/j. Written for Junior High students.
312.) FISH, LYDIA: ->The Last
Firebase: A Guide to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. PB:White Mane Publishing
Co.: Shippensburg, Pa., 1987. 85 pgs., $1.99 Wraps trade size edition, a v/g
plus copy.
315.) FISHEL, Ed. WESLEY R.: ->Vietnam: Anatomy of a Conflict.
PB:F.E. Peacock Publishers: Itasca, Ill., 1968.
879 pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed.,
a v/g copy. Book contains 76 articles, an excellent reference on the debate over
22938.) FISHER, LOUIS: ->Presidential War Power. PB:University Press of
Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 2004. 2nd
Edition 318 pgs., $16.95 Wraps trade ed., a
mint copy. This is the second edition. revised. Book deals with military
initatives thorugh President Clinton with a full chapter on Vietnam and a full
chapter on covert actions.
316.) FITZGERALD, FRANCES: ->Fire In the Lake:
The Vietnamese and the Americans In Vietnam. HC:Little Brown
& Co.: Boston,
1972. 7th Edition 491 pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy in a good plus d/j. Spine of d/j
very faded and some
scratching. A critical analysis of the internal politics
of Vietnam and how American intervention has had an impact
on the Vietnamese
social and political structure. Portions of this book had been printed in the
New Yorker.
26350.) FJELSTAD, Eds. KAREN and NGUYEN THI HIEN: ->Possessed
By the Spirits: Mediumship in Contemporary
Vietnamese Communities. PB:Cornell
Southeast Asia Program: Ithaca, NY, 2006. 1st Edition 186 pgs., $22.95
Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. The essays in this study examine the resurgence of the
Mother Goddess religion
among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic
'Renovation' period in Vietnam.
3708.) FLYNN, ROBERT: ->A Personal
War in Vietnam. PB:Texas A&M University Press: College Station, TX,
1989. 139
pgs., $12 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. A war correspondent's account of Golf
Company consisting of
CUPP teams that consisted of a Marine squad and a Navy
corpsman. These teams were part of the Combined Unit
Pacification Program.
6554.) FOLEY, DENNIS: ->Special Men: A LRP's Recollections. HC:Ivy Books: New
York, 1994. BC Edition 301 pgs.,
$3.95 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Personal
memoir of a LRP who served under Hackworth.
26051.) FOLEY, Ed. MICHAEL
S.: ->Dear Dr. Spock: Letters About the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby
Doctor. HC:New York University Press: New York, 2005. 1st Edition 281 pgs., $15
A mint copy in a very fine d/j. A
collection of letters mainly from white,
middle class parents concerned about the Vetnam whom the author states
were
for the most part Nixon's silent majority.
21371.) FOLEY, MICHAEL S.:
->Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War.
PB:University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC, 2003. 1ST Edition 449
pgs., $9.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. This study looks at the role played
in the anti-war movement by draft resisters who openly defied draft laws by
burning or turning in their draft cards. Author argues that their actions
inspired other draft-age men opposed to the
war-especially college
students-to reconsider their place of privilege in a draft system that offered
them protection
and sent disproportionate numbers of working-class and
minority men to Vietnam.
409.) FORBES, JOHN and ROBERT WILLIAMS:->The
Illustrated History of the Vietnam War: Riverine Force.
HC:Bantam Books: New
York, 1987. BC Edition 158 pgs., $6 PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1987. 1st Edition
158
pgs., $1.99 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Wraps a trade size ed., a v/g plus
copy.
7425.) FORD, HAROLD P.: ->CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three
Episodes, 1962-1968. PB:Center for the
Study of Intelligence: Langley, VA,
1998. REP. Edition 167 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a photocopies reprint. The
book covers three episodes: a. The Effort to Begin Withdrawing U.S. Military
Personnel From Vietnam, 1962-1963, b.
CIA Judgements on President Johnson's
Decision to 'Go Big' in Vietnam, 1963-1965, and c. CIA, the Order of
Battle
Controversy, and the Tet Offensive, 1967-1968. Author served with the Agency's
Office of National Estimates
and drafted many National Intelligence Estimates
concerning Vietnam.
21571.) FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 1967, OCTOBER: ->Asia After Viet
Nam and Viet Nam: Crisis of Indecision.
PB:Council On Foreign Relations: New
York, 1967. 29 pgs., $5 Wraps, a v/g copy. Asia After Viet Nam is a 14 page
article written by Richard Nixon, The other article. Viet Nam: Crisis of
Indecision is a 15 page article written by
Robert Shaplen.
6020.)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLIASHING HOUSE: ->Vietnamese Studies No. 36: Ethnographical
Data, Volume
2. PB:Foreign Langauge Puslishing House: Hanoi, 1973. 200 pgs.,
$5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Included are
chapters on Meo and Khmu and
then a section of ethnic groups in remote parts of the Northwest only just saved
from
extinction as seen by Hanoi at the time..
30507.) FOREIGN LANGUAGE
PUBLISHING HOUSE, ->Vietnamese1 Studies No. 18. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
Contains 3 chapters on agriculturtal development, one chapter on marriage and
family law, one chapter on new
problems in Vietnamese archaeologyand a
chapter on origin of languages of the Viet-Muong group.
24224.) FOREIGN
LANGUAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE: ->Coup After Coup in Saigon. PB:Foreign Language
Publishing House: Hanoi, 1964. 98 pgs., $17.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.
8379.) FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE: ->Communist Party of Vietnam: 5th
National Congress Political
Report. PB:Foreign Language Publishing House:
Hanoi, 1982. 174 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. This
congress was
held at Hanoi from March 27 -31st in 1982.
424.) FOREIGN LANGUAGE
PUBLISHING HOUSE: ->Vietnamese Studies No. 12: Fundamental Problems.
PB:Foreign Language Publishing House: Hanoi, 1966. 201 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed,
a v/g copy.
3502.) FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE: ->Vietnamese
Studies No. 20.: American Failure. PB:: Hanoi,
1968. 287 pgs., $12.5 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g copy. Seven accounts of the war, including articles by General
Van
Tien Dung and Nguyen Van Ba. There is an account on the battle of Saigon
during the TET offensive and another
on the evolution of military situation
prior to TET.
425.) FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE: ->Vietnamese Studies
No. 29: Chemical Warfare. PB:: Hanoi,
1970. 185 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade size
ed., owner's stamp on ttile page, o/w a v/g copy. Book outlines chemicals
alleged to be used by the United States in Vietnam. Photos and fold-out chart.
3481.) FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE: ->Vietnamese Studies No. 31:
Glimpses of U.S. Neo-
Colonialism, Vol. II. US. Neo-Colonialism in South Viet
Nam. PB: Hanoi, 1971. 236 pgs., $5 Wraps trade ed., a
428.) FOREIGN
LANGUAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE: ->Vietnamese Studies No. 32: Ethnographical Data,
Vol. I.
PB:: Hanoi, 1972. 205 pgs., $5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.
Included are chapters on the Muong & Black Thai
of Vietnam. Contains photos &
illustrations.
30506.) FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE: ->Vietnamese
Studies No. 34: Rural Health Work and Disease
Prevention. Wraps trade ed., a
v/g copy. Study describes health work in various proinces by the DRVN.
434.) FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE: ->Vietnamese Studies No. 37: Hue Past
and Present. PB::
Hanoi, 262 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Gives a
short history of Hue, then focuses on the Binh-Tri-Thien
Front during the
first Indochina War and then the TET offensive in Hue and ends with an article
by one who views
himself as a patrotic intellectual.
8888.) FOREIGN
LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE PUBLICATION: ->Viet Nam: A Sketch. PB:Foreign
Language
Publishing House: Hanoi, 1971. 143 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g
copy. Book presents a general history of
Vietnam, present social life in
Vietnam, and achievements of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam.
24991.)
FORSLUND, CATHERINE: ->Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and Asian Relations.
PB:Scholarly
Resources, INc.: Wilmington, DE, 2002. 1st Edition 180 pgs.,
$7.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book devotes a
chapter to the October
surprise in 1968 in which she is alleged to have intervened in US-Vietnam
relations over the
issue of the Paris Peace talks.
20442.) FORTIN, NOONIE:
->Memories of Maggie, Martha Raye: A Legend Spanning Three Wars. PB:Langmarc
Publishing: San Antonio, TX, 1995. 1st Edition 339 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed.,
a v/g copy. An account of memories
shared by servicemen of Colonel Maggie.
Most of the pages are devoted to persons who remembered her from their
Vietnam experience.
28541.) FORWARD AIR CONTROLLER ASSOCIATION, ->FAC History
Book. A CD that contains written accounts of
Forward Air Controllers of their
experiences during the war. There is also photo album, a music box and a map
room that shows details of the surrounding area mentioned in these stories.
Foreward by General Ralph E. Eberhart.
8731.) FOURNIAU, CHARLES:
->Annam-Tonkin 1885-1896: Lettres et paysans vietnamiens face a la conquete
coloniale. PB:Editions L'Harmattan: Paris, 1989. 294 pgs., $47.5 Wraps trade
ed., a mint copy.
4399.) FOWLER, WILL: ->The Vietnam Story. HC:Chartwell
Books, Inc.: Secaucus, NJ, 1983. 192 pgs., $12 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. A
picture book of the Vietnam War, beginning with the end of French rule. Basic
text for the
3843.) FRANCILLON, RENE J.: ->Vietnam: The War in the Air.
HC:Arch Cape Press: New York, 1987. 255 pgs., $25
A v/g plus in a v/g d/j.
Book is heavily illustrated with very detailed text. Covers the air war from the
French period
and discusses the North Vietnamese Air Force as well.
3519.) FRANKLIN, H. BRUCE: ->M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America. HC:Lawrence Hill
Books: Chicago, 1992. 1st
Edition 225 pgs., $1.99 A fine copy in a v/g plus
d/j. Author argues that the POW/MIA issue was born out of
political
expediency and American culture turned imagined post-war POWs into crucial
symbols of betrayed
American manhood and honor.
8850.) FRANKLIN, H. BRUCE:
->Vietnam and Other American Fantasies. HC:University of Massaachusetts Press:
Amherst, MA, 2000. 256 pgs., $25 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j in a mylar
cover. The author explores the
causes, meaning, and continuing significance
of the Vietnam War in American culture.
25161.) FRANKUM, Jr. RONALD B.:
->Like Rolling Thunder: The Air War in Vietnam, 1964-1975. HC:Rowan &
Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 2005. 207 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Book
examines each theater of of
operation-South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos, and
Cambodia-and explores the extent in which the aerial
campaigns aided U.S.
tactics and strategy.
321.) FREEDMAN, Ed. DAN and JACQUELINE
RHOADS, Associate Ed.:->Nurses In Vietnam: The Forgotton
Veterans. HC:Texas
Monthly Press: Austin, TX, 1987. 1ST Edition 164 pgs., $2.99 A v/g copy in a v/g
d/j. . Oral
histories of nine nurses who served in Vietnam. The Associate
Editor of this book served as an intensive care nurse
at the 18th Surgical
Hospital at Quang Tri.
22206.) FREEMAN, GREGORY A.: ->Sailors to the End: The
Deadly Fire On the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who
Fought It. HC:William
Morrow & Co.: New York, 2002. 1st Edition 307 pgs., $3.95 A fine copy in a fine
d/j. An
account of the 1967 fire on board the USS Forrestal during its time
at Yankee Station off the coast of Vietnam. The
fire took the lives of 134
men.
4493.) FREEMAN, JAMES M.: ->Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American LIves.
HC:Stanford University Press:
Stanford, CA, 1989. 1st Edition 446 pgs., $1.99
Notation on enpaper, o/w a v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. . Book
contains
Vietnamese oral histories that cover a wide range of experiences from the French
colonial period to settling
in this country after the fall of Saigon. The
oral histories of the early period are very informative.
5320.) FRENCH,
ALBERT: ->Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption. HC:Doubleday & Co.:
New York,
1997. 1st Edition 272 pgs., $2.99 PB:Anchor Books: New York, 1998.
1st Edition 241 pgs., $1.99 A very fine copy in
a very fine d/j. Wraps trade
ed., a v/g plus copy. A well written memoir by a black veteran focusing on his
war and
post-war experiences. He writes on the nature of the Vietnam War and
the experiences faced by returning veterans.
322.) FRENCH, W.:
->Pattern for Victory: New Tactics for Vietnam. HC:Exposition Press, Inc.:
Jericho, N.Y., 1970. 1st
Edition 170 pgs., $10 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Dust
jacket blurb states author is an internaionally known inventor,
hence he is
well equipped to create new weapons and tactics for Vietnam.
7800.)
FREY-WOUTERS, ELLEN and ROBERT S. LAUFER: ->Legacy of A War: The American
Soldier in Vietnam.
HC:M.E. Sharpe, Inc.: New York, 1986. 2nd Edition 434
pgs., $2.99 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Book focuses on the
long-term impact
the Vietnam experience will have in shaping the value systems of American
veterans and their
foreign policy attitudes towards the prospects of more
Vietnams in other part of the world.
324.) FRIED, Rapporteur JOHN H. E.:
->Vietnam and International Law: An Analysis of International Law and the
Use
of Force, and Precedent of Vietnam for Subsequent Interventions. PB:Aletheia
Press: Northhampton, MA,
1990. 200 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
Book was issued by the Lawyers Committee on American Policy
Towards Vietnam.
26307.) FRIED, Rapporteur JOHN H. E.: ->Vietnam and International Law: The
Illegality of United States Military
Involvement. PB:Aletheia Press:
Northhampton, MASS., 1990. 201 pgs., $5 Wraps trade ed., some underlining, a
good plus copy. Book was published by the Lawyers Committee On American Policy
Towards Vietnam.
27570.) FRY, JOSEPH A.: ->Debating Vietnam: Fulbright,
Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings. PB:Rowland and
Littlefield Publishers:
Lanham, MD, 2006. 198 pgs., $14.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An invaluable
study on
the hearings that Senators Fulbright and Stennis held on the Vietnam
War, one by the former in February of 1966
and the latter in August of 1967.
Stennis as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee advocated
increased bombing whereas Fulbright sought to halt the escalation of the
conflict.
7008.) FULBRIGHT, J. WILLIAM: ->The Price of Empire.
HC:Pantheon Books: New York, 1989. 243 pgs., $10 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. An
overall view by Fulbright in portraying the costs of the cold war and what he
regards as the
disastrous policy of U.S. interventionism.
326.)
FURGURSON, ERNEST B.: ->Westmoreland: The Inevitable General. HC:Little Brown &
Co.: Boston, 1968.
1st Edition 347 pgs., $10 Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g
d/j. Book focuses on the private life and background of
General Westmoreland
before he became the Army Chief of Staff.
4993.) FUTRELL, ROBERT F.:
->United States Policy Towards Southeast Asia, 1943-1968: A Chronological
Compedium. PB:Aerospace STudies Institute: Maxwell Air Force Base, AL., 1968.
REP. Edition 652 pgs., $60 A
phtocopied reprint in spiral bound with softcard
cover. Excellent resource with name and subject index. A Project
Corona
Harvest study.
327.) GABRIEL, RICHARD A. and PAUL L. SAVAGE:->Crisis In
Command: Mismanagement in the Army. PB:Hill &
Wang: New York, 1990. 7th
Edition 242 pgs., $1.99 A wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Authors argue that much
of the
disaster of Vietnam can be explained by the collapse in morale and
performance of the officer corps of the United
States Army. Both were
officers in the United States Army.
21463.) GAIDUK, ILYA: ->Confronting
Vietnam: Soviet Policy Toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963.
HC:Standford
University Press: Palo Alto, CA, 2003. 1st Edition 334 pgs., $49.95 A mint copy
in a mint d/j. Based
on research in the russian archives, this book examines
the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the
1954 Geneva
Conference and late 1963, when the Diem and Kennedy assassinations radically
transformed the
conflict. There are two excellent chapters on Laos and his
knowledge of this period in Laos demonstrates that he is
throughly familiar
with United States archival sources as he compares events from the Russian and
American
perspectives during this time period.
5678.) GALLUPPI,
MASSIMO: ->Intellettuali e agent dell'imperialismo in Estremo Oriente.
PB:Istituto Universitario
Orientale: Napoli, 1984. 151 pgs., $15 Wraps trade
ed., a v/g copy. Account of Francis Garnier, Italian text.
29318.) GAMES,
BEN R.: ->Confessions of a CIA Inerrogator. Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Memoir
of Joseph P.
Kelly as told to Ben R. Games who served as a specal police
officer in Vietnam His job was to plan and execute the
kidnapping of high
ranking eneny civil and military personages.
31509.) GARDNER, Eds. LLOYD
C. and MARILYN B. YOUNG: ->Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam Or How Not To
Learn From the Past. HC:New Press: New York, 2007. 2nd Edition 322 pgs., $6
Owner's stamp with name and
address on title page and back enpaper, o/w a
fine copy in a fine d/j.a
20027.) GARDNER, Eds. LLOYD C. and TED
GITTINGER: ->International Perspectives on Vietnam. HC:Texas A&M
University
Press: College Station, TX, 2000. 1st Edition 288 pgs., $32.5 A mint copy in a
mint d/j. Book is a
collection of analyses that looks at the Vietnam War in
terms of its significance to the global arena.
330.) GARDNER, LLOYD C.:
->Approaching Vietnam: From World War II Through Dienbienphu. HC:W. W. Norton &
Co.: New York, 1988. 1st Edition 440 pgs., $12.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus
d/j. A diplomatic history of events
from 1941 through 1954 that made the
Vietnam War all but inevitable.
4790.) GARFINKLE, ADAM: ->Telltale
Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement. HC:St.
Martin's Press: New York, 1995. 1st Edition 370 pgs., $2.99 PB:St. Martin's
Press: New York, 1997. 1st Edition 370
pgs., $1.99 A very fine copy in a fine
d/j. Wraps trade ed., an advance uncorrected proof copy, a fine copy. The
author argues that the antiwar movement had only a marginal impact on limiting
and ending the war. In fact, he
argues that it unwittingly helped to prolong
it, thereby killing more people on both sides.
9766.) GARGAN, EDWARD
A.: ->The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong. HC:Alfred A. Knopf: New York,
2002. 1st
Edition 332 pgs., $12 PB:Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2002. 323 pgs.,
$6 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Wraps, an
uncorrected proof copy, tip of bottom
corner slighlty creased, o/w a v/g plus copy. A personal chronicle by a
journalist
of the New York Times of a journey in 1998 down the Mekong through
China, Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand,
Cambodia, and Vietnam.
28445.)
GARGUS, JOHN: ->The Son Tay Raid: American POWS in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten.
HC:Texas A& M
University Press: College Station, TX, 2007. 1st Edition 332
pgs., $27.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Author was a
331.) GARLAND, Ed.
ALBERT N.: ->Infantry In Vietnam: Small Unit Actions In the Early Days: 1965-66.
HC:Battery
Press: Nashville, Tn., 1983. BC Edition 298 pgs., $2.99 PB:Jove
Books: New York, 1985. 4th Edition 298 pgs.,
$1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
plus d/j. Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g copy. Title first published in 1967 by
Infantry
Magazine. Contains a foreward by General William C. Westmoreland.
4008.) GARNER, JOE R.: ->Code Name: Copperhead. My True-Life Exploits as
Special Forces Soldier. HC:Simon &
Schuster: New York, 1995. 1ST Edition 429
pgs., $2.95 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Memoir of a Special Forces
soldier
engaged in covert and overt operations over a twenty year period. He was part of
MACVSOG in Southeast
Asia and he was involved in many missions, including the
training of the Royal Lao Army in 1961.
332.) GAVIN, JAMES M.: In
collaboration with ARTHUR T. HADLEY:->Crisis Now. HC:Random House: New York,
1968. 1st Edition 184 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
3019.) GAYLIN, WILLARD: ->In the Service of Their Country: War Resisters in
Prison. HC:Viking Press: New York,
1971. 1st Edition 344 pgs., $1.99
PB:Grosset & Dunlap: New York, 1970. 344 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Case studies of Selective Service violators who
chose jail rather than deferment or exile.
Author was an Assoicate Professor
of psychiatry at Columbia University's medical school while doing the research
for
this book.
333.) GELB, LESLIE H. with RICHARD K. BETTS:->The Irony of
Vietnam: The System Worked. PB:Brookings
Institution: Washington, D.C., 1979.
1st Edition 387 pgs., $1.99 Wraps, a trade size ed., a v/g copy.
9803.)
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE REPORT: ->Review of Preliminary Estimates of
Evacuation Costs,
Temporary Care, and Resettlment Cost of Vietnamese and
Cambodian Refugees. PB:Government Printing Office:
Washington, DC, 1975. 32
pgs., $2.5 Wraps trade ed., , a photocpied reprint. A GAO report submitted to
the
Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Committee on Appropriation of the
United States Senate.
20064.) GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE: ->Department of
Defense Procedures for Accumulating and Controlling
Costs for Aid to South
Vietnam in Fiscal Year 1975. PB:Government Printing Office: Washington, DC,
1975. 30
pgs., $4 Wraps a trade size ed., a v/g copy. This was a report of
the Committee on Armed Services of the House of
Representatives in order to
determine how adequate controls could be established for accumulating cost
information
on military support for the South Vietnamese in fiscal year 1975.
20424.) GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE: ->Lessons In Management Problems In Petroleum
Procurement and
Distribution In Southeast Asia. PB:Generla Accounting Office:
Washington, DC, 1976. 21 pgs., $2.5 Wraps, a v/g
copy. A report for the
Department of Defense and Agency for International Development. Reprot states
millions of
dollars were lost in distribuing petroleum products to U.S.
allies in Southeast Asia.
20233.) GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE: ->Status
of Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Efforts to Improve Major
Item
Accountability & Secondary Item Managment. PB:Government Printing Office:
Washington, DC, 1975. 40
pgs., $2.5 Wraps, a v/g copy. This was a report made
to the Subcommittee On Manpower and Personnal Committee
On Armed Services of
the United States Senate.
20088.) GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE:. ->Better
Management of Secondary Items By the Republic of Vietnam
Armed Forces Would
Reduce U.S. Investment. PB:General Accounting Office: Washington, DC, 1975. 42
pgs.,
$2.5 Wraps, a v/g copy. This is a report made to Congress. Report
stamped as of April 2nd, 1975.
7174.) GENZ, MARILYN: ->20,000 Men and Me.
PB:Crossroads Communications: Carpentersville, IL, 1988. 163
pgs., $12.5
Wraps trade ed., inscribed by author, a v/g plus copy. Memoir of an Airline
hostess who served with an
airline that transported troops to Vietnam. She
obtained permission to visit the troops in the field.
5791.) GEOGRAPHY
DEPARTMENT LERNER PUBLICATIONS: ->Vietnam...in Pictures. HC:Lerner Publications
Co.:
Minneapolis, 1994. 1st Edition 64 pgs., $14.95 Librry binding, a mint
copy. Book is part of Visual Geography
Series of Lerner Publications.
Excellent text and photos.
334.) GERASSI, JOHN: Introduction by CONOR
CRUISE O'BRIEN:->North Vietnam: A Documentary. HC:Bobbs
Merrill Co.:
Indianapolis, In., 1968. 200 pgs., $2.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author went to
North Vietnam at the
end of 1966 as a member of the first investigating team
for the International War Crimes Tribunal. Contains nine
pages of photos.
435.) GERSHEN, MARTIN: ->Destory of Die: The True Story of Mylai. HC:Arlington
House: New Rochelle, N.Y.,
1971. 325 pgs., $5.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Author argues that tragedy of Mylai rests with society that forced kids
to go
to die in a foreign land for a cause it refused to defend at home. Interviewed
those indicted, their lawyers,
families and other related to the case.
26231.) GESTEWITZ, Ed. R. : ->Rapport sur les crimes de guerre et les crimes
contre l'humanite commis par les
USA en Republic du Vietnam: Articles
Reportages Informations. PB:comite Vietnam prs le Comite de solidarite:
Berlin, 1968. 87 pgs., $12.5 Wraps, a v/g copy. Report of Major General R.
Gestewitz who was a medical doctor.
French text with some black and white
photos.
436.) GETTLEMAN, Ed. MARVIN E. with assistance of SUSAN GETTLEMAN:
Preface by DAVID SCHOENBRUN:-
>Vietnam: History, Documents, and Opinions On a
Major World Crisis. PB:Fawcett Books: Greenwich, CT, 1966.
4th Edition 448
pgs., $5 Wraps mass market ed.,a v/g copy. According to the editor, this edition
contains new
information on Laos and Cambodia.
437.) GETTLEMAN, Ed.
MARVIN: ->Vietnam: History, Documents and Opinions On A Major World Crisis.
PB:Fawcett Publcations, Inc.: Greenwich, Ct., 1965. 1st Edition 448 pgs., $1.95
Wraps mass market ed., a v/g copy.
335.) GETTLEMAN, Eds. MARVIN E., JANE
FRANKLIN, MARILYN YOUNG and H. BRUCE FRANKLIN:->Vietnam
and America. PB:Grove
Press, Inc.: New York, 1995. REV. Edition 560 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade size ed.,
a fine
copy. Thi sis revised and enlarged second edition.
1313.) GIAP,
VO NGUYEN: ->Dien Bien Phu. PB:Foreign Language Publishing House: Hanoi, 1964.
REV. Edition
254 pgs., $29.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Includes
photos and 3 fold-out maps of the Dien Bien Phu area
showing attack movements
and one showing the military situation in Vietnam and Laos after the battle.
24924.) GIAP, VO NGUYEN: ->People's War People's Army. HC:GIOI Publishers:
Hanoi, 2004. Rep. Edition 202
pgs., $19.5 A mint copy with photo on front
cover. Publisher states title first printed in 1974 though I have had
copies
of this title dated back to 1961. This editon contains 5 pages of black and
white photos and full page maps in
color.
1317.) GIAP, VO NGUYEN:
->People's War People's Army. HC:Praeger Publisihing: New York, 1962. 217 pgs.,
$12
Foxing of outer edges of pages, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. This is a
reprint of the Foreign Language Press English
edition put out in 1961. It
does not include photos of Dien Bien Phu, only photos of Ho and General Giap.
24225.) GIAP, VO NGUYEN: ->The South Vietnam People Will Win. PB:Foreign
Language Publishing House:
Hanoi, 1965. 128 pgs., $17.5 Wraps trade ed., a
v/g plus copy.
24927.) GIAP, VO NGUYN: ->Fighting Under Siege:
Reminiscences as Recorded by Huu Mai. HC:GIOI Publishers:
Hanoi, 2004. 314
pgs., $25 A mint copy. Most of the focus of this book is on the early years of
the First Indochina
179.) GIBBONS, WILLIAM CONRAD: ->The U.S. Government
and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative
Roles and Relationships, Part
I: 1945-1960. A very fine copy. No d/j. This title was first published by the
Goverment Printing Office in 1984 as the study was commissioned by the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Represents original research and this series
is the best study to date on the Vietnam War. This first volume covers the
period of 1945 through 1960.
180.) GIBBONS, WILLIAM CONRAD: ->The U.S.
Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles
and
Relationships, Part III.: January-July 65. PB:Government Printing Office:
Washington, DC, 1988. 489 pgs.,
$15 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. This volume
covers the period of January 1965 thorugh July of 1965.
4464.) GIBBONS,
WILLIAM CONRAD: ->The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and
Legislative
Roles and Relationships, Part IV, July 1965-January 1968.
PB:Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1995.
969 pgs., $31.95 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. This volume covers the period of July 1965 thourgh
January 1968.
25076.) GIBBORE, JAMES: ->Soldier: A Sniper's Story of
Vietnam. HC:Brundage Publishing: Binghamton, NY,
2001. BC Edition 307 pgs.,
$12 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Personal memoir of a Vietnam vet who prior to his
Vietnam experience, had been a rebellious and destructive youth. After his
experience, he recently became a
Christian and his book is dedicated to Jesus
and all the men he served with in Vietnam.
336.) GIBSON, JAMES
WILLIAM: ->The Perfect War. HC:Atlantic Monthly Press: New York, 1986. 1st
Edition 523
pgs., $2.5 PB:Vintage Books: New York, 1988. 1st Edition 523
pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps a trade
size ed., a v/g copy.
Author argues that we engaged in a 'Technowar' that was inapplicable to the
actual political
and military strategies used by revolutionary forces.
6547.) GIBSON, JAMES: ->Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam
America. HC:Hill and Wang: New
York, 1994. 1st Edition 357 pgs., $2.5
Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a fine copy in a fine d/j. The author
explores what he describes as the post-Vietnam cult of the warrior.
337.)
GIGLIA, PAUL: ->A Time For Heroes: Self Help Handbook For Vietnam Veterans.
PB:No publisher listed.: ,
1983. 163 pgs., $5 A wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
9850.) GIGON, FERNAND: ->Les Americains face au Vietcong. PB:Flammarion:
Paris, 1965. 265 pgs., $12.5
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
5060.)
GILBARG, DANIEL: ->Vietnam: U.S. Imperialism and Us. PB:Privately printed.: , .
42 pgs., $10 A v/g copy.
A pamphlet in support of a strike at Harvard
University in an effort to abolish ROTC, end Harvard's expansion into
Cambridge and Boston, and to set up a Black Studies Department . Main focus is
on the Vietnam War, however,
6080.) GILBERG, GAIL HOSKING: ->Snake's
Daughter: The Roads In and Out of War. HC:University of Iowa Press:
Iowa
City, IA, 1997. 1st Edition 201 pgs., $7.5 A fine copy in a fine d/j. This ia
biography/autobiography of a
daughter whose father was killed while serving
in Vietnam and awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. She was
age seventeen
at the time and she cut herself off from the war, the protests, the medals and
her military upbringing
in order to bury her rage. This is her account of her
healing while being married to a husband serving in the
military. Title is
part of the Singular Lives: The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography.
29485.) GILBERT, ED: ->The US Marine Corps in the Vietnam War:
III Marine Amphibious Force, 1965-75.
PB:Osprey Publishing Ltd.: Oxford, UK,
2006. 1ST Edition 96 pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy. Book
examines the origins and changing organizational structure of III MAF, and
demonstrates how it conducted its
struggle against Viet Cong guerrillas and
NVA forces in the northern provinces of Vietnam.
31927.) GILBERT, OSCAR
E.: ->Marine Corps Tank Battles in Vientnam. A mint copy in a mint d/j. Author
provides and account of Marine Corps tank operations in Vietnam.mr
3278.)
GILLCRIST, PAUL T.: ->Feet Wet: Reflections of a Carrier Pilot. PB:Pocket Books:
New York, 1991. 1st
Edition 413 pgs., $5 Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g plus
copy. Author rose to the rank of Rear Admiral in the Navy
and won 17 combat
decorations for his duels with MIGs and SAMs in the air war over North Vietnam.
Memoir covers
his career though a significant part deals with his Vietnam
experience.
4103.) GILSTER, HERMAN L.: ->The Air War in Southeast Asia:
Case Studies of Selected Campaigns. PB:Air
University Press: Maxwell AFB, AL,
1993. 138 pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. A concise study of the
major air campaigns during the Vietnam War, including air operations in Laos.
338.) GIOGLIO, GERALD R.: ->Days of Decision: An Oral History of
Conscientious Objectors in the Miliary During the
Vietnam War. PB:Broken
Rifle Press: Trenton, N.J., 1989. 338 pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
As the title
states, this oral history focuses on in-service conscientious
objectors.
29612.) GIOI PUBLICATION, ->Vietnamese Folk-Tales: Satire and
Humour. PB:GIOI Publishers: Hanoi, 2004. 6TH
Edition 102 pgs., $6 Wraps trade
ed., a fine copy.
7669.) GIOI PUBLICATIONS, ->Hue: Monuments of an Ancient
Capital. PB:GIOI Publishers: Hanoi, 1993. 100
pgs., $6 Wraps trade size ed.,
a v/g copy. Contains 16 pages of photographs with a sight seeing program along
with
brief descriptions of the various monuments. Written by Mai Ung and Dao
Hung.
8957.) GIOI PUBLICATIONS, ->The Stone Stelae at the Temple of
Literature. PB:GIOI Publishers: Hanoi, n.d.. 51
pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a
v/g copy. Edited by Do Lai Thuy. Contains 4 olor photos and 16 pages of
Vietnamese
text., rest of publication is in English and there are 3 pages of
drawings.
20115.) GIOI PUBLISHERS: ->The Constitutions of Vietnam,
1946-1959-1980-1992. PB:GIOI Publishers: Hanoi,
1995. 216 pgs., $12.5 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g copy.
339.) GLASSER, RONALD J.: ->365 Days. PB:George
Braziller: New York, 1988. 9th Edition 292 pgs., $4.95 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g
copy. Memoir of an army doctor who worked at a hospital in Japan.
8537.)
GLEESON, Ed. PATRICK: ->Essays on the Student Movement. PB:Charles E. Merrill
Publishing Co.:
Columbus, OH, 1970. 1st Edition 116 pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed.,
a v/g copy. A collection of essays on the worldwide
student movement during
the 60s and not just that aspect of the movement which protested the Vietnam
War. The
author makes an important that the student movement was primarily a
protest against the liberal establishment.
8745.) GLENN, RUSSELL W.:
->Reading Athena's Card: Men Against the Fire in Vietnam. HC:Naval Institute
Press:
Annapolis, MD, 2000. 2nd Edition 214 pgs., $2.95 A mint copy in a mint
d/j. A study on the performance of the
army and marine performance under fire
during the Vietnam War, showing that this performance equalled that of
previous American combat troops in other wars.
3671.) GLOECKNER, FRED: ->A
Civilian Doctor in Vietnam. PB:Winchell Company: Philadelphia, Pa., 1972. 123
pgs., $152 Wraps trade ed., owner initials on enpaper, o/w a v/g plus copy.
Personal memoir of a civilian doctor who
spent two months in Vietnam with
Project Vietnam that sent teams of doctors to war areas to help civilians.
342.) GOFF, STANLEY: and ROBERT SANDERS with CLARK SMITH:->Brothers: Black
Soldiers In the Nam.
HC:Presidio Press: Novato, Ca., 1982. BC Edition 201
pgs., $10 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Book makes the
case that blacks
and white were drawn together because of the need for survival.
343.)
GOLDMAN, PETER and TONY FULLER:->Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did To Us.
HC:William Morrow &
Co.: New York, 1983. 1st Edition 358 pgs., $2.99
PB:William Morrow & Co.: New York, 1983. 1st Edition 358 pgs.,
$1.99 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. An account of a unit who
served in Vietnam from
which Newsweek devoted a cover story in their December
14th, 1981 issue. Book is an expansion of the research
done for this article
which served to bring public attention to those who served in Vietnam.
9095.) GOLDSMITH, WYNN: ->Pap Bravo Romeo: U.S. Patrol Boast at War in Vietnam.
PB:Ballantine Books: New
York, 2001. 1st Edition 285 pgs., $6 Wraps mass
market ed., a mint copy. A personal memoir of a River Rat who
7942.)
GOLDSTEIN, DONALD M., KATHERINE V. DILLON and J. MICHAEL WENGER:->The Vietnam
War: The
Story and Photographs. HC:Brassey's: Dulles, VA, 1999. 1st Edition
179 pgs., $3.95 A fine copy in a fine d/j.
345.) GOLDSTON, ROBERT: ->The
Vietnamese Revolution. HC:Bobbs-Merrill Co.: Indianapolis, In., 1972. 2nd
Edition 194 pgs., $1.99 Ex-library, markings enpaper & title page, o/w a copy.
Written for high school students,
book is part of a series dealing with
contemporary issues at the time. His bias was against U.S. intervention in
Vietnam.
346.) GOODMAN, ALLAN E.: ->Politics in War: The Bases of Political
Community in South Vietnam. HC:Harvard
University Press: Cambridge, Mass.,
1973. 313 pgs., $3.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Another copy, $1.99, ex-
library, cover faded, o/w a v/g copy. Book deals mainly with the 1967-1970
period and presents how the Vietnamese
saw the period of the deepest American
involvement. Author conducted over 300 interviews with Vietnamese
politicla
leaders and government officials.
20483.) GOODMAN, ALLAN E.: ->The Search for
a Negotiated Settlement of the Vietnam War. PB:Institute of East
Asian
Studies: Berkeley, CA, 1986. 123 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This
is an abridgement of
Goodman's book titled 'The Lost Peace: America's Search
for a Negotiated Settlement of the Vietnam War.'
1567.) GOODMAN, Ed.
CHARLES: ->Hell's Brigade. PB:Lancer Books: New York, 1966. 176 pgs., $4 Wraps
mass
market, foxing tips of pages, o/w a good plus copy. A reprint of short
stories that had appeared in such magaznes as
Stag, Male and For Men Only.
They are alleged to be true Vietnam combat stories.
347.) GOODWIN,
RICHARD N.: ->Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties. HC:Little Brown &
Co.: Boston,
1988. 1st Edition 552 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Author was a White House staffer in Kennedy and
Johnson addministrations,
leaving in 1965 to join first the McCarthy campaign, then later the Robert
Kennedy
presidential campaign.
348.) GOODWIN, RICHARD N.: ->Triumph or
Tragedy: Reflections On Vietnam. PB:Vintage Books: New York,
1966. 1st
Edition 142 pgs., $1.99 Wraps, a mass market ed., foxing edge of pages, o/w a
v/g copy.
22160.) GORMLY, ROBERT A.: ->Combat Swimmer: Memoirs of a Navy
Seal. HC:Dutton NAL: New York, 1998. 1st
Edition 279 pgs., $12 A mint copy in
a fine d/j. Memoir of a SEAL of which 116 pages are devoted to his Vietnam
3279.) GORSUCH, GEOFF: ->On Eagles' Wings. PB:Navigators Press: Colorado
Springs, Co., 1989. 181 pgs., $6
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Spiritual
memoir of an Air Force pilot in Vietnam who later joined the Navigators
9621.) GOSHEN, BILL: ->War Paint. HC:Ballantine Books: New York, 2001. BC
Edition 231 pgs., $6 PB:Ballantine
Books: New York, 2001. 1st Edition 231
pgs., $2.95 NOT FOR RESALE stamped on enaper, o/w a fine copy in a fine
d/j
.Wraps, a mass market ed., a fine copy. An account of F Company, 52d Infantry
(LRP)-later designated as I
Company, 75th Infantry, who were the eyes and
ears of the lst Infantry division, the Big Red One. Author was a
member of
this unit during 1968 and 1969.
350.) GOULDEN, JOSEPH C.: ->Truth Is the
First Casualty: The Gulf of Tonkin Affair-Illusion and Reality. HC:Rand
McNally & Co.: Chicago, 1969. 1st Edition 285 pgs., $2.95 Bookplate and name on
inside cover, a v/g copy in a
good only d/j. D/J verys chipped. Book was
written by a Washington journalist who observed the Washington reaction
to
the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Contains a good chronology of events surrounding
the whole issue.
356.) GRAETZ, RICK: Assisted by FRED ROHRBACH:->Vietnam:
Opening Doors to the World. PB:American
Geographic Publishing: Helena, Mt.,
1988. 160 pgs., $10 Wraps trade size ed., a v/g plus copy. A photo book of
Vietnam today portraying the natural beauty of Vietnam. Photos are in color,
foreward by Stanley Karnow.
9302.) GRAHAM, HARRY C. : ->Land of Tears: In
Vietnam, 1967-1968. PB:Burd Street Press: Shippensburg, PA,
2001. 1st Edition
91 pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Diary type memoir of an army
officer who served in
2746.) GRANT, ZALIN: ->Facing the Phoenix: The CIA
and the Politcal Defeat of the United States in Vietnam.
HC:W. W. Norton &
Co.: New York, 1991. 1st Edition 395 pgs., $5.95 A v/g plusw copy in a v/g plus
d/j. Author
spent a total of 5 years in Vietnam between 1964 to 1975 as a
correspondent. Central figure in this account is Tran
Ngoc Chau whom he
alleges that we cultivated, then turned our back on. Book contains a chapter on
CIA operations
in Laos.
359.) GRANT, ZALIN: ->Over the Beach: The Air
War in Vietnam. HC:W. W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1986. 1st
Edition 311 pgs.,
$2.95 PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1988. 1st Edition 343 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in
a v/g d/j.
Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g copy. Book is an account of the
jet pilots of Fighter Squadron 162-based on the
U.S.S. Oriskany in the Gulf
of Tonkin. Author served as an Army officer in Vietnam and after his discharge,
he
became a reporter covering the Vietnam War for Time Magazine.
360.)
GRANT, ZALIN: ->Survivors. HC:W. W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1985. 1st Edition
344 pgs., $2.99 A v/g copy
in a v/g d/j. . Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g
copy. Account of 9 POWS who were held captive for over 5 years.
Author wove
their accounts together to form a single narratve of war and survival. Book was
repinted in 1985 with a
new introduction by the author.
21064.) GRAUBARD,
STEPPHEN R.: ->Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind. HC:W. W. Norton & Co.: New York,
1973. 1st
Edition 312 pgs., $12 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. This book describes
the environments that made Henry Kissinger's
career possible, and illumines
the concepts he developed and has since applied as the principal architect of
American foreign policy under Richard Nixon.
30138.) GRAY, STEPHEN R.:
->Rampant Raider: An A-4 Skyhawk Pilot in Vietnam. HC:Naval Institute Press:
Annapolis, MD, 2007. 2ND Edition 284 pgs., $29.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
Personal memoir of an A-4 pilot
who flew over 250 combat missions in Vietnam.
362.) GREENBERG, Eds. MARTIN H. and RICHARD NORTON:->Touring Nam: The
Vietnam War Reader.
HC:William Morrow & Co.: New York, 1985. 1st Edition 416
pgs., $10 PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1989. 1st
Edition 333 pgs., $5 Black
marks bottom edge, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps a mass market ed.,
remainder mark
top edge, o/w a v/g copy. Book consists of novels and accounts
of the war by journalists that deal with arrival in
Vietnam, assignments, R&R
and returning home.
363.) GREENE, BOB: ->Homecoming: When the Soldiers
Returned from Vietnam. HC:G.P. Putnam's Sons: New
York, 1989. 1st Edition 269
pgs., $2.5 PB:G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1989. 269 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in
a v/g
d/j. Wraps, an uncorrected proof copy, mark botton edge, o/w a v/g plus
copy. Another copy, $3.50, wraps mass
market, a v/g copy. Author a syndicated
columnist for the Chicago Tribune who posed the question, 'Were you spat
upon
when you returned from Vietnam?' Book contains letters written in response to
this question.
364.) GREENE, FELIX: ->Vietnam! Vietnam! HC:Fulton
Publishing Co.i: Palo Alto, CA, 1966. 175 pgs., $15 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j.
Contains photos with accompanying text. This is an early anti-war publication
that had a very wide
33648.) GREINER, BERND: ->War Without Fronts: The
USA in Vietnam. Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author
argues there were
multiple atrocities in Vietnam and the responsiility extends all the way up to
the White House and
3816.) GRIFFITHS, PHILIP JONES: ->Vietnam Inc.
PB:Phaidon Press, Inc.: New York, 2005. REP. Edition 196
pgs., $27.95 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. A photo book by a Welsh photographer who spent three
years covering
the war as a photographer for Magnum. In the text, he contends
the war's metamorphosis from a ground-troop
operation to a fully automated
and impersonal death-dealing technology is enabling the United States to bring
home the troops and continue the war without them. Irrespecitive of whether one
agrees with him, the photos are
choice.
439.) GROOM, WINSTON and
DUNCAN SPENCER:->Conversations With the Enemy: The Story of PFC Robert
Garwood. Remainder mark top edge, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Garwood was
captured in September of 1965 and
he returned to this country in March of
1979. He was tried and found guilty of collaboration with the enemy and
simple assault on another prisoner. Charges of desertion and treason were
dropped.
3437.) GRUNER, ELLIOTT: ->Prisoners of Culture: Representing the
Vietnam POW. HC:Rutgers University Press:
New Brunswick, NJ, 1993. 1st
Edition 245 pgs., $12.5 A mint copy in a v/g plus d/j. An analysis of how and
why
U.S. POWs from the Vietnam War have become crucial icons of American
culture in the 1980s and 1990s. Author
taught at West Point at the time of
book's writing.
6725.) GUAN, ANG CHENG: ->Vietnamese Communists' Relations
with China and the Second Indochina Conflict,
1956-1962. HC:McFarland & Co.:
Jefferson, NC, 1998. 1st Edition 331 pgs., $15 Library binding, a mint copy.
This
book examines Sino-Vietnamese relations in the early stages of the
Second Indochina War. Author argues that
Hanoi remained in control of its own
decision-making.
441.) GUILMARTIN, JOHN: ->America In Vietnam: The
Fifteen Year War. HC:Military Press: New York, 1991. 208
pgs., $3.95 A v/g
plus copy in a v/g d/j. Basically, a large size photo book with illustrations
selected from the files of
United Press International/Bettmann. A very good
selection which are not commonly seen elsewhere. Text gives a
general
overview of the war.
2488.) GURNEY, Ed. GENE: ->Vietnam: The War In the Air:
A Pictorial History of the U.S. Air Forces in the Vietnam
War. HC:Crown
Publishers: New York, 1985. 1st Edition 277 pgs., $5.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
d/j. Articles by
Berger, Futrell, Tolson, McCutcheon, Rowley, Van Staaveren
and Gagle. Thus, this is not simply a picture book,
though the photos are
excellent. Chapters on the air war in Laos by Staaveren and Cambodia by Berger.
It
contains 11 of the 21 chapters found in Berger's 'The United States Air
Force in Southeast Asia.'
7560.) GURTOV, MELVIN: ->Negotiations and
Vietnam: A Case Study of the 1954 Geneva Conference, Part I.
PB:Rand
Corporation: Santa Monica, CA, 1968. 82 pgs., $10 Wraps monograph, a mint copy.
Study seeks to
provide the positions, motives, and objectives of each of the
nine participants at the Geneva Conference in an effort
to understand what
happened at the conference and why. Part II of this study remains classified.
442.) GURTOV, MELVIN: ->The First Vietnam Crisis: Chinese Communist Strategy
and U.S. Involvement, 1953-
1954. HC:Columbia University Press: New York,
1967. 2nd Edition 228 pgs., $3.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author
analyzes
the mistakes and motives of the allies in the 1953-1954 Vietnam crisis that led
to the defeat at
Dienbienphu which resulted in the divison of Vietnam after
the 1954 Geneva Conference.
31678.) GUSTAFSSON, MAI LAN: ->War and
Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam. PB:Cornell University Press:
Ithaca, NY,
2009. 1ST Edition 206 pgs., $19.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A study of
spirit posssession in
Vietnam where there still exists the belief that when
persons are not properly buried and mourned or have died
badly, the ghosts of
these persons come back to haunt their loved ones. They in turn seek to deal
with this thourgh
ritual offerings and the intervention of mediums. Author is
a Professor of Anthropology at Christopher Newport
University.
21312.)
GUTZMAN, PHILIP: ->Vietnam: A Visual Encyclopedia. HC:PRC Publishing Ltd.:
London, 2002. 448 pgs.,
$29.5 A mint copy in a laminated cover.. The title
well describes this book, providing an encyclopedia of the
Vietnam War along
with excellent photos that illustrate and/or add to some of the subjects
covered. Would serve as
a valuable reference in high school libraries as it
brings to life some of the subjects covered. Many of the photos
used are not
the usual photos of the Vietnam War and not to found in other photos books of
the war.
8728.) GWIN, LARRY: ->Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir. PB:Ivy Books:
New York, 1999. 3rd Edition 351 pgs., $5
Wraps mass market ed., a v/g plus
copy. Personal memoir of a Yale graduate who volunteered to serve in Vietnam
20050.) HACKWORTH, DAVID H. and EILHYS ENGLAND: ->Steel My Soldiers' Hearts.
HC:Rugged Land, LLC: New
York, 2002. 1st Edition 436 pgs., $7.5 A fine copy
in a fine d/j. An account by Hackworth of how he brought about
the
transformation of the 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, from one of the worst units
to one of the best in Vietnam during
the year of 1969.
3719.) HALBERSTADT,
HANS: ->War Stories of the Green Berets: The Viet Nam Experience. HC:Motorbooks
International: Osceola, WI, 1994. 1st Edition 222 pgs., $3.95 A fine copy in a
fine d/j. A collection of stories of the
Green Berets, a number on the
humorous side, from the men who fought two unconventional wars--one with the
Viet
Cong, and the other with the conventional US armed forces. Author is a
Viet Nam combat veteran.
443.) HALBERSTAM, DAVID: ->Ho. PB:Rowan &
Littlefied.: Lanham, MD., 2007. REP. Edition 118 pgs., $15.95
Inscription in
enpaper, o/w a fine copy. Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author focuses on the
why of the effectiveness
of Ho Chi Minh as a leader among the Vietnamese
people. The wraps editIon contains a preface written by
Halberstam in 2007.
444.) HALBERSTAM, DAVID: ->The Best and the Brightest. PB:Ballantine Books: New
York, 1993. 688 pgs., $12.5
Wraps, a trade size edition and which has a
special introduction by the author written in 1992, twenty years after he
wrote the book in 1972. Excellent book providing in-depth portraits of the men
who came to power in the Kennedy
era. A must for understanding the period.
6107.) HALL, ED Y.: ->Valley of the Shadow. PB:Honoribus Press: Spartanburg, SC,
1986. 269 pgs., $7.5 Wraps
mass market ed., a v/g plus copy. Book is a
personal diary of an Army captain who served as an advisor in Vietnam
from
July of 1966 to June of 1967. Book is in diary form and an excellent primary
source.
4496.) HAMBLEN, DONALD N. and B.H. NORTON:->One Tough Marine.
HC:Ballantine Books: New York, 1993. 1st
Edition 337 pgs., $3.95 A v/g plus
copy in a v/g plus d/j. Hamblen served 30 unbroken months in Vietnam,
beginning in 1965. He worked out of Danang with the Studies and Operation Group
(SOG).
27652.) HAMMEL, ERIC H.: ->Marines in Hue City: A Portrait of
Urban Combat, TET 1968. HC:Zenith Press: St.
Paul, MN., 2007. 1st Edition 168
pgs., $17.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. An excellent photo book of the battle in
3707.) HAMMEL, ERIC: ->Ambush Valley: I Corps, Vietnam, 1967--the
Story of a Marine Infantry Batalion's Battle for
Survival. A v/g plus copy in
a v/g plus d/j. An oral history by members of the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines
who were
attached by an NVA unit near Con Thien.
448.) HAMMEL, ERIC:
->Khe Sanh: Siege in the Clouds: An Oral History. HC:Crown Publishers: New York,
1989. 1st
Edition 508 pgs., $6 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Price of
d/j clipped. Author draws upon approximately 100
oral accounts of
participants in the battle of Khe Sanh for this book..
3766.) HAMMER, Ed.
MICHELL R.: ->The Vietnam Experrience. PB:Renaissance Publications: Worthington,
OH,
1991. 1st Edition 105 pgs., $5 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. Book reports
on the experience of a group of students
449.) HAMMER, ELLEN J.: ->A
Death In November: America In Vietnam, 1963. HC:E.P. Dutton & Co.: New York,
1987. 2nd Edition 373 pgs., $2.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author
draws heavily upon Vietnamese sources
for account on Diem's overthrow. A must
for understanding this event.
365.) HAMMER, ELLEN: ->Vietnam: Yesterday
and Today. HC:Holt, Rinehart and Winston: New York, 1966. 282
pgs., $12.5 A
v/g copy in a good plus d/j. Book is a title in the contemporary civilizations
series.
367.) HAMMER, RICHARD: ->The Court-Martial of Lt. Calley.
HC:Coward, McCann & Geoghegan: New York, 1971.
1st Edition 398 pgs., $2.99 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author initially investigated the My Lai massacre and
wrote
'One Morning In the War.' This background gave him an edge for writing
on the trial.
6708.) HAMMOND, THOMAS: ->Soviet Foreign Relations And
World Communism. HC:Princeton University Press:
Princeton, NJ, 1965. 1240
pgs., $12.5 Ex-library, a v/g copy. A selected, annotated bibliograpy of 7,000
books in
7219.) HAMMOND, WILLIAM: ->Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military
at War. HC:University Press of Kansas:
Lawrence, KS, 1998. 1st Edition 362
pgs., $12 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Author maintains that the animosity
between the government and media wasn't always the rule; what happened between
the two was symptomatic of the
nation's experiences in general.
1166.)
HAMMOND,: WILLIAM M.: ->Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1962-1968.
HC:Government Printing
Office: Washington, DC, 1988. 413 pgs., $10 A fine
copy in a good plus d/j. This study describes the evolution of
public affairs
policies in Vietnam, focusing on tnetions between the press and the military and
on the issues and
problems that can confront an open society in war.
370.) HANH, THICH NHAT: ->Vietnam: Lotus In a Sea of Fire, A Buddhist Proposal
for Peace. HC:Hill and Wang:
New York, 1967. 1ST Edition 115 pgs., $10
Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. D/J has ben kept in a mylar cover,
only
defect is a cut out on the spine in order to place the call number.> Author a
Buddhist monk who taught at the
Buddhist University in Saigon. In the summer
of 1966, he made a lecture tour in this country and Western Europe in
an
effort to have his country avoid the destruction of the war.
7129.)
HANSEL, Eds. SARAH, ANN STEIDLE, GRACE ZACZEK and RON ZACZEK:->Soldier's Heart:
Survivors' Views
of Combat Trauma. PB:Sidran Press: Lutherville, MD, 1995.
242 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. Book
examines the range of
emotions and reactions to diagnosis that often characterize individual healing
from PSTD.
Includes compilation of original prose, poetry, and art written by
veterans, primarily Vietnam veterans.
26499.) HANTOVER, JEFFREY: ->A
World of Decent Dreams: Vietnam Images. HC:Weatherhill, Inc.: Turnbull, CT,
2003. 1st Edition 156 pgs., $12.5 A very fine copy in a v/g d/j. D/J has tear
top of spine. A picture book with pcolor
ph otographs by Ellen Kaplowizt with
a foreward by Bernard Kalb.
23943.) HARDWICK, WILLIAM H.: ->Down South:
One Tour in Vietnam. PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 2004. 1st
Edition 204
pgs., $6 Wraps mass market ed., a mint copy. Personal memoir of Marine officer
who served in Vietnam.
26004.) HARDY, ANDREW: ->Red Hills: Migrants and
the State in the Highlands of Vietnam. HC:University of Hawaii
Press:
Honolulu, HI, 2003. 1st Edition 359 pgs., $9.95 A mint copy in a v/g d/j. Book
shows how the socialist
politicies of Hanoi changed the face of the
highlands, as settlers from the plains turned the hills red. Provides
historical background of the migration policies of the French.
31106.) HARDY,
Eds. ANDREW, MARUO CUCARZI, and PATRIZIA ZOLESE: ->Champa and the Archaeology of
My
Son (Vietnam). Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book based on the
archaeological research and restoration work of
My Son by an Italian team
along with Vietnamese specialists.. The frist part of the book deals with the
historical,
anthropological and architectural studies of the civilisation of
Champa. The rest of the book presents an unusually
intimate and extensively
illustrated portrait of the archaeologists' research and restoration work at My
Son. Contains
over 200 figures, 16 color plates and 5 maps.
5221.) HARRIS,
DAVID ->Goliath. PB:Avon Books: New York, 1970. 1st Edition 157 pgs., $5 Wraps
mass market
ed., a v/g copy. This is Harris's account of his journey from
president of the Stanford University student body to
5065.) HARRIS,
DAVID: ->Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did to Us. HC:Times Books:
New York,
1996. 2nd Edition 191 pgs., $2.99 A very fine copy in a very fine
d/j. A part memoir by an antiwar activist who
refused to accept induction and
served two years in jail. He was student body president of Stanford University
and
he married Joan Baez.
372.) HARRISON, DONALD C.: ->Distant Patrol:
Virginia and the Vietnam War. HC:Scarborough House: Chelsea,
Mi., 1989. 1st
Edition 137 pgs., $4.95 Mint in mint d/j as purchased new. Published under
auspices of 'The
Virginia Korean-Vietnam War History Council.' Book lists
those awarded the Medal of Honor and those who gave
their lives in Vietnam.
3168.) HARRISON, JAMES PINCKNEY: ->The Endless War: Fifty Years of Struggle in
Vietnam. HC:Macmillian
Publishing Co.: New York, 1982. 1st Edition 372 pgs.,
$10 PB:McGraw Hill Book Co.: New York, 1983. 1st Edition
375 pgs., $5 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Author states that he seeks to
concentrate on the
Vietnamese side of events that have shaped Vienam over the
past 50 years.
28928.) HARRISON-HALL, JESSICA: ->Vietnam
Behind the Lines: Images from the War, 1965-1975. PB:British
Museum Press:
London, 2002. 1ST Edition 96 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy. A
fully illustrated
catallogue that shows the Vietnam conflict as seen by
Vietnamese artists from the other side. There are 132 works
on paper ranging
watercolours, pen and ink sketches, pencil drawings, chalf designs, etc.. A must
for the collector.
3202.) HARTKE, VANCE: ->The American Crisis in
Vietnam. HC:Bobbs Merrill Co.: Indianapolis, 1968. 163 pgs.,
$12 Inscribed by
the author, a v/g copy. Author was a Demcratic Senator from Indiana who was a
leader in
Congressional dissent on the Vietnam War. Unlike most critics of
the war, he gave a very reasoned argument for his
position.
376.) HARVEY,
FRANK: ->Air War: Vietnam. PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1967. 185 pgs., $1.99
Wraps mass
market edition, foxing outer edges with wear of cover, , a good
plus copy. This early editon has photos which later
editons did not have.
This was a popular account of the air war before the general public became aware
of the
restrictions placed on the air war in Vietnam by Johnson and McNamara.
9257.) HARWOOD, MICHAEL: ->The Student's Guide to Military Service.
PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1965. REV.
Edition 247 pgs., $5 Wraps mass market
ed., a v/g copy. A book outlining options regarding military service.
31198.) HASSAN, ALLEN: ->Failure To Atone: The True Story of a Jungle Surgeon in
Vietnam. A mint copy in a
fine d/j. Personal memoir of a civilian doctor who
served two tours in Vietnam to render medical assistance to
377.) HASSELBLAD,
MARVA: With DOROTHY BRANDON:->Lucky-Lucky: A Nurse's Story of Life At a Hospital
In
Vietnam. HC:M. Evans & Co.: New York, 1966. 1st Edition 220 pgs., $5.95
Remainder mark bottom edge, soiling
on enpaper & cover as book previously had
plactic cover which was taped to book, o/w a v/g copy in a bright v/g d/j.
.
Author was a nurse supervising hospital routine in Nhatrang under auspices of
Mennonite Central Committee.
378.) HASSLER, ALFRED: Introduction by
Senator GEORGE McGOVERN:->Saigon, U.S.A.. HC:Richard W. Baron:
New York,
1970. 291 pgs., $5 PB:Richard W. Baron Pub.: New York, 1970. 291 pgs., $1.99 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Wraps trade ed., tips of front cover creased, light
soiling outer edges, o/w a v/g copy. Author is the national executive
secretary of the Fellowship of Reconcilliation which seeks to develope a
peaceful world community.
3028.) HAVILAND, Jr. H. FIELD, LARRY L. FABIAN,
KARL MATHIASEN III and ARTHUR M. COX:->Vietnam After
the War: Peacekeeping
and Rehabilitation. PB:Brookings Institution: Washington, D.C., 1968. 116 pgs.,
$5 Wrpas
trade ed., a v/g copy. This study proposes certain functions that a
negotiated settlement might realisically entail for
international third
parties, provided that genuine bargaining and needed compromises have occurred.
It was written
while the Paris Peace talks were going on.
26706.) HAWLEY,
THOMAS M.: ->The Remains of War: Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American
Soldiers
Unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. PB:Duke University Press: Durham,
NC, 2005. 282 pgs., $20.95 Wraps trade
ed., a mint copy. The author argues
that the quest for certainity in the form of the material, identified body marks
a
dramatic change from previous wars and that it is a result of the
ambiguities and anxieties surrounding the Vietnam
War.
24185.) HAWORTH,
LAWRENCE E.: ->Tales of Thunder Run: the Convoys, the Noise, the
Ambushes:Stories of
QL13, the Route 66 of Viet Nam. PB:ACW Press: , 2004. 190
pgs., $12.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A series
of vignettes based on the
author's expeiences in Vietnam. Author served as an Army chaplain duirng two
tours, first
with the 13th Combat Aviation Battalion in 1967-68 and then the
llth Armored Cavalry in 1969-1970.
5070.) HAYDEN, TOM: ->Reunion: A
Memoir. HC:Random House: New York, 1988. 2nd Edition 539 pgs., $1.99 A
v/g
plus copy in a v/g d/j. Memoir of a noted activist and his memoir deals with his
experiences during the 60s,
including his involvement in the antiwar
movement..
9305.) HAYES, ROGER: ->On Point: A Rifleman's Year in the
Boonies: Vietnam 1967-1968. HC:Presidio Press:
Novato, CA, 2000. 1st Edition
249 pgs., $12 PB:St. Martin's Press: New York, 2001. 1st Edition 248 pgs., $5 A
fine
copy in a fine d/j. Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g plus copy. Personal
memoir of an enlisted man who served with
the 25th Division from October 1967
to October 1968.
3229.) HEAD, Eds. WILLIAM and LAWRENCE E. GRINTER:->Looking
Back on the Vietnam War.: A 1990s
Perspective on the Decisions, Combat and
Legacies. PB:Praeger Publishers: Westport, Ct., 1993. 1st Edition 271
pgs.,
$3.95 Wraps trade size ed., a near fine copy. This text closely compares and
contrasts the Gulf and Vietnam
Wars on both the war and home fronts.
Contributors include William Head, Marc Gilbert, George Herring, Caroline
Ziemke, John Garver, Earl Tilford, Mark Clodfelter, Douglas Pike, John Gates,
Larry Cable, Lorenzo Crowell and Bui
Diem.
30951.) HEATHER, DAVID and
SHERRY BUCHANAN: ->Vietnam Posters. HC:Preset Publishing: New York, 2009. 1st
Edition 281 pgs., $22.5 Book has a laminatad cover which depcits a Vietnamese
poster, a braand new copy. Book
provides a collection of propaganda posters
drawn by Hanoi artists covering the period of the early fifties to the
present day. Captions to the posters are in Englisha nd Vietnamese. A must for
the library of any collector books
on the Vietnam War.
2897.) HEFLEY,
JAMES and MARTI: ->No Time for Tombstones: LIfe and Death in the Vietnamese
Jungle.
PB:Tyndale HOuse Publishers: Wheaton, IL, 1974. 2nd Edition 125 pgs.,
$5 Wraps trade size ed., a v/g copy..
Account of two missionaries and a USAID
agricultural advisor being captured in the Central Highlands during the
TET
offensive. The two missionaries died while in captivity. The USAID employee
recounted the story to the
authors who subsequently went to Vietnam before
completing their book.
20023.) HEINEMAN, KENNETH J.: ->Put Your Bodies Upon
the Wheels: Student Revolt in the 1960s. HC:Ivan R.
Dee: Chicago, 2001. 251
pgs., $10 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. The book deals more with the
student revolt
in all areas rather than just opposition to the Vietnam War.
He is critical of both the left and the right during this
period.
25166.)
HEINEMANN, LARRY: ->Black Virgin Mountain: A Reurn to Vietnam. HC:Doubleday &
Co.: New York, 2005.
1st Edition 243 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
Heinemann's return to Vietnam where he took a train from
Hanoi to Ho Chi minh
City as the guest of the Vietnam Writers Association and it wneds with a crawl
through the
Tunnels of Cu Chi and a climb up the sacred mountain Nui Ba Den.
He served in this area with the 25th Infantry
Division.
5064.) HELMS,
E. MICHAEL: ->The Proud Bastards. PB:Pocket Star Books: New York, 2000. 1st
Edition 273 pgs.,
$6 Wraps mass market ed., a v/g plus copy. Personal memoir
of an enlisted Marine who was a member of BLT 2/4
Marines that fought along
the DMZ from 1967 to 1968.
21566.) HELMS, RICHARD with WILLIAM HOOD: ->A
Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence
Agency. HC:Random
House: New York, 2003. 2nd Edition 478 pgs., $5.95 A fine copy in a fine d/j.
Price clipped.
Helms tells his story focusing on subjects such as
intelligence collection, covert action, the uses and misuses of
intelligence,
and the problems secret intelligence encounters in an open society.
7211.) HEMPHILL. ROBERT: ->Platoon: Bravo Company. HC:Sergeant Kirkland's:
Fredericksburg, VA, 1999. 252
pgs., $12.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Memoir
by the commander of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Infantry
Division, the
unit which Oliver Stone portrayed in his movie Platoon. He takes issue with
Stone's portrayal.
24461.) HENDERSON, CHARLES: ->Goodnight Saigon: The
True Story of the U.S. Marines Last Days in Vietnam.
HC:Berkeley Publishing
Group: New York, 2005. 1st Edition 420 pgs., $3.95 A fine copy in a very fine
d/j. An
account of the last days in Saigon based on interviews and research
with U.S. Marines, U.S. embassy personnel,
NVA and viet Cong soldiers, and
leaders from both sides in the Vietnam War.
31597.) HENDERSON,
CHARLES: ->Jungle Rules: A True Story of Marine Justice in Vietnam. HC:Berkeley
Publsihing Group: New York, 2006. 1ST Edition 479 pgs., $5 Remainder mark bottom
edge, o/w a very fine copy
8746.) HENDERSON, CHARLES: ->Silent Warrior:
The Marine Sniper's Vietnam Story Continues. HC:Berkeley Books:
New York,
2000. 1st Edition 286 pgs., $12 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. A further
account of Marine sniper
Carlos Hathcock missions as a sniper in Vietnam.
386.) HENDIN, HERBERT and ANN POLLINGER HASS:->Wounds of War: The
Psychological Aftermath of Combat In
Vietnam. HC:Basic Books: New York, 1984.
1st Edition 267 pgs., $12 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Authors draw upon
their
clinical experience in dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder and this is
set forth in layman's language.
5011.) HENDRICKSON, PAUL: ->The Living
and the Dead. HC:Alfrd A. Knopf: New York, 1996. 1st Edition 432 pgs.,
$1.99
A mint copy in a fine d/j. A damning and rightly so account of McNamara's and
his involvement in the
Vietnam War, focusing on many of the man's personality
flaws which accounted for his misjudgments on the war and
his deceptive
public personality.
387.) HENDRY, JAMES B.: ->The Small World of Khanh Hau.
HC:Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago, 1964. 1st Edition
312 pgs., $15 Name on
bottom edge, o/w a v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. The book is a study of economic
life and
prospects for development in a Vietnamese rural community.
6407.) HENRI, RAYMOND: ->Vietnam Combat Art. PB:Cavanagh & Cavanagh: Mew York,
1968. 96 pgs., $3.95
Wraps trade ed., wear on edges of backcover, tips of
cover creased, a good plus copy. Drawings and paintings in this
book are from
the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Art Collection.
453.) HERRGESELL, Compiler
MARGARET ROWTON: ->Dear Margaret, Today I Died...Letters From Vietnam by
LTC
Oscar Herrgesell. HC:Naylor Co.: San Antonia, Texas, 1974. 93 pgs., $12.5 A very
fine copy in a v/g plus d/j.
Lieutenant Colonel Herrgesell was an officer in
the U.S. infantry and he was killed in action on July 29th, l972.
3804.)
HERRING, Ed. GEORGE C.: ->The Pentagon Papers: Abridged Edition. PB:McGraw-Hill,
Inc.: New York,
1993. 228 pgs., $22.95 Wraps trade ed., mint as purchased
new. A reprint of the New York Times edition of the
Pentagon Papers. Herring
has left out some of the documents in this edition where he felt there was
duplication. He
writes a brief introduction to each of the 7 chapters and a
brief headnote on each document, highlighting its
significance.
21864.)
HERRING, GEORGE C.: ->America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam,
1950-1975. PB:Alfred
A. Knopf: New York, 1996. 4th Edition 396 pgs., $37.95
Wraps trade ed., tips of last 90 pages have a very slightl
bent due to
publisher's having inserted a folding map of Vietnam at the end of the book,
then having a cellophane
wrapper around the book and map, o/w a brand new
copy iobtained directly from the publisher.
3544.) HERRING, GEORGE C.:
->LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War HC:University of Texas Press: Austin,
TX., 1994. 1st Edition 228 pgs., $12 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Book examines
why President Johnson and his
administration conducted the Vietnam War as
they did, drawing heavily on a wealth of released documents from the
LBJ
Library.
6328.) HERRINGTON, STUART: ->Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation
Phoenix, A Personal Account.
PB:Presidio Press: Novato, CA, 1997. 222 pgs.,
$10 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. Author served as Phoenix office
from
February 1971 to August 1972. Book first published uder the ttile Silence Was A
Weapon.
2865.) HERROD, RANDY: ->Blue's Bastards: A True Story of Valor
Under Fire. HC:Regnery Gateway: Washington,
D.C., 1989. 1st Edition 215 pgs.,
$2.95 PB:Dell Books: New York, 1991. 1st Edition 264 pgs., $1.99 A very fine
copy
in a very fine d/j. Wraps a mass market ed., a fine copy. Author served
under Oliver North in Vietnam and saved his
life during a firefight in which
North was wounded. Later the author was leading a night patrol and he returned
fire,
killing Vietnamese women and children. He was court-martialed and tried
for first degree murder. He was found
innocent and during the trial, Oliver
North came to his defense.
21448.) HERSCHENSOHN, BRUCE: ->The Gods of
Antenna. HC:Arlington House: New Rochelle, NY, 1976. 155
pgs., $12.5 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Author argues that CBS was used by Hanoi as a propaganda
outlet and the
debacle of Southeast Asia along with the abdication of Nixon
were linked by a pervasvive bias. He serrved as a
deputy special assistant to
President Nixon.
472.) HERSH, SEYMOUR M.: ->Cover-Up. HC:Random House: New
York, 1972. 2nd Edition 305 pgs., $2.95 Ex-
library, a tight v/g copy with
library markings. Author's account of what he labels the cover-up of the My Lai
massacre
as well as another massacre by the same unit on the same morning. He
deals with the Army as an institution which
he feels makes such events almost
inevitable.
6065.) HIEBERT, MURRAY: ->Chasing the Tigers: A Portrait
of the New Vietnam. HC:Kodansha International: New
York, 1996. 1st Edition
258 pgs., $12.05 Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a mint copy in a fine d/j.
Author
opened the Hanoi bureau of the Far Eastern Economic Review in 1986 and
he has followed events in Vietnam
closely since that time.
4792.) HIEBERT,
MURRAY: ->Vietnam Notebook. PB:Review Publishing Co., Ltd.: Hong Kong, 1994. REV
Edition
216 pgs., $8.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Contains 38 articles
on Vietnam today written by the Hanoi Bureau
Chief of the Far Eastern
Economic Review.
9408.) HIEN, NGUYEN XUAN: ->Glutinous Rice Eating
Tradition in Vietnam and Elsewhere. PB:White Lotus Ltd.:
Bangkok, 2001. 258
pgs., $25 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Study provides the role glutinous rice
plays in daily life
and in ceremonial festivities, and religious rituals in
Southeast Asia. Contains 42 color photographs and 14 figures.
3018.)
HIGGINS, HUGH: ->Vietnam. PB:Heinemann Educational Books: London, 1982. 2nd
Edition 180 pgs., $7.5
Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Title originally
published in 1975 and this edition extends through 1980 with 3
new chapters.
Author was Deputy Principal of Kingsway-Princton College at the time of the
book's writing.
479.) HIGGINS, MARGUERITE: ->Our Vietnam Nightmare.
HC:Harper & Row: New York, 1965. 314 pgs., $1.99 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
This is a highly critical account on the U.S. role in Vietnam that led to the
overthrow of Diem.
She was a Pulitzer Prrize winning reporter and she served
as the Herald Tribune bureau chief in Berlin and Tokyo.
She died shortly
after this book was written at the age of 45.
22692.) HIGHAM, Ed.
ROBIN: ->Intervention Or Abstention. HC:University Press of Kentucky: Lexingotn,
KY, 1975.
221 pgs., $12 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Book examines decisions
to intervene or not on the part of the United
States in 9 cases, including
that of Vietnam.
22429.) HILDRETH, RAY and CHARLES W. SASSER: ->Hill 488.
PB:Pocket Books: New York, 2003. 1st Edition
359 pgs., $6.5 Wraps mass market
ed., a mint copy. An account of the men of the Marines 1st Recon Battalion who
fought with North Vietnamese regulars and the Viet Cong in June of 1966. They
came the most highly decorated
small unit in the entire history of the U. S.
military.
2415.) HILSMAN, ROGER: ->To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign
Policy in the Administration of John F.
Kennedy. HC:Doubleday & Co.: New
York, 1967. 602 pgs., $2.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Hilsman served as head
of Intelligence in the State Department and then as Assistant Secretary of State
for the Far East during the
Kennedy Adminstration. He was subsequently
removed by Johnson for his role in the overthrow of Diem.
26613.) HINTON,
HAROLD C.: ->China's Relations with Burma and Vietnam: A Brief Survey.
PB:Institute of Pacific
Relations: New York, 1958. 64 pgs., $10 Wraps trade
ed., a v/g copy.
7814.) HOCQUARD, EDOUARD: ->War and Peace in Hanoi and
Tonkin: A Field Report of the Franco-Chinese War
and on Customs and Beliefs
of the Vietnamese, 1884-188 PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok, 1999. REP. Edition
612
pgs., $35 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book is a field report written by
a French medical doctor serrving in the
Franco-Chinese war over Tonkin and
Annam during 1884-1885. Translated by Walter E.J. Tips.
29314.) HOFFMAN,
JOYCE: ->On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam.
HC:Da
Capa Press: New York, 2008. 1ST Edition 439 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a
fine d/j.. An excellent account of women
journalists who covered the Vietnam
War, bringing out that these women were pioneers in being war journalists in
what had been a male dominant role and that they were as good as their male
counterparts in terms of in-depth
reporting.
488.) HOFMANN, Compiler
MARGRET: ->Vietnam Viewpoints: A Handbook for Concerned Citizens. PB:Privately
Published: Austin, Texas, 1968. 186 pgs., $10 A wraps trade ed., a v/.g copy.
Book is a compilation of quotes of
noted persons that are so utilized in
order to support an anti-war position.
22934.) HOLZER, HENRY MARK and
ERIKA: ->Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda In North Vietnam. HC:McFarland &
Co.:
Jefferson, NC, 2002. 206 pgs., $1.99 A mint copy in a laminated cover. The
authors make a case against
Jane Fonda that she was guilty of treason.
490.) HOLZER, WERNER: ->Vietnam oder Di Freiheit zu Sterben. PB:R. Piper &
Co.: Munchen, Germany, 1968.
136 pgs., $5 A wraps trade ed., top edge soiled,
o/w a v/g copy.
494.) HONEY, Ed. P.J.: ->North Vietnam Today: Profile of
a Communist Satellite. HC:Frederick A. Praeger, Pub.:
New York, 1962. 166
pgs., $7.5 Ex-library, a v/g copy. Book contains articles by Devillers, Fall,
Phong, Tongas,
3455.) HOOBLER, DORTHY and THOMAS: ->Vietnam: Why We
Fought: An Illustrated History. HC:Random House:
New York, 1990. 1st Edition
196 pgs., $12.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. This is a history of the
Vietnam War
written for young readers. Authors have written more than 20
books for children and young readers. Book has a
subtle critical bias against
the U.S. involvement, otherwise it is well done and there is an excellent
selection of black
and white phtotos.
495.) HOOPES, TOWNSEND: ->The Limits
of Intervention. HC:David McKay, Co.: New York, 1970. 3rd Edition 245
pgs.,
$1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Affairs from
1965-1967, the he became Under Secretary of
the Air Force until 1969. Gives gives his perception how the policy of
escalation in Vietnam was reversed while serving under Clark Clifford. Wraps
trade ed. Represents a new update
with an afterword by the author.
496.)
HOPE, BOB: ->Five Women I Love: Bob Hope's Vietnam Story. HC:Doubleday & Co.:
New York, 1966. 1st
Edition 255 pgs., $1.99 lLight speckling outer edges, o/w
a v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Account of Bob Hope's
visit to Vietnam
during the Christmas of 1965.
27559.) HORWOOD, IAN: ->Interservice
Rivalry and Airpower in the Vietnam War. PB:Combat Studies Institute
Press:
Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2006. 200 pgs., $17.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This
study concentrates on tactical
airpower in South Vietnam and deals with air
war over North Vietnam only insofar as it influenced inter-service
issues in
the South.
498.) HOSMER, STEPHEN T. and KONRAD KELLEN and BRIAN M.
JENKINS:->The Fall of South Vietnam:
Statements By Vietnamese Military and
Civilian Leaders. HC:Crane, Russak & Co.: New York, 1980. BC Edition 264
pgs., $2.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. This is a Rand Corporation study in two
parts, the first being on the setting
before the 1975 offensive and the
second part with the course of the collapse, beginning in January of 1975.
500.) HOVIS, BOBBI: ->Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam,
1963-1964. HC:Naval Institute Press:
Annapolis, Md., 1991. 2nd Edition 167
pgs., $10 Review copy with review tapedin on enpaoper, o/w a fine copy in
a
v/g d/j. D/J has chipping top and bottom of spine. Personal memoir of a Naval
nurse assigned to Vietnam in 1963
to help establish the first U.S. Naval
Station hospital there.
20844.) HOWARD, MICHAEL C. and KIM BE
HOWARD:->Textiles of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. PB:White
Lotus Ltd.:
Bangkok, 2002. 1st Edition 220 pgs., $59.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This is
a survey of the twenty-
one ethnic groups of the Central Highlands who speak
the Malayo-Polyesian and Mon-Khmer languages. Book
contians 201 color
photographs illustrating the peoples and their textiles.
9679.) HOWARD,
MICHAEL C. and KIM BE: ->Textiles of the Daic Peoples of Vietnam. PB:White Lotus
Ltd.:
Bangkok, 2002. 1st Edition 290 pgs., $59.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. The book provides a through survey of the
textiles of the peoples in
Vietnam who speak the Daid language. Contains 295 color photographs and 97 black
and white photos.
20903.) HOWARD, MICHAEL C. and KIM BE: ->Textiles of the
Highland Peoples of Northern Vietnam: Mon-Khmer,
Hmong-Mien, and
Tibeto-Burman. PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2002. 1st Edition 224 pgs., $49.95
Wraps trade
ed., a mint copy. The book covers 10 groups of Mon-Khmer
speakers, including groups such as the Muong and Tho
who are related to the
lowland groups of Mien. Six groups of Tibeto-Burman speakers are covered,
including the
Lolo, Phula, and Lahu. Book has 235 color photographs and 57
black and white photos illustrating the peoples and
their textiles.
501.)
HOWELL-KOEBLER, Ed. NANCY: Photographs by GORDON BAER:->Vietnam: The Battle
Comes Home. A
Photographic Record of Post-Traumatic Stress with Selected Essa
PB:Morgan & Morgan: Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., 1984.
112 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a
v/g copy. Essayists include Trocki, Lifton, Wilson, etc..
3228.) HOWES,
CRAIG: ->Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to Their Fight. PB:Oxford
University Press: New
York, 1993. 2nd Edition 295 pgs., $12.5 Wraps, a trade
size ed., a mint copy. Author contends the POWs developed
a collective
history of their experience and he reviews their captivity narratives in respect
to what they tell about the
POWs, their captors and America's Vietnam legacy.
A very interesting work.
20919.) HOYT-GOLDSMITH, DIANE: ->Hoang Anh: A
Vietnamese-American Boy. HC:Harcourt Brace & Company:
New York, 1992. 32
pgs., $1.99 A mint copy. A children's book that depicts the life of a Vietnamese
boy in
7283.) HUBBARD, EDWARD: ->Escape from the Box: The Wonder of Human
Potential. HC:Praxis International:
West Chester, PA, 1999. 6th Edition 160
pgs., $20 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. Author was a POW for 2,420
days and in this book, he shares the lessons learned from this experience to
help people understand their own
unlimited potential.
7381.) HUCHTHAUSEN,
PETER and NGUYEN THI LUNG: ->Echoes of the Mekong. HC:Nautical & Aviation
Publishing Co.: Baltimore, MD, 1996. 165 pgs., $12.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
A joint memoir by a patrol officer
on the Mekong who in 1967 rescued a
wounded child Nguyen Thi Lung. His crew provided for her treatment and
education. She left Vietnam in 1985 under the Orderly Departure Program and
Huchthausen sponsored her entry
into the United States. Each tell their
stories in alternating chapters.
8250.) HUMPHRIES, JAMES F.: ->Through the
Valley: Vietnam, 1967-1968. PB:Stackpole Books: Mechainsburg,
PA, 2008. 1st
Edition 335 pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author gives his account and
that of fifty former
veterans who fought in the battles of Hiep Duc, March
11, Nhi Ha, and Hill 406 in the northern provinces during
1967-68.
8543.) HUNEBELLE, DANIELLE: ->Dear Henry. PB:Berkeley Medallion Books: New York,
1972. 224 pgs., $5 Wraps
mass market ed., a v/g copy. A popular intimate
biography of Henry Kissinger.
25714.) HUNG, Eds. NGUYEN MANH, NEIL L.
JAMIESON & A. TERRY RAMBO: ->Environment, Natural Resources,
and the Future
Development of Laos and Vietna: Papers from a Seminar. PB:Indochina Institute:
George Mason
University, Va., 1991. 67 pgs., $2.99 Wraps monograph, a v/g
copy..
506.) HUNG, NGUYEN TIEN and JERROLD L. SCHECTER:->The Palace File.
HC:Harper & Row: New York, 1986.
1st Edition 542 pgs., $1.99 A very fine copy
in a near fine d/j. Author served as a special assistant to President
Thieu t
mint as purchased new. Hung, trained as an economist, served as a Special
Assistant to President Thieu
and also as a Cabinet member in South Vietnam's
government.
5395.) HUNT, MICHAEL H.: ->Lyndon Johnson's War:
America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968. HC:Hill
and Wang: New York,
1996. 1st Edition 146 pgs., $10 Remainder mark top edge, o/w a fine copy in a
fine d/j. An
account that seeks to explain the U.S. involvement in Vietnam by
a diplomatic historian.
31618.) HUNTING, JILL: ->Finding Pete:
Rediscovering the Brother I Lost in Vietnam. HC:Wesleyan University Press:
2009. 1ST Edition 269 pgs., $20.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
507.)
HUTCHENS, JAMES M.: ->Beyond Combat. HC:Moody Press: Chicago, 1968. 1st Edition
128 pgs., $5
PB:Shepherd's Press: Great Falls, VA, 1986. REP. Edition 199
pgs., $2.5 Inscription on enpaper, o/w a v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. Wraps a trade
size ed., a v/g copy. Author was an Army Chaplain & served with the 173rd
Airborne Brigade
early in the war.
4795.) HUTCHINS, JOEL M.: ->Swimmers
Among the Trees: SEAL Operations in the Vietnam War. HC:Presidio
Press:
Novato, CA, 1996. BC Edition 228 pgs., $2.99 A fine copy in a fine d/j. An
account by a person claiming to
be a former SEAL and pruports to tell of SEAL
military operations, tactics, and weaponry during the Vietnam War.
Hutchins
actually served as a Navy hospital corpsman in Vietnam..
27396.) HUY,
Eds. NGUYEN VAN and LAURA KENDALL:->Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit.
PB:University of California Press: Berkeley, 2003. 1st Edition 294 pgs., $12.5
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book
takes the reader on an informed and
engaging journey into the social and ritual life of contemporary Vietnam.
Nguyen Van Huy is Director of the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology and Laurel Kendall
is Curator of the Asian
Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of
Natural History.
508.) HUYEN, N. KHAC: ->Vision Accomplished? The Enigma of
Ho Chi Minh. HC:Macmillian Publishing Co.: New
York, 1971. 1st Edition 377
pgs., $12.5 PB:Collier Books: New York, 1971. 18th Edition 377 pgs., $7.5
Ex-library,
markings outer edges, title page & spine of d/j, o/w a v/g copy
in a v/g d/j. Wraps a trade ed., a v/g copy. Written by
an anti-communist
Vietnamese who himself was a strong nationalist. At the time of the book's
writing, he was
chairman of the Department of Poliitcal Science at the
College of St. Catherine in Saint Pual, MN..
4011.) HUYNH, JADE NGOC
QUANG: ->South Wind Changing. HC:Graywolf Press: St. Paul, MN, 1994. 3rd Edition
305 pgs., $7.5 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Memoir of a Vietnamese university
student at the time of the fall of
Saigon. He was sent to a labor camp,
escaped in 1977 to Thailand, then he came to America. After six years
working
in fast food restuartants etc., he went on to recieve a B.A. degree from
Bennington College in 1987.
9065.) IMMERMAN, Ed. RICHARD H.: ->John
Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War. PB:Princeton
University
Press: Princeton, NJ, 1990. 2nd Edition 297 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed., a fine
copy. Book contains a
chapter on Indochina as well as chapters on the all
major diplomatic issues faced by Dulles while serving as
Secretary of State.
Good reference for seeing all the diplomatic issues faced by the our country
prior to a major
escalation in Vietnam.
9899.) INDOCHINA RESOURCE CENTER:
->Breakdown of the Vietnam Ceasefire: The Need For a Balanced View.
PB:Indochina resource Center: Washington, DC, 1974. 50 pgs., $7.5 Wraps in
softcard cover, a v/g plus copy.
512.) INFANTRY MAGAZINE STAFF, Eds. ->A
Distant Challenge: The US Infantryman In Vietnam, 1967-1972.
HC:Battery
Press: Nashville, TN, 1983. 1st Edition 359 pgs., $12 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Another copy, BC ed.,
$7.50, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Contains first person
accounts of men who led and the men who fought on a platoon
level in Vietnam.
Accounts are arranged in chronological order. Premise of this series is that the
Vietnam War as a
'platoon leader's war.'
8666.) INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE:
->Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1996. HC:National Academy Press:
Washington, DC, 1997. 2nd Edition 365 pgs., $15 Ex-library, a v/g plus copy..
This review concluded that it is not
possible to quantify the degree of risk
likely to be experienced by Vietnam veterans because of their exposure to
herbicides in vietnam. Two members of the committee differed with this
conclusion and an appendix presents their
analysis and estimates.
19998.)
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION for SUPERVISION and CONTROL in VIETNAM:->Special Report
to the
Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Conference on Indo-China. PB:Her Majesty's
Stationery Office: London, 1962. 23
pgs., $5 Wraps trade, some foxing and
creasing, o/w a v/g copy. No postage charge if ordered with another item.
This is a report presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs in June of 1962.
3223.) INTERVENTION, PREMIER ISSUE, SPRING
1984:-> PB:: , . 47 pgs., $5 The magazine describes itself as
being a journal
on war and peace and the Vietnam Experience. It started in response to the U.S.
military
interventions in Central America, Lebanon and Grenada. Board of
Advisors include Peter Arnett, Daniel Ellsberg,
Gloria Emerson and others.
4796.) IREDELL, F. RAYMOND: ->Viet-Nam: The Country and the People. HC:American
Press: New York, 1966. 1st
Edition 110 pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Author was with the United States Information Agency from 1959 to
1963 in
Vietnam as Director of the Vietnamese American Association.
31259.)
ISAACS, ARNOLD R.: ->Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy.
HC:John Hipkins University
Press: Baltimore, 1997. 1ST Edition 236 pgs.,
$2.95 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Another copy, $15.00, a review
copy with the
a review and photogrpah laid in, a mint copy in a mint d/j.
2502.)
ISAACS, ARNOLD R.: ->Without Honor: Defeat In Vietnam and Cambodia. HC:John
Hopkins University Press:
Baltimore, Md., 1984. 1st Edition 559 pgs., $2.95
PB:Vintage Books: New York, 1984. 1st Edition 559 pgs., $1.99 A
v/g plus copy
in a v/g d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Author served as a war correspondent
in Indochina for the
Baltimore Sun from 1972-1975. The book also contains a
chapter on the fall of Laos.
5978.) ISAACS, ARNOLD: ->Vietnam Shadows:
The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy. HC:The Johns Hopkins
University Press:
Baltimore, MD, 1997. 3rd Edition 236 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a mint d/j. This
is one of the more
insightful books on the Vietnam War in retrospect . The
chapters on veterans and their experiences and the views of
those who were
part of the anti-war movement are the best to date on showing the wide range of
feelings that exists
among these groups today. He avoids the simple
unambiguous judgments about these groups and seeks to put
them in a proper
historical perspective. He is able to to so as he is of the age that he can
recall the World War II
experiences of his father and yet being slightly
older than those who came of age during the sixties, he can
understand where
they were coming from, i.e. the advantages of coming of age in what many regard
as the dull
2964.) ISAACSON, WALTER: ->Kissinger: A Biography. HC:Simon &
Schuster: New York, 1992. BC Edition 893
pgs., $2.99 Name on enpaper, o/w a
v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Best biography to date on Kissinger.
515.) ISARD, Ed. WALTER: ->Vietnam: Issues and Alternatives. HC:Schenkman
Publishing Co.: Cambridge, Mass.,
1969. 213 pgs., $10 Review copy with review
laid in. Speckling outer edges, o/w a v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Book
is a
collection of papers presented at the June, 1968 conference of the Peace
Research Society at Cambridge,
Mass..
8000.) ISSERMAN, MAURICE: ->The
Vietnam War. HC:Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 1992. 3rd Edition 136 pgs.,
$12 A mint copy. A very concise and readable history of the Vietnam War. Title
is part of America At War series.
5068.) ISSERMAN, MAURICE: ->Witness to
War: Vietnam. PB:Berkley Publishing Group: New York, 1995. 1st
Edition 211
pgs., $1.95 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Book includes a wide selection of
personal accounts and
records on the war including newspaper reports and
public documents.
24388.) JACKSON, MIKE and TARA DIXON-ENGEL: ->Naked
In Danang: A Forward Air Controller in Vietnam.
HC:Zenith Press: St. Paul,
MN, 2004. 302 pgs., $10 Bookplate of National Military Center on enpaper, o/w a
very
fine copy in a very fine d/j. Author served as Forward Air Controller
during the last days of the American combat role
in Vietnam, flying FAC
missions during the Easter Offensive and being involved in the rescue of BAT-21.
At the
time of the book's writing, he was serving as the Executive Director
of the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton,
Ohio.
25118.) JACOBS,
SETH: ->America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and
U.S. Interventin
in Southeast Asia. tion. PB:Duke Univeristy Press: Durham,
NC, 2004. 381 pgs., $22.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. Author argues that
U.S. support of Diem was not due to our nation's anti-communism or an absence of
other
candidate for South Vietnam's highest office. Instead, he argues that
religion and race played a part in our
support of him, given Diem's
Catholicism and the extent to which he violated American notions of Oriental
passivity
and moral laxity. Thus he was a more attractive ally to Washington
than many other non-Christian South
Vietnamese.
3740.) JACOBSEN, KAREN:
->Vietnam. HC:Childrens Press: Chicago, 1992. 2nd Edition 48 pgs., $7.5
PB:Childrens Press: Chicago, 1992. 1st Edition 48 pgs., $4.95 Ex-library, a v/g
plus copy. Wraps, a trade size ed.,
mint as purchased new. Written for
elementary student.
3067.) JAMES, ALLEN: ->Stop the War. HC:Stanyan
Books: New York, 1970. 55 pgs., $2.95 Bookplate inside
cover, o/w a v/g copy
in a v/g d/j. A small picture book containing quotes about war and peace.
3022.) JAUNAL, JACK W.: ->Vietnam '68: Jack's Journal. HC:Denson Press: San
Francisco, 1981. 1st Edition 154
pgs., $15 Some light spotting top edge, o/w
a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Journal of an Marine NCO with dairy entries
starting
in Decmeber of 1967 at the Staging Battalion, Camp Pendleton, Ca. through his
tour in Vietnam with the
First Marine Division.
8099.) JEFFREYS-JONES,
RHODRI: ->Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War. HC:Yale
University Press: New Haven, CT, 1999. 1st Edition 308 pgs., $4.95 Review copy
with review laid in, a mint copy
in a mint d/j. The author focuses on four
social groups in the sixties-students, African Americans, women and labor-
and investigates the impact each of these groups had on American foreign policy
during the war.
430.) JENNINGS, PATRICK: ->Battles of the Vietnam War.
HC:Exeter Books: New York, 1985. 192 pgs., $3.95 A
fine copy in a v/g plus
d/j. A photo picture book with brief text. Photos black and white and in colour.
3023.) JENSEN-STEVENSON, MONIKA and WILLIAM STEVENSON:->Kiss the Boys
Goodbye: How the United
States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam. HC:Dutton:
New York, 1990. 1st Edition 493 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in
a v/g dj. The
genesis of this book began when Jensen-Stevenson was preparing a story for 60
Minutes on Bobby
Garwood in 1985. After 5 years of research on the POW issue,
authors conclude that American POWs are still alive in
Indochina.
25985.)
JOHN HOPKINS MAGAZINE: APRIL 1965 ISSUE: ->The War in Vietnam. PB:John Hopkins
University:
Baltimore, MD, 1965. 16 pgs., $2.99 Wraps, a v/g copy. Contains
text of President Johnson's speech and critical
5135.) JOHNSON, DION W.:
->Bear Tracks in Indochina: An Analysis of Soviet Presence in Indochina. PB:Air
University Press: Maxwell AFB, AL, 1987. 97 pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed., a v/g
copy. Author focuses on the Soviet
build-up in Vietnam from 1979 to the time
of the book's publication.
9094.) JOHNSON, FRANK: ->Diary of An Airborne
Ranger: A LRRP's Year in the Combat Zone. HC:Ballantine
Books: New York,
2001. BC Edition 255 pgs., $12 PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 2001. 1st Edition
255 pgs., $6 A
fine copy in a fine d/j. Wraps mass market ed., a mint copy. A
memoir of a LURP that serrved in I Corps during 1969-
1970. Drawn from a
diary he kept at the time.
5623.) JOHNSON, LYNDON B.: ->No Retreat From
Tomorrow: President Lyndon B. Johnson's Messages to the 90th
Congress.
HC:Privatley printed.: , n.d.. 248 pgs., $15 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j.
Letter from White House laid in
signed by W. Marvin Watson, Special Assistant
to the President to an apparent unnamed contributor. Many photos
to
illustrate points of his messages. Includes his State of the Union message.
22704.) JOHNSON, LYNDON B.: ->Viet-Nam: The Struggle To Be Free.
PB:Department of State: Washington, DC,
1966. 16 pgs., $6 Wraps phamplet,
owner's stamp on front cover, o/w a v/g copy. A Department of State publication
that provides the text of an address President Johnson made on February 23, 1966
when presented with the
National Freedom Award at the Freedom House in New
York City.
6281.) JOHNSON, RAYMOND: ->Postmark: Mekong Delta.
HC:Fleming H. Revell Co.: Westwood, NJ, 1968. 96 pgs.,
$12 A v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. This book contains letters written by a Navy chaplain who served in the
Mekong Delta.
4401.) JOHNSON, THOMAS L. and MARY R. HIMES:->Historical
Account of the Military Police Corps Regiment:
Assault on the American
Embassy, TET-1968. PB:United States Army: Fort McClellan, AL, 1983. 43 pgs.,
$12.5
Photocopied reprint, a fine copy. a v/g copy. An account of the assault
on the embassy, drawing upon interviews of
MPs assigned to the embassy at the
time of the assault. Includes a street map of the Embassy area. Foreward by
General William Westmoreland.
26695.) JOHNSON, TOM A.: ->To the Limit: An Air
Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam. HC:Potomac Books: Dulles, VA,
2006. 1st Edition
396 pgs., $19.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Personal memoir of a chopper pilot
with 229th Assault
Helicopter Battalion of the First Air Cavalry Division.
From June 1967 to June 1968, he flew 1,150 combat and 450
noncombat missions.
2508.) JOHNSON, U. ALEXIS: ->The Right Hand of Power: The Memoirs of an American
Diplomat. HC:Prentice-
Hall, Inc.: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1984. 1st Edition
642 pgs., $4.95 Remainder spot bottom edge, o/w a v/g plus
copy in a v/g d/j…
Johnson played an important role in the 1954 Geneva Conference, the Gulf of
Tonkin Incident,
and the decision to invade Cambodia. He also served as
ambassador to Thailand during a critical period and
deputy ambassador to
South Vietnam.
9767.) JOHNSON, WRAY R.: ->Vietnam and American Doctrine for
Small Wars. PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok,
2001. 334 pgs., $26 Wraps trade
ed., a mint copy. Book represents a comprehensive treatment of the evolution of
U.S. military doctrine for countering guerillas and other irregular forces in
small wars.
519.) JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: HISTORICAL DIVISION
PUBLICATION:->The History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
The Joint Chiefs of
Staff and the War in Vietnam. PB:: , 1971. 498 pgs., $39.5 A electrostatic
reprint in softcard
cover. Study is a reproduction of an earlier study
entitled 'History of the Indochina Incident, 1940-1954' which was
completed
in February of 1955.
8674.) JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: HISTORICAL DIVISION: ->The
Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam 1960-
1968, Part III
(1967-1968). PB:Joint Chiefs of Staff Historical Division: Washington, DC, n.d..
REP. Edition 404
pgs., $40 Wraps a photocopied reprint, spiral bound in a
soft card cover.
8673.) JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: HISTORICAL DIVISION: ->The
Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam,
1960-1968, Part II (1965-1966).
PB:Joint Chiefs of Staff Historical Division: Washington, DC, n.d.. REP. Edition
598 pgs., $55 Wraps photocopied reprint in spiral binding with soft card cover.
8672.) JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: HISTORICAL DIVISION: ->The Joint Chiefs of
Staff and the War in Vietnam,
1964-1968, Part I (1960-1964). PB:Historical
Division Joint Chiefs of Staff: Washington, DC, n.d.. REP. Edition 582
pgs.,
$55 Wraps photocopied reprint in spiral bound in a softcard cover.
31596.) JONES, CHARLES: ->Boys of 67: From Vietnam to Iraq, The Extraordinary
Story of a Few Good Men.
HC:Stackpole Books: Mechainsburg, PA, 2006. 1ST
Edition 404 pgs., $7.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. An intimate
and vivid
account of a small bank of remarkable Marines. Book has a forward by General
Tony Zinni.
21567.) JONES, HOWARD: ->Death of a Generation: How the
Assassination of Diem and JFK Prolonged the
Vietnam War. HC:Oxford University
Press: New York, 2003. 1st Edition 562 pgs., $12.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
The author argues that Kennedy intended to withdraw the great bulk of American
soldiers and pursue a diplomatic
solution to the crisis in Vietnam.
460.)
JONES, JAMES: ->Viet Journal. HC:Delacorte Press: New York, 1973. 2nd Edition
257 pgs., $3.95 A v/g plus
copy in a v/g d/j. Author wrote 'From Here to
Eternity.' Book is a personalized journal of Vietnam after the ceasefire.
461.) JONES, JOHN R.: ->Vietnam Now. HC:Aston Publications Limited: West
Yorkshire, UK, 1989. 144 pgs., $2.95
A fine copy in a fine d/j. Contains
excellent color photos, mosly of rural Vietnam.
4015.) JORDAN, Sr.
KENNETH N.: ->Heroes of Our Time: 239 Men of the Vietnam War Awarded the Medal
of
Honor, 1964-1972. HC:Schiffer Publishing Ltd.: Atglen, PA, 1994. 351 pgs.,
$12 A fine copy. Book lists all the
Medal of Honor awards given during the
Vietnam War with a complete account of each citation.
21691.) JORDAN, Sr.
KENNETH N.: ->Men of Honor: Thirty-Eight Highly Decorated Marines of World War
II, Korea
and Vietnam. HC:Schiffer Publishing Ltd.: Atglen, PA, 1997. 294
pgs., $25 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Book
contains citations, biographies,
newspaper articles, and photographs of those listed in this book.
9619.)
JORGENSON, KREGG J.: ->Very Crazy G.I., Strange But True Stories of the Vietnam
War. PB:Ballantine
Books: New York, 2001. 2nd Edition 229 pgs., $6 Wraps mass
market ed., a mint copy. A collection of short stories of
unusual storires
which the author claism to be sure. Portions of this book first appeared in
'Beaucoup Dinky Dau'
published iby Maxwell James.
2846.) JORGENSON, KREGG
P.J.: ->Acceptable Loss. HC:Ivy Books: New York, 1991. BC Edition 227 pgs., $10
PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1992. 8th Edition 243 pgs., $5 A mint copy in a mint
d/j. Wraps mass market ed, a very fine
copy. Personal memoir of a LRRP team
member who volunteered to serve on a Blue Team in the Air Cavalry which
aided
units threatened to be overrun by NVA units. A wraps original.
4798.)
JORGENSON, KREGG P.J.: ->MIA Rescue: LRRPs in Cambodia. HC:Ivy Books: New York,
1995. BC Edition
281 pgs., $10 A fine copy in a v/g d/j. Account of an LRRP
mission into Cambodia that is ambushed.
7006.) JORGENSON, KREGG: ->The
Ghosts of the Highlands: 1st. Cav LRRPs in Vietnam, 1966-67. HC:Ivy Books:
New York, 1999. BC Edition 242 pgs., $10 PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1999. 1st
Edition 242 pgs., $5 A very fine copy
in a very fine d/j. Wraps a mass market
ed., a very fine copy. Book is based on the accounts and recollections of the
men who helped form the lst Air Cavalry Division's Long-Range Reconnaissance
Patrol Department.
462.) JOSEPH, PAUL: ->Cracks In the Empire: State
Politics in the Vietnam War. PB:South End Press: Boston,
1981. 362 pgs.,
$2.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Author contends that U.S. policy makers
wanted to stop the
advance of socialist forces in the world arena, hence our
intervention in Vietnam occurred.
21302.) JOURNALIST, VOLUME 3, NO. 1,
SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM: ->A Conference On Vietnam. PB:University
of Southern
California: Los Angeles, CA, 1983. 64 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A
reprint of papers
presented at a confernce on the Vietnam War held at the
University of Southern California in February of 1983.
465.) JUST, WARD
S.: ->To What End: Report From Vietnam. PB:Public Affairs Books: New York, 1999.
1st Edition
179 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. Just served as
correspondent for the Washington Post in Vietnam for 18
466.) KAHIN,
GEORGE McTURNAN and JOHN W. LEWIS:->The United States In Vietnam. HC:Dial Press:
New York,
1969. Rev. Edition 545 pgs., $2.99 PB:Dell Publishing Co.: New
York, 1969. 545 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g
d/j. Wraps a trade ed., a
good plus copy.
467.) KAHIN, GEORGE McTURNAN: ->Intervention: How America
Became Involved in Vietnam. HC:Alfred A. Knopf:
New York, 1986. 1st Edition
550 pgs., $10 PB:Doubleday & Co.: New York, 1987. 550 pgs., $3.95 Ex-library, a
v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Author traces U.S.
involvement in Vietnam back to months after World
War II through events of
1966. By 1967, he argues that U.S. policy was locked into a course that would
take it
through eight more years of war.
9565.) KAISER, CHARLES: ->1968 in
America; Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a
Generation. HC:Weidenfeld & Nicholson: New York, 1988. BC Edition 306 pgs., $12
A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. An
account of the year 1968 largely based on
unpulished interviews and access to Theodore White's archives, the
author
recaptures the year that was. He was a volunteer for the McCarthy campaign and a
freshman at Columbia
during 1968.
8284.) KAISER, DAVID: ->American
Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. HC:Harvard
Univeristy Press: Cambridge, MA, 2000. 2ND Edition 566 pgs., $7.5 A mint copy in
a mint d/j. Author argues that
the policies developed during the Eisenhower
era led to the Vietnam War. He argues that Kennedy reversed this
course,
particularly in Laos, but these policies again emerged under Johnson.
5862.) KALB, MARVIN and BERNARD: ->Kissinger. HC:Little Brown: Boston, 1974. BC
Edition 577 pgs., $7.5 A
33966.) KALB, MARVIN and DEBORAH: ->Haunting
Legacy: Vietnam and the American Legacy. A mint copy in a
5508.) KAMM,
HENRY ->Dragon Ascending: Vietnam and the Vietnamese. HC:Arcade Publishing: New
York, 1996.
1st Edition 304 pgs., $3.95 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j.
Author was the Senior Foreign Correspondence for
the New York Times. In this
book, he puts the Vietnam War in the context of Vietnamese history.
540.)
KANE, ROD: ->Veteran's Day: A Combat Odyssey. HC:Crown Publishers: New York,
1990. 1st Edition 314 pgs.,
$1.99 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Author was a
medic with the First Brigade, Airborne, of the First Cavalry in Vietnam.
25162.) KARLIN, WAYNE: ->War Movies: Journeys to Viet Nam, Scenes and Out-takes.
PB:Curbstone Press:
Williamantic, CT, 2005. 1st Edition 216 pgs., $12.5 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. In this book, the author returns to
Vietnam to work
on a Vietnamese film in which young Vietnamese film-makers tried to recreate
their parents' war.
He then makes a second jouney to the old battlefields
with his son and a group of young American film-makers who
are looking for
their father's war-as a new war in Iraq rages.
33536.) KARNOW, STANLEY:
->Vietnam: A History. HC:Viking Press: New York, 1983. BC Edition 750 pgs.,
$1.99
Name on enpaper, o/w a v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. D/J has
chippingbottom edge of spine.
541.) KARNOW, STANLEY: ->Vietnam: A
History. PB:Penguin Books: New York, 1991. REV. Edition 768 pgs., $7.5
Wraps
trade ed., a v/g copy. This book was originally published as a companion volume
to 'Vietnam: A Television
History,' a 13 part documentary film series
produced for PBS in 1983. Book is a revised edition published in 1991.
3231.) KASTENMEIER, ROBERT W.: ->Vietnam Hearings: Voices From the Grass Roots.
PB:Doubleday & Co.:
New York, 1966. 1st Edition 159 pgs., $1.99 Wraps trade
ed., a v/g copy. Transcript of hearing held by Congressman
Kastenmeier in his
home district at Madison, Wisconsin on July 30th and 31st, 1965.
544.)
KATCHER, PHILIP: Colour Plates by MIKE CHAPPELL:->Armies of the Vietnam War,
1962-75. PB:Osprey
Publsihing Ltd.: London, 1980. 40 pgs., $10 Wraps trade
ed., a fine copy. Title is part of Men-At-Arms Series.
4405.)
KATSIAFICAS, Ed. GEORGE: ->Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views of
the War.
PB:M.E.Sharpe: Armonk, NY, 1992. 3RD Edition 251 pgs., $1.99 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. Book consists of the
words of American presidents and
Communist theoreticians, antiwar activists and Vietnamese allies of the United
States.
545.) KATTENBURG, PAUL M.: ->The Vietnam Trauma In American Foreign
Policy, 1945-75. HC:Transaction
Books: New Brunswick, N.J., 1980. 354 pgs.,
$12.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author served with the State
Department for 20 years during the Vietnam era and was a constant crtiic of US
Vietnam policies.
3846.) KEATING, SUSAN KATZ: ->Prisoners of Hope:
Exploiting the POW/MIA Myth In America. HC:Random House:
New York, 1994. 276
pgs., $12 PB:Random House: New York, 1994. 261 pgs., $10 A fine copy in a fine
d/j.
Wraps an Advance Uncorrected Proof copy, a fine copy. The author
analyzes why the POW/MIA issue has stayed
alive over the years, exposes con
artist who have exploited the grief of families of missing men, and details how
the
U.S. government has abetted the continuation of the myth by mishandling
the issue.
547.) KEENAN, BARBARA MULLEN: ->Every Effort. HC:St. Martin's
Press: New York, 1986. 1st Edition 351 pgs.,
$2.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Account by wife of an MIA Marine shot down over Laos in 1966 who was declared
killed in action on May 5th, 1976. A very moving account.
33997.)
KEITH, THOMAS H.and J. TERRY RIEBLING: ->Seal Warrior, Death In the Dark:
Vietnam 1968-1972.
HC:Thomas Dunne Books: New York, 2009. 1ST Edition 292
pgs., $12 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Author 3 tours in
Vietnam with SEAL TEAM
2, he received 2 Purple hearts, three Bronze Stars with combat V for Valor, 2
Presidential
Unit Citations, and 2 navy Unit Citations among his many awards.
He served 29 years to Naval Special Warfare.f
20502.) KELLEY, MICHAEL P.:
->Where We Were In Vietnam: A Comprehensive Guide to the Firebases, Military
Installations, and Naval Vessels of the Vietnam War, 19 PB:Hellgate Press:
Central Point, OR, 2002. 1st Edition
814 pgs., $36.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. A comprehensive work, providng 48 maps and grid zone overlays,
airfields, heliports, signal ites, engineer camps, U.S. navy ships, order of
battle, glossary of terms, and more.
21690.) KELLY, DANIEL E.: ->U. S.
Navy Seawolves: The Elite HAL-3 Helicopter Squadron in Vietnam.
PB:Ballantine
Books: New York, 2002. 1st Edition 269 pgs., $6 Wraps a mass market ed., a fine
copy. An account of
the use of choppers by the Navy in the Mekong Delata to
back SEAL Teams.
3987.) KELLY, JEFF: ->DMZ Diary: A Combat's Marine's
Vietnam Memoir. PB:McFarland & Co.: Jefferson, NC,
1991. 209 pgs., $12.5
Wraps trade ed., creasing of tips of some pages, o/w a v/g copy. Memoir of a
Marine who
served in the DMZ during 1968 as a radioman.
4797.) KELLY,
ORR: ->Never Fight Fair! Inside the Legendry U.S. Navy SEALS-Their Own True
Stories. HC:Presidio
Press: Novato, CA, 1995. 1st Edition 337 pgs., $12.5
PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1996. 1st Edition 365 pgs., $5.99
A fine copy in a
fine d/j. Wraps mass market ed., a mint copy. A history of SEAL activities with
two chapters devoted
to Vietnam.
548.) KENDRICK, ALEXANDER: ->The Wound
Within: America In the Vietnam Years, 1945-1974. HC:Little Brown: ,
1974. 1st
Edition 432 pgs., $3.99 PB:Little Brown: Boston, 1974. 432 pgs., $1.99 Owner
stamp on enpaper and
bottom edge, o/w a v/g plus copy in a fine d/j. Wraps
trade ed., a v/g copy. This is account of the politics and
sociology of the
war and their relation to American society. One of the better early works in
this area.
8345.) KENNAN, GEORGE F.: ->Democracy and the Student Left.
PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1968. 208 pgs.,
$5 Wraps mass market ed., a v/g
copy. In this book, Kennan analyzes the nature and source of the students'
discontent, ranging from opposition to the draft, civil rights, suspicion of the
Establishment: and finally their distrust
of the democratic process as it now
exists.
25750.) KENNEDY, MALCOLM and MICHAEL O'CONNOR:->Australia's Indochina
Policy: A Question of Selective
Morality. PB:indochina Report: Singapore,
1986. 20 pgs., $1.5 Wraps a v/g copy
31666.) KENNEDY, SENATOR EDWARD M.:
->Report On Indochina. Wraps copy of press release issued by the
office of
Senator Kennedy on Report of Indochina and recommendation on a Panel to chart a
new beginning in our
20666.) KENNY, HENRY J.: ->Shadow of the Dragon:
Vietnam's Continuing Struggle with China and the
Implications for U.S.
Foreign Policy. PB:Brassey's Inc.: Dulles, VA, 2002. 1st Edition 175 pgs., $19.5
Wraps trade
ed., a mint copy. This study examines the long historical cycle
of tribute, domination, and independence that has
shaped Sino-Vietnamese
bilateral relations.
26050.) KERKVLIET, Eds. BENEDICT J. TRIA and DOUG J.
PORTER:->Vietnam's Rural Transformation.
HC:Westview Press: Boulder, CO,
1995. 1st Edition 251 pgs., $15 Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a fine copy
in a fine d/j. A study to measure the impact of economic liberalization in the
countryside in the mid-1980s.
20428.) KERREY, BOB: ->When I Was a Young
Man: A Memoir. HC:Harcourt, Inc.: New York, 2002. 1st Edition 270
pgs., $6 A
very fine copy in a fine d/j Personal memoir by former Senator Bob Kerrey.
552.) KETWIG, JOHN: ->...And a Hard Rain Fell: A GI's True Story of the War
In Vietnam. HC:Sourcesbook, Inc.:
Naperville, IL, 2002. Rev. Edition 380
pgs., $3.95 PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1986. 7th Edition 336 pgs., $1.99 A
mint copy in a mint d/j. Wraps a mass market ed., mint as purchased new.
Author's account of his experience in
Vietnam during 1967 experience in
Veitnam during 1967 as a GI.
5507.) KEYES, JANE GODFREY: ->A Bibliography
of Western-Language Publications Concerning North Vietnam In
the Cornelll
University Library. PB:Cornell University Southeast Asia Program: Ithaca, NY,
1966. 292 pgs., $19.5
Wraps trade ed., small piece msissing back cover, o/w a
v/g copy. There are brief annotations on most of the listed
publications.
553.) KEYLIN, ARLEEN and SURI BOIANGIU:->Front Page Vietnam: As Reported by The
New York Times. HC:Arno
Press: New York, 1979. 248 pgs., $10 A v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. Book consists of reprints of articles from the pages of
the New York
Times between the years of 1950-1979. Also, there are a number of photos that
appeared in the New
York Times during this period.
25364.) KIDDER, TRACY:
->My Detachment: A Memoir. HC:Random House: New York, 2005. 1st Edition 192
pgs.,
$1.99 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Memoir by Kidder on his experience in
Vietnam wherre he was assgned the task of
reporting on enemy radio locations.
Kidder was a National Book Award and Pultizer winner.
9218.) KIEN,
NGUYEN: ->The Unwanted: A Memoir. HC:Little, Brown: Boston, 2001. 1st Edition
343 pgs., $12 A
fine copy in a fine d/j. A memoir of an Amerasian boy who
came to the United States in 1985 through the United
6904.) KIMBALL,
JEFFREY: ->Nixon's Vietnam War. HC:University Press of Kansas: Lawrence, KS,
1998. 1st Edition
495 pgs., $17.5 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. A
historical account of Nixon's directing of the Vietnam War,
22260.)
KIMBALL, JEFFREY: ->The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the Secret History of
Nixon-Era Strategy.
HC:University Press of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 2003. 1st
Edition 384 pgs., $29.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Book
based on recently
declassified documents and taped White House conversations bearing on
long-standing
controversies as the 'madman theory' and the 'decent-interval'
option.
555.) KIMBALL, WILLIAM R. and ROGER L.: L. HELLE:->Pointman.
PB:Pointman Books: Colfax, LA, 1991. 314
pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g
copy. Account of a Marine who went to Nam, returned after being seriously
wounded. He later returned to Vietnam as part of a Vets With a Mission group
after undergoing a religious
conversion. Bulk of the book deals with Helle's
experience as a Marine in Vietnam.
3501.) KIMBALL, WILLIAM R.: ->Vietnam:
The Other Side of Glory. HC:Daring Books: Canton, OH., 1987. 1st
Edition 336
pgs., $12.5 PB:College Press Publishing Co.: Joplin, MO, 1987. 253 pgs., $6 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g copy. Personal memoir
of a mortarman in the lst Air Cavalry Division who served in
Vietnam during
the TET offensive. He tells his story and weaves into his account the
experiences of 16 different
Nam vets. Upon a medical evacuation from Vietnam,
he vowed to serve God if he were kept from returning to
Vietnam. An honest
and candid memoir.
27338.) KINGSTON, Ed. MAXIME HONG: ->Veterans of War,
Veterans of Peace. PB:Koa Books: Kihea, HI, 2006.
2nd Edition 610 pgs., $18
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author has led over twleve years writing and
meditation
workshops ofr veterans and their families. In reading their words,
we witness how their worlds have been torn apart
but then rebuilt.
556.)
KINNARD, DOUGLAS: ->The Certain Trumpet: Maxwell Taylor and the American
Experience In Vietnam..
HC:Brassey's (US), Inc.: New York, 1991. 1st Edition
252 pgs., $3.95 Mint in mint d/j as purchased new.
557.) KINNARD,
DOUGLAS: ->The War Managers. HC:University Press of New England: Hanover, N.H.,
1977. 1st
Edition 216 pgs., $7.5 PB:Da Capo Press: New York, 1991. 216 pgs.,
$2.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps a trade
ed., a very fine copy. Book is
an analysis of the responses of 173 Army Generals who served in Vietnam to a
questionaire developed by the author. The author is a retired Army General who
served two tours in Vietnam.
31469.) KIPP, WOODY: ->Viet Cong At Wounded
Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist.. A fine copy in a fine d/j.
Memoir
of an Marine Blackfeet Indian who went from the Blackfeet Reservation to Vietnam
and this experience
helped him to come to terms with his cultural heritage
and his interaction with other cultures.
558.) KIRK, DONALD: ->Tell It To
the Dead: Memories of a War. HC:Nelson-Hall: Chicago, 1975. 215 pgs., $6.95
A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j.. Author was a reporter in Vietnam for the Chicago
Tribune.
9556.) KIRSCHKE, JAMES J.: ->Not Going Home Alone: A
Marine's Story. HC:Ballantine Books: New York, 2001.
BC Edition 250 pgs., $10
PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 2001. 2nd Edition 298 pgs., $6 A fine copy in a
fine d/j. A
personal memoir of a Marine platoon commanded by the author, a
lieutenant. He served just south of the DMZ in
the An Hoa region in 1966.
22201.) KISSINGER, HENRY: ->Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy
Crises. HC:Simon and Schuster:
New York, 2003. 1st Edition 564 pgs., $7.95 A
mint copy in a mint d/j. Kissinger draws upon his unpublished
transcripts of
his telephone conversations during the Yom Kippur War and the last days of the
Vietnam War to show
what went on behind the scenes and his involvement in
these events.
21327.) KISSINGER, HENRY: ->Ending the Vietnam War: A
History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from
the Vietnam War.
PB:Simon and Schuster: New York, 2003. 1st Edition 635 pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade
ed.,
remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a fine copy. Book is primarily taken
from his previous books though the cove blurb
states it contains new and
updated material. I have not read the book in depth but he does not address
Berman's
criticism nor make a reference to Senator Kerry's Committee on POW
issues, particularly in respect to Laos. He only
addresses Shawcross's
criticism.
24939.) KISSINGER, HENRY: ->White House Years. HC:Litlte Brown
& Co.: Boston, 1979. 1st Edition 1521 pgs., $10
A fine copy in a fine d/j.
A fine copy in a fine d/j.
34325.) KISSINGER, HENRY: ->Years
of Renewal. HC:Simon & Schuster: New York, 1999. 1ST Edition 1151 pgs.,
$5.95
A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. In this concluding volume of his memoirs,
Dr. Kissinger details the agony
of the final U.s. extrication from Vietnam
and the continuing crisis of the Cold War.
7339.) KISSINGER, HENRY:
->Years of Renewal. PB:Simon and Schuster: New York, 2000. 1st Edition 1151
pgs.,
$2.95 Wraps trade ed., remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a fine copy. In
this concluding volume of his memoirs, Dr.
Kissinger details the agony of the
final U.S. extrication from Vietnam and the continuing crisis of the Cold War.
2524.) KISSINGER, HENRY: ->Years of Upheaval. HC:Little Brown & Co.: Boston,
1982. 1st Edition 1283 pgs., $10
Name on enpaper, o/w a fine copy in a fine
d/j..
3988.) KITCHIN, DENNIS: ->War In Aquarius: Memoir of an American
Infantryman in Action Along the Cambodian
Border During the Vietnam War.
PB:McFarland & Co.: Jefferson, NC, 1994. 1st Edition 206 pgs., $6 Wraps trade
ed., a mint copy. Author served with 25th Infantry Division during the year
1969. He tells of the disillusionment that
set in, including the
court-martialing of four men in an isolated Vietnamese village along the
Cambodian border as
the 'Vietnamization' program was in progress.
5864.)
KITFIELD, JAMES: ->Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of
Vietnam Revolutionized the
American Style of War. HC:Simon & Schuster: New
York, 1995. 1st Edition 476 pgs., $2.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
plus d/j.
The author chronicles the remarkable revitalization of the military by following
the lives of a unique
generation of officers, the senior commanders who let
the nation to victory in Desert Storm.
3939.) KLARE, MICHAEL T.:
->Beyond the 'Vietnam Syndrome:' U.S. Interventionism in the 1980s. PB:Institute
for
Policy Studies: Washington, DC, 1982. 2nd Edition 137 pgs., $6 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g copy. Author argues that the
Reagan Administration answer to
the Vietnam Syndrome is a replay of the Cold War of John Foster Dulles.
560.) KNIGHTLEY, PHILIP: ->The First Casuality: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The
War Correspondent as Hero,
Propagandist and Myt# Maker. HC:Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich: New York, 1975. BC Edition 465 pgs., $6 Light
speckling outer
edges, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
561.) KNOEBL, KUNO: ->Victor Charlie:
The Face of War in Vietnam. HC:Frederick A. Praeger: New York, 1967. 1st
Edition 304 pgs., $15 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. The author was an
Australian correspondent who had access
to Viet Cong units and to the
villages that they controlled. Title was originally published in Germany in
1966. Book
has an introduction by Bernard Fall.
562.) KNOLL, ERWIN and
JUDITH NIES McFADDEN:->War Crimes and the American Conscience. PB:Holt
Rinehart and Winston: New York, 1970. 1st Edition 208 pgs., $1.99 Wraps trade
ed., a v/g copy. Book is an edited
transcript of the Congressional Conference
on War and National Responsibility convened in 1970 by congressional
critics
of the Vietnam War.
28939.) KOBELEV, YEVGENY: ->Ho Chi Minh. A fine copy in a
fine d/j.
563.) KOLKO, GABRIEL: ->Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United
States, and the Modern Historical Experience.
PB:New Press: New York, 1997.
1st Edition 674 pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Book focuses on the
dramatic and political changes which fueled the Vietnamese revolution. It was
printed in England under the title
'Vietnam: Anatomy of a War, 1940-1975.'
9575.) KONING, HANS: ->Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Report. HC:W. W. Norton
& Co.: New York, 1987. 1st
Edition 194 pgs., $12 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
plus d/j. In account of the year of 1968 by a noted novelist who was
564.) KOVIC, RON: ->Born On the Fourth of July. PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1977.
7th Edition 224 pgs., $6
Wraps mass market ed., a v/g copy. Personal memoir
of a Marine who was wounded and paralyzed permanently from
his waist down in
Vietnam. He came from a working class background and believed in God, John Wayne
and his
country. After coming home, he protested the war and this account
vividly protrays the debate over the war within
the country.
565.) KOWET,
DON: ->A Matter of Honor: General William C. Westmoreland Versus CBS.
HC:Macmillian Publiishing
Co.: New York, 1984. 2nd Edition 317 pgs., $2.95 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
566.) KRASLOW, DAVID and STUART H. LOORY:->The
Secret Search For Peace In Vietnam. HC:Random House:
New York, 1968. 1st
Edition 247 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j.
567.) KRAUSE, Ed.
PATRICIA A.: Foreward by ERNEST GRUENING:->Anatomy of An Undeclared War:
Congressional Conference On the Pentagon Papers HC:International Universities
Press: , 1972. 271 pgs., $9.95 A
27772.) KREKORIAN, ED: ->Vietnam: A
Surgeon's Odyssey. PB:Athena Press: London, 2002. 732 pgs., $15 Wraps
trade
ed., a mint copy. Author served in both World War II and Korea, then went on to
Vietnam in 1970 as a surgeon.
3321.) KROHN, CHARLES A.: ->The Lost
Battalion: Controversy and Casualties in the Battle of Hue. Wraps trade
ed.,
a mint copy. Account of 2/12th Cavalry Battalion during the battle of Hue where
it has been ordered to charge a
fortified North Vietnamese Army force 200
yards away over an open field with no air or artillery support. Author was
a
member of this unit.
3710.) KUBEY, CRAIG, et al, and VIETNAM VETERANS OF
AMERICA:->The Viet Vet Survival Guide: How to Cut
Through the Bureaucracy and
Get What You Need--And Are Entitled To. PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 1985. 1st
Edition 323 pgs., $5 Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g copy. A guide to veterans
benefits written specifically for
Vietnam vets. Book filled a real need as up
to the time of the book's writing, attention had not been given to the
special needs of Vietnam veterans.
3359.) KUENNING, DELORES A.: ->Life After
Vietnam: How Veterans and Their Loved Ones Can Heal the
Psychological Wounds
of War. HC:Paragon House: New York, 1991. 1st Edition 389 pgs., $2.95 A v/g copy
in a v/g
d/j. A guide to help veterans and their families to work through the
scars of the Vietnam War.
7892.) KUGLER, ED: ->Dead Center: A Marine
Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War. HC:Ivy Books: New
York, 1999.
BC Edition 241 pgs., $5.95 A fine copy in a v/g plus d/j. Personal memoir of of
marine who did a
1966-67 tour with the Fourth Marines in I Corps.
4061.) KUKLER, MIKE: ->Operation Baroom. PB:PTC Publishers: Gastonia, NC, 1980.
153 pgs., $12.5 Wraps
trade ed., name and address of previous owner on inside
front cover, o/w a copy. Book conists of essays by author
with observations
of his experiences told with an ironic twist at times. Tells of an effort to
parachute elephants to the
Montagnards. Author was the Chief Information
Non-Commissioned Officer for USMACV.
571.) KUNEN, JAMES SIMON: ->The
Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary. HC:Random House:
New
York, 1969. BC Edition 155 pgs., $5.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Book
described by one reviewer as
being a new left Charlie Brown. Author was a 19
year old student at Columbia when he wrote the book.
28411.) KWON,
HEONIK: ->After the Massacre: Commembration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai.
PB:University of California Press: Berkeley, 2006. 1ST Edition 217 pgs., $18.5
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An
anthropological study of how the Vietnamese
villagers in Ha Myand My Lai assimilated the catastrophes of these
two
villages into their everyday ritual lives. Ha My was a village where Korean
troops massacred villagers.
20051.) KY, NGUYEN CAO with MARVIN J.
WOLF:->Buddha's Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam. HC:St. Martin's
Press: New
York, 2002. 1st Edition 376 pgs., $1.99 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Ky reveals
his views on what went on
behind the scenes at the highest levels of the
Saigon and Washington governments: the coup d'etat, the greed and
corruption
of his fellow generals, and the betrayals.
573.) KY, NGUYEN CAO: ->Twenty
Years and Twenty Days. HC:Stein and Day: Briancliff Manon, N.Y., 1976. 1st
Edition 239 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. What you think about this book
depends on what you think about
575.) LACOUTURE, JEAN: ->Ho Chi Minh: A
Political Biography. HC:Random House: New York, 1968. 1st Edition
313 pgs.,
$15 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author was a French correspondent for the French
daily Le Monde.
576.) LACOUTURE, JEAN: ->Vietnam: Between Two Truces.
HC:Random House: New York, 1966. 1st Edition 295
pgs., $7.5 PB:Vintage Books:
New York, 1966. 295 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps, a mass market
ed., a
20456.) LAMB, DAVID: ->Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns. HC:Public
Affairs: New York, 2002. 1st Edition 274
pgs., $6 A very fine copy in a very
fine d/j. mint copy in a mint d/j. Author served in Vietnam as a young combat
journalist , then returned to Vietnam during the 90s as a seasoned reported and
this book is more of his observation
of the changes in Vietnam during his
stay there.
579.) LAMB, HELEN B.: ->Vietnam's Will To Live: Resistance To
Foreign Agression From Early Times Through the
19th Century. HC:Monthly
Review Press: New York, 1972. 1st Edition 344 pgs., $10 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Another copy, ex-library, $6.00, spine faded, o/w a v/g copy. A historical
account of the resistance shown by the
Indochinese peoples to foreign
agression and French colonialism.
29990.) LAMENSDORF, JEAN DEBELLE:
->Write Home For Me: A Red Cross Woman in Vietnam. PB:Random
House Australia:
Milson Point, NSW, 2006. 1ST Edition 302 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus
copy. Memoir of
an Australian nurse who served in Vietnam.
23613.)
LANDAU, DAVID: ->Kissinger: The Uses of Power. HC:Houghton Mifflin Co.: Boston,
1972. 5th Edition 270
pgs., $10 Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author
is former editor of the Harvard Crimson and with his contacts at
Harvard, he
conducted numerous interviews with perosn who knew Kissinger at Harvard and
those involed in the
diplomacy of the Vietnam War. In his preface, he
acknowledges Daniel Ellsberg encouraged him in this study.
24987.)
LANDERS, JAMES: ->The Weekly War: Newsmagazine and Vietnam. HC:University of
Missouri Press:
Columbia, MO, 2005. 1st Edition 298 pgs., $25 A mint copy in
a mint d/j. The author provides an in-depth
investigation of how the three
major newsmagazines-Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News and World Report covered the
Vietnam War from March 1965 to January 1973. At the time, these newsmagazines
reached nearly one-third of
adult Americans-second only to newwork
television.
3141.) LANE, MARK: ->Conversatons With Americans. HC:Simon &
Schuster: New York, 1970. 1st Edition 247 pgs.,
$1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g
d/j. Alleged testimony from 32 Vietnam veterans on their being trained in
torture tactics
and their accounts of atrocities and massacres they either
witnessed or participated in.
580.) LANE, THOMAS A.:
->America On Trial: The War For Vietnam. HC:Arlington House: New Rochelle, N.Y.,
1971. 2nd Edition 297 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. The author was an
Army general and in this book, he is
highly critical of how the civilian and
military have dealt with the Vietnam War, calling their approach as a no-win
policy.
582.) LANG, DANIEL: ->Casualities of War. PB:McGraw-Hill Book Co.:
New York, 1969. 1st Edition 123 pgs., $7.5
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
Another copy, British edition tiotled Incident On Hill 192, mass market size
ed., $6.00,
a v/g copy. Account of a 5 man patrol that raped a South
Vietnamese girl with one member objecting. The next
day the sergeant leading
the patrol risked his life saving a member of the patrol and he is nominated for
a Bronze
Star. Material of this book originally appeared in the New Yorker.
4497.) LANG, DANIEL: ->Patriotism Without Flags. HC:W.W. Norton & Co.: New York,
1974. 1st Edition 209 pgs.,
$12 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. The chapters in this
book first appeared in the New Yorker, the first being the trial of Dr.
Spock. Subsequent chapters include deserters in Sweden, a probing interview with
a young Marine back from the
war, why we did not use the Atomic Bomb based on
talks with government and military officials and a soldier who
had gone AWOL.
583.) LANNING, MICHAEL LEE and DAN CRAGG:->Inside the VC and the NVA: The
Real Story of North Vietnam's
Armed Forces. HC:Ballantine Books: New York,
1992. 1st Edition 332 pgs., $4.95 PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1994. 1st
Edition
392 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps a mass market ed, a v/g
copy. The authors attempt to
show why the communist Vietnamese were able to
outlast America's ten year effort in Southeast Asia. Both are
Vietnam
veterans and they have drawn upon personal diaries, letters and interviews to
document their effort.
584.) LANNING, MICHAEL LEE and RAY: WILLIAM
STUBBE:->Inside Force Recon: Recon Marines In Vietnam.
PB:Ivy Books: New
York, 1990. 3rd Edition 289 pgs., $4.95 Wraps, a v/g copy.
585.) LANNING,
MICHAEL LEE: ->Inside the LRRPS: Rangers In Vietnam. PB:Ivy Books: New York,
1990. 6th
Edition 246 pgs., $6 Wraps original, a fine copy.
6767.)
LANNING, MICHAEL: ->Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers In Vietnam. PB:Ivy Books: New
York, 1998. 2nd
Edition 278 pgs., $6.99 Wraps mass market, a mint copy. Book
based on interviews with men who were snipers, their
instructors, and the
founders of the Marine and U.S. Army sniper programs.
588.) LANSDALE,
EDWARD GEARY: ->In the Midst of Wars: An American's Mission To Southeast Asia.
PB:Fordham University Press: New York, 1991. REP Edition 386 pgs., $24.95 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy.
Lansdale's account of his missions to the Philippines
and Vietnam with two thirds of the book dealing with Vietnam.
Account
reflects his personality and can do approach.
589.) LARSEN, WENDY WILDER and
TRAN THI NGA:->Shallow Graves: Two Women and Vietnam. HC:Random
House: New
York, 1986. 2nd Edition 291 pgs., $4.95 A fine copy in a fine d/j with photo of
authors laid in. Wendy
Larsen was a wife of a news reporter in Vietnam who
went with her husband and met Nga, an employee at the news
bureau office. She
later fled Vietnam in 1975, meeting Wendy in the United States.
7719.)
LARSON, DON R. and ARTHUR: ->Vietnam and Beyond: A New American Foreign Policy
and Program.
PB:Rule of Law Research Center: Durham, NC, 1965. 42 pgs., $5
Ex-library, a v/g copy..
590.) LARTEGUY, JEAN: ->Un Million de Dollars Le
Viet. HC:Raoul Solar: Paris, 1965. 317 pgs., $25 A v/g copy
29272.)
LAWRENCE, Eds. MARK ATWOOD and FREDRIK LOGEVALL: ->The First Vietnam War:
Colonial Conflict
and Cold War Crisis. Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An
excellent set of essays that rexamines the First Vietnam War
and how this war
played out into a major Cold War struggle after the United States became
involved following the
signing of the 1954 Geneva Accords.
25135.)
LAWRENCE, MARK ATWOOD: ->Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment
to War in
Vietnam. HC:Univeristy of California Press: Berkeley, CA, 2005. 1st
Edition 358 pgs., $28.5 A mint copy in a mint
d/j. Author draws on the
archives of France, Great Britain and the United States to argue that the U.S.
decision to
intervene in Vietnam can be understood only as the result of
complex transatlantic deliberations about colonialism
in Southeast Asia in
the years between 1944 and 1950.
31381.) LAWRENCE, MARK ATWOOD: ->The Vietnam
War: A Concise International History. HC:Oxford University
Press: New York,
2008. 3rd Edition 214 pgs., $17 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Author provides a
concise account of
the Second Indochina War in a global context.
591.)
LAWSON, DON: ->The United States in the Vietnam War. HC:Thomas Y. Crowell: New
York, 1981. 149 pgs.,
$2.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Library
binding. Book is part of the Young People's History of America's
595.) LE
DUAN, ->The Vietnamese Revoluton: Fundamental Problems and Essential Tasks.
PB:International
Publishers: New York, 1971. 1st Edition 151 pgs., $10 Wraps
a trade ed., a v/g copy. Report given by Le Duan on the
40th anniversary of
the establishment of the Indochinese Communist Party. First published in Hanoi
in 1970 by
Foreign Language Publishing House.
32855.) LE DUAN, ->On the
Socialist Revoltuion In Viet Name, Volume 3. Wraps trade ed., heavy wear of
spine,
o/w a good plus copy.
596.) LE DUAN: ->On the Socialist
Revolution In Viet Nam, Volume I. PB:Foreign Language Publishing House:
Hanoi, 1965. 110 pgs., $1.95 Wraps trade editions, a goodonly copy as heavy wear
of spine.
22051.) LE FAILLER, PHILIPPE: ->Thuoc Phien Va. Chinh Quyen
Thuoc Dia O Chau A: Tu doc quyen den cam
doan, 1897-1940. HC:Centre de
l'Ecole Francaise au Vietnam: Hanoi, 2000. 310 pgs., $25 A mint copy.
5428.) LeBOUTILLIER, JOHN ->Vietnam Now: A Case for Normalizing Relations with
Hanoi. HC:Praeger: New York,
1989. 1st Edition 111 pgs., $1.99 A fine copy in
a v/g plus d/j. Book contains an introduction by former President
523.)
LEDERER, WILLIAM J.: ->Our Own Worst Enemy. HC:W. W. Norton: New York, 1968. 1st
Edition 287 pgs., $7.5
Inscription on enpaper, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Author of this title was the co-author of book 'The Ugly
7898.)
LEDERER, WILLIAM: ->The Anguished American. HC:Victor Gollancz: London, 1969.
254 pgs., $7.5 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. his is the Ebnglish edition of the
the book Our Own Worst Enemy by Lederer.
4360.) LEE, ALEX: ->Force Recon
Command: A Special Marine Unit in Vietnam, 1969-1970. PB:Ivy Books: New
York,
1996. 292 pgs., $5.99 Wraps mass market ed., a mint copy. Author gives an
account of the Third Force
Reconnaissance Company which he commanded in
Vietnam. This company conducted long range patrols deep in
Northern Corps I
to gather intelligence about the North Vietnamese Army.
8007.) LEE, ALEX:
->Utter's Batalion: 2/7 Marines in Vietnam, 1965-66. PB:Ivy Books: New York,
2000. 1st Edition
355 pgs., $6.99 Wraps mass market ed., a mint copy. Account
of the 2nd battalion, 7th regiment assignment to Chu
7324.) LEEPSON, Ed.
MARC with HELEN HANNAFORD: ->Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War.
PB:Simon & Schuster: New York, 1999. 598 pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade ed, small
remainder dot on bottom edge, o/w a
mint copy. This work is based on the
licensed content from Kutler's 'Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War.' Contains
over 1,500 entries. Appendices include chronology, U.S., ARVN, PAVN and PLAF
Orders of Battle, Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution, Paris Peace Accords, Medal of
Honor recipients and a bibliographic guide.
23595.) LEHRACK, OTTO J.:
->The First Battle: Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in
Vietnam.
HC:Caasemate: Havertown, PA, 2004. 1st Edition 212 pgs., $3.95 A
mint copy in a mint d/j. An account of the of
the first major clash of the
Vietnam War where three Marine battalions took on the lst Viet Cong regiment on
the
Van Tuong Peninsula near the Marine base of Chu Lai.
33230.) LEMBCKE,
JERRY: ->Hanoi Jane: War, Sex and Fantasies of Betrayal. Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy.
Author provides good historical perspective on stories of female
betrayal during wartime and argues that Fonda's
demonization played an
important part in a right-wing campaign to attribbute American defeat in Vietnam
to left-
wing scapegoats..
6702.) LEMBCKE, JERRY: ->The Spitting Image:
Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam. PB:New York
University Press: New
York, 1998. 2nd Edition 217 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author
argues that the
dominant cultural images of Vietnam veterans as reviled, spat
-upon outcasts and mentally ill survivors of trauma
have little basis in
reality. He adds that tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans took actions to end
the war Author is
a Vietnam veteran.
525.) LENS, SIDENY: ->Vietnam: A War
On Two Fronts. HC:Lodestar Books: New York, 1990. 1st Edition 115 pgs.,
$1.99
A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. A Junior High book on the war written by an
anti-war activist.
3095.) LEPPELMAN, JOHN: ->Blood On the Risers: An
Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam. HC:Ivy
Books: New York,
1991. BC Edition 338 pgs., $6 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Personal memoir by
author who served
as a paratrroper in the 173d Airborne, then transferred to
the army's riverboats and then to the Rangers. A wraps
original.
33229.)
LEPRE, GEORGE: ->Fragging: Why U.S. Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers In
Vietnam. HC:Texas Tech
University: Lubbock, TX, 2011. 1st Edition 318 pgs.,
$27.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Author draws upon more than
500 cases from
official records on the issue of fragging in additoin to interviews with both
perpetrators and victims of
fragging.
4017.) LESLIE, JACQUES: ->The Mark:
A War Correspondent's Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia. HC:Four Walls
Eight
Windows: New York, 1995. 1st Edition 305 pgs., $15 Review copy with review laid
in, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Another copy, $12.00, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Author was a young reporter for the Los Angeles Times who began
covering the
Vietnam War in 1972. He covered the fall of Phnom Phenh in 1975.
8117.)
LEVENSTEIN, AARON: ->Escape to Freedom: the Story of the International Rescue
Committee.
PB:Greenwood Press: Westport, CT, 1983. 1st Edition 338 pgs., $12
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Book contians two
chapters on the role played by
the International Rescue Committee in Indochina, after World War II and the fall
of
Saigon.
527.) LEVINSON, JEFFREY L.: ->Alpha Strike Vietnam: The Navy's
Air War -1964 to 1973. HC:Presidio Press:
Novato, CA., 1989. 1st Edition 312
pgs., $2.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book is based on interviews with 22 naval
aviators who carried out strike operations from carriers on Yankee and Dixie
Stations.
4801.) LEVY, CHARLES J.: ->Spoils of War. HC:Houghton Mifflin
Co.: Boston, 1974. 1st Edition 172 pgs., $7.5 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book
deals with the connection of some Vietnam veterans feeling that having lost in
Vietnam,
they are now losing at home. Author is a sociologist.
5072.)
LEVY, DAVID W.: ->The Debate Over Vietnam. PB:John Hopkins University Press:
Baltimore, MD, 1991. 1st
Edition 217 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus
copy, An excellent concise history of the national debate over the
propriety,
the necessity, and the morality of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
2539.) LEWALLEN, JOHN: ->Ecology of Devastation: Indochina PB:Penguin Books: New
York, 1971. 1st Edition
179 pgs., $7.5 Wraps mass market size ed., a v/g plus
copy. Author served in Vietnam with IVS from 1967 to 1969.
528.) LEWY,
GUENTER: ->America In Vietnam. HC:Oxford University Press: New York, 1978. 540
pgs., $3.95
PB:Oxford University Press: New York, 1980. 540 pgs., $1.99 A v/g
copy.. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. This is one of
the first books to look
back in depth on the Vietnam War in in retrospect,.
6699.) LIBRARY OF
AMERICA PUBLICATION: ->Reporting Vietnam Part One: American Journalism
1959-1969.
HC:Library of America: New York, 1998. 2nd Edition 858 pgs., $25 A
fine copy in a fine d/j. An excellent selection
of reporting on the Vietnam
War from original newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books. There
are
eighty writers represented covering the war at home and abroad, writing
on topics ranging from guerilla warfare,
close combat, South Vietnamese
politics, and protests and impact of the war on the home front. Included is a
complete chronology of the war, maps, profiles of the journalists, glossary,
notes, and 32 pages of photographs of the
correspondents. Work is in two
parts.
6718.) LIBRARY OF AMERICA PUBLICATION: ->Reporting
Vietnam Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975.
HC:Library of America: New
York, 1998. 1st Edition 857 pgs., $25 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. An
excellent
selection of reporting on the Vietnam War from original newspaper
and magazine reports and contemporary books.
There are eighty writers
represented covering the war at home and abroad, writing on topics ranging from
guerilla
warfare, close combat, South Vietnamese politics, and protests and
impact of the war on the home front. Included is
a complete chronology of the
war, maps, profiles of the journalists, glossary, notes, and 32 pages of
photographs of
the correspondents. Work is in two parts.
8494.)
LIBRARY OF AMERICA PUBLICATION: ->Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism
1959-1975. PB:Library
of America: New York, 1998. 853 pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade
ed., remainder spot bottom edge, o/w a v/g plus copy.
This volume is drawn
from Reporting Vietanm, a two-volume set published in 1998. This edition has an
introduction by Ward Just.
537.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1954, APRIL 5TH: ->A 'Verdun'
Stand In Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1954. 0
pgs., $6 Three pages,
commentary very interesting.
597.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1954, AUGUST 2: ->The
Face of Defeat and the Face of Victory. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1954. 0
pgs., $6 Six page article, shows French POW's.
598.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1954,
AUGUST 9TH: ->Mop-Up at Dienbienphu. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1954. 0
pgs., $5 A photo of Dienbienphu.
600.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1954, JANUARY 11TH:
->French Clean Up After Indochina Fight. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York, 1954. 0
pgs., $5 A favorable two page article on the progress the French were making in
the First
601.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1954, JULY 12TH: ->Bugout In the Delta Amid
Deep Emotion. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1954. 0 pgs., $6 Four page article.
602.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1954, JULY 19TH: ->The Shadowy Vietminh Foe In the
Flesh. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1954. 0 pgs., $6 A two page article with a
photo of General Van Tien Dung heading up the Vietminh Truce
603.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1954, MARCH 29TH: ->Indochina Siege In a Saucer. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York,
1954. 0 pgs., $5 Two pages of pictures with 2 paragraph article on
situation which shows instant analysis was a
604.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1955,
APRIL 18TH: ->Feudal Fracas In Vietnam: Sects With Private Armies Rebel To Keep
Their Old Privileges. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1955. 0 pgs., $6 A two page
article with photos of Diem &
his brothers, Gen. Ba Cut, Pham Cong Tac, Gen.
Phuong & Gen. Le Van Vien.
605.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1955, MAY 16TH: ->The
Night Bao Dai's General Tried To Take Over In Vietnam. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New
York, 1955. 0 pgs., $6 f Three pages and Life editorial supporting Diem. One
photo shows
606.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1955, MAY 9TH: ->Civil War, The View of
Those Caught In It. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1955. 0 pgs., $6 Eight pages
showing Diem's battle with the sects.
25101.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1959,
DECEMBER 9th: ->Authors of Ugly American Find Some Not So Ugly. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1959. 9 pgs., $3 A 9 page article that depicts instances
where Americans are not all ugly
abroad which authors Lederer and Burdick
concede in article.
25102.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1961, NOVEMBER 10TH:
->Communism: How We Can Fight Back. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York, 1961. 13
pgs., $2.5 A 13 page article with Khrushchev on front cover. Article reflects
temper of times
that led to our going into Vietnam.
608.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1961, OCTOBER 27: ->Vietnam: Our Next Showdown. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York,
1961. 0 pgs., $5 A 17 page photographic report.
611.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1963, NOVEMBER 15: ->Vietnam: The Coup In Pictures. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York,
1963. 0 pgs., $5 Cover issue, a 10 page article.
612.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1963, OCTOBER 11TH: ->Vietnam Climax: McNamara's Mission: Madame Nhu On
the Road.
PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1963. 0 pgs., $5 Cover issue with
Madame Nhu and her daughter on the cover,
6133.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1964,
AUGUST 14TH: ->U.S. Strikes Back at North Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1964. 0 pgs., $3 A 1-page article that is drawn from the files of Navy
intelligence to justify response to attack
on the Maddox. Cover has photo of
President Johnson.
613.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1964, AUGUST 21: ->Vietnam: Build
Up On the Border. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1964. 0 pgs., $5 Cover isssue
featuring General Khanh, a 6 page article.
614.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1964,
DECEMBER 11: ->Exploding Power of the Buddhists. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York,
1964. 0 pgs., $5 An 8 page article.
615.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1964, JUNE 12:
->Ugly War In Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1964. 0 pgs., $5
Cover
issue, a ten page article.
617.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1964, NOVEMBER 27: ->Alert In
Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1964. 0 pgs.,
$5 Cover issue, a 19 page
article.
619.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1965, APRIL 30TH: ->The Vietcong Under
Pressure. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1965.
0 pgs., $2.5 A 2 page article
written by French journalist Georges Chaffard and it is excerpted from a
four-part series
in the French weekly L'Express. It is an assessment from
behind the lines with NFL.
7743.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1965, AUGUST 20:
->Doubling Up the Draft. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1965. 0
pgs., $5 A v/g
copy. Cover issue, a 9 page article.
620.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1965, AUGUST
6TH: ->The Fleet Lashes Out. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1965. 0
pgs., $5
Cover issue, a ten page article.
6131.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1965, DECEMBER
10TH: ->A U.S. Family Faces Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1965. 0
pgs., $5 A 16-page article.
622.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1965, FEBRUARY 19TH:
->Critical Turn In Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1965.
0 pgs., $5 A
v/g copy. A 6 page article on attack at Pleiku.
623.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1965,
FEBRUARY 26: ->Vietnam: Blows, Counter Blows, Tense Waits. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York, 1965. 0 pgs., $5 Cover issue depicting a North Vietnam stamp showing
the machine-gunning of a U.S.
624.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1965, JULY 23:
->Vietnam: Five Minutes To Darkness. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1965. 0
pgs., $5 An eight page article that contains an interview with Ky.
628.)
LIFE MAGAZINE 1965, OCTOBER 22: ->Mary Martin In Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1965. 0
pgs., $5 Cover issue showing Mary Martin entertaining GI's and
a 6 page article on operation Iron Triangle.
648.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1965,
OCTOBER 29TH: ->The Vietnam Protests. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1965. 0
pgs., $3 A 3 page article.
25109.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1965, OCTOBER 8TH: ->End
of a Brother's Search Among the Vietcong. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1965. 0
pgs., $5 A v/g copy. A 7 page article of Don Dawson's search for his brother who
went down in a U.S. Army L-19. In his search, he himself became a prisoner.
650.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, APRIL 22ND: ->Vietnam-Crippling Buddhist Revolt.
PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1966. 0 pgs., $5 Cover issue, a 10 page article.
25105.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, AUGUST 12TH: ->The Widening Credibility Gap. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York,
1966. 0 pgs., $4 A v/g copy. A 12 page article on doubts
on the war in Massillon, Ohio.
8388.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, AUGUST 5TH:
->Little Boy who Plays Vietcong. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1966. 0 pgs., $3
An army trainer uses his son in training men to serve in Vietnam. A 4 page
article.
25112.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, DECEMBER 9TH: ->Ducking the
Draft-Who and How. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1966. 0 pgs., $3 A v/g copy. A
4page article.
653.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, FEBRUARY 11TH: ->The War Goes
On. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1966. 0
pgs., $5 Cover issue, a ten page
article showing operation of First Cavalry Division.
8480.) LIFE MAGAZINE
1966, JANUARY 14TH: ->Peace Drive Aimed at These Two Men. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York, 1966. 0 pgs., $6 Cover issue with a photo of Giap and Ho Chi Minh on
the cover.
655.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, JUNE 3RD: ->Danang's Revolt Is Shot
Down. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1966.
0 pgs., $5 An eight page article.
Also, a review of the movie Lost Command, i.e the movie made from Larteguy's
25108.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, MARCH 25TH: ->A Saigon Lesson By Firing Squad.
PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1966. 1 pgs., $2.5 A v/g copy.
One page
article showing a Chinese being shot by Ky's government for black market
activities.
656.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, MARCH 4TH: ->Hail to 'Green
Berets.' PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1966. 0 pgs.,
$5 A 4 page article on
Barry Sadler.
658.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, NOVEMBER 11TH: ->Westmoreland of
Vietnam. A 9 page article on
Westmoreland. Also several pages showing
Johnson's trip to other countries in Asia after his trip to Vietnam.
659.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, NOVEMBER 4TH: ->The President's Trip. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1966. 0
pgs., $5 Cover issue with President JOhnson on
the front., a 13 page article.
25107.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1966, OCTOBER 14TH:
->Vietcong Mortar Shell Inisde a Living Soldier. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York,
1966. 0 pgs., $2.5 A v/g copy. A 2 page article.
660.) LIFE MAGAZINE
1966, OCTOBER 28TH: ->Invasion DMZ Runs Into the Marines. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1966. 0 pgs., $5 Cover story, a 10 page article.
661.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1966, SEPTEMBER 23RD ->Defying the Vietcong-By Ballot. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New
York, 1966. 0 pgs., $5 An 8 page article.
25106.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1966, SEPTEMBER 9TH: ->The Air War. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1966. 0
pgs.,
$5 A v/g copy. A 15 page article written by Tom Flaherty with excellent
color photos of damage inflicted taken by
662.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1967, APRIL
7TH: ->North Vietnam Under Siege. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1967. 0
pgs.,
$5 Cover issue, 6 page article, photos of North Vietnam by Lee Lockwood.
663.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1967, AUGUST 25TH: ->To Keep a Village Free. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1967. 0
pgs., $5 Cover issue, a six page article of a
Marine civic action team.
25115.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1967, DECEMBER 1ST: ->The
Most Happy Fella in the White House. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1967. 0
pgs., $4 A v/g copy. An 8 page article on Walt Rostow.
664.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1967, DECEMBER 8TH: ->The McNamara Story. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1967. 0
pgs., $5 A 6 page article by Life on McNamara as he takes the
position as President of the World Bank. Illustrates
how Life was used by
Johnson to cover up real divisions over Vietnam which McNamara also went along
with.
666.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1967, JANUARY 13TH: ->The Delta: Fertile Swamp
of Suspicion. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York, 1967. 0 pgs., $5 Cover story, a 10
page article.
667.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1967, JANUARY 27TH: ->A Monstrous War.
PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1967. 0 pgs.,
$5 A 10 page article by Robert
Sherrod.
668.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1967, JULY 21ST: ->Secret Struggle To Free
Gus Hertz >From the Vietcong. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1967. 0 pgs., $5
Cover issue, an eight page article.
669.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1967, JUNE 2ND:
->Vietnam: Tough, Coming Along. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1967.
0 pgs., $5
A 11 page article.
671.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1967, MARCH 10: ->Battle Jump: New
Tactics Step Up the War. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1967. 0 pgs., $5 Cover
issue, 8 page article by Don Moser, photographs by Co Rentmeester.
672.)
LIFE MAGAZINE 1967, MAY 26TH: ->Big Lew Walt. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1967.
0 pgs., $5 Cover
story on Marine General Lew Walt.
674.) LIFE MAGAZINE
1967, OCTOBER 20TH: ->U.S. Prisoners In North Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York,
1967. 0 pgs., $6 Cover issue with photo of a P.O.W. on front, a 16 page
article.
675.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1967, OCTOBER 27TH: ->Inside the Cone of
Fire At Con Thien. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1967. 0 pgs., $6 Cover issue,
18 pp., photographs by David Douglas Duncan.
676.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1967,
SEPTEMBER 15TH ->'Di Bau' Day In Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1967. 0
pgs., $5 An eight page article on the election in Vietnam.
678.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1968, APRIL 12: ->Johnson's Bold Decision. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1968. 0 pgs.,
$5 A 19 age article. Cover has has picture of Martin Luther
King.
679.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, APRIL 19: ->The Quest For Peace. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1968. 0 pgs., $4
A six page article with a focus on
Averill Harriman.
8174.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, AUGUST 23: ->The Law and
Order Issue. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1968. 0
pgs., $5 A 7 page article on
prepaaarations being made for the Democratic convention in Chicago.
680.)
LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, FEBRUARY 16: ->A Remarkable Day In Hue: The Enemy Lets Me
Take His Picture.
PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1968. 0 pgs., $5 Cover issue, 8
pp., photos taken by Catherine Leroy.
682.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, FEBRUARY
9: ->Suicide Raid On the Embassy. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1968. 0 pgs.,
$5 Cover issue, 8 pp., including photos of Khe Sanh.
683.) LIFE MAGAZINE
1968, JANUARY 12TH: ->Vietcong Terrorists. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1968. 0
pgs.,
$4 An 11 page article by Don Moser on an elite unit of terrorists known
as F-100.
684.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, JANUARY 26TH: ->Up Front With Your
Congressman. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1968. 0 pgs., $5 Photos of
congressmen visiting Vietnam.
685.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, JULY 5TH: ->The
Presidency PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1968. 0 pgs., $5 A 22
page special
issue focusing on President Johnson in the context of the Presidency.
23603.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, JUNE 7TH: ->The Primary Players. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York, 1968. 0 pgs.,
$4 An account of the Oregon primary where Eugene
McCarthy defeated Bobby Kennedy.
686.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, MARCH 22:
->Behind the Peace Feelers. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1968. 0
pgs., $5
Cover issue with photo of Ho Chi Minh, a 28 page article.
7741.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1968, MAY 3: ->In a Divided Saigon, a Fear of Peace. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York,
1968. 0 pgs., $5 A v/g copy. A three page article.
25117.)
LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, NOVEMBER 15TH: ->The Bomb Halt Decison. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York,
1968. 0 pgs., $4 Magazine has light water staining, o/w a v/g copy.
A 15 page photographic record of 23 historic
days in the White House that led
to the cessation of bombing of North Vietnam. Also, a 4 page article of an
outpost
along the DMZ.
690.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, NOVEMBER 8TH: ->As the
Bombing Stops: This Girl Tron. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York, 1968. 0 pgs., $5
Cover issue, a 10 page article.
691.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1968, OCTOBER 25:
->The Vote From Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1968. 0
pgs., $5 A 9
page article.
25111.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1969, APRIL 25TH: ->General Creighton
Abrams: One Day They Will Go It Alone.
PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1969. 0
pgs., $4 A v/g copy. A 5 page article on Abrams.
3757.) LIFE MAGAZINE
1969, MAY 23: ->Dilemma of Military Dissent. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1969. 0
pgs., $5 A 10 page article on dissent in the military over the Vietnam War.
693.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1969, NOVEMBER 14: ->Colonel Robert Rheault, Ex-Green
Beret. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York, 1969. 0 pgs., $5 Cover issue dealing with
case of 8 Special Forces men being accused of murdering a
695.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1969, OCTOBER 24: ->The Day of Dissent. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1969. 0 pgs.,
$5 . A 11 page article on Vietnam Moratorium Day.
696.)
LIFE MAGAZINE 1969, SEPTEMBER 19: ->Vietnam: A Degree of Disillusion. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New
York, 1969. 0 pgs., $5 A 10 page article with photos by Larry
Burrows.
25122.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1970, DECEMBER 18TH: ->Photo At Khe Sanh
by Douglas Duncan. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1970. 0 pgs., $2 Wraps, a v/g
copy. Famous photo taken by Duncan at Khe Sanh as dead
bodies are being
loaded on a helicopter. Photo is an epilogue to his book War Without Heroes.
Photo is spread
over 2 pages of Life.
697.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1970, DECEMBER
4: ->Memories of Divided Families. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1970. 0 pgs.,
$4 A v/g copy. A 6 page article on the families of POW's and a short account of
the Sontay raid.
25120.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1970, MAY 15TH: ->Tragedy At Kent
and (2) Cambodia and Dissent: The Crisis of
Presidential Leadership. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1970. 0 pgs., $4 Cover issue, a v/g copy. Two articles
538.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1970, MAY 22ND: ->Clark Cliford On Vietnam: Set a Date
and Get Out & 2. Our Forgotton
Wounded. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1970. 0
pgs., $5 A v/g copy. Cover issue, a total of 15 pages devoted
25110.)
LIFE MAGAZINE 1971, APRIL 16TH: ->A Veteran Comes Home-to Limbo. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York,
1971. 0 pgs., $4 A v/g copy. A 9 page article of Vietnam
veteran Mike ball returning home to Midland, Michigan.
25124.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1971, APRIL 23RD: ->The Case That Will Not Go Quietly Away. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE:
New York, 1971. 0 pgs., $4 Wraps a v/g copy. A 5 page aricle in the
on Lieutenant Calley after Preisdent Nixon's
700.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1971,
FEBRUARY 26: ->Larry Burrows' Vietnam: A Great Photographer's Portfolio. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1971. 0 pgs., $6 A v.g copy.o A 12 page portfolio of Larry
Burrow's photographs.
701.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1971, JANUARY 29TH: ->War Wounded
Children of Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York, 1971. 0 pgs., $4 A v/g copy.
An eleven page article.
702.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1971, JULY 9TH: ->Confessions
of 'The Winter Soldiers.' PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1971. 0 pgs., $5 A v/g
copy. A 6 page article.
25125.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1971, JUNE 25TH: ->Did This
General Kill Civilians? PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1971. 0 pgs., $3 Wraps a
v/g copy. A 2 page aricle on General John W. Donaldson accused of killing 6
Vietnamese
703.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1971, MARCH 12: ->Tough Going In Laos.
PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1971. 0 pgs.,
$5 A v/g copy. Cover issue, a
twelve page article.
704.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1971, MARCH 26: ->The Crossroads
At Tchepone. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1971. 0
pgs., $5 A 3 page article
with excellent aerial shot showing where Route 9 meets a branch of the Ho Chi
Minh trail.
A must for a classroom teaching aid.
5307.) LIFE MAGAZINE
1971, MAY 21: ->How the U.S. Muffed a Chance to End the Vietnam War. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1971. 0 pgs., $5 A v/g copy. An 8 page article by Harold
Wilson, former British Prime
4997.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1971, MAY 21ST: ->How
the U.S. Muffed a Chance to End the Vietnam War. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York,
1971. 0 pgs., $4 A v/g copy. A 10 page article by Harold Wilson.
706.)
LIFE MAGAZINE 1971, NOVEMBER 26: ->The U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York,
1971. 0 pgs., $4 A six page article.
707.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1971, SEPTEMBER 10: ->Election Time In Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York,
1971. 0 pgs., $5 A 4 page article.
708.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1971,
SEPTEMBER 17: ->Lessons of the Pentagon Papers. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York,
1971. 0 pgs., $3 A v/g copy. A 3 page article by Leslie H. Gelb.
25126.)
LIFE MAGAZINE 1972, DECEMBER 1ST: ->This Is My Battle Station. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York,
1972. 0 pgs., $3 Wraps, a v/g copy. A 7 page article on Kissinger
at the Paris Peace talks.
713.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1972, FEBRUARY 4TH: ->The
Air Carrier War. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1972. 0
pgs., $5 A 6 page
article.
4998.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1972, JULY 21ST: ->In the Victory Suite.
PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1972. 0 pgs.,
$4 A v/g copy. This issue carries a
special section on the McGovern victory.
7742.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1972, JULY
7: ->I Have Earned the Nomination. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1972. 0
pgs.,
$5 A v/g copy. Cover isue, a 10 page article.
716.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1972,
JUNE 23RD: ->A Bombing Error. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1972. 0 pgs., $2.5
A photo spread over two pages showing Kim-Phuc runing after being burned from a
napalm bomb.
717.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1972, MAY 19: ->The President and
Vietnam. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1972. 0
pgs., $5 A 5 page article.
718.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1972, NOVEMBER 10TH: ->Questions For a Peace. PB:LIFE
MAGAZINE: New York, 1972.
0 pgs., $6 Cover issue with a picture of a POW. A
15 page article dealing with the issues of POW's and MIA's.
4999.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1972, OCTOBER 27TH: ->A POW Comes Home At Last. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New
York,
1972. 0 pgs., $4 A v/g copy. A three page article.
719.) LIFE
MAGAZINE 1972, SEPTEMBER 29TH ->A POW Wife Turns Political. PB:LIFE MAGAZINE:
New York,
1972. 0 pgs., $4 Cover issue, a four page article of a POW
campaigning for McGovern.
6196.) LIFE MAGAZINE 1987, NOVEMBER: ->Are Any
Still Alive? PB:LIFE MAGAZINE: New York, 1987. 0 pgs.,
721.) LIFTON,
BETTY JEAN and THOMAS C. FOX: Illustrated with photos by THOMAS C.
FOX:->Children of
Vietnam. HC:Atheneum: New York, 1972. 1st Edition 117 pgs.,
$10 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Reinforced binding.
Written for young readers,
candid portrayal of children caught up in the war ranging from street children,
Amerasian
boy, Montagnard girl etc.. This will bring back memories to anyone
that served in Vietnam.
722.) LIFTON, ROBERT JAY: ->Home From the War.
HC:Simon & Schuster: New York, 1973. 1st Edition 478 pgs.,
$1.99 A v/g copy
in a v/g d/j.
7974.) LIND, MICHAEL: ->Vietnam:The Necesary War: A
Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military
Conflict. HC:Free
Press: New York, 1999. 1st Edition 314 pgs., $7.5 Remainder mark top edge, o/w a
v/g plus copy
in a v/g plus d/j.. The author argues that the Cold War was the
century's Third World War of which Vietnam was only
a major campaign. He
further argues that the failure of the United States in Vietnam was due to the
military whose
approach to the war sapped the support of the American people
as it failed to approach the conflict as a guerrilla
war up to 1968.
3090.) LINDERER, GARY A.: ->Eyes Behind the Lines: L Company Rangers in Vietnam,
1969. HC:Ivy Books: New
York, 1991. BC Edition 263 pgs., $10 PB:Ivy Books:
New York, 1992. 5th Edition 307 pgs., $4.99 A fine copy in a
fine d/j. Wraps
a mass market ed., a mint copy. Author served with the LRP Company attached to
the 101st Airborne
Division in Vietnam from June, 1968 to June, 1969. This
book is a sequel to 'Eye of the Eagle' which describes the
first half of his
tour in Vientnam. A wraps original.
25136.) LINDERER, GARY A.: ->Phantom
Warriors, Book 2. PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 2001. 1st Edition 360
pgs.,
$6.5 Wraps a mass market ed., a mint copy. Accounts of LRRPS, LRPS, and Rangers
operating in Vietnam.
3091.) LINDERER, GARY A.: ->The Eyes of the Eagle: F
Company LRPs in Vietnam, 1968. PB:Ivy Books: New
York, 1992. 6th Edition 230
pgs., $4.95 Wraps mass market, mint as purchased new. Personal memoir by the
author
who served with F Company 58th Infantry of the 101st Airborne. A wraps
original.
724.) LINEDECKER, CLIFFORD: ->Kerry: Agent Orange and an
American Family. HC:St. Martins Press: New York,
1982. 1st Edition 240 pgs.,
$2.95 A v/g copy in a good plus d/j. Piece of d/j mising on back cover. A
personal
account of a Vietnam veteran family dealing with a child born with
birth defects due to the use of Agent Orange in
Vietnam. A must reading for
those who have procrastinated on doing something to make amends to veterans
serving
in Vietnam who have themselves or members of their families suffered
from the use of Agent Orange.
9753.) LINNETT, RICHARD and ROBERTO
LOIEDERMAN:->The Eagle Mutiny. HC:Naval Institute Press: Annapolis,
MD, 2001.
2nd Edition 295 pgs., $7.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. An account of a mutiny
abroad a ship
transporting napalm to Vietnam by two seamen who after forcing
the crew into lifeboats, they proceeded to
Cambodia to seek asylum. Prince
Sihanouk was overthrown two days later and the two seamen were imprisoned by
the Lon Nol government.
3941.) LISKA, GEORGE: ->War and Order: Reflections on
Vietnam and History. PB:John Hopkins Press: Baltimore,
MD, 1968. 114 pgs.,
$1.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Author was a proponent of the war and he
argues in this
book that given the power and wealth of the US, it is forced
to have world-wide interests and responsibilities. An
opposite conclusion was
reached in the title 'Nation or Empire' by Robert W. Tucker that was issued in
this Studies In
International Affairs series.
21554.) LITERATURE and ART
PUBLISHING HOUSE: ->Ho Chi Minh City. PB:Literature and Art Publishing
House:
Hanoi, 1983. 81 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., book separated from cover but
tight. Cover has a jacket with
large color photo on front. A collection of
photos of Ho Chi Minh City with captions of pictures in Engllish, French,
German and Vietnamese listed in back of book.*/
3232.) LLITERAS, D.S.: ->In a
Warrior's Romance. PB:Hampton Roads Publishing Co.: Norfolk, Va., 1991. 199
pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade size ed., a fine copy. Book consists of photos with
captions, focusing on the quiet moments
that lie in between the violence of
war. Author served as a Navy Hospital Corpsman attached to the First
Reconnaissance Battalion, First Marine Division during 1969-1970.
31950.)
LOGEVAILL, FREDNIK: ->The Origins of the Vietnam War. PB:Pearson Education
Limited: Essex, UK,
2001. 1ST Edition 156 pgs., $5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g
copy., Book is a part of the Seminar Studies in History series
and provides a
clear focus on the origins of the Vietnam War.
7506.) LOGEVALL, FREDRIK:
->Chosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam.
HC:University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, 1999. 1st Edition 529 pgs.,
$12.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Author
argues that the Vietnam War broke out
as a result of staunch opposition to early negotiations from American
policymakers, namely Kennedy, Johnson, Rusk, McNamara, and McGeorge Bundy.
24785.) LONG TERM VIEW, VOUME 5, NO. 1: 1; ->Legacies of Vietnam.
PB:Massachusetts School of Law:
Andover, MA, 2000. 148 pgs., $10 Wraps trade
size journal, a v/g plus copy. This is publicatoin of the
Massachusetts
School of Law. Contains 16 ariticles by scholars in the field on topies
concerning the press, Diplomatic
relations, end of the war, culture, protest
and politics. The entire issue is devoted to discussion of the Vietnam War.
867.) LONG, NGO VINH: ->Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under
the French. PB:Columbia
University Press: New York, 1991. REP. Edition 292
pgs., $23 Wraps a trade ed., a mint copy. Another copy, $12.50,
a v/g plus
copy. Classic study on the devastating effects of French colonial rule have on
the Vietnamese peasant.
Book first published by M.I.T.. The Columbia reprint
edition contains a new preface by the author.
24747.) LOOFS-WISSOWA, H.
H. E.: ->Vietnamese-English Archaeological Glossary. PB:Australian National
University: Canberra, 1990. 103 pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
Publication has an English index. Work
was assisted by Pham Van Minh and
Nguyen M. Long.
2547.) LOOK MAGAZINE 1953, JUNE 2: ->Adlai Stevenson
Reports On Indochina and the Philippines. PB:: , . 0
pgs., $2.5 A 5 page
article.
630.) LOOK MAGAZINE 1966, AUGUST 9TH: ->Vietnam: What Should We
Do Now? & 2. A Secret Encounter With
Ho Chi Minh. PB:: , . 8 pgs., $3 Both
articles total 8 pages, latter article is by Rene J. Defourmeaux.
634.)
LOOK MAGAZINE 1967, NOVEMBER 28TH: ->What We Can Do To End the Agony of Vietnam.
PB:: , . 16
pgs., $3 Article by Robert Kennedy, 16 pp. including photos.
635.) LOOK MAGAZINE 1969, JULY 29TH: ->How the U.S. Spurned Three Chances
For Peace In Vietnam. PB:: , .
0 pgs., $2.5 A 4 page article by Norman
Cousins.
637.) LOOK MAGAZINE 1970, DECEMBER 29TH: ->Report From Hanoi:
The Hard Line Gets Harder. PB:: , . 0
pgs., $3 . A 4 page article written by
J. Robert Moskin..
638.) LOOK MAGAZINE 1970, NOVEMBER 17TH:
->Vietnamization Is Immoral. PB:: , . 2 pgs., $2.5 A 2 page
article by W.
Averill Harriman. A 2 page article by W. Averill Harriman.
5803.) LOOK
MAGAZINE 1971, SEPTEMBER 21: ->A GI's Vietnam Photo Book and Vietnam: Was It
Worth It?
PB:: , . 8 pgs., $3 The GI Photo Book is a 6 page article with
photos done by Michael Jury and the other article '
Vietnam: Was It Worth
It?' is a 2 page article writtne by Walt Rostow.
8686.) LOOK MAGAZINE,
1965, OCTOBER 19: ->A Bold Proposal for Vietnam. PB:: , . 0 pgs., $2.5 A two
page
article by Geroid Tanquary Robinson, first Director of the Russian
Institute at Columbia Universtiy. His article calls
for major land reform to
win the villagers loyalty to the Saigon government.
6185.) LOOK MAGAZINE,
1969 JANUARY 21ST: ->What's Behind Ho? PB:: , . 0 pgs., $2.5 Cover issue, a
12-page
3456.) LOPES, SAL: ->The Wall: Images and Offerings from the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial. HC:Collins Publishers:
New York, 1987. 1st Edition
128 pgs., $3.95 A fine copy in a v/g d/j. A collection of photos that
commemorates
the fifth anniversary of the Vietnam Memorial with photos by
Lopes and sixteen other award-winning
photojournalists. Photos are in color
and Michael Norman, a Marine combat veteran and former New York Times
correspondent writes the introduction to this book.
3143.) LORA, Ed. RONALD:
->America in the 60's: Cultural Authorities in Transition. PB:John Wiley & Sons:
New
York, 1974. 1st Edition 447 pgs., $5 Trade size ed., speckling outer
edge, o/w a v/g copy. An anthology that
discusses race, poverty, economics,
the Vietnam War and the radical cultural changes of the 60's.
640.)
LOWRY, TIMOTHY S.: ->And Brave Men, Too: The Unforgetable Stories of Those
Awarded Congressional
Medal of Honor In VN. HC:Crown Publishers: New York,
1985. 1st Edition 246 pgs., $3.95 PB:Berkeley Books: New
York, 1986. 1st
Edition 241 pgs., $1.99 Name on inside cover, o/w a v/g plus in a v/g plus d/j.
Wraps a mass market
ed., a v/g copy. The author was a Marine who served two
tours in Vietnam. After the war, he became a journalist
and this book is
about interviews he held with Congressional Medal of Honor recipients from the
Vietnam War.
729.) LOWRY, TIMOTHY S.: ->Valor. PB:Berkley Books: New
York, 1989. 1st Edition 243 pgs., $5 Wraps mass
market ed, a v/g plus copy.
Wraps original. Contains heroic accounts of Vietnam's Medal of Honor winners.
730.) LUCAS, JIM G.: ->Dateline: Viet Nam. HC:Crown Books: New York, 1966.
1st Edition 334 pgs., $10 PB:Award
Books: New York, 1967. 1st Edition 350
pgs., $5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g copy. Author
was a writer for the Scripps-Howard newspapers since the close of World War II.
He won the Ernie Pyle Memorial
Awards for his reporting in Korea in 1953
Vietnam in 1964.
731.) LUCE, DON and JOHN SUMMER:->Vietnam: The Unheard
Voices. HC:Cornell University Press: Ithaca, N.Y.,
1970. 3rd Edition 336
pgs., $12.5 PB:Cornell University Press: Ithaca, N.Y., 1972. 2nd Edition 336
pgs., $7.5 A fine
copy in a fine d/j. Wraps a trade size ed., a v/g copy.
732.) LUNN, HUGH: ->Vietnam: A Reporter's War. HC:Stein & Day: Briarcliff
Manor, N.Y., 1986. 1st Edition 259 pgs.,
$12 A fine copy in a fine d/j.
Author was an Australian reporter in Vietnam.
31929.) LUONG, Ed. HY V.:
->Postwar Vietnam: Dynamics of a Transforming Society. Wraps trade ed., a very
fine
copy. Book focuses on contemporary Vietnamese society as to economic
reforms, socio-economic inequality,
5660.) LUONG, HY V.: ->Revolution In
The Village: Traditon and Transformation in North Vietnam, 1925-1988.
HC:Univeristy of Hawaii Press: Honolulu, HI, 1992. 1st Edition 272 pgs., $25
PB:University of Hawaii Press:
Honolulu, HI, 1992. 2nd Edition 272 pgs.,
$17.5 A mint copy. Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An in depth study of the
North Vietnamese village Son-Duong located near the Red River. Author draws on
life histories of the villagers,
colonial documents from archival research in
France, and local Party histories.
736.) LYND, Collector ALICE: ->We Won't
Go: Personal Accounts of War Objectors. HC:Beacon Press: Boston, 1968.
2nd
Edition 332 pgs., $7.5 PB:Beacon Press: Boston, 1968. 2nd Edition 308 pgs.,
$3.99 Ex-library, a v g/ copy.
Wraps a trade ed., a v/g copy. Author was a
draft counselor and staff member of Central Committee for
Conscientious
Objectors.
735.) LYND, STAUGHTON: and THOMAS HAYDEN:->The Other Side. HC:New
American Library: New York, 1966.
1st Edition 238 pgs., $3.95 PB:Signet
Books: New York, 1967. 1st Edition 204 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Wraps mass market ed., a v/g copy. Authors were among a group that traveled to
Hanoi in December of 1965.
737.) MABIE, MARGOT C. J.: ->Vietnam There and
Here. HC:Holt Rhinehart & Winston: New York, 1985. 2nd
Edition 166 pgs.,
$2.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Written for young readers at a Junior High level.
3103.) MacDONALD, CALLUM A.: ->Korea: The War Before Vietnam. HC:Macmillian,
Inc.: New York, 1987. 1st
Edition 330 pgs., $3.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
plus d/j. Author presents a clear account on the politics, strategy
and
debate surrounding the Korean War which is critical background toward
understanding the Vietnam War.
2784.) MACDONALD, PETER: ->Giap: The
Victor In Vietnam. HC:W.W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1993. bc Edition
368 pgs.,
$10 A v/g copy in a v/g dj. First full biography of General Giap to date. Author
interviewed him and
officers who served under him as well as Generals
Westmoreland and Bigeard.
7120.) MACGARRIGLE, GEORGE: ->Taking the
Offensive, October 1966 to October 1967. PB: Center of Military
History:
Washington, DC, 1998. 1st Edition 485 pgs., $48 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
This volume focuses on the
evolution of the Army's operational strategy and
its execution during the Vietnam War.
8663.) MACKENZIE, KEN: ->Vietnam:
Why It Matters. PB:Economist Newspaper Ltd.: London, 1968. 24 pgs., $6
Wraps
trade size ed., a v/g copy. Booklet seeks to explain in factual terms the
background to the Vietnam War.
738.) MACLEAR, MICHAEL: ->The Ten Thousand
Day War: Vietnam: 1945-1975. HC:St. Martins Press: New York,
1981. BC Edition
434 pgs., $6 PB:Avon Books: New York, 1981. 1st Edition 368 pgs., $2.95 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j.
739.) MACPHERSON, MYRA: ->A Long Time Passing: Vietnam
and the Haunted Generation. HC:Doubleday & Co.:
New York, 1984. 1st Edition
663 pgs., $3.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. The best overall book to date
on the
emotinal trauma of the war as felt by all sides in this country.
740.) MAGNUM PUBLICATION: ->America In Crisis. PB:Holt Rinehart & Winston:
New York, 1969. 192 pgs., $10
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Magnum is
international cooperative of photojournalists. Book depicts events primarily
during the year 1968. Text by Mitchel Levitas, edited by Charles Harbutt and Lee
Jones.
742.) MAHLER, MICHAEL D.: ->Ringed In Steel: Armored Cavalry,
Vietnam 1967-68. HC:Presidio Press: Novato,
Ca., 1986. 214 pgs., $3.99
PB:Presidio Press: Novato, CA, 1988. 214 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
d/j. D/J
has chipping top edge. Wraps, a trade size ed., a v/g plus copy.
744.) MAI, Ed. HOA: ->The 'Nhan Van' Affair. PB:Dalley Book Service:
Christiansburg, Va., . REP. Edition 174
pgs., $7.5 Wraps, a photocopied
reprint in a softcard cover. This book was initially printed by the Vietnam
Chapter of
Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League. There is no date and it is
an edited edition of 5 issues of Nhan Van
newspaper that was printed in Hanoi
between 9/20/56 to 11/20/56. There is a 12 page introduction.
745.)
MAILER, NORMAN: ->The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel. The Novel as
History. HC:New American
Library: New York, 1968. BC Edition 288 pgs., $12 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book is a chroncile of author's
impressions during the
4 day anti-war demonstrations in Washington in October of 1967.
748.)
MALLIN, JAY: ->Terror In Vietnam. HC:D. Van Nostrand Co.: Princeton, N.J., 1966.
114 pgs., $6 Ex-library,
a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author a journalist who
covered the Castro revolution and with this experience he evaluates
750.)
MANGOLD, TOM and JOHN PENYCATE:->The Tunnels of Cu Chi. HC:Random House: New
York, 1985. 294
pgs., $3.95 Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. Authors tell the story of the fighting in the
tunnels just north of
Saigon, interviewing participants on both sides.
9007.) MANN, ROBERT: ->A
Grand Delusion: America's Descent Into Vietnam. HC:Basic Books: New York, 2001.
1st
Edition 817 pgs., $4.99 Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a very fine copy
in a very fine d/j. This study focuses on
the role Congress played in Vietnam
War.
752.) MANNING, ROBERT and MICHAEL JANEWAY, Eds.:->Who We Are: An
Alantic Chronicle of the United States
and Vietnam. HC:Atlantic-Little Brown:
New York, 1969. 1st Edition 391 pgs., $6 PB:Atlantic-Little Brown: Boston,
1969. 1st Edition 391 pgs., $2.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps, a trade ed., a
v/g copy.
20381.) MANSFIELD, MIKE: ->Two Reports On Vietnam and
Southeast Asia to the President of the United States.
PB:Government Printing
Office: Washington, DC, 1973. 36 pgs., $5 Wraps, a v/g copy. This is a reprint
of two reports
submitted by Senator Mansfield, one to President Kennedy on
December 18th, 1962 and the other to President
Johnson on December 17th,
1965.
22443.) MARANISS, DAVID: ->They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace ,
Vietnam and America, October 1967.
HC:Simon & Schuster: New York, 2003. 1st
Edition 572 pgs., $12 A fine copy in a fine d/j. An account of an
ambush of
the Black Lions battalion in which killed 61 members during October of 1967.
This is is interwoven with
a clash of antiwar protestors and police at the
Univeristy of Wisconsin.
7890.) MARGOLIS, JON: ->The Last Innocent Year:
America in 1964, the Beginning of the Sixties. HC:William
Morrow & Co.: New
York, 1999. 401 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a mint d/j. An account of the political
and military
8885.) MARINE CORPS AVIATION ASSOCIATION: ->Chronolog,
1955-1996: Eagles in Green. HC:Turner
Publishing Company: Paducah, KY, 1996.
1st Edition 136 pgs., $25 Tips of cover bent, o/w a v/g plus copy. The
3344.) MAROLDA, Ed. EDWARD J.: ->Operation End Sweep: A History of Minesweeping
Operations in North
Vietnam. PB:University Press of the Pacific: Honolulu,
HI, 2005. REP. Edition 129 pgs., $29.5 Wraps trade ed., a
mint copy. This
study was originally written in 1977 by staff members of Tensor Industries.
Study was revised for
publication by Edward J. Marolda .
3208.) MAROLDA,
EDWARD J.: ->The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War: Carrier Operations.
HC:Bantam Books:
New York, 1987. BC Edition 158 pgs., $12 PB:Bantam Books:
New York, 1987. 1st Edition 158 pgs., $7.5 A fine
copy in a fine d/j Wraps a
trade size ed., a v/g plus copy. At the time of the book's writing, the author
was head of
the Contemporary History Branch of the U.S. Naval Historical
Center. As with other books in this series, it is well
illustrated and the
text is highly informative.
22935.) MARQUETTE, SCOTT: ->Vietnam War.
PB:Rourke Publishing LLC: Vera Beach, FL, 2003. 48 pgs., $7.5
Wraps trade
ed., a very fine copy. Book written for 5th and 6th graders and it is part of
the America At War series.
4478.) MARR, DAVID G.: ->Vietnam 1945: The
Quest for Power. HC:University of California Press: Berkeley, CA,
1995. 2nd
Edition 602 pgs., $25 PB:University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, 1997. 1st
Edition 602 pgs., $12.5 A
fine copy in a fine d/j. Wraps a trade size ed., a
fine copy. A detailed study of the events of 1945 in Vietnam. It will
stand
as the definitive work of this period.
754.) MARR, DAVID G.: ->Vietnamese
Traditions On Trial: 1920-1945. PB:Univeristy of California Press: Berkeley,
CA, 1984. 2nd Edition 468 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy. This is an
excellent intellectual history of
Vietnam, focusing on the period just prior
to full-scale revolutionary unheaval.
21372.) MARRETT, GEORGE J.:
->Cheating Death: Air Rescue in Vietnam and Laos. HC:Smithsonian Books:
Washington, DC, 2003. 1st Edition 225 pgs., $7.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. An
account of pilots involved in the
rescue of downed pilots, utilizing Douglas
A-1 Skyraiders, a single-engine, propeller-driven plane. Author flew 188
combat missions in Vietnam in this type of plane.
5243.) MARSHALL, JOHN
DOUGLAS: ->Reconciliation Road: A Family Odyssey of War and Honor. HC:Syracuse
University Press: Syracuse, NY, 1993. 1st Edition 295 pgs., $2.95 Review copy
with review laid in, a fine copy in a
fine d/j. Memoir written by the
grandson of noted military historian S.L.A. Marshall who was honorably
discharged
from the Army as a conscientious objector.
758.) MARSHALL,
KATHRYN: ->In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam.
HC:Little
Brown & Co.: Boston, 1987. 1st Edition 270 pgs., $5.95 PB:Penguin
Books: New York, 1988. 1st Edition 270 pgs.,
$1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
plus d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. An oral history of 20 women worked or
served in
Vietnam during the war.
2922.) MARSHALL, S.L.A.: ->The Fields of
Bamboo: Dong Tre, Trung Luong, and Hoa Hoi: Three Battles Just
Beyond the
South China Sea. HC:Dial Press: New York, 1971. 1st Edition 242 pgs., $12.5
PB:Da Capo Press: New
York, 1983. 3rd Edition 242 pgs., $6 A v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Account of these battles
involving the
First Cavalry Division which took place between June and October of 1966. The
wraps trade ed., is
titled Vietnam: Three Battles.
763.) MARSHALL,
S.L.A.: ->West To Cambodia and Fields of Bamboo.. HC:Nelson Doubleday, Inc.: New
York,
1971. BC Edition 373 pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. West of
Cambodia details American attempts to halt the
flow of materials and men from
Cambodia into South Vietnam. Fields of Bamboo is an account of three Army
operations near Highway One and at Dong Tre between June and October 1966.
6609.) MARSHALL, TOM: ->The Price of Exit. PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1998. 1st
Edition 360 pgs., $6.99 Wraps
mass market ed., a mint copy. Memoir of chopper
pilot who was with the Phoenix, C Company, 158th Aviation
Battalion, 101st
Airborne that was assigned the task of covering the NVA-infested DMZ in
1970-1971 as the U.S. was
pulling out of Vietnam. Thirty percent of the
author's 130 helicopter-school mates were killed.
764.) MARTIN, EARL S.:
->Reaching the Other Side: Journal of an American Who Stayed to Witness Vietnams
Postwar Transition. HC:Crown Publishers: New York, 1978. 282 pgs., $2.99 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Author worked
with a Mennonite mission and stayed in
Vietnam through July of 1975.
6148.) MARTIN, PAUL: ->Land of the
Ascending Dragon: Rediscovering Vietnam. HC:Gates & Bridges: Norwalk, CT,
1997. 1st Edition 192 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Book is written by a
former Vietnam veteran with
photographs by Steve Raymer, also a Vietnam vet.
They portray Vietnam as a dynamic country full of infectious
optimism.
5272.) MARTINEZ, REYNEL: ->Six Silent Men: 101st LRP/Rangers, Book 1. PB:Ivy
Books: New York, 1997. 6th
Edition 362 pgs., $6 Wraps mass market ed., a fine
copy. An account of LRRP Detachment of the lst Brigade, 101st
Airborne
Division written by a member of this group.
2919.) MARVICSIN, DENNIS J.
and JEROLD GREENFIELD:->Maverick: The Personal War of a Vietnam Cobra Pilot.
HC:G.P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1990. BC Edition 269 pgs., $2.95 A v/g copy in
a v/g d/j. Personal memoir of a
Cobra pilot in Vietnam who was captured but
later rescued.
20457.) MASPERO, GEORGES: ->The Champa Kingdom: The
History of an Extinct Vietnamese Culture.
PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2002.
Rep. Edition 226 pgs., $37.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This is a reprint of
the 2nd revised edition printed in 1928. Contains 68 plates and an archeological
map of Central Vietnam.
4500.) MATHER, PAUL D.: ->M.I.A.: Accounting for
the Missing in Southeast Asia. PB:National Defense University:
Washington,
D.C., 1994. 1st Edition 205 pgs., $2.95 Wraps trade ed. a v/g copy. Author was a
member of the MIA
search team from the early 1970s through the late 1980s. In
this book, he covers a wide range of topics, from field
work at crash sites
and personal exchanges with Vietnamese, Cambodia, Lao and Thai officials. A must
for anyone
doing research on the MIA issue.
5222.) MATLOFF, Ed. MAURICE
->American Military History, Vol. 2: 1902-1996. HC: Combined Books:
Conshohocken, PA, 1996. REV Edition 419 pgs., $12.5 PB:Combined Books:
Conshohocken, PA, 1996. REV.
Edition 419 pgs., $7.5 A mint copy in a mint
d/j. This edition contains revisions from the 1989 work. Therer is an
excellent chapter on the Vietnam War written by Vincent H. Demma.
23917.)
MATTHEWS, BRUCE M.: ->Short Round and Other Stories From Vietnam. HC:Xlibris: ,
n.d.. 151 pgs., $20
A mint copy in a mint d/j A personal memoir of an
American lieutenant who served with the Fifth Special Forces
Group in 1966.
Author describes day to day activities with strange experiences.
769.)
MATTHEWS, Eds. LLOYD J. and DALE E. BROWN:->Assessing the Vietnam War.
HC:Pergamon-Brassey:
McLean, VA, 1987. 1st Edition 254 pgs., $10
PB:Pergamon-Brassey: McLean, VA, 1987. 1st Edition 254 pgs., $2.99
A fine
copy in a fine d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A collection of articles form
the Journal of the U.S. Army War
College and published under the auspices of
the U.S Army War College Foundation. There is an introduction by
General
Bruce Palmer, Jr..
770.) MAURER, HARRY: ->Strange Ground: Americans In
Vietnam, 1945-1975: An Oral History. PB:Avon books:
New York, 1990. 1st
Edition 634 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. This book consists of a
wide selection of
oral histories ranging from enlisted men to well known
participants in the war, civilian and military.
771.) McALEAVY, HENRY:
->Black Flags In Vietnam: The Story of a Chinese Intervention. HC:Macmillian
Publishing Co.: New York, 1968. 1st Edition 296 pgs., $15 A v/g copy in a v/g
d/j. Another copy, $12.00, a v/g
copy. Book first published in England by
Allen & Unwin Ltd. in 1968. Book is an account of the Tonkin War of 1884-
1885.
772.) McALISTER, JR. JOHN T. and PAUL MUS:->The Vietnamese and Their
Revolution. PB:Harper & Row: New
York, 1970. 173 pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed., a
v/g copy.
773.) McALISTER, JR. JOHN T.: ->Viet Nam: The Origins of
Revolution. HC:Alfred A.Knopf: New York, 1969. 1st
Edition 389 pgs., $7.5
PB:Anchor Books: New York, 1971. 365 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps
a mass
7757.) McCAIN, JOHN with MARK SALTER: ->Faith of My Fathers.
HC:Random House: New York, 1999. 8th Edition
349 pgs., $10 A very fine copy
in a very fine d/j. Twelve chapters deals with Senator McCain's Vietnam
experience
2560.) McCARTHY, EUGENE J.: ->The Limits of Power: America's
Role In the World. HC:Holt Rinehart & Winston.: ,
1967. 1st Edition 246 pgs.,
$10 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
2561.) McCARTHY, EUGENE J.: ->The Year of
the People. HC:Doubleday & Co.: New York, 1969. 1st Edition 335
pgs., $1.99 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
775.) McCARTHY, MARY: ->Hanoi. PB:Harcourt, Brace
& World: New York, 1969. 134 pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed.,
a v/g copy. The
author visited Hanoi in March of 1968 and she was a well known novelist and
writer for the New
776.) McCARTHY, MARY: ->The Seventeenth Degree: How It
Went: Vietnam, Hanoi, Medina and Sons of the
Morning. HC:Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich: New York, 1974. 1st Edition 451 pgs., $3.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Vietnam, Hanoi and Median originally conceived as phamplets. How It Went is
autobiographical and Sons of the
Morning is a critque of Halberstam's 'Best
and the Brightest.'
777.) McCARTHY, MARY: ->Vietnam. PB:Harcourt, Brace &
World, Inc.: New York, 1967. 1st Edition 106 pgs.,
$1.99 Wraps trade ed., a
v/g copy. A criticism of the war written after her visit to Vietnam. Contains
the complete text
of her widely discussed articles that appeared in the New
York Review of Books together with an additional new
section titled
'Solutions.'
778.) McCLARY, CLEBE with DIANE BARKER:->Living Proof. PB:Cross
Roads Publishers: Atlanta, Ga., 1978. 150
pgs., $1.99 Wraps trade ed.,
inscribed by McClary, a fine copy. Account of a Marine gravely wounded in
Vietnam
3985.) McCLOUD, BILL: ->What Should We Tell Our Children About
Vietnam? HC:University of Oklahoma Press:
Norman, OK, 1989. 1st Edition 155
pgs., $12 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Book is a collection of 128 letters from
persons answering the book's question that is set forth in the title. Persons
responding range from Tom Hayden to
General Westmoreland.
3751.)
McCONNELL, MALCOLM with research by THEODORE G. SCHWEITZER III:->Inside Hanoi's
Secret Archives:
Solving the MIA Mystery. HC:Simon & Schuster: New York,
1995. 1st Edition 462 pgs., $2.99 A fine copy in a fine
d/j. Book reveals the
Vietnamese government's back channel to break the MIA stalemate. It provides a
good history
of the POW/MIA issue and points out how it has been exploited by
profiteers.
781.) McDANIEL, EUGENE B. with JAMES L. JOHNSON:->Scars and
Stripes PB:Harvest House Publishers:
Eugene, Or., 1975. 200 pgs., $1.99 Wraps
mass market ed., a v/g copy. . Author was a Naval Commander who was
a P.O.W.
for more than six years. Title was first published in hardcover as Before
Honor..
9276.) McDONALD, CHEROKEE PAUL: ->Into the Green: A
Reconnaissance by Fire. HC:Plume Book: New York,
2001. BC Edition 220 pgs.,
$7.5 Spine slightly cocked, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Personal memoir of an
officer
who served as an Artilery Forward Observer in Vietnam. Author has
written three novels and is a recognized writer.
782.) McDONOUGH, JAMES:
->Platoon Leader. HC:Presidio Press: Novato, Ca., 1985. BC Edition 184 pgs.,
$2.99
PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1986. 197 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a
v/g plus d/j. Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g
copy. Author was a lieutenant
with the 173d Airborne Brigade in Vietnam during 1970.
784.) McGINNISS,
JOE: ->Fatal Vision. HC:G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1983. BC Edition 661
pgs., $6 A v/g
plus copy in a v/g plus d/j Account of a Princeton-educated
physician, Green Beret officer who was convicted of the
triple murder of his
wife and two small daughters. He claimed that the murders were perpetrated by a
band of drup-
crazed hipppies.
4501.) McGRADY, MIKE: ->A Dove In Vietnam.
HC:Funk & Wagnalls: New York, 1968. 245 pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy
in a v/g d/j..
Book is based on a series of articles that were published in Newsday in 1967.
30152.) McHALE, SHAWN FREDERICK: ->Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism,
and Buddhism in the
Making of Modern Vietnam. PB:University of Hawaii Press:
Honolulu, HI, 2008. 1ST Edition 256 pgs., $24.95
Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. An excellent study on how Vietnamese and other persons under colonial rule
approached colonialism and modernity.
787.) McJUNKIN, JAMES N. and MAX D.
CRACE:->Visions of Vietnam. HC:Presidio Press: Novato, Ca., 1983. 1st
Edition
247 pgs., $17.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Photographs and drawings with brief
captions depicting Americans
21308.) McKELVEY, ROBERT S.: ->A Gift of
Barbed Wire: America's Allies Abandoned in South Vietnam.
HC:University of
Washington Press: Seattle, WA, 2002. 266 pgs., $12.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
Book takes a
look at the South Vietnamese officilas and their families who
were left behind after the fall of Saigon. Author's book
is based on
interviews with persons imprisoned in re-educaiton camps. He is a former Marine
who served in
Vietnam, then went on to get work in the field of psychiatry.
8253.) McKELVEY, ROBERT S.: ->The Dust of Life: America's Children Abandoned in
Vietnam. PB:University of
Washington Press: Seattle, WA, 1999. 135 pgs., $7.5
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book is a collection of oral
histories of
Vietnamese Amerasians living in Vietnam..
3329.) McLANE, CHARLES B.:
->Soviet Strategies In Southeast Asia: An Exploration of Eastern Policy Under
Lenin
and Stalin. HC:Princeton University Press: Princeton, N.J., 1966. 563
pgs., $10 Some penciled markings on page
margins, o/w a v/g copy. in a v/g
d/j. An excellent history and the author saw that the Soviet Union was in the
process of disengaging from Southeast Asia at the time of the book's writing.
643.) MCLEOD, JESSE T.: ->Crew Chief. HC:Daring Books: Canton, OH, 1988. 1st
Edition 367 pgs., $2.99 A fine
copy in a fine d/j. Author served in Vietnam
as a member of the 191st and 187th Assault Helicopter companies.
8235.) McMAHON, ROBERT J.: ->The Limits of Empire: The United States and
Southeast Asia Since World War II.
PB:Columbia University Press: New York,
1999. 1st Edition 276 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v?/g plus copy. The
author agues that the U.S. strategies of containment and 'empire-building'
spiraled out of control in Southeast Asia.
5566.) McMASTER, H. R.
->Derelication of Duties: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of
Staff,
And the Lies That Led to Vietnam. HC:Harper Collins Press: New York,
1997. 1st Edition 446 pgs., $10 A v/g plus
644.) McMULLEN, JAMES P.:
->Cry of the Panther: Quest of a Species. HC:Pineapple Press, Inc.: Englewood,
Fl.,
1984. 1st Edition 391 pgs., $12.5 PB:McGraw-Hill Book Co.: New York,
1985. 1st Edition 400 pgs., $5 Light stianed
spots top edge, o/w a v/g copy
in a v/g d/j. Wraps mass market ed., a v/g copy. Account of a Vietnam vet living
in the
Flordia everglades who tracks panthers, becoming involved in saving
them from extinction.
6023.) McNAMARA, FRANCIS TERRY: ->Escape With
Honor: My Last Hours in Vietnam. HC:Brassey's, Inc.: Dulles,
VA, 1997. 1st
Edition 227 pgs., $7.5 A fine copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author was the counsul
general in the provincial
capital of Can Tho and this is his account of how
he led over 300 Americans, Vietnamese, and Fillipinos down a
tributary of the
Mekong River to safety as Saigon fell.
4029.) McNAMARA, ROBERT S. with BRIAN
VanDeMARK:->In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.
HC:Times
Books: New York, 1995. 2nd Edition 414 pgs., $1.99 A near mint copy in a fine
d/j. This book will not be
referenced by scholars of the Vietnam War other
than to say that McNamara in a book stated he was mistaken on
the assumptions
of the Vietnam War..
7338.) MCNAMARA, ROBERT S., JAMES BLIGHT, ROBERT
BRIGHAM, THOMAS BIERSTEKER & HERBERT
SCHANDLER:->Argument Without End: In
Seach of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy. HC:Public Affairs: New York,
1999.
1st Edition 479 pgs., $10 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Book is an outgrowth of six
meetings held in Hanoi and
one in Italy between American leaders and scholars
with Vietnamese leaders and scholars. They reviewed the
Vietnam War step by
step, analyzing each decison and action taken by both sides. American
participants were
Robert McNamara, Francis L. Bator, Chester L. Cooper,
Nicholas Katzenbach, and Generals William Y. Smith and
Dale Vesser. Among the
Vietnamese particpants were Nguyen Co Thach, Bui Thanh Son, Dao Huy Ngoc, Dinh
Nho
Liem, Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, Nguyen Dinh Phuong, Luu Doan Huynh, Luu Van
Loi, Nguyen Khac Huynh,
Colonel Quach Hai Luong, Tran Ngoc Kha, Tran Quang Co
and Generals Dang Vu Hiep, Doan Chuong, Nguyen
645.) McNAMARA, ROBERT S.:
->The Essence of Security: Reflectons In Office. HC:Harper & Row: New York,
1968.
1st Edition 176 pgs., $5 PB:Harper & Row: New York, 1968. 176 pgs.,
$1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps, a trade
ed., a v/g copy. As can be
expected, the man totally avoids any candid discussion on Vietnam or how he
screwed up
the war beyond belief.
25533.) McPARTLIN, GREG: ->Combat
Corpsman: The Vietnam Memoir of a Navy SEALs Medic. HC:Berkeley
Publishing
Group: New York, 2005. BC Edition 319 pgs., $7.5 PB:Berkeley Publishing Group:
New York, 2005. 1st
Edition 319 pgs., $4.99 Nameplate on enpaper, o/w a fine
copy in a fine d/j. Wraps, a trade size ed., a mint copy.
Personal memoir of
a Naval Seal medic.
4502.) McQUAID, KIM: ->The Anxious Years: America In the
Vietnam-Watergate Era. HC:Basic Books: New York,
1989. 1st Edition 350 pgs.,
$2.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author a historian who links Vietnam,
the New
Left, and Watergate as the landmarks of a single military, social,
and political disaster.
646.) MECKLIN, JOHN: ->Mission in Torment: An
Intimate Account of the U.S. Role in Vietnam. HC:Doubleday &
Co.: New York,
1965. 1st Edition 318 pgs., $4.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author was Public
Affairs Officer of the
American Emnbassy from May, 1962 to January, 1964.
Excellent first hand account during this period.
29933.) MELSON, CHARLES
and GORDON ROTTMAN: ->Vietnam Warriors. A very fine copy with an illustrated
embossed cover in gold lettering. Contains material previously published in
previous books by Melson and Rottman.
8051.) MELSON, CHARLES D. ->U.S.
Marines in Vietnam: The War that Would Not End, 1971-1973.. PB:Hellgate
Press: Central Point, OR, 1998. REP. Edition 378 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a
mint copy. This is a reprint of the
1991 edition published by the Government
Printing Office. Written by Charles D. Melson.e
6646.) MELSON, CHARLES:
->U.S. Marine In Vietnam, 1965-1973. HC:Reed Consumer Books Ltd.: London, 1998.
64 pgs., $12.5 A mint copy. Cover is laminated. Author served a Marine in
Vietnam. Excellent photos,
illustrations and colour plates by Ramiro Bujeiro.
647.) MENZEL, Ed. PAUL: ->Moral Argument and the War in Vietnam. PB:Aurora
Publishers: Nashville, 1971. 281
pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
A collection of articles and essays that presents both sides of the argument of
whether America should be in
Vietnam. They are divided in four sections--1. A
Just War?, II. Genocide?, III. Solutions?, IV. Can Ethics, Ideology
and
History Meet?
798.) MERRITT, WILLIAM E.: ->Where the Rivers Ran Backward.
HC:University of Georgia Press: Athens, Ga., 1989.
1st Edition 291 pgs., $10
PB:Doubleday & Co.: New York, 1990. 1st Edition 291 pgs., $2.95 A fine copy in a
fine d/j.
Wraps a trade size ed., a v/g copy. Author enlisted in the Army in
1968 and served in Cu Chi. A meditation on the
horror--as well as the glory
of the war in Vietnam.
799.) MERSKY, PETER B. and NORMAN POLMAR:->The Naval
Air War In Vietnam. HC:Nautical & Aviation
Publishing Co.: Annapolis, Md.,
1982. 3rd Edition 224 pgs., $7.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
800.)
MERTEL, KENNETH D.: ->Year of the Horse-Vietnam. HC:Schiffer Publishing Ltd.:
Atglen, PA, 1997. 352
pgs., $25 PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1990. 328 pgs., $6
A mint copy in a mint d/j. Another copy, $12.00, an
Exposition Press first
edition, a v/g copy. Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g copy. Book is on the
Jumping Mustangs of
the 1st Air American Cavalry in the Highlands.
3286.) MESKO, JIM and LEROY: THOMPSON:->U.S. Infantry-Vietnam and U.S. Elite
Forces-Vietnam.
HC:Squadron/Signal Publications: Carrollton, Tx., 1983. BC
Edition 49 pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Mesko is
the author of U.S.
Infantry and Thompson is author of U.S. Elite Forces. Illustrations by Amy
Harroff and there are
many black and white plotos.
3212.) MESKO, JIM:
->Armor in Vietnam: A Pictorial Histoy. HC:Squadron/Signal Publications:
Carrollton, TX.,
1982. BC Edition 80 pgs., $12.5 PB:Squadron/Signal
Publications: Carrollton, Tx., 1982. 80 pgs., $7.5 A v/g plus
copy in a v/g
plus d/j. Wraps a trade size ed., a v/g copy. Illustrated by Don Greer and there
are many black and
white photos.
5077.) METZNER, EDWARD: ->More Than a
Soldier's War: Pacification in Vietnam. HC:Texas A&M University Press:
College Station, TX, 1995. 1st Edition 201 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
Memoir of an army officer who
spent seven years in Vietnam in the
pacification program.
6443.) MEYER, HAN: ->Joris Ivens, de weg naar
Vietnam. PB:Bruna Boeken: Antwerpen, 1970. 260 pgs., $12.5
Wraps trade ed., a
v/g copy. An account of a European journalist in Vietnam. German or Dutch text.
28927.) MEYER, HAROLD J.: ->Hanging Sam: A Military Biography of General
Samuel T. Williams From Pancho
Villa to Vietnam. PB:University of North Texas
Press: Denton, TX, 1990. 1ST Edition 183 pgs., $10 Wraps trade
ed., ownerr's
initials on enpaper, o/w a fine copy. Only 10 pages are devoted to Vietnam.
4032.) MEYER, PETER and the EDITORS of LIFE:->The Wall: A Day at the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial. HC:Wings:
New York, 1996. Rep. Edition 96 pgs., $12.5 A
fine copy in a fine d/j. A well done book on the Vietnam Veterans
802.)
MEYERSON, HARVEY: ->Vinh Long HC:Houghton Mifflin Co.: Boston, 1970. 1st Edition
220 pgs., $12 Ex-
library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author was a journalist
who spent approximately 8 months in Vinh Long Province
fin 1967 and 1968. As
George Orwell in 'Homage to Catalonia' sought to tell what was happening in the
Spainish
Civil War by focusing on Catalonia Province, the author uses this
model to tell what was happening in the Vietnam
War.
1121.) MEYERSON, JOEL
D.: ->Images of a Lengthy War: The United States Army in Vietnam. PB:Center of
Military History: Washington, D.C., 1986. 1st Edition 225 pgs., $25 Wraps trade
ed., a fine copy.
803.) MICHENER, JAMES A.: ->Kent State: What Happened
and Why. HC:Random House: New York, 1971. BC
Edition 559 pgs., $10 A v/g plus
copy in a v/g d/j. D/J has some chipping and some fading.
820.)
MIDDLETON, DREW: ->Air War-Vietnam. HC:Arno Press: New York, 1978. BC Edition
361 pgs., $2.99 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Middleton wrote only introduction,
book really consists of studies by the Air Force.
827.) MILLER, CAROLYN
PAINE: ->Captured! HC:Christian Herald Books: Chappaqua, N.Y., 1977. 1st Edition
288
pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book is an account of missionaries
captured during the final offensive of 1975 in
828.) MILLER, JOHN GRIDER:
->The Bridge At Dong Ha. HC:Naval Institute Press: Annapolis, Md., 1989. 1st
Edition 186 pgs., $3.95 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Account of Marine Captain
John Ripley blowing up a strategic
8737.) MILLER, JOHN GRIDER: ->The
Co-Vans: U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam. HC:Naval Institute Press:
Annapolis, MD, 2000. 2nd Edition 195 pgs., $2.99 A mint copy in a mint d/j. An
account of Marine advisors who
were called co-vans by their Vietnamese
counterparts.
6064.) MILLER, KENN: ->Six Silent Men: 101st LRP/Rangers:
Book Two. PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1997. 1st Edition
293 pgs., $5.99 Wraps
mass market ed., a mint copy. Account of the 1st Brigade LRRP of the101st
Airborne Division
829.) MILLER, ROBERT HOPKINS: ->The United States and
Vietnam: 1787-1941. PB:National Defense University
Press: Washington, D.C.,
1990. 324 pgs., $4.95 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.
31695.) MILLER,
WILLIAM J.: ->Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography. HC:James H. Heineman, Inc.: New
York, 1967.
1ST Edition 449 pgs., $10 Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
The last three chapters, 180 pages, deal with Lodge
and the Vietnam War but
little detail of his involvement in his relatiosnhip to Diem.
830.)
MILLETT, Ed ALLAN R.: ->A Short History of the Vietnam War. PB:Indiana
University Press: Bloomington, IN,
1978. 169 pgs., $1.99 Wraps trade edition,
a v/g copy. Book contains three parts, the first is titled 'The War That
Wouldn't End.' The second is titled 'The American Military and Vietnam' and the
third is 'The War for Southeast
Asia.' There are twelve contributors ranging
from Edward Lansdale to Stanley Karnow.
5914.) MINER, ERNEST: ->Vietnam
By Those Who Served. HC:Todd & Honeywell: New York, 1985. 50 pgs., $6
A v/g
copy in a poor d/j. Book primarily consists of one liners by veterans who served
in Vietnam.
26201.) MINISTERE DES AFFAIRES ETRANGERES: ->La France Et Le
Vietnam: Recueil des principales
declarations francaises depuis Aout 1963.
PB:: Paris, 1968. 81 pgs., $10 Wraps, pages are typewritten and in a
Ministere Des Affaires Etrangeres folder. Contains 60 official statements by
French officials on Vietnam, a large
number of them being issued by Charles
De Gaulle. Begins with August 29th, 1963 through October 7th, 1968.
7281.) MINOR, DALE: ->The Information War. HC:Hawthron Books, Inc.: New York,
1970. 1st Edition 212 pgs., $10
A v/g copy. Wraps mass market ed., a v/g
copy. Written by a veteran journalist critical of how the government and
the
press manipulate, censor and distort the news.
29745.) MITCHELL, GARY D.
with MICCHAEL HIRSH:. ->A Sniper's Journey: The Truth About the Man Behind the
Rifle. HC:NAL Caliber: New York, 2006. BC Edition 268 pgs., $12 A mint copy in a
mint d/j. A memoir of an
enlisted man who was borrowed out to carry out
planned assassinations for the CIA backed Phoenix Program. Book
has a
foreword by Douglas Valentine.
2921.) MITFORD, JESSICA: ->The Trial of Dr.
Spock, the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Michael Ferber, Mitchell
Goodman,
and Marcus Raskin. HC:Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1969. 1st Edition 272 pgs., $15
A v/g copy in a v/g
d/j. Account of the trial of Dr. Spock and his four
co-defendents on a charge of
conspiracy to counsel, aid and abet violations
of the Selective Service Act.
25496.) MOISE, EDWIN E.: ->The A to Z of
the Vietnam War. PB:Scarecrow Press, Inc.: Lanham, Md, 2005. 455
pgs., $25
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An excellent reference guide that provides a
concise dictionary on all key
aspects, persons, and issues of the Vietnam
War, a detailed chronology of the war, and very detailed maps of each
corps
within South Vietnam. In addition, the author provides a concise introdcution on
a number of issues of the
war. A must reference guide for any student of the
war.
5009.) MOISE, EDWN E.: ->Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the
Vietnam War. HC:Univeristy of North Carolina
Press: Chapel Hill, NC, 1996.
1st Edition 304 pgs., $25 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Author argues that the Gulf
of
Tonkin attack did not occur but the report given was not a mistake, just a
genuine mistake.
4620.) MOLYNEUX, ISABEL: ->The Vietnam Connection.
PB:Molyneux Books: Edmonton, Canada, 1991. 221
pgs., $8.5 Wraps trade ed., a
fine copy. An interesting presentation of Vietnamese history and culture which
interacted with American cold war foreign policy, making for a tragedy.
834.) MONROE, MALCOLM: ->The Means is the End in Vietnam. PB:Murlagan Press:
White Plains, N.Y., 1968.
124 pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed., review copy stamped
on enpaper, o/w a v/g copy. The author was opposed to the war
and he is
billed as a lawyer, businessman, churchman and a political conservative
Republican by the blurb on the
book's cover.
30813.) MONTAGNRADS AMERICAN
MUSIC GROUP, ->Traditional Music of the Montagnards. A CD disk
4407.)
MOODY, WILLIAM B.: ->The Good Soldiers. HC:Good Soldiers Publishing: Waco, TX,
n.d.. 129 pgs., $10
A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Written by a Navy
Chaplain who served in Vietnam, the book contains personal
stories of the
anguish of the men he ministered to during his tour.
29932.) MOORE, DAVID
K.: ->Tribal Soldiers of Vietnam: The Effects of Unconventional Warfare on
Tribal
Populations. Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author correctly argues
that the primary motivations for tribal
participation in nation-state war are
long-standing animosities with traditional enemies.
29930.) MOORE, HAROLD
G. and JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY: ->We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the
Battlefields of Vietnam. HC:HarperCollins: New York, 2008. 1ST Edition 247 pgs.,
$3.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
An account of the authors going back to
Vietnam along with 10 American veterans to meet with Lt. General Nguyen
Hu An
and two of old company commandrs.
836.) MOORE, JOHN NORTON: ->Law and the
Indo-China War. PB:Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ,
1972. 794 pgs.,
$12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.
8208.) MORGAN, PAUL B.: ->K-9
Soldiers; Vietnam and After. PB:Hellgate Press: Central Point, OR, 1999. 3rd
Edition 184 pgs., $12 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author relates 24 stories of
working with dogs, both in Vietnam
and after leaving the army. He served as a
Green Beret in Vietnam.
9186.) MORGAN, PAUL: ->The Parrot's Beak: U.S.
Operatons in Cambodia. PB:Hellgate Press: Central Point, OR,
2000. 1st
Edition 220 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book according to the
author depicts real events that
took place but the characters referred to in
the book are fictitious. He makes no clain that htis is an official history.
3092.) MORIARTY, J.M.: ->Ground Attack-- Vietnam: The Marines Who Controlled
the Skies. PB:Ivy Books: New
York, 1993. 1st Edition 294 pgs., $6 Wraps mass
market, a v/g plus copy. Personal memoir by author who served with
a Marine
Observation Squadron II, VMO-2 in 1970. A wraps original.
8223.) MORICE,
A.: ->People and Wildlife In and Around Saigon, 1872-73. PB:White Lotus Ltd.:
Bangkok, 1997.
REP. Edition 113 pgs., $25 Wraps trade ed., a very fine copy.
Title originally published as Voyage en Cochinchine
6404.) MOROZ, HAROLD
R.: ->The Republic of Vietnam. HC:Exposition Press: Hicksville, NY, 1978. 63
pgs., $10
A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
3031.) MORRIS, JIM: ->Fighting Men.
HC:Dell Publishing: New York, 1993. BC Edition 226 pgs., $2.99 PB:Dell
Publishing: New York, 1993. 1st Edition 226 pgs., $1.99 A near mint copy in a
very fine d/j. Wraps a mass market
ed., mint as purchased new. A collection
of stories by the writer. Book contains a foreward by W.E.B. Griffin.
3984.) MORRIS, JIM: ->The Devil's Secret Name. HC:Daring Books: Canton, OH,
1989. 1st Edition 304 pgs., $2.99
A v/g copy in a v/g d/j Account by Morris
of brushfire wars fought in Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Israel and
beyond.
Approximately 150 pages deal with Southeast Asia.
838.) MORRIS, JIM:
->War Story. HC:Sycamore Islands Books: Boulder, Co., 1979. 1st Edition 342
pgs., $10 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Book is an account of the Green Berets
working with the Montagnards. Author served three tours
839.) MORRIS,
MARJORIE and DON SAUERS:->And/Or: Antonyms For Our Age. HC:Harper & Row: New
York, 1967.
1st Edition 95 pgs., $15 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Photo
anti-war book, juxtaposition of war photos in
Vietnam with photos of 'peace'
in this country, depicting torture-delight, joy-grief, etc..
20564.)
MORRIS, ROGER: ->Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign
Policy. HC:Harper and
Row: New York, 1977. 1st Edition 312 pgs., $15 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. The author served on the National Security
Council Staff
under Kissinger from 1969 to May, 1970, when he resigned over the invasion of
Cambodia. Most of
the book is devoted to Kissinger's overall conduct of
foreign policy rather than Vietanm or Cambodia.
27076.) MORRIS, VIRGINIA
with CLIVE HILLS: ->A History of the Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Road to Freedom.
HC:Orchid Press: Bangkok, 2006. 1st Edition 180 pgs., $27.95 A mint copy in a
mint d/j. Contains 133 photos,
bibliogrpahy includes many Hanoi publicatons.
5225.) MORRISON, JOAN and ROBERT K. MORRISON:->From Camelot to Kent State:
The Sixties Experince In the
Words of Those Who Lived It. PB:Times Books: New
York, 1987. 2nd Edition 355 pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g
plus copy.
Oral histories of 59 men and women who were involved in the many different
movements of the sixties.
3320.) MOSS, GEORGE DONELSON: ->Vietnam: An
American Ordeal. PB:Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
1994. 2nd Edition
454 pgs., $2.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. This is a second edtion. A college
textbook for the
6091.) MOYAR, MARK: ->Phoenix and the Birds
of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong.
PB:Bison Books:
New York, . 416 pgs., $21.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book presents an
overview of the
Phoenix Program and destroys the popular myths of the
program. This edition contains a new preface and chapter
by the author.
4803.) MROZEK, DONALD J.: ->Air Power and the Ground War in Vietnam.
HC:Pergamon-Brasseys: Washington,
D.C., 1989. 1st Edition 196 pgs., $10
PB:Air University Press: Maxwell AFB, AL, 1988. 196 pgs., $4.95 A mint copy
in a mint d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Title was first published by
Air University Press of Maxwell Air Force
Base.
5137.) MROZEK, DONALD J.:
->The U.S. Air Force After Vietnam: Postwar Challenges and Potential for
Responses.
PB:Air University Press: Maxwell AFB, AL, 1988. 126 pgs., $7.5
Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. An assessment of
the role of the Air force
in the aftermath of the Vietnam experience.
843.) MULLIGAN, HUGH A.: ->No
Place To Die: The Agony of Viet Nam. HC:William Morrow & Co.: New York,
1967.
1st Edition 362 pgs., $10 A v/g copy in a good d/j. D/J has chipping top of
spine and several small pieces
missing. Author was an AP correspondence who
was regarded as the Ernie Pyle of the Vietnam War.
842.) MULLIGAN, JIM:
->The Hanoi Commitment. HC:RIF Marketing: Norfolk, Va., 1981. 2nd Edition 298
pgs.,
$4.95 Inscribed by author, owner's name on inside cover, o/w a v/g copy
in a v/g d/j. Account of a Naval pilot who
844.) MUNSON, Ed. GLENN:
->Letters From Viet Nam. PB:Parallax Publishing Co. & Pocket Books: New York,
1966. 127 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. This title lacks any
ideological overtones as letters reflect wide
range of feelings about the war
in 1966. Letters were first received by 'This Week' magazine.
9372.)
MURDOCH, TONY, JOAN M. CROUSE, & PAM O'CONNELL:->Vietnam. PB:Longman Publishing
Group:
White Plains, NY, 1994. 1st Edition 219 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a
v/g plus copy. A history of the Vietnam War
written for senior high school
students.
845.) MURPHY, EDWARD F.: ->Vietnam Medal of Honor Heroes.
PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 1990. 1st Edition
273 pgs., $12.5 Wraps mass
arket ed., a v/g copy. author is head of the Medal of Honor Historical Society.
In this
book, he recreates the heroic acts of individual soldiers from
official documents, the Medal of Honor citations,
contemporary accounts, and,
where possible, interviews with survivors.
6164.) MURPHY, EDWARD:
->Semper Fi Vietnam: From Da Nang to the DMZ: Marine Corps Campaigns, 1965-1975.
PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 2000. 356 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
An overall history of U.S.M.C.
22165.) MURRAY, DOUG: ->The Nam. HC:Marvel
Entertainment Group, Inc.: Paris, 1988. 44 pgs., $12.5 A mint
copy with an
illustrated laminated cover. A Marvel Comic portrayal of fighting in the Vietnam
War with cartoon
30177.) MYERS, DONALD F.: ->Your War My War: A Marine in
Vietnam. Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.
21967.) MYERS, WALTER DEAN:
->A Place Called Heartbreak: A Story of Vietnam. PB:Steck-Vaughn Company:
New
York, 1993. 3rd Edition 71 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. The
story of Major Fred V. Cherry, a
black airmen shot over North Vietnam in1965
who was a POW. Written for young readers.
26654.) NAGL, JOHN A.:
->Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and
Vietnam. PB:University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2005. 249 pgs., $15.5 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. This study
examines lessons of counterinsurgency
campaigns. Author served in Operation Desert Storm and the current Iraq
War.
3288.) NALTY, BERNARD C., GEORGE M. WATSON and JACOB NEUFELD:->An Illustrated
Guide to the Air War
Over Vietnam: Aircraft of the Southeast Asia Conflict.
HC:Arco Publishing: New York, 1981. 159 pgs., $6 A v/g
copy. Contains
descriptions on more than 50 aircraft types and variants that were used in
Vietnam with photos and
line drawings of said aircraft.
5447.) NALTY, Ed.
BERNARD: ->The Vietnam War: The History of America's Conflict In Southeast Asia.
HC:Smithmark Publishers: New York, NY, 1996. 1st Edition 384 pgs., $6 A mint
copy in a mint d/j. Book is part of
the Classic Conflicts War series. Book
contains a foreword by General William C. Westmoreland.
8181.) NASMYTH ,
VIRGINIA and SPIKE: ->Hanoi: Release John Nasmyth. HC:V. Parr Publishing: Santa
Paula,
CA, 1984. 345 pgs., $7.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. This book is
about two simultaneous struggles: the struggle
of Spike and his fellow POW's
to keep hope alive in the face of their captors, and his sister Virginia's
struggle to keep
his memory alive among her fellow Americans.
2890.)
NASMYTH, SPIKE: ->2355 Days: A POW's Story. HC:Orion Books: New York, 1991. 1st
Edition 264 pgs., $10
A fine copy in a fine d/j. Author was an Air Force
pilot who was a POW for six and a half years in Hanoi.
850.) NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC 1955, JUNE: ->Passage to Freedom In Viet Nam. PB:National Geographic:
, . 0
pgs., $4 Wraps magazine, a v/g copy. Twenty illustrations and written
by Gertrude Samuels.
852.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1962, NOVEMBER:
->Helicopters Over South Vietnam. PB:: , . 0 pgs., $3 A v/g
copy. Written by
Dickey Chapelle.
853.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1964, SEPTEMBER: ->Slow Train
Through Viet Nam's War. PB:: , . 0 pgs., $3 A
v/g copy. Written by Howard
Sochurek.
854.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1965, JANUARY: ->Americans In Action
In Viet Nam. PB:: , . 0 pgs., $3 A v/g
copy. Written by Howard Sochurek.
857.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1967, FEBRUARY: ->Behind the Headlines In Viet
Nam. PB:: , . 0 pgs., $3
Written by Peter T. White and photographs by
Winfield Parks.
858.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1968, APRIL: ->Viet Nam's
Montagnards. PB:: , . 0 pgs., $4 A v/g copy. Written by
Howard Sochurek.
859.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1968, SEPTEMBER: ->Air Rescue Behind Enemy Lines.
PB:: , . 0 pgs., $3 A v/g
copy. Written by Howard Sochurek.
2577.)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1979, NOVEMBER: ->Hong Kong's Refugee Dilemma. PB:: , . 0
pgs., $2.5 A v/g
plus copy. Article written by William S. Ellis and William
A. Allard.
861.) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1985, MAY: ->Vietnam Memorial:
Echoes of a War, To Heal a Nation and Ten
Years Later. PB:: , . 0 pgs., $5
Articles by Timothy S. Kolly, Joel L. Swerdlow and W. E. Garrett.
862.)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1989, NOVEMBER: ->Vietnam: Hard Road to Peace. PB:: , . 0
pgs., $2.5 A v/g
copy. Articles on Saigon and Hanoi written by Peter T. White
and photographed by Donald Alan Harvey. Tran Van
7340.) NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC 1995, APRIL: ->The New Saigon. PB:: , . 0 pgs., $3 A v/g copy.
25132.) NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL PUBLICATION: ->Estimative Products On
Vietnam, 1948-1975.
HC:National Intelligence Council: Washington, DC, 2005.
660 pgs., $25 PB:Government Printing Office:
Washington, DC, 2005. 660 pgs.,
$12.5 A mint copy and comes with a CD Rom. .Wraps trade ed., a mint copy and
comes with a CD Rom.. This collection contains 174 documents, 38 of which appear
in print and the remaining on
an accompanying CDs. It was compiled by three
CIA analysts with lengthy experience in Vietnam affairs: John K.
Allen, Jr.:
John Carver; and Tom Elmore with George Allen and Bob Layton as advisors. Lloyd
Gardner prepared
an introductory essay providing historical context for the
documents.
3514.) NAVAL HISTORY 1987, APRIL: ->The War in Vietnam's Shallows.
PB: U.S. Naval Institute: Annapolis, MD.,
1987. 96 pgs., $2.5 Wraps
mafgazine, a v/g copy. Article is written by Edward J. Marolda, a 7 page
article. Another
Vietnam article is titled Game Warden: A Report from ht
Field, a 4 pagte article by Hilary Robinette.
9847.) NAVILLE, PIERRE:
->La guerre et la revolution: Guerres d'Asie. PB:Etudes et Documentation
Internatiiionales: Paris, 1966. 324 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
26248.) NBC NEWS, ->Vietnam Hindsight, Part I: How It Began. PB:NBC News:
New York, 1971. 57 pgs., $6
Wraps photocopied reprint, a fine copy. A
broadcast done in 1971 by NBC. Persons interviewed George Ball,
Maxwell
Taylor, David Halberstam, Walt Rostow, Roger Hilsman, and Rufus Phillips.
24105.) NEALE, JONATHAN: ->A People's History of the Vietnam War. HC:New
Press: New York, 2003. 309 pgs.,
$10 Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a fine
copy in a fine d/j. An account of what the author calls the common
people
whose collective action resulted in the defeat of of the world's most powerful
military machine.
8853.) NEESE, Eds. HARVEY & JOHN O'DONNELL: ->Prelude
to Tragedy: Vietnam, 1960-1965. HC:Naval Institute
Press: Annapolis, MD,
2001. 309 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Personal accounts of 5 Americans
and 3
Vietnamese who were participants in the early days of the American
involvement in Southeast Asia. All argue that
the failure of American policy
in Vietnam was not inevitable. Participants are Rufus Phillips, Hoang Lac, Bert
Farleigh, Lu Lan, George K. Tanham, Tran Ngoc Chau, John O'Donnell, and Harvey
Neese.
7061.) NEIS, P.: ->The Sino-Vietnamese Border Demarcation,
1885-1887. PB:White Lotus Press: Bankok, 1998.
REP. Edition 216 pgs., $29.95
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This book originally published as 'Sur les
Frontieres du
Tonkin', 1887 in Le Tour du Monde, Vol. 55, pp. 321-416.
Translated with an introduciton by Dr. Walter E. J. Tips.
9801.)
NELMS, LINK: ->Remembering Vietnam After the War in the Gulf. PB:McClan Printing
Co.: Parsons, West
VA, 1995. 187 pgs., $1.99 Wraps trade ed., store stamp on
title page, o/w a fine copy. Author argues that another
Vietnam could occurr
again as so little was said about the first Vietnam.
31704.) NELSON,
DEBORAH: ->The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War
Crimes.
HC:Basic Books: New York, 2008. 1ST Edition 296 pgs., $10 A fine copy
in a fine d/j. Book based on archival
research of more than 300 substantiated
cases of war crimes in Vietnam. Author sought out men involed, the
witnesses
who reported them, and the higherups who covered them up.
22703.) NEU,
Ed. CHARLES E.: ->After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War. PB:John Hopkins
Unviersity Press:
Baltimore, MD, 2000. 1st Edition 166 pgs., $1.99 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. Four Vietnam scholars, Neu, Balogh,
Herring and
Brigham provide chapters on different legacies of the Vietnam War. In a final
chapter, Robert
McNamara draws lessons from his experience with the aim of
preventing wars in the future.
24399.) NEW TIMES, AUUGST 7, 1974:
->Vietnam Scrapbook. PB:New Times: New York, 1974. 68 pgs., $7.5
Wraps, a v/g
copy. The total issue is devoted to the Vietnam War.
21688.) NEWBY,
CLAUDE D.: ->It Took Heroes: A Cavalry Chaplain's Memoir of Vietnam.
PB:Ballantine Books:
New York, 2003. 1st Edition 542 pgs., $7.5 Wraps, a mass
market ed., a mint copy. A memoir of a chaplain who
4409.) NEWCOMB,
RICHARD F.: ->A Pictorial History of the Vietnam War. PB:Doubleday & Co.: New
York, 1987.
292 pgs., $1.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Book provides a very
good survey on the history of the war which is well
865.) NEWMAN,
BERNARD: ->Background To Viet-Nam. HC:Roy Publishers, Inc.: New York, 1965. 192
pgs., $12
PB:Signet Books: New York, 1966. 1st Edition 223 pgs., $5
Ex-librray, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps a mass market
ed., a v/g copy.
Author served as staff lecturer with the British Expeditionary Force and the
Ministry of Information.
He was a long time observer of events in Indochina
even prior to the American buildup which he also observed. He
was in Luang
Prabang interviewing the king duirng the 1953 Viet Minh invasion of Laos. Book
originally published
by Robert Hale Ltd. in Great Britian in 1965.
20033.)
NEWMAN, BERNARD: ->Let's Visit Vietnam. HC:Burke Publishing Co. Ltd.: London,
1971. 94 pgs., $6 A
v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book is part of the Let's Visit
series written for young readers.
866.) NEWMAN, JOHN M.: ->JFK
and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle For Power. HC:Warner Books:
New York, 1992. 1st Edition 506 pgs., $5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Author
argues that Kennedy had planned to
withdraw from Vietnam at the time he was
assassinated. Oliver Stone blurb on the jacket hails this books as a
breakthrough exploration of Kennedy and his generals.
26901.) NEWMAN, RICK
and DON SHEPPERD: ->Bury Us Upside Down: the Mistry Pilots and the Secret Battle
for
the Ho Chi Minh Trail. HC:Ballantine Books: New York, 2006. BC Edition
480 pgs., $10 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
plus d/j. An account of fighter pilots
who flew over the Ho Chji minh Trail looking for targets. Contains a foreword
by Senator John McCain.
31351.) NEXTEXT, ->The Vietnam War: A Historical
Reader. A mint copy in a laminated cover. Excellent
textbook book on the
Vietnam War written for Junior High and High School students taking a class
covering the
9750.) NGUYEN, PHONG THUYET & PATRICIA SHEHAN
CAMPBELL:->From Rice Paddies and Temple Yards:
Traditional Music of Vietnam.
PB:World Music Press: Danbury, CT, 1994. 3rd Edition 88 pgs., $15 Wraps trade
ed.,
a mint copy. Included is a still sealed CD as book is brand new. The
book contains a section on the history and
culture of Vietnam, a general
introduction to the Vietnamese music and instruments used, and 12 vocal and
instrumental pieces with study guides for group use. Phong Nguyen is a
recognized scholar and performer of
traditional Vietnamese music. A CD comes
with the book.
6464.) NHUONG, HUYNH, ->Water Buffalo Days.
PB:HaprerCollins: New York, 1998. 117 pgs., $4.95 Wraps trade
ed., a mint
copy. Book is for ages 7-10. Illustrated by Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng. It is a
story of a boy growing up
7213.) NHUONG, HUYNH: ->The Land I Lost.
PB:HarperTrophy: New york, 1986. 127 pgs., $4.95 Wraps trade ed.,
a mint
copy. A book of 15 tales told by a Vietnamese which described his life in
Vietnam before coming to this
country as a refugee. Book was awared a Notalbe
Children's Book in 1982 by the American Library Association.
868.)
NICHOLS, JOHN B. and BARRETT TILLMAN:->On Yankee Station: The Vietnam Naval Air
War. HC:Airlife
Publishing Co.: Shrewsbury, England, 1987. 179 pgs., $12.5
PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1988. 5th Edition 173
pgs., $6 A v/g plus copy in
a v/g plus d/j. Another copy, BC, $10.00, a v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
Title published
by Naval Institute Press in the same year. Wraps a mass
market ed., a v/g copy.
7667.) NICHOLSON, THOM: ->15 Months in SOG: A
Warrior's Tour. PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1999. 1st Edition 260
pgs., $6.99
Wraps mass market ed, a mint copy. Personal memoir of a commander of SOG
operations, operating out
of Da Nang with Command and Control North.
9023.) NICOSIA, GERALD: ->Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans'
Movement. HC:Crown Publishers:
New York, 2001. 1st Edition 689 pgs., $2.99 A
fine copy in a fine d/j. Book provides an account of various veteran
movements during and after the Vietnam War with more attention given to
veteran's involvement in such issues as
Agent Orange, post -traumatic stress
disorder, issues not covered before in any depth.
869.) NIELSEN, JON with
KAY NIELSON:->Artist In South Vietnam. HC:Julian Messner: New York, 1969. 1st
Edition
64 pgs., $12.5 Ex-library, a v/g copy. Text at a young readers level,
drawings can be enjoyed by all.
2587.) NIXON, RICHARD: ->The Real War.
HC:Warner Books: New York, 1980. 5th Edition 341 pgs., $1.99 A v/g
7004.)
NOBLE, CHRISTINA: ->Nobody's Child. HC:Grove Press: New York, 1994. 1st Edition
257 pgs., $12
Remainder mart bottom edge, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Story
of the founding of a social center for Saigon's street
children by a woman
who grew up in the slums of Dublin, Ireland.
3713.) NOBLE, DENNIS L.:
->Forgotton Warriors: Combat Art From Vietnam. HC:Praeger Publishers: Westport,
CT,
1992. 1st Edition 198 pgs., $8.95 A fine copy in a v/g plus d/j. The
author assembled 153 reproductions printed in
black and white, arranged with
oral histories, letters and other commentaries in order to portray what the
American
soldier experienced in Vietnam.
20447.) NOEL, REUBEN and NANCY:
->Saigon for a Song: The True Story of a Vietnam Gig to Remember.
PB:UCS
Press: Phoenix, AZ, 1987. 1st Edition 260 pgs., $4.95 Wraps trade ed., a v/g
plus copy. Memoir of a
husband-wife entertainment team who entertained troops
in Vietnam.
8510.) NOLAN, KEITH W.: ->Ripcord: Screaming Eagles Under
Siege, Vietnam 1970. HC:Presidio Press: Novato,
CA, 2000. BC Edition 447
pgs., $5.95 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. Nolan's account of the last
great battle of
the Vietnam War which involed the Americans, a battle he
claims we lost due to constraints placed on the American
military.
872.)
NOLAN, KEITH WILLIAM: ->Battle for Hue: TET 1968. Wraps mass market ed., name on
inside cover, o/w a
873.) NOLAN, KEITH WILLIAM: ->Death Valley: The
Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969. HC:Presidio Press:
Novato, CA, 1987.
BC Edition 324 pgs., $3.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Account of the
fighting in the Hiep
Duc and Song Cha valley involving the lst Marine
Division and the 23d Infantry Division.
5169.) NOLAN, KEITH WILLIAM:
->The Battle for Saigon: TET 1968. Wraps trade size ed., a v/g plus copy. Also,
a wraps mass market editon, $5.00, a v/g copy. A popularly written historical
account of the battle for Saigon during
26353.) NOLAN, KEITH: ->House to
House: Playing the Enemy's Game in Saigon, May 1968. HC:Zenith Press: St.
Paul, MN, 2006. BC Edition 368 pgs., $3.99 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j.
An account of the second wave of
attacks after the TET Offensive which was
the costliest two-week period of the Vietnam War in terms of American
casualties.
4805.) NORDELL, Jr. JOHN R.: ->The Undetected Enemy: French and
American Miscalculations at Dien Bien Phu,
1953. HC:Texas A&M University
Press: College Station, TX, 1995. 217 pgs., $25 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
Author
provides the full story of the strategic, tactical, logistical, and
intelligence considerations that resulted in the French
decision to establish
a base at Dien Bien Phu. He also gives close attention to the reaction of the
Eisenhower
administration to the French seizure of Dien Bien Phu.
6970.) NORDEN, ERIC: ->The Hidden War: South Vietnam. PB:Union Print:
Sydney, Australia, n.d.. 56 pgs., $5
Wraps trade size booklet, first page
partially loose, underlining of some pages, a good copy. Author identifies
himself
as an American liberal who had this tract printed to alert the
Australian people to the danger of becoming involved
in Vietnam. Written in
1963.
3065.) NORMAN, GEOFFREY: ->Bouncing Back: How a Heroic Band of POW's
Survived Vietnam. HC:Houghton
Mifflin: Boston, 1990. 1st Edition 248 pgs.,
$3.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author interviewed in depth a
number
of POW's for this book, including Al Stafford, Charlie Plumb, Tom Hall and Mike
Burns.
791.) NORMAN, MICHAEL: ->These Good Men: Friendships Forged From
War. HC:Crown Publishers: New York,
1990. 1st Edition 310 pgs., $3.95 A v/g
plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Book explores the bond that was forged during
combat in Vietnam of 10 men who served as Marines there. Author is a New York
Times columnist who sought out
these men whom served with in Golf Company and
an emotional reunion was held 20 years later.
2998.) NORTH, OLIVER and
DAIVD ROTH:->One More Mission. HC:Harper Collins Zondervan: New York, 1993. 2nd
Edition 280 pgs., $1.99 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Ollie North's account of his
return to Vietnam where he seeks to
make sense of the Vietnam War and his
perspective on how we can finally bring the long sad chapter of the 'Vietnam
Experience' to an end.
3096.) NORTON, BRUCE H.: ->Force Recon Diary,
1969. PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1992. 3RD Edition 255 pgs.,
$2.99 Wraps mass
makret, mint as purchased new. Author was a naval corpsman who served as a
Marine Force
Recon Team Leader with the 3d Force Recon in the DMZ and the A
Shau Valley during 1969.
792.) NORTON, BRUCE H.: ->Force Recon Diary,
1969-1970. HC:Ivy Books: New York, . BC Edition 567 pgs., $12
A v/g plus copy
in a v/g plus d/j. This edition combines two previous books by the author,
'Force Recon Diary, 1969'
and Force Recond Diary, 1970.' Author was a Navy
corpsman who volunteered to serve with the Marine 3d Force
Reconnaissance
Company.
8629.) NORTON, BRUCE H.: ->Stingray. PB:Ballantine Books: New York,
2000. 1st Edition 357 pgs., $5 Wraps
mass market ed., a mint copy. An account
of Stingray Patrols which consisted of 7 to 10 men who were dropped
behind
enemy lines by choppers. They then called in artillery and air strikes on enemy
positions.
794.) NOVAK, MARIAN FAYE: ->Lonely Girls With Burning Eyes.
HC:Little Brown: Boston, 1991. 1st Edition 276
pgs., $3.99 Review copy with
reivew laid in, o/w a fine copy in a fine d/j. Memoir of a Marine officer's wife
who saw
her husband train for Vietnam, her experience while he served his
tour in Vietnam, and then her experience of 15
years before in the author's
eyes 'he truly came home.'
795.) NOVAK, MICHAEL: ->Story In Politics.
PB:Council On Religion & International Affa: New York, 1970. 120
pgs., $5
Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Discussion of Vietnam. Commentary by Tran Van
Dinh, David Little,
9451.) NUGENT, NICHOLAS: ->Vietnam: The Second
Revolution. PB:In Print Publishing Ltd.: Brighton, UK, 1996.
208 pgs., $16.95
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A survey of 20th century Vietnamese history that
concentrates on
Vietnam's post-war role and its possible future as the next
Asian dragon.
797.) O'BALLANCE, EDGAR: ->The Wars In Vietnam: 1954-1980.
HC:Hippocrene Books: New York, 1981. 246 pgs.,
$10 PB:Hippocrene Books: New
York, 1981. 246 pgs., $5 A v/g copy. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
22341.)
OBERDORFER, DON: ->Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great
Statesman and Diplomat.
HC:Smithsonian Books: Washingotn, DC, 2003. 1st
Edition 593 pgs., $12.5 Inscribed by Oberdorfer, a mint copy
in a mint d/j. A
biography of Senator Mansfield with about 300 pages dealing with Indochina.
884.) OBERDORFER, DON: ->TET! The Turning Point In the Vietnam War. PB:John
Hopkins University Press:
Baltimore, 2001. Rep Edition 375 pgs., $15 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. The classic account of the TET offensive.
Reprint
edtion has a new preface by the author.
8319.) O'BRIEN, GEOFFREY: ->Dream
Time: Chapters From the Sixties. HC:Viking Press: New York, 1988. 1st
Edition
194 pgs., $10 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book seeks to capture the unique texture
of the American sixties.
3290.) O'BRIEN, TIM: ->If I Die in a Combat
Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. PB:Dell Books: New York,
1999. 209 pgs.,
$12 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A foot soldier's journey from middle class
America to Vietnam.
Author served in Vietnam from 1968-1970 and he was
awarded the Purple Heart. It became one of the most popular
books about the
Vietnam War experience before the Rambo and post-traumatic stress disorder books
captured the
market in the early 80's.
881.) O'DANIEL, JOHN W.: ->Vietnam
Today: The Challenge of a Divided Nation. HC:Coward-McCann: Neww York,
1966.
Rev. Edition 121 pgs., $7.5 Light soiling outside cover, o/w a v/g copy. This is
the resived edition of the title
'Nation That Refused to Starve' published in
1960. A young readers edition.
24560.) O'DANIEL, LARRY J.: ->Trails of
Deceit. HC:Golden Coast Publishing: Wenden, AZ, 2000. 1st Edition 330
pgs.,
$15 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Author alleges to have solved the problem of what
happened to American war
heroes lost on the battlefields of three wars,
utilizing the skiils he learned in the Phoenix program.
885.) OGDEN,
RICHARD E.: ->Green Knight, Red Mourning. PB:Zebra Books: New York, 1985. 1st
Edition 301
pgs., $5 Wraps mass market ed., a v/g copy. Personal memoir of a
young Marine, age 17, who went to Nam in 1965
and participated in the first
American attack on a VC village.
32354.) OLSON, Ed. GREGORY ALLEN:
->Landmark Speeches On the Vietnam War. Wraps trade ed., a mint
5923.)
OLSON, GAIL: ->Scars and Stripes: Healing the Wounds of War. PB:Tab Books: Blue
Ridge Summit, PA,
1992. 194 pgs., $2.95 Wraps trade ed., remainder marks, o/w
a v/g copy. Book is a resourse manual for helping
Vietnam veterans deal with
the trauma of war.
4806.) OLSON, GREGORY A.: ->Mansfield and Vietnam: A
Study in Rhetorical Adaption. HC:Michigan State
University Press: East
Lansing, MI, 1995. 349 pgs., $35 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Book examines the
role played
by Senator Mike Mansfield in the formulation and execution of
U.S. Vietnam policy.
3289.) OLSON, JAMES S. and RANDY ROBERTS:->Where the
Domino Fell: American and Vietnam, 1945-1990.
HC:St. Martin's Press: New
York, 1991. 1st Edition 321 pgs., $3.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps
a trade
size ed., a v/g copy. A concise history of the Vietnam War.
22299.) O'MEARA, Jr. ANDY: ->Only the Dead Came Home: Vietnam's Hidden
Casualties. PB:Elderberry Press,
LLC: Oakland, OR, 2003. 182 pgs., $15 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. Account of a Vietnam vet dealing with his
adjustment
to civilian life after the Vietnam War.
26649.) O'NEILL, JAMES:
->Garrison Tales From Tonquin: An American's Stories of the French Foreign
Legion in
Vietnam in the 1890S. HC:Louisana State University Press: Baton
Rouge, LA, 2006. 1st Edition 139 pgs., $29.95
A mint copy in a mint d/j. An
account of the French campaign during the 1890s by an American who had joined
the
French Foreign Legion and who was part of that force.
23779.)
O'NEILL, JOHN E. and JEROME R.: CORSI:->Unfit For Command: Swift Boat Veterans
Speak Out Against
John Kerry. HC:Regenry Publishing Inc.: Washington, DC,
2004. 2nd Edition 216 pgs., $1.99 A mint copy in a
882.) O'NEILL, ROBERT
J.: ->General Giap: Politician and Strategist. HC:Frederick A. Praeger: New
York, 1969.
219 pgs., $10.5 Ex-library, a v/g copy. Author was a Senior
Lecturer in HIstory in the Faculty of Military Studies,
Royal Ministry
College of Australia, University of South Wales at the tiem of the book's
writing. He had served in
Vietnam from 1966-67 .
8630.) O'ROURKE, WILLIAM:
->The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left. HC:Thomas Y. Crowell Co.: New
York,
1972. 1st Edition 264 pgs., $12.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. The book
focuses primarily on the trial rather an analysis
20437.) OSGOOD, Ed.
GERALD W.: ->Reflecting On the Memories of War, First Issue..
PB:Osgood-Johanneck
Publications: Chanhassen, MN, 1987. 60 pgs., $2.5 Wraps,
a v/g copy. A magazine that tried to focus on the
concept that the reader is
the writer. This was the first issue and it was well done.
31665.)
OSGOOD, Editor In Chief GERALD W.: ->Reflecting On the Memories of War, Second
Issue 1987. Wraps
magazine, a v/g copy.
23244.) OSGOOD, ROBERT E.,
ROBERT W. TUCKER, HERBERT S. DINERSTEIN, FRANCIS E. ROURKE, ISAIAH-
>America
and the World: From the Truman Doctrine to Vietnam. PB:John Hopkins Press:
Baltimore, 1970. 434
pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. The authors
offer a comprehensive reappraisal of the environment and
initiatives of
American foreign policy during the Cold War.
888.) OSTROFF, ROBERTA: ->Fire
In the Wind: The Life of Dickey Chapelle. HC:Ballantine Books: New York, 1992.
1st Edition 408 pgs., $6 Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book covers her
career from World War II to Vietnam
where she was killed in November of 1965.
5229.) O'SULLIVAN, Eds. JOHN and ALAN M. MEC ->The Draft and Its Enemies: A
Documentary History
HC:University of Illinois Press: Chicago, IL, 1974. 289
pgs., $10 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book contains 56
documents and the
editors' commentary on the history of the draft,. The first documents go back to
the
Revolutionary War.
31663.) OVERSEAS VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION,
->Voice of the Vietnamese Buddhists. Wraps, a
v/g plus copy.. This issue two
articles: 1. Views of a Vietname Artis and (2); A Vietnamese Message with two
9578.) PADDEN, IAN: ->U.S. Air Commando. PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1985.
133 pgs., $5 Wraps mass market
ed., a v/g copy. The book provides a history
of air commando forces with a focus on operations in Vietnam which
the author
regards as the war in which these forces came of age. Eight pages of photos.
8707.) PAGE, Consultant Editors TIM and JOHN PIMLOTT: ->Nam: The Vietnam
Experience 1965-75. HC:Hamlyn
Publishing Group: London, 1990. 649 pgs., $25
Wear bottom of cover, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. D/J has
creasing and some
chipping.. This is primarily a photobook but it does have substantial text and
has 114 short
chapters on different aspects of the war, many of which are not
referred to any other text. This in my opionion is the
best overall photobook
on the Vietnam War and a must for any collector.
889.) PAGE, TIM: ->Tim
Page's Nam. PB:Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: New York, 1984. 1st Edition 120 pgs.,
$12.5 Wraps
a trade size ed., a v/g copy. Contains 119 photographs with text.
Introduction by William Shawcross.
890.) PAGE, TIM: Introduction by WILLIAM
SHAWCROSS:->Ten Years After: Vietnam Today. PB:Alfred A. Knopf:
New York,
1987. 1st Edition 128 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Book contains 103
color photos.
29223.) PAINE, LAUREN: ->Viet-Nam. Ex-library, o/w a v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Author is a California writer and
lecturer on political
and historical subjects who seeks to expose the failures and successes of the
French, the
8207.) PAKIS, VICK: ->Immigrant Soldier: From the Baltics to
Vietnam. PB:Hellgate Press: Central Point, OR,
1999. 1st Edition 228 pgs.,
$15.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Memoir of the experience of an immigrant
from
Latvia who went on to serve two tours in Vietnam.
891.) PALMER,
DAVE RICHARD: ->Summons of the Trumpet: A History of the Vietnam War From a
Military Man's
Viewpoint. HC:Presidio Press: Novato, Ca., 1982. 3rd Edition
277 pgs., $2.99 PB:Presidio Press: Novato, CA, 1984.
354 pgs., $1.99 Name on
enpaper, o/w a fine copy in a fine d/j. Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g plus
copy. During
the war, General Palmer was a colonel and he served as an
advisor to both the Vietnamese Military Academy and
Vietnamese armor units.
This book is his view of the war in retrospect.
893.) PALMER, Jr.
BRUCE: ->The Twenty-Five Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam.
HC:University Press of
Kentucky: Lexington, KY, 1984. 236 pgs., $3.99 A fine
copy in a v/g d/j.
892.) PALMER, LAURA: ->Shrapnel In the Heart: Letters
and Remembrances >From the Vietnam Veterans Memoirial.
HC:Random House: New
York, 1987. 2nd Edition 243 pgs., $1.99 A fine copy in a near fine d/j. This is
a
collection of letters that have been left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
894.) PAN, STEPHEN: ->Vietnam Crisis. PB:East Asian Research Institute: New
York, 1966. 334 pgs., $5 Wraps
mass market ed., foxing tips of pages, o/w a
v/g copy. Pan was the President of East Asian Reseach Institute at the
time
of the book's writing. He had taught at Georgetown and Diem stayed with him in
Washington D.C. for six
months. He knew both Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse-tung.
Lyons is a Jesuit and he was Chairman of the free Pacific
Association at the
time of the book's writing. Book presents a well reasoned defense of the U.S.
commitment in
Vietnam.
22968.) PAOLUCCI, HENRY: ->Public Image,
Private Interest: Kissinger's Foreign Policy Strategies in Vietnam.
HC:Griffon House Publications: Smyrna, DE, 2002. 1st Edition 210 pgs., $20
Review copy with review laid in, a
mint copy. Author argues that the real
objective in Kissinger's effort for a Vietnam settlement was to effect a detente
with Russia before ending the war in Vietnam.
896.) PARKER, IV F. CHARLES:
->Vietnam: Strategy For a Stalemate. HC:Paragon House: New York, 1989. 1st
Edition 257 pgs., $3.99 A fine copy in a v/g d/j. Author a West Point graduate
and he served as a Battalion
6432.) PARKER, JAMES: ->Last Man Out: A Personal
Account of the Vietnam War. HC:John Culler & Sons:
Camden, SC, 1996. 450
pgs., $12 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Account by a CIA agent on his
efforts to get
his people out as Saigon was falling. Prior to being assinged
to Vietnam, he worked in Laos.
897.) PARKS, DAVID: ->GI Diary.
HC:Harper and Row: New York, 1968. 1st Edition 133 pgs., $12 BookplaTe on
inside cover, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. A diary by a black enlisted man that
records his reactons to killing and being
killed, and his frustrations over
army life and attitudes.
9900.) PARLIN, FLOYD S.: ->The Return of
American Prisoners of War from Southeast Asia. PB:Congressional
Research
Service: Washington, DC, 1973. 114 pgs., $10 Wraps, a v/g plus copy. This is
comilation of materials on
the release of prisoners of war and the missing in
action recovery program. Consists mainly of photocopies of
newspaprer
articles on these issues.
9396.) PARMENTIER, HENRI, ETIENNE AYMONIER, PAUL
MUS:->Cham Sculpture of the Tourane Museum,
Chams and Their Religion, and
Religious Ceremonies of Champa. PB:White Lotus Ltd.: Bangkok, 2001. 142 pgs.,
$32.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Publication contains three reportss written
in respective order. Translated by
Walter E. J. Tips. Paramentier's report
was written in 1922, Mus's report was written in 1934, and Aymoniter's report
was written in 1891.
895.) PARRISH, JOHN A.: ->12, 20, & 5: A Doctor's Year
In Vietnam. HC:E.P. Dutton & Co.: New York, 1972. 2nd
Edition 315 pgs., $12.5
PB:Penguin Books, Inc.: Baltimore, Md., 1973. 348 pgs., $5 A v/g plus copy in a
v/g plus
d/j. Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g copy. Personal memoir of a young
doctor serving in Vietnam, a very moving
account.
2900.) PARRISH, ROBERT
D.: ->Combat Recon: My Year With the ARVN. HC:St. Martin's Press: New York,
1991. 1st
Edition 291 pgs., $10 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Author was an
Army lieutenant to an ARVN infantry battalion 6
months beginning in May of
1967, then he was an advisor for 6 months to an ARVN reconnaissance company.
899.) PATTI, ARCHIMEDES L. A.: ->Why Viet Nam? Prelude To America's
Albatross. Apoproximately 25 pages
have inked markings along page margins
with 4 or 5 pages having several sentences underlined, o/w a v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. Personal memoir of the OSS officer who had worked with Ho Chi Minh
during World War II and was present in
Hanoi at the time of the Japanese
surrender. Some French still believe that if it were not for his 'support' of Ho
Chi
Minh during this period by Patti and his band, events would have turned
out differently in Indochina.
27594.) PEARS, PAMELA A.: ->Remnants of
Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War.
PB:Lexington Books:
Lanham, MD, 2004. 163 pgs., $22.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This study
shows the role
that four important women writers have played in confronting
the legacies of colonialism and the wars of national
liberatIon..
21295.)
PELLEY, PATRICIA M.: ->Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past.
PB:Duke University
Press: Durham, NC, 2002. 1st Edition 326 pgs., $20.95
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. The book looks at the politics of
historical
reconstruction or how Vietnamese historians since the 1950s began to write the
hsitory of their nation's
emerging from colonialism..
902.) PENNIMAN,
HOWARD R.: ->Elections In South Vietnam. PB:AEI-Hoover Policy Studies: Stanford,
CA, 1972.
246 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy.
2596.) PERLO,
VICTOR and KUMAR GOSHAL:->Bitter End in S.E. Asia. PB:Marzani & Munsell, Inc.:
New York,
1964. 128 pgs., $2.95 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. An early book
that argues against an American commitment in
4034.) PERRY, MARK: ->Four
Stars. HC:Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1989. 1st Edition 412 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus
copy in a v/g plus d/j. An inside account of a 40 year battle between the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and the America's
civilian leaders. A good portion of this
book covers the Vietnam War. Author interviewed current and former
members of
the JCS and their staff.
7280.) PETERS, BILL: ->First Force Recon Company:
Sunrise at Midnight. PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1999. 1st
Edition 238 pgs., $6
Wraps mass market ed., a v/g plus copy. Account of a six-man Marine team whose
job was to
provide strategic and operational intelligence from the DMZ to the
Central Highlands..
20451.) PETERSON, ROBERT: ->Rites of Passage: Odyssey
of a Grunt. PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 2001. 1st
Edition 564 pgs., $6
Wraps mass market ed., a mint copy. Memoir of an army enlisted man who served in
Vietnam.
906.) PFEFFER, Ed, RICHARD M.: ->No More Vietnams? The War and
the Future of American Foreign Policy.
HC:Harper & Row: New York, 1968. 1st
Edition 299 pgs., $2.95 Speckling top edge, o/w v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Wraps
a trade ed., a v/g copy. Title is a publication of the Adlai Stevenson Institute
of International Affairs and
contains discussion of proceedings of a
symposium held by this institute. Twenty-six scholars were involved.
29316.) PHAM, ANDREW X.: ->The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in
Three Wars. HC:Harmony Books: New York, 2008.
1ST Edition 301 pgs., $22.5 A
mint copy in a mint d/j. Noted Vietnamese author writes an autobiograpy of his
father who lived through the Indochina Wars, starting in 1940 on thourgh 1976.
He last serrved in the South
Vietnam army, then was placed in a re-education
camp after the fall of Saigon. Originally, his father was from an
upper-class
family in northern Vietnam but was forced to flee south when the communists took
over after the First
Indochina War. One of the best Vietnamese accounts of
this whole period told from a Vietnamese perspective.
31705.) PHAM,
QUANG X.: ->A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey. HC:Ballatnine
Books: New York,
2005. 1ST Edition 261 pgs., $10 A mint copy in a mint d/j.
Personal memoir of Vietnamese Marine pilot and
served in the first Iraq war.
His father was a pilot in the South Vietnamese Army and served 10 years in a
prison
camp after the fall of Saigon.
7493.) PHAN BOI-CHAU, ->Overturned
Chariot: The Autobiography of Phan-Boi-Chau. HC:University of Hawaii
Press:
Honolulu, HI, 1999. 1st Edition 296 pgs., $12 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Phan
was the most prominent
leader of the Vietnamese independence movement during
the first quarter of the 20th century. He wrote this
autobiography while
under house arrest in 1928. Work is translated by Vinh Sinh and Nicholas
Wickenden.
29951.) PHILLIPS, RUFUS: ->Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness
Account of Lessons Not Learned. HC:Naval
Institute Press: Annapolis, MD,
2008. 2ND Edition 398 pgs., $19.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. A memoir by a CIA
offical who worked closely with Edward Lansdale in the early days of our
involvement in Vietnam. An excellent
eyewitness acount of key events in
Vietnam during this period.
6090.) PHILLIPS, WILLIAM: ->Night of the
Silver Stars: The Battle of Lang Vei. HC:Naval Institute Press: Annapolis,
MA, 1997. 179 pgs., $4.95 A fine copy in a v/g d/j. Account of the night of
February 6-7, 1968 when 24 Green
Berets of Special Forces Team A-101 and
several hundred indigenous soldiers held off a superior force of North
Vietnamese tanks and infantry. From this heroic stand, 19 Silver Stars, a
Distinguished Service Cross, and a Medal
Of Honor were awarded.
9219.)
PHILPOTT, TOM: ->Glory Denied: the Saga of Jim thompson, America's Longest-Held
Prisoner of War.
HC:W.W. Norton & Co.: New York, 2001. 1st Edition 457 pgs.,
$10 Ex-library, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. An
account of an army Green
Beret officer who was captured on March 26, 1964 and he was the longest held
P.O.W. of
the Vietnam War.
9552.) PHILPOTT, TOM: ->Glory Denied: The Saga
of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War.
HC:W. W. Norton &
Co.: New York, 2001. 1st Edition 457 pgs., $5 Tips of cover slightly bent, o/w a
v/g plus copy in
a v/g plus d/j. A POW book that traces the childhood, the
captivity, and adjustments to his family after release from
captivity of the
longest held POW.
25328.) PHONG, NGUYEN XUAN: ->Hope and Vanquised Reality.
PB:Xlibris Corporation: , 2002. 376 pgs.,
$22.99 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. Memoir of a former ambassador Repulic of Vietnam.
7673.) PHUC,
NGUYEN VINH: ->Hanoi: Past and Present. PB:GIOI Publishers: Hanoi, 1995. 303
pgs., $15 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g plus copy. Book is more a travel guide
providing some history of the city and places. There is a street
map of Hanoi
that comes with the book.
33812.) PHUONG, Eds. TRAN KY and BRUCE M.
LOCKHART: ->The Cham of Vietnam: History, Society and Art.
PB:University of
Hawaii Press: Honolulu, HI., 2011. 1ST Edition 460 pgs., $29.95 Wraps trade ed.,
a mint copy.
There are papers of 14 Cham scholars that are presented in this
volume. It also contains 94 illustrations.
31202.) PHUONG, PHAM QUYNH:
->Hero and Deity: Tran Hung Dao and the Resurgence of Popular Religion in
Vietnam. PB:Mekong Press: Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2009. 1ST Edition 227 pgs.,
$27.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. Author traces and uncovers the sources
of the contradictions over the meanings of Tran Hung Dao/Saint/Tran.
He was a
14th century hero figure and viewed as the savior of Vietnam.
7824.)
PICHON, LOUIS: ->A Journey to Yunnan in 1892: Trade and Exploration in Tonkin
and Southern China.
PB:White Lotus Press: Bangkok, 1999. REP. Edition 129
pgs., $20 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. A first-hand account
of Dr. Louis
Pichon's two month journey from Hanoi to southern Yunnan in the spring of 1892.
Orignally published
in 1892.
908.) PIERCE, BOB with NGUYEN VAN DUC and
LARRY WARD:->Big Day At Da Me. HC:Word Books: Waco, Tx,
1968. 72 pgs., $1.99
Scratching of cover, o/w a v/g copy. Author heads up World Vision, a worldwide
Christian
909.) PIKE, DOUGLAS: ->PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam. HC:Presidio
Press: Novato, Ca., 1986. BC Edition 384
pgs., $12 A v/g plus copy in a v/g
plus d/j. The classic work on the People's Army of Vietnam.
910.) PIKE,
DOUGLAS: ->Viet Cong: The Organization and Techniques of the National Liberaton
Front of South
Vietnam. HC:M.I.T. Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1966. 490 pgs.,
$15 PB:M.I.T. Press: Cambridge, Mass., 1968. 490
pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy in a
v/g d/j. Wraps a trade size ed., a v/g copy.
911.) PIKE, DOUGLAS: ->War,
Peace, and the Viet Cong. PB:M.I.T. Press: Cambridge, Ma., 1969. 186 pgs., $7.5
Wraps a trade ed., a v/g copy. An assessment of the other side by a well known
expert in the field written in late
1968. He argues that divisions still
persist in the Politburo and that Hanoi is far from certain that it has defeated
the
U.S. to prevent the imposition of a Communist government in the south by
force.
912.) PIKE, Ed. DOUGLAS: ->The Bunker Papers: Reports to the
President >From Vietnam, 1967-1973, Volume 1.
PB:Institute East Asian
Studies: Berkeley, Ca., 1990. 294 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy.
These three
volumes contain 96 cables from Ambassador Bunker to the
President. Ambassador Bunker stipulated that one of his
conditions for taking
on the job of ambassador was that he could report directly to the President on
the situation in
Vietnam. This collection are all the messages that he sent
to the Oval Office while ambassador.
28204.) PIKE, Ed. DOUGLAS: ->The
Bunker Papers: Reports to the President from Vietnam, 1967-1973, Volume III.
PB:University of California: Berkeley, 1990. 270 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a
fine copy.
913.) PISOR, ROBERT: ->The End of the Line: The Siege of
Khe Sanh. HC:W. W. Norton: New York, 1982. BC
Edition 319 pgs., $2.99
PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 1983. 1st Edition 306 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a
v/g d/j.
Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g copy. Author served as a war
correspondent in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968.
31949.) PITRONE, JEAN
MADDERN: ->Take It From the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Raye. HC:University
Press of
Kentucky: Lexington, KY, 1999. 1ST Edition 238 pgs., $12.5 A very
fine copy in a very fine d/j. Biogrpahy of a
entertainer who entertained
troops during World War II and then later in Vietnam where she worked both as an
entertainer and nurse.
914.) PLUMB, JOSEPH CHARLES: ->I'm No Hero: A POW
Story as Told to Glen DeWerff. HC:Independence Press:
Independence, MO, 1990.
20th Edition 287 pgs., $25 Inscribed by author, a fine copy in a fine d/j.
Account of a
Naval pilot who was shot down in 1967 while serving on the
carrier Kitty Hawk. He was appointed chaplain of his
prison unit in 1970 and
he serrved in this capacity for two years.
916.) PODHORETZ, NORMAN: ->Why
We Were In Vietnam. HC:Simon & Schuster: New York, 1982. 1st Edition 250
pgs., $10 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author argues that American
intervention was an act of political
recklessness, but far from being immoral
or criminal, it was also an act of political idealism aimed at saving South
Vietnam from Communist totalitarianism.
9153.) POLNER, MURRAY and JIM
O'GRADY: ->Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel
and
Philip Berrigan. HC:Basic Books: New York, 1997. 434 pgs., $2.99 Remainder mark
top edge, o/w a fine copy
in a fine d/j. A full-lenght unauthorized biography
of the Berigans and covers not only their Vietnam anti-war efforts
but other
issues in respect to peace and civil rights.
918.) POLNER, MURRAY: ->No
Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran. HC:Holt Rinehart Winston:
New York, 1971. 1st Edition 169 pgs., $6 Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
919.) POLNER, MURRAY: ->When Can I Come Home? A Debate On Amnesty for
Exiles, Anti-War Prisoners and
Others. PB:Doubleday & Co.: Garden City, N.Y.,
1972. 267 pgs., $5 Wraps mass market, a v/g copy. A thoughtful
book dealing
with the issue of amnesty. Published only in paperback.
3303.) PORTER,
Ed. GARETH: ->Vietnam: A History in Documents. PB:New Amerrican Library: New
York, 1981.
1st Edition 490 pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. This is an
abridgment by the author of his two volume work
entitled 'Vietnam: The
Definitive History of Human Decisions.' Introduction by Francis Fitzgerald.
921.) PORTER, GARETH: ->A Peace Denied: The United States, Vietnam and the
Paris Agreement. Ex-library, a
v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
5075.) PORTER,
GARETH: ->Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism. HC:Cornell University
Press: Ithaca,
NY, 1993. 1st Edition 227 pgs., $6 Heavy underling, o/w a v/g
copy. The book is an analysis of Communist
Vietnam's political system in
which the author examines the evolution of the system from 1945 through the
1986-
1990 period of economic liberalization and cautious political reform.
5553.) POST, KEN: ->Revolution, Socialism and Nationalism In Viet Nam,
Volumes I-IV. HC:Wadsworth Publishing
Co.: Belmont, CA, 1989. 1530 pgs., $75
All four volumes are very fine copies.
8509.) POWELL, MARY REYNOLDS: ->A
World of Hurt: Between Innocence and Arrogance in Vietnam.
PB:Greenleaf
Enterprises: Chesterland, OH, 2000. 1st Edition 171 pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed.,
a very fine copy.
Memoir of an Army nurse who served at the 24th Evacuation
Hospital in Long Binh during 1970-71.
925.) POWERS, THOMAS: ->The War At
Home: Vietnam and the American People, 1964-1968. HC:Grossman
Publishers: New
York, 1973. 1st Edition 348 pgs., $12.5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
Author argues that the
net effect of the anti-war movement was to cause
President Johnson to seek a policy of disengagement in Vietnam..
He sees this
a being a triumph of ordinary people with no authority but who brought change
due to their belief and
commitment.
23314.) PRADOS, Eds. JOHN and MARGARET
PRATT PORTER:->Inside the Pentagon Papers. HC:University Press
of Kansas:
Lawrence, KS, 2004. 1st Edition 248 pgs., $25 A mint copy in a mint d/j. The
book focuses on the back
story of the Pentagon Paers and the resulting court
cases. Draws upon oral histories and classified documents
realated to the
case.
21564.) PRADOS, JOHN: ->Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director
William Colby. HC:Oxford University
Press: New York, 2003. 1st Edition 380
pgs., $12.5 A very fine copy in a very fine d/j. Not all of the book deals
with Vietnam, but it does cover the overthrow of Diem, the Phoenix program and
the fall of Saigon.
927.) PRADOS, JOHN: ->The Sky Would Fall: Operation
Vulture: The Secret U.S. Mission to Vietnam, 1954. HC:Dial
Press: New York,
1983. 2nd Edition 242 pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. An account of the plan
to aid the
French at Dien Bien Phu through the use of air power. Though not
implemented, the author argues that the
formulation of this plan led our
government to take unprecedented steps, steps that led inexorably to our
involvement in the Vietnam War.
928.) PRASHKER, IVAN: ->Duty, Honor, Vietnam:
Twelve Men of West Point Tell Their Stories. HC:Arbor House:
New York, 1988.
1st Edition 428 pgs., $12 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
23802.) PRATT,
Compiler JOHN CLARK: ->Vietnam Voices: Perspectives On the War years, 1941-1975.
PB:Univeristy of Georgia Press: Athens, GA, 1999. 694 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade
ed., a v/g plus copy.
929.) PRATT, JOHN CLARK: ->Vietnam Voices:
Perspective On the War Years, 1941 to 1982. HC:Viking Press: New
York, 1984.
1st Edition 706 pgs., $7.5 PB:Penguin Books: New York, 1984. 1st Edition 706
pgs., $5 Foxing of page
edges, a good plus copy in a v/g d/j. D/J has tear on
bottom edge of spine that has been repaired. Wraps a trade
ed., foxing of
page edges, o/w a v/g copy.opy.
28455.) PRESTON, ANDREW: ->The War Council:
McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam. A mint copy in a
mint d/j. Author
examinies the role of McGeroge Bundy and the National Security Council and holds
the
policymakers escalated the Vietnam conflict in the face of internal
opposition and external pressures.
5165.) PROCHNAU, WILLIAM: ->Once Upon
a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young
War
Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles. HC:Times Books: New York, 1995.
1st Edition 546 pgs., $3.95
Nameplate on inside cover, o/w a v/g plus copy in
a v/g plus d/j. An account of the reporters who were critical of
the Vietnam
War in the early days.
9655.) PRUDEN, Jr. WESLEY: ->Vietnam: The War.
PB:National Observer: Silver Spring, MD, 1965. 157 pgs., $56
Wraps trade size
ed., some cracking of spine, o/w a good only copy. The is a 'Newsbook' published
by the National
Observer on the Vietnam War and it represents an early in
depth report on the Vietnam War by a national media
organization.
7940.)
PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENT: ->Public Papers of the United States: Lyndon
Johnson 1968-69, Part
II. HC:Government Printing Office: Washingotn, DC,
1970. 740 pgs., $12 A v/g copy. Covers the period of July 1,
1968 to January
20, 1969.
3325.) PULLER, Jr. LEWIS B.: ->Fortunate Son. HC:Grove
Weidenfeld: New York, 1991. 4th Edition 389 pgs., $1.99
A v/g plus copy in a
v/g plus d/j. An autobiography by the son of Marine General Lewis Puller. He
committed
7559.) PYE, LUCIAN: ->Observations on the Chieu Hoi Program.
PB:Rand Corporation: Santa Monica, CA, 1969.
31 pgs., $4 Wraps monograph, a
mint copy. Study was conducted in July of 1965 and at that point, over 21,000
Vietnamese had responded to Open Arms Program.
21391.) PYLE, RICHARD and
HORST FAAS: ->Lost Over Laos: A True Story of Tragedy, Mystery, and Friendship.
HC:Da Capo Press: New York, 2003. 1st Edition 276 pgs., $2.99 Remainder mark
bottom edge, o/w a fine copy in
a fine d/j. Richard Pyle and Horst Fass
visited the crash site in 1998 where four combat photographers: Larry Burrows,
Henri Huet, Kent Porter, and Keisaburo Shimamoto were killed in 1971 during
Operation Lam Son 719, the
incursion into Laos on the part of the South
Vietnamese forces. They give their account of the lives of these combat
photographers in Vietnam and the visit to the site where they were killed.
Though it is popular to bash the media
coverage of the Vietnam War, it needs
to be noted that over 135 reporters and combat photographers on both sides
were killed or became missing in action. This large number was as a result of
fights the press engaged in at bars
and brothels in Saigon but was due to the
fact that they were out in field covering the troops in combat operations.
21465.) QUINN-JUDGE, SOPHIE: ->Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years. HC:University
of California Press: Berkeley, CA,
2003. 1st Edition 300 pgs., $12 A mint
copy in a mint d/j. This book explores Ho's pre-power political career, from
his emergence at the Paris peace Conference in 1919 to his organization of the
Viet Minh united front at the start of
the Second World War.
931.) RACE,
JEFFREY: ->War Comes To Long An: Revolutionary Conflict In a Vietnamese
Province. PB:University
of California Press: Berkeley, 1973. 9th Edition 299
pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. A classic study on
revolutionary conflict in Long An province, covering events from 1954 to 1965
with an analysis on how the situation
stood in 1968 and 1970.
932.) RADER,
DOTSON: ->I Ain't Marchin' Anymore. PB:Paperback Library: New York, 1969. 1st
Edition 160 pgs.,
$10 Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g copy. Cover blurb
states author is the Eldridge Cleaver of the 'white new left.'
933.)
RADVANYI, JANOS: ->Delusion and Reality: Gambits, Hoaxes and Diplomatic
One-Upmanship in Vietnam.
HC:Gateway Editions, Ltd.: South Bend, In., 1978.
1st Edition 295 pgs., $2.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
Author served
as Charge d'Affaires of the Hungarian Embassy in Washington from 1962 until his
defection in 1967.
He recounts how Moscow and its client states fostered
misleading reports to encourage bombing pauses that would
enable North
Vietnam to speed up its infiltration and resupply of forces in the South.
7223.) RAMIREZ, JUAN: ->A Patriot After All: The Story of a Chicano Vietnam
Vet. HC:University of New Mexico
Press: Albuquerque, NM, 1999. 1st Edition
179 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Personal memoir of a Marine
934.) RAMPARTS EDITORS with BANNING GARRETT and KATHERINE BARKLEY:->Two,
Three...Many Vietnams:
A Radical Reader On the Wars In SEA and the Conflicts
At Home. PB:Canfield Press: San Francisco, 1971. 272
pgs., $1.99 Wraps, a
trade ed., a v/g copy.
3063.) RAMPARTS MAGAZINE, EDS.: ->A Vietnam
Primer. PB:Ramparts: San Francisco, Ca., 1967. 96 pgs., $7.5
This edition has
a picture of Donald Duncan on front saying 'I quit.' Penciled marking on page
edge, o/w a v/g
copy. This publication consists of 8 articles published by
Ramparts Magazine from 1965 to 1966.
26699.) RAMSEY, III ROBERT D.:
->Advising Indigenous Forces: American Adviros in Korea, Vietnam, and El
Salvador. PB:Combat IStudies Institute Press: Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2006. 173
pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. This is Occasional Paper 18 in the
Global War on Terrorism series.
5147.) RAND STUDIES: ->The Lessons of the
War in Indochina. PB:Rand Corporation: Santa Monica, CA, 1967.
411 pgs.,
$29.5 Wraps monograph in a comb binding, a mint copy. This is volume two of a
three volume study
issued by the Commander in Chief of French forces in
Indochina. Volume I dealt with high level politico-military
issues, this
volume provides a summary of the experience of the war, and volume seeks to
deduce guidance from
this experience. V.J. Croizat translated this study from
the French.
2628.) RANDLE, ROBERT F.: ->Geneva 1954: The Settlement of
the Indochinese War. HC:Princeton University
Press: Princeton, N.J., 1969.
639 pgs., $15 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. An excellent study on the
Geneva
27466.) RANDOLPH, STEPHEN P.; ->Powerful and Brutal Weapons: Nixon,
Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive.
HC:Harvard University Press: Cambridge,
2007. 1st Edition 401 pgs., $15 Signed by author, a mint copy in a mint
d/j.
A book that reveals the decisions make by the Vietnamese Politburo and the Nixon
White House in respect to the
Easter Offensive, the last major campaign of
the Vietnam War. Provides an excelent background of the last years
of U.S.
military involvement within Vietnam.
285.) RASKIN, Eds. MARCUS G. and
BERNARD FALL: ->The Viet-Nam Reader: Articles and Documents On
American
Foreign Policy and the Viet-Nam Crisis. HC:Random House: New York, 1965. 1st
Edition 415 pgs., $12
PB:Vintage Books: New York, 1967. REV. Edition 526
pgs., $5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Another copy, $10.00, a v/g
copy without
d/j.. Wraps, a mass market ed., a v/g copy.
20803.) RATHER, Eds.
JULIA D. and JEFFREY MICHAEL DUFF:->Register of Vietnam War Casualties From
Kentucky. PB:Public records Division: Frankfort, KY, 1988. 216 pgs., $25 Wraps
trade ed., a v/g plus copy. This
work was compiled by the Military Records
and Research Library of the Department of Military Affairs at Frankfort,
Kentucky. Records were obtained from the Department of Defense.
25491.)
RAWLINGS, Ed. SALLY: ->Phantoms Over Vietnam: US Navy F4 Phantoms, 1965-1973.
HC:Osprey
Publishing Ltd.: Oxford, UK, 2002. BC Edition 194 pgs., $12.5 A
mint copy in a lamianted cover.. Contributors
include Robert Dorr, Peter
Mersky, Angelo Romano, Nick Stroud, and Don Willis. Well illustrated with
substantive
text..
5969.) RAWLS, Ed. WALTON: ->Offerings At the Wall:
Artifacts From the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection.
PB:Turner
Publishing, Inc.: Atlanta, 1995. 1st Edition 288 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade edl., a
v/g copy Preface written by
Thomas B. Allen. Photos of artifacts are all in
color.
939.) RAY, Ed. SIBNARAYAN: ->Vietnam Seen From East and West: An
International Symposium. HC:Frederick A.
Praeger Pub.: New York, 1967. 2nd
Edition 192 pgs., $2.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j, Contributors to the book
include P.J. Honey, Hoang Van Chi, Tiao Somsanith, Robert A. Scalapino.
938.) RAY, MICHELE: Translated by ELISABETH ABBOTT:->The Two Shores of Hell.
HC:David McKay Co.: New
York, 1968. 217 pgs., $10 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Book is an account of a French journalist's life among the
Vietcong and
G.I.'s in Vietnam. Title originally published in France in 1967 by Robert Lafont
under the title 'Des
deux rives de l'enter.'
3390.) RAYLE, JAMES F.:
->Stay Out of the Wheat Field. PB:American Vision Publishing: Findlay, Oh.,
1993. 1st
Edition 269 pgs., $6 Wraps trade size ed., a v/g copy. Title was
originally written as therapy by an enlisted man who
24948.) REARDON, CAROL:
->Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972.
HC:University Press of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 2005. 1st Edition 419 pgs., $12.5 A
very fine copy in a very fine d/j.
The author chronicles the operations of
Attack Squadron 75 that operated off the U.S.S. Saratoga during the
Linebacker campaigns.
6321.) REED, PAUL: ->Kontum Diary: Captured
Writings Bring Peace to a Vietnam Veteran. HC:Summit Publishing:
Arlington,
TX, 1996. 1st Edition 198 pgs., $10 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Account of a
Vietnam veteran who seeks
out the family of the Vietnamese soldier whose
diary he had kept after returning to the states. He later found that the
soldier had not been killed as supposed and he visited him in Vietnam, going
back to the site of where the battle of
Kontum took place.
29299.) REICH,
DALE E.: ->Rockets Life Rain: A Year in Vietnam. Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
Memoir of an
enlisted man who served in Vietnam, coming from a little town
called Oconomowoc, WI. which lost 10 ken during
22695.) REILLY, THOMAS
L.: ->Next of Kin: A Brother's Journey to Wartime Vietnam. HC:Barssey's Inc.:
Dulles, VA,
2003. 1st Edition 271 pgs., $12 A very fine copy in a very fine
d/j. An account of a brother's journey to Vietnam to
find out how his brother
serving in Vietnam died as the U.S. Army reported his death was not due to
combat.
2630.) REISCHAUER, EDWIN O.: ->Beyond Vietnam: The United States
and Asia. HC:Alfred A. Knopf: New York,
1967. 1st Edition 242 pgs., $7.5 A
v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Author served as Ambassador to Japan from 1961 to
8687.) RENDALL, IVAN: ->Rolling Thunder: Jet Combat From World War II to the
Gulf War. PB:Dell Books: New
York, 2000. 1st Edition 383 pgs., $6.5 Wraps
mass market ed., a mint copy. This book contains one chapter on the
946.)
RESTON, JR. JAMES: ->Sherman's March and Vietnam. HC:Macmillian Publishing Co.:
New York, 1984. 1st
Edition 323 pgs., $3.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus
d/j. Author draws parellels between the Vietnam experience
and our Civil War
experience. A must for those having interests in both wars.
947.)
RESTON, Jr. JAMES: ->The Amnesty of John David Herndon. HC:McGraw-Hill: New
York, 1973. 1st Edition
146 pgs., $2.99 PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1974. 208
pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps, a
mass market ed., a
v/g copy. Account of a twenty-four year high school dropout of Appalachia
background who went
AWOL from the army in 1970. He lived in Paris but came
back to the United States in 1972 under the sponsorship of
Safe Return, a
veterans' organization, to face the charge of desertion. The army simply gave a
discharge for
dishonorable conduct. Reston tells Herdon's story just before
he returned from Paris to the United States. The author
wrote an expanded
edition to this title in 1974 and it was published in paperback only by Bantam
Books.
34113.) REYES, ADELAIDA: ->Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free.
Wraps trade ed., number on enpaper &
date on title page written in, o/w a
fine copy. An ethnographic study of music of Vietnamese refugees who fled their
country after the fall of Saigon in 1975. the music both look back to the past
as wall as forward to new vietnamese-
American identities.American Music o er
th study
4573.) RHOADES, Eds. DENNIS K, MICHAEL R. LEAVECK & JAMES C.
HUDSON:->The Legacy of Vietnam
Veterans and Their Families--Survivors of War:
Catalysts for Change. PB:Government Printing Office: Washington,
DC, 1995.
496 pgs., $15 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
5295.) RHODES, MARVIN:
->Testify! Vietnam Veterans in Photographs and Interviews. PB:Rhodes Publishing
Project: Decatur, GA, 1985. 78 pgs., $3.95 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A photo
book of Vietnam veterans with brief
but concise text on their present
situation and attitude toward their Vietnam experience.
22204.) RICE, Jr.
EARL: ->Point of No Return: Tonkin Gulf and the Vietnam War. PB:Morgan Reynolds
PUblishing:
Greensboro, NC, 2003. 144 pgs., $7.5 Wraps, an uncorrected proof
copy, a mint copy. A book on the Gulf of Tonkin
incident and how it effected
the course of the vietnam War. Written for Junior High students.
25155.)
RICHARDSON, Jr. JOHN H.: ->My Father the Spy: An Investigative Memoir.
HC:HarperCollins: New York,
2005. 1st Edition 314 pgs., $12.5 A mint copy in
a mint d/j. Memoir of the son of the CIA station chief who was
recalled just
prior to the coup against Diem.
804.) RIGG, ROBERT B.: ->How To
Stay Alive in Vietnam. HC:Stackpole Books: Harrisburg, Pa., 1966. 1st Edition
95 pgs., $7.5 Writing on inside cover, o/w a v/g copy. Author served in Vietnam
in 1963 and drew upon his
805.) RISNER, ROBINSON: ->The Passing of the
Night: My Seven Years As a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese.
HC:Konecky &
Konecky: Old Saybrook, CT, 1973. Rep. Edition 264 pgs., $3.99 A mint copy in a
mint d/j..
Personal account of an Air Force pilot shot down over Vietnam and
taken prisoner in 1965.
4039.) ROBERTS, ARCHIBALD E.: ->Peace By the
Wonderful People Who Brought You Korea and Vietnam.
HC:Educator Publications:
Fullerton, CA, 1972. 1st Edition 381 pgs., $5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Basically
the book
is an anti-United Nations tract writen by an a former Army military
officer.
806.) ROBERTS, CRAIG and CHARLES W. SADDER:->The Walking Dead: A
Marine's Story of Vietnam. PB:Pocket
Books: New York, 1989. 1st Edition 238
pgs., $6 Wraps mass market ed., a v/g copy. Author served as a PFC with the
9th Marines starting in July of 1965.
3142.) ROBERTS, CRAIG: ->Combat
Medic-Vietnam. HC:Pocket Books: New York, 1991. BC Edition 232 pgs., $12.5
PB:Pocket Books: New York, 1991. 1st Edition 232 pgs., $5 A v/g plus copy in a
v/g plus d/j. Wraps mass market ed.,
a v/g copy. Written by a Marine enlisted
man who served in Vietnam. Book contains accounts of medics serving in
Vietnam based on oral histories and U.S. goverment documents.
24291.)
ROBERTS, SHAWN and JODY WILLIAMS: ->After the Guns Fall Silent: The Enduring
Legacy of
Landmines. PB:Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation: Washington,
DC, 1995. 1st Edition 554 pgs., $12.5
Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. The book
deals with the global landmine crisis.
807.) ROBINSON, Ed. ANTHONY:
->Weapons of the Vietnam War. HC:Gallery Books: New York, 1983. 1st Edition
139 pgs., $3.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. More than just a picture, excellent
text, Antony Preston writes on naval
aspect of the war, Ian V. Hogg on the
land war and Robinson on the air war.
6962.) ROCHESTER, STUART and
FREDERICK KILEY: ->Honor Bound: The History of American Prisoners of War
in
Southeast Asia, 1961-1973. HC:Naval Institute Press: Annapolis, MD, 1999. 6th
Edition 706 pgs., $15 A fine
copy in a fine d/j. This is a very definitive
account of what happened to American prisoners of war during captivity in
Southeast Asia.
6025.) ROGERS, DALE EVANS: ->Salute to Sandy. HC:Fleming H.
Revell Co.: Westwood, NJ, 1967. 117 pgs.,
$3.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. D/J
has some chipping on top edge. Personal account by Dale Rogers of her son
Sandy who died in the service while stationed in Germany. While there, he sought
to serve in Vietnam. Afterwards,
his parents entertained troops stationed
there and saw this as a way of honoring their son who wanted to serve there.
25715.) ROLLINS, Eds. PETER C. and J. ELDON YATES: ->Journal of the Vietnam
Veterans Institute, Volume 4,
November 1, 1995. PB:Vietnam Veterans
Institute: Washingotn, DC, 1995. 109 pgs., $5 Wraps monograph, a very
fine
copy. Issues covered in this issue are Vietnam in Academe, A New PTSD Treatment
and Archives for Study.
5761.) ROLPH, HAMMOND: ->Vietnamese Communism and
the Protracted War. PB:American Bar Association:
New York, 1971. 87 pgs., $6
Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus copy. This study was distributed by the American Bar
Association's Standing Committee on Education about Communism and Its Contrast
with Liberty Under Law. The
committee states that it represents only the
opinion of the author and is being distributed for information.
3165.)
ROSENBERG, MILTON J., SIDNEY VERBA and PHILIP E. CONVERSE:->Vietnam and the
Silent Majority:
The Dove's Guide. PB:Harper & Row: New York, 1970. 1st
Edition 162 pgs., $5 Wrasp mass market, a v/g copy.
Book contains a foreword
by Senator McGovern. It seeks to persuade the American people to reject the war
and call
for its termination through a political settlement.
3237.)
ROSENBURGH, BOB: ->Snake Driver! Cobras in Vietnam. PB:Ivy Books: New York,
1993. 1st Edition 202
pgs., $6 Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g plus copy.
Story of the Cobra, its development and introduction into Vietnam
during the
summer of 1967. Author interviewed 12 person who flew with the Cobra.
4811.) ROSSER-OWEN, DAVID: ->Vietnam Weapons Handbook. HC:Patrick Stephens Ltd.:
Wellingborough, UK,
1986. BC Edition 136 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
This book includes details of all ground weapons used by
the opposing forces
during the Vietnam War.
2636.) ROSTOW, W. W.: ->The Diffusion of Power:
1957-1972. HC:Macmillian Publishing Co.: New York, 1972. 1st
Edition 739
pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
8046.) ROTTER, Ed. ANDREW J.: ->Light
at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology. PB:Scholarly
Resources,
Inc.: Wilmington, DE, 1999. REV. Edition 440 pgs., $5.95 Wraps trade ed., a very
fine copy. There are 39
28408.) ROTTMAN, G.: ->Viet Cong and NVA Tunnels
and Fortifications of the Vietnam War. Wraps trade ed., a
mint copy.
Illustrated by C. Taylor, A. Mallinson, and L. Ray.
28409.) ROTTMAN,
GORDON L.: ->Khe Sanh 1967-68: Marines Battle for Vietnam's Vital Hilltop Base.
Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. Illustrated by H. Gerrard & P. Dennis.
28410.) ROTTMAN, GORDON L.: ->special Forces Camps in Vietnam 1961-1970.
PB:Osprey Publishing: New
York, 2005. 1st Edition 64 pgs., $15.5 Wraps trade
ed., a mint copy. Illustrated by Chris Taylor.
967.) ROWE, JAMES N.:
->Five Years to Freedom. PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 1988. 1st Edition 465
pgs., $4
Wraps a mass market ed., a good plus copy. Author served in the
Special Forces and was captured. He escaped after
five years of captivity. In
1989, he was assassinated while serving in the Philippines.
5785.) ROWE,
JR. JAMES: ->Love To All, Jim: A Young Man's Letters from Vietnam. PB:Strawberry
Hill Press: San
Fancisco, CA, 1989. 125 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g
copy. These letters were written by Rowe, a young army
enlisted man, from
October, 1967 until June, 1968 when he was killed while on patrol. Letters were
edited and
published by his sister.
968.) ROY, JULES: Translated from the
French by ROBERT BALDICK with introduction by NEIL->The Battle of
Dienbienphu. PB:Carroll & Graff Publishers: New York, 1989. 2nd Edition 344
pgs., $6 Wraps trade ed., a v/g plus
copy. . Title was originally published
by Rene Julliard under the title La Bataille de Dien Bien Phu in 1963.
4512.) RUBIN, JERRY: ->Do It! PB:Simon & Schuster: New YOrk, 1970. 5th Edition
256 pgs., $10 Wraps trade ed.,
creasing of front cover, o/w a v/g copy. A
period piece of the 60's protesting everything. Rubin deals in this book with
a wide range of issues and not just the Vietnam War.
4812.) RUDENSTINE,
DAVID: ->The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case.
HC:University
of California Press: Berkeley, CA, 1996. 2nd Edition 416 pgs.,
$9.95 PB:Univeristy of California Press: Berkeley, CA,
1996. 2nd Edition 416
pgs., $3.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. The author
is Associate
Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.
5515.) RUPEN, Eds. ROBERT
A. and ROBERT FARRELL:->Vietnam and the Sino-Soviet Dispute. HC:Frederick A.
Praeger Publisher: New York, 1967. 120 pgs., $12 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. The
papers presented in this book grew
out of a symposium on the theme 'Vietnam
and the Sino-Soviet Dispute' held at the Institute for the Study of the
USSR
in Munich, Germany in 1966.
5795.) RUSCIO, ALAIN: ->Dien Bien Phu: La Fin
D'Une Illusion. PB:Editions L'Harmattan: Paris, 1987. 124 pgs.,
$19.95 Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy.
8653.) RUSCIO, ALAIN: ->Les communistes francais et
la guerre d'Indochine, 1944-1954. PB:L'Harmattan: Paris,
1985. 422 pgs.,
$39.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. French text.
970.) RUST, WILLIAM J.:
->Kennedy In Vietnam. HC:Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1985. 1st Edition
252 pgs.,
$7.5 PB:Da Capo Press: New York, 1987. 252 pgs., $2.5 A v/g plus
copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g
plus copy. Author interviewed
virtually all of the living principals at the time the book was being research
and
documents that had been newly declassified at the time.
971.)
RUTLEDGE, HOWARD and PHYLLIS with MEL and LYLA WHITE:->In the Presence of Mine
Enemies: 1965-
1973. HC:Fleming H. Revell: Old Tappan, N.J., 1973. 124 pgs.,
$1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. Account of a
Naval pilot who was a P.O.W.
for sever years.
8701.) SACHS, DANA: ->The House on Dream Street: Memoir
of an American Woman in Vietnam. HC:Algonquin
Books: Chapel Hill, NC, 2000.
1st Edition 348 pgs., $2.99 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Memoir of a journalist
who
went to Vietnam to live in the early nineties, then return in 1998 and
wrote this memoir after returning.
974.) SACK, JOHN: ->The Man-Eating
Machine. HC:Farrar Strauss & Giroux: New York, 1973. 1st Edition 177 pgs.,
$12.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book is an account of four men who has served in
Vietnam and have returned home
to life with America which is dubbed the
'man-eating-machine.' One of the four men is Lieutentant Calley.
977.) SAFER, MORLEY: ->Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam. HC:Random House: New
York, 1990. 2nd Edition
206 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j. A
popular account of a return to Vietnam by a reporter who covered
7221.)
SAGAR, D.J.: ->Major Political Events in Indo-China, 1945-1990. HC:Facts on
File: New York, 1991. 230
pgs., $25 A fine copy in a fine d/j.
30132.)
SAGER, MIKE: ->Wounded Warriors: Those For Whom the War Never Ends. PB:Da Capo
Press: New York,
2008. 1ST Edition 261 pgs., $15.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. A collection of pieces of the lives of people for
whom the war does not
end. One piece is on Vietnam veterans living in Thailand.
30286.)
SALEMINK, OSCAR: ->The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A
Historical Contextualization,
1850-1990. A mint copy in a laminated cover.
Study makes a significant contribution to the knowledge of ethnic
978.)
SALISBURY, HARRISON E.: ->Behind the Lines-Hanoi: December 23-January 7.
HC:Harper and Row: New
York, 1967. 1st Edition 243 pgs., $2.99 A v/g plus
copy in v/g plus d/j. .
29744.) SALLAH, MICHAEL and MITCH WEISS: ->Tiger
Force: A True Story of Men and War. HC:Little, Brown:
Boston, 2006. 1ST
Edition 401 pgs., $2.99 A mint copy in a mint d/j. An account of a force whose
mission was to
seek enemy compounds and hiding places that bombing targets
could be accurately targeted.
24504.) SANDBROOK, DOMINIC: ->Eugene
McCarthy: the Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism. HC:Alfred
A.
Knopf: New York, 2004. BC Edition 397 pgs., $2.99 A mint copy in a fine d/j. An
account of the political life of
Eugene McCarthy with three chapters dealing
with campaign in 1968.
979.) SANSOM, ROBERT L.| ->The Economics of
Insurgency in the Mekong Delta. PB:MIT Press: Cambridge,
MA`, 1971. 1st
Edition 283 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A survey of the Mekong delta
economy with
several chapters dealing with the Viet Cong and South Vietnamese
government economies at war.
980.) SANTOLI, AL: ->Everything We Had.
HC:Random House: New York, 1981. 2nd Edition 265 pgs., $7.5
PB:Ballantine
Books: New York, 1982. 235 pgs., $5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps
trade ed., a v/g plus
copy. The most popular oral history of the Vietnam War
published to date. Book consists of accounts given by 33
American soldiers.
3460.) SANTOLI, AL: ->Leading the Way: How Vietnam Veterans Rebuilt the U.S.
Military: An Oral History.
HC:Ballantine Books: New York, 1993. 2nd Edition
428 pgs., $7.5 PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 1994. 1st Edition
409 pgs., $5
Review copy with review laid in, a fine copy, spine of d/j slightly faded, o/w a
v/g plus d/j. Wraps a
mass market ed., a v/g plus copy. Oral histories of
fifty-six persons, ranging from Colin Powell to a Marine Master
Sergeant.
981.) SANTOLI, AL: ->To Bear Any Burden: The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
In Words of Americans and
Southeast Asians HC:E.P. Dutton & Co.: New York,
1985. 1st Edition 367 pgs., $12 Review copy with review laid in
a v/g plus
copy . D/J has wear tip of back cover, o/w a v/g d/j. Book consists of oral
histories by Americans and
Southeast Asians and covers the different periods
of the war from 1954 to 1975.
2638.) SARDESAI, D. R.: ->Indian Foreign Policy
In Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, 1947-1964. HC:Univeristy of
California:
Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968. 336 pgs., $15 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book
examines the role India
Inida played as Chairman of the International Control
Commission and oprovides an analysis of Indian foreign policy
toward a region
of interest to her and China.
20547.) SASSER, CHARLES W.: ->Raider. PB:St.
Martin's Press: New York, 2002. 1st Edition 319 pgs., $6 Wraps
mass market
ed., a mint copy. An account of the career of Galen Kittleson who performed more
POW raids than any
oother American in history. He served in World War II and
he was involved in the raid of Son Tay. 135 pages are
devoted to the Vietnam
War and the raid on Son Tay.
984.) SATURDAY EVENING POST 1962, JAN. 6TH:
->Last Chance For Vietnam. PB:: , . 0 pgs., $4 A v/g copy. A
7 page article
written by Don Schanche.
987.) SATURDAY EVENING POST 1964, AUG. 22-28:
->Vietnam: Why Reds Keep Gaining. PB:: , . 0 pgs., $4
Cover loose but taped
back on, o/w a v/g reading copy. A seven page article by Stanley A. Karnow.
5802.) SATURDAY EVENING POST 1969, FEBRUARY 8th: ->Peace in Vietnam? PB:: ,
. 0 pgs., $4 A v/g copy.
Subject contains three articles, one by A.J.
Langguth titled 'How Do We Get Out,' another by Joe McGinniss titled
'Three
Came Home' and the third by Senator Fulbirght titled 'Where Do We Go From Here?'
3760.) SATURDAY EVENING POST, 1967 DECEMBER 16TH:->Journey to North Vietnam.
PB:: , . 0 pgs., $4
Cover worn and paritally and teorn along spine, ow/a good
plus copy. Account by journaoist David Schoenbrun who
3461.) SAUTER, MARK
and JIM SANDERS:->The Men We Left Behind: Henry Kissinger, the Politics of
Deceit and
the Tragic Fate of POWs After the Vietnam War. HC:National Press
Books: Washington, D.C., 1993. 1st Edition 394
pgs., $12.5 A v/g plus copy in
a v/g plus d/j. Written in the aftermath of the Senate Senate Committee on
POW/MIA Affairs. Authors claim that this committee covered up the true story on
the POW/MIA issue in order to
protect Henry Kissinger and other U.S.
officials. The authors claim to name the names of specific prisoners left
behind that was told to the committee in secret testmony by the Pentagon's top
POW expert. Also, they allege to
uncover new evidence that some prisoners may
have been secretly returned to the United States.
5017.) SCALES, Jr.
ROBERT H.: ->Firepower in Limited War. PB:National Defense University Press:
Washingotn,
D.C., 1990. 1st Edition 290 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g
copy. Approximately 125 pages are devoted to the First
26175.) SCHALK,
DAVID L.: ->War and the Ivory Tower: Algeria and Vietnam. PB:University of
Nebraska Press:
Lincoln, NE, 2005. 258 pgs., $5.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. Author compares the role of the intellectual in
America in protesting
the Vietnam War with the role of the intellectual in France protesting the
Algerian war. This
edition has a new introduction by the author with prefaces
by Benjamin Stora and George C. Herring.
995.) SCHEER, ROBERT: ->How the
United States Got Involved in Vietnam: A Report to the Center for the Study of
Democratic.. PB:Center for Study of Democratic Institutions: Santa Barbara, Ca.,
1966. 4th Edition 80 pgs., $1.99
8463.) SCHEER, ROBERT: ->Thinking Tuna
Fish, Talking Death: Essays On the Pornography of Power. HC:Hill and
Wang:
New York, 1988. 1st Edition 389 pgs., $10 A fine copy in a v/g d/j. This is a
collection of 21 articles and
essays by Robert Scheer, five of which deal
with the Vietnam War.
5232.) SCHELL, JOHNATHAN: ->The Time of Illusion.
HC:Alfred A. Knoff: New York, 1975. 1st Edition 404 pgs.,
$2.99 PB:Vintage
Books: New York, 1976. 404 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps trade ed.,
a v/g copy. A
reflective account by the author of President Nixon's years in
office. He wrote a number of essays during this time as
a writer for the New
Yorker and this book originated from these articles.
996.) SCHELL,
JONATHAN: ->The Military Half: An Account of Destruction In Quang Ngai and Quang
Tin.
HC:Random House: New York, 1968. 1st Edition 212 pgs., $3.99 Ex-library,
a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Account of the
destruction of villages by air
strikes and artillery fire.
998.) SCHEMMER, BENJAMIN F.: ->The Raid.
HC:Harper & Row: New York, 1976. BC Edition 276 pgs., $10 A v/g
copy in a v/g
d/j. This is an account of the attempted rescue of POWs in 1970 at Son Tay
prison, 23 miles outside
2643.) SCHLESINGER, Jr. ARTHUR M.: ->A Thousand
Days: John F. Kennedy and His Times. HC:Houghton Mifflin
Co.: Boston, 1965.
BC Edition 1087 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. A good history written
before Vietnam
became such a divisive issue, thus not a history written in
retrospect.
1000.) SCHLESINGER, JR. ARTHUR M.: ->The Bitter Heritage:
Vietnam and American Democracy, 1941-1966.
HC:Houghton Mifflin Co.: Boston,
1967. 1st Edition 126 pgs., $2.95 PB:Fawcett Publications, Inc.: Greenwich, Ct.,
1967. REV. Edition 128 pgs., $1.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps a mass market
ed., a v/g copy.
5861.) SCHLIGHT, JOHN: ->A War Too Long: The History of
the USAF in Southeast Asia. PB:Air Force History and
Museums Program:
Washington, DC, 1996. 110 pgs., $7.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An excellent
overview and
critical assessment of the role of the Air Force in Southeast
Asia.
1254.) SCHLIGHT, JOHN: ->The War In South Vietnam: The Years of the
Offensive, 1965-1968. HC:Office of Air
Force History: Washington, D.C., 1988.
410 pgs., $3.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Title is part of the United
States Air Force in Southeast Asia series.
27337.) SCHMITZ, DAVID F.:
->The TET Offensive: Politics, War and Public Opinion. PB:Rowan & Littlefield:
Lanham, MD, 2005. 183 pgs., $18.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Author argues
that the media coverage of the
TET Offensive did not turn victory into defeat
in Vietnam.
7246.) SCHNEIDER, CHES: ->From Classrooms to Clayrooms.
PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1999. 1st Edition 276 pgs.,
$6.99 Wraps a mass market
ed., a mint copy. Memoir of a schoolteacher drafted 1969 and he served in the
lst
Infantry Division, then later with the lst Cavalry.
2426.)
SCHOENBAUM, THOMAS J.: ->Waging Peace and War: Dean Rusk in the Truman, Kennedy
& Johnson
Years. HC:Simon & Schuster: New York, 1988. 1st Edition 592 pgs.,
$2.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j..
1002.) SCHOENBRUN, DAVID: ->Vietnam: How
We Got In How To Get Out. HC:Atheneum: New York, 1968. 1st
Edition 214 pgs.,
$10 PB:Atheneum: New York, 1968. 4th Edition 214 pgs., $5 A v/g copy in a v/g
d/j. Wraps a
trade size ed., speckling outer edges, o/w a v/g copy. Author
was on the faculty of Columbia University when he wrote
the book and he has
served as a reporter and broadcaster. He lectured widely on campuses during the
anti-war
movement.
25589.) SCHOENL, Ed. WILLIAM: ->New Perspectives On the
Vietnam War: Our Allies' Views. PB:University Press
of America: Lanham, MD,
2002. 121 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Book is divided in two
parts, the first
being views during the Johnson years, the second being the
Nixon-Ford years. Provides a section on Eurpean allies'
views and another on
Asian allies' views.
6205.) SCHOLASTIC MAGAZINE, 1993, APRIL: ->Good Morning
Vietnam. PB:: , . 31 pgs., $2.5 Wraps, cover
slightly creased, o/w a v/g
copy. Total issue is devoted to the Vietnam War with the lead article oF two
Americans
who cycle from Saigon to Hanoi and take anew look at an old war.
1004.) SCHOLL-LATOUR, PETER: ->Death In the Ricefields: An Eyewitness
Account of Vietnam's Three Wars, 1945-
1979. HC:St. Martins Press: New York,
1985. 1st Edition 383 pgs., $25 PB:Penguin Books: New York, 1986. 383
pgs.,
$12.5 A v/g copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. Author a German
correspondent who first
travelled to Vietnam on a French troopship in 1945.
His accounts begin then and end in 1979 with visits to Laos and
Cambodia. The
best descriptive journalistic account of the Three Indochina Wars to date. Book
was first published
in 1979. Translated from the German by Faye Carney.
25400.) SCHOMP, VIRGINIA: ->America Voices from the Vietnam Era.
HC:Benchmark Books: Tarrytown, NY, 2005.
134 pgs., $12.5 Library binding, a
very fine copy. Book is for Junior High students and it part of a series that
explores American history through the voices of the people who lived it.
1005.) SCHRAG, PETER: ->Test of Loyalty: Daniel Ellsberg and the Rituals of
Secret Government. HC:Simon &
Schuster: New York, 1974. 1st Edition 414 pgs.,
$3.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. An account of Daniel Ellsberg's trial.
5448.) SCHRAMM-EVANS, ZOE: ->A Phoenix Rising: Impressions of Vietnam.
HC:Pandora: San Francisco, CA,
1996. 1st Edition 205 pgs., $2.99 A v/g plus
copy in a v/g plus d/j. Personal travel account by author in 1994.
4151.)
SCHREADLEY, R.L.: ->From the Rivers to the Sea: The U.S. Navy in Vietnam.
HC:Naval Institute Press:
Annapolis, MD, 1992. 2nd Edition 418 pgs., $15 A
v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. This is a single-volume history of
the U.S.
Navy's twenty-five year involvement in Vietnam and it describes all naval
operations at every level. Author
achieved the grade of commander in 1969
while serving as director of a special history project on the staff of
Commander Naval Forces Vietnam.
6250.) SCHULZINGER, ROBERT: ->A Time For War:
The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. HC:Oxford
University Press: New
York, 1997. 1st Edition 397 pgs., $4.95 A very fine copy in a fine d/j. Author
was Professor of
History and Director of the International Affairs Programs
at the Univerisity of Colorado at Boulder.
1009.) SCHURMANN, FRANZ, PETER
DALE SCOTT and REGINALD ZEINIK:->The Politics of Escalation in
Vietnam: A
Citizen's White Paper. PB:Fawcett World Library: Greenwich, Ct., 1966. 1st
Edition 160 pgs., $5 Wraps,
31453.) SCHWENKEL, CHRISTINA: ->The American
War in Contemporary Vietnam. PB:Indiana Univeristy Press:
Bloomington, IN,
2009. 1st Edition 264 pgs., $22.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An excellent
study on how the
American War is remembered today in Vietnam--in official and
unofficial histories and in everyday life. She also
analyzes visual
representations found in monumnets and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, photography
and art
exhibits and battlefield tours.
20062.) SCIGLIANO, ROBERT and GUY
H. FOX: ->Technical Assistance in Vietnam: The Michigan State University
Experience. HC:Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers: New York, 1967. 2nd Edition 79
pgs., $15 A v/g copy. A critical
evaluation of the Michigan State involvement
in Vietnam.
1011.) SCIGLIANO, ROBERT: ->South Vietnam: Nation Under
Stress. PB:Houghton Mifflin Co.: Boston, 1964. 237
pgs., $6 Ex-library, a v/g
plus copy. No d/j. An in depth analysis of the Diem regime with an epilogue on
the coup
7237.) SCOTT, PETER: ->Lost Crusade: America's Secret Cambodian
Mercenaries. HC:Naval Institute Press:
Annapolis, MD, 1998. 2nd Edition 194
pgs., $12.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. An account the the role of the Khmer
Krom paramilitaries during the Vietnam War. Written by an advisor to the Khmer
Krom.
7947.) SCRUGGS, Compiler JAN CRAIG: ->Why Vietnam Still Matters:
The War and the Wall. PB:Vietnam
Veterans Memorial Fund: McLean, VA, 1996.
1st Edition 132 pgs., $6 Wraps mass market ed., a fine copy. Book
contains
brief statements from over 50 persons on the Vietnam War, some being well known
while other are not. A
very interesting work.
4731.) SCRUGGS, JAN C. and
JOEL L. SWERDLOW:->To Heal a Nation: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
HC:Harper
& Row: New York, 1985. 1st Edition 414 pgs., $7.5 PB:Harper & Row: New York,
1992. 1st Edition 415
pgs., $3.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Wraps
trade ed., a v/g plus copy. This book tells the inside story of the
building
of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Introduction by Howard K. Smith and there is
an appendix that lists the
names of those 58,000 Americans who lost their
lives in Vietnam. Jan Scrugs was a leader creating the Vietnam
Veterans
Memorial.
3062.) SCRUGGS, JAN with editorial assistance from KIM MURPHY:->The
Wall That Heals. PB:Vietnam Veterans
Memorial Fund: McLean, Va., 1992. 1st
Edition 112 pgs., $6 Wraps, a mass market ed., a fine copy. Book contains a
number of personal accounts of persons and the role the Wall had in dealing with
Vietnam experience. Author
started and directed the effort to create a
memorial honoring those who served in Vietnam.
6624.) SCRUGGS, JAN:
->Writings On the Wall. PB:Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund: McLean, VA., n.d..
113
pgs., $5 Wraps mass market ed., a fine copy. Book contains a wide
selection of random comments and observations
from Colonel Harry G. Summers,
Jr. to George McGovern.
1012.) SCUTTS, JERRY: ->Wolf-Pack: Hunting
MIGS Over Vietnam.. HC:Motorbooks International Publishers:
Osceola, WI,
1988. 1st Edition 138 pgs., $4.95 PB:Warner Books: New York, 1989. 1st Edition
166 pgs., $1.99 A v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps a mass market ed., a v/g plus
copy. Account of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing of the USAF in
Vietnam.
21814.) SEA CLASSIC MAGAZINE EDS., ->The U.S. Navy in Vietnam. PB:Challenge
Publications, Inc.: Canoga
Park, CA, 1985. 114 pgs., $12 Wraps trade size
magazine, a v/g copy. Contains 12 articles on the U.S. Navy during
23247.) SEAH, AUDREY : ->Vietnam. HC:Marshall Cavendish Corporation: New York,
1994. 128 pgs., $6 Ex-
library, cover bound opposite of book pages, o/w a v/g
copy. Ttile is part of Cultures of the World series written for
3296.)
SEDDON, JAMES D.: ->Morning Glories Among the Peas: A Vietnam Veteran's Story.
PB:Iowa State
University Press: Ames, IA, 1990. 1st Edition 139 pgs., $2.5
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Personal memoir of an
Iowa farm boy who seeks
to come to terms with the horror of his Vietnam War experience.
9802.)
SEIPLE, ROBERT: ->A Missing Peace, Vietnam: Finally Healing the Pain.
HC:InterVarsity Press: Downers
Grove, IL, 1992. 1st Edition 194 pgs., $1.99 A
very fine copy in a very fine d/j. Book is written by the preisdent of
World
Vision, a Christian worldwide relief and development agency. He served in Marine
combat pilot in Vietnam.
2835.) SEVY, Ed. GRACE: ->The American
Experience in Vietnam: A Reader. HC:University of Oklahoma Press:
Norman,
Ok., 1989. 1st Edition 319 pgs., $7.5 A fine copy in a fine d/j. An anthology
consisting of three parts, 1.
the debate of why we went in and stayed so
long, 2. the military in Vietnam and 3. the role of the press during the
war.
1019.) SHAPLEN, ROBERT: ->Bitter Victory. HC:Harper & Row: New York, 1986. 1st
Edition 309 pgs., $2.99 A v/g
plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. Written by a
veteran news reporter who returned to Vietnam tne years after Hanoi's victory
1020.) SHAPLEN, ROBERT: ->The Lost Revolution. HC:Harper & Row: New York,
1965. 1st Edition 404 pgs., $12.5
PB:Harper & Row: New York, 1966. REV.
Edition 406 pgs., $4 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
1021.) SHAPLEN, ROBERT:
->The Road From War: Vietnam 1965-1970. HC:Harper & Row: New York, 1970. 1st
Edition 368 pgs., $2.99 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. An excellent account
for the period cover as Shaplen
covers in detail the internal political chaos
within the Saigon goverment, the confrontation in Paris as well as the war
being waged in the South by Hanoi.
2429.) SHAPLEN, ROBERT: ->Time Out of
Hand: Revolution and Reaction In Southeast Asia. HC:Harper & Row:
New York,
1969. 465 pgs., $1.99 Soiling top & bottom edges, foxing of about 90 pages in
two sections of book
due to poor quality of paper which is the case of every
copy I have seen, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
3717.) SHAPLEY, DEBORAH:
->Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara. A v/g plus copy in
a v/g d/j. A definitive work on McNamara with the bulk of the book dealing with
his service as Secretary of Defense.
1022.) SHARP, ULYSSES S. GRANT:
->Strategy For Defeat: Vietnam In Retrospect. HC:Presidio Press: San Rafael,
Ca., 1978. 2nd Edition 324 pgs., $2.99 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Admiral Sharp is
critical of the civilian leadership
during the war, describing it as
'fighting a war with one hand tied behind our backs.'
1023.) SHARP, USN
ADMIRAL U.S.G. and GENERAL W.C. WESTMORELAND, USA:->Report On the War In
Vietnam (As of 30 June 1968). PB:Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C.,
1968. 347 pgs., $29.5 Wraps, a
digital photocopied reprint of the study in
spiral binding. Report contains two sections, one on the air and naval
campaigns against North Vietnam and the Pacific Command-wide support of the and
(2) report on opetaions in
South Vietnam. Period covered is January 1964-June
1968. In addition, I have added to the sutdy a 34 page
index that was printed
separately by the Government Printing Office at the time the study was first
published.
26174.) SHAW, JOHN M.: ->The Cambodian Campaign: The 1970
Offensive and America's Vietnam War.
HC:University of Kansas: Lawrence, KS,
2005. 1st Edition 222 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Author argues
that
the 1970 Cambodian campaign effectively precluded any major North Vietnamese
military operations for over a
year.
903.) SHEEHAN, NEIL, E. W. KENWORTHY,
FOX BUTTERRFIELD, and HEDERICK SMITH:->Pentagon Papers: New
York Times
Edition. Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. D/J had been kept in a mylar cover
so it is clean and
1024.) SHEEHAN, NEIL: ->A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul
Vann and America In Vietnam. HC:Random House: New
York, 1988. BC Edition 861
pgs., $2.99 PB:Random House: New York, n.d.. 861 pgs., $1.99 A v/g plus copy in
a
v/g plus d/j. Wraps a trade size ed., a fine copy. Written by a noted
Vietnam reporter who focused on John Paul
Vann who served as an early advisor
in Vietnam and became outspoken in his criticism of the conduct of the
Vietnam War.
3034.) SHEEHAN, NEIL: ->After the War Was Over: Hanoi and
Saigon. HC:Random House: New York, 1992. 2nd
Edition 131 pgs., $10 PB:Vintage
Books: New York, 1993. 1st Edition 131 pgs., $5 A fine copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps
trade ed., a fine copy. Book is an account of the author's trip to Vietnam in
1989 when he visited Hanoi and Saigon.
In Saigon, he tracks down old
acquaintances. Portions of this book appeared in the New Yorker in different
form in
1991.
1025.) SHEEHAN, NEIL: ->The Armheiter Affair. HC:Random
House: New York, 1971. 2nd Edition 304 pgs., $3.95
A v/g copy in a v/g d/j..
Account of a Lieutenant Commander Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter being relieved of
his
command of a destroyer escort off the coast of Vietnam in 1966.
1026.) SHEEHAN, SUSAN: ->Ten Vietnamese. HC:Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1967. 1st
Edition 204 pgs., $10 Ex-
library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
1027.)
SHELDON, WALTER J.: ->Tigers In the Rice: The Story of Vietnam >From Ancient
Past to Uncertain Future.
HC:Crowell-Collier Press: New York, 1969. 1st
Edition 133 pgs., $12.5 Remainder mark bottom edge, o/w a v/g
copy in a v/g
d/j. Another copy, $10.00, ex-library, a v/g copy. Written for Junior High
students giving a good
historical overview of Vietnam.
1028.)
SHEPARD, ELAINE: ->The Doom Pussy. HC:Trident Press: New York, 1967. 3rd Edition
300 pgs., $1.99
Remainder mark top edge, o/w a v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book is
on night fliers over North Vietnam who wore 'Doom
Pussy' patch. Author was a
correspondent.
3438.) SHEPPARD, DON: ->Riverine: A Brown-Water Sailor in
the Delta, 1967. HC:Presidio Press: Novato, CA,
1992. 326 pgs., $15 A very
fine copy in a very fine d/j. Memoir of a Gamewarden who commanded the river
boats
'U.S. Navy PBR's' on the Bassac River in South Vietnam in 1967.
22400.) SHIBATA, SHINGO: ->Lessons of the Vietnam War: Philosophical
Considerations on the Vietnam
Revolution. HC:B. R. Gruner Publishing Co.:
Amsterdam, 1973. 229 pgs., $19.5 A v/g plus copy. The author was
professor of
Hosei Univeristy in Tokya at the time of the book's publication. He was
supportive of what he labels the
Vietnamese Revolution led by Ho Chi Minh.
5562.) SHIRAISHI, MASAYA: ->Japanese Relations With Vietnam: 1951-1987.
PB:Southeast Asia Program Cornell
University: Ithaca, NY, 1990. 164 pgs.,
$12.5 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy.
810.) SHOOK, JOHN H.: ->One Soldier.
HC:Bantam Books: New York, 1986. BC Edition 339 pgs., $12 A v/g plus
copy in
a v/g plus d/j. Account by an enlisted man of his basic training, quitting OCS
and then his tour in Vietnam as
8047.) SHULTZ, Jr. RICHARD H.: ->The
Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy's and Johnson's Use of Spies,
Saboteurs,
and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam. HC:Harper Collins: New York, 1999. 1st
Edition 408 pgs., $3.99
A fine copy in a fine d/j. The study focuess on the
Pentagon's Special Operations Group, operating under the cover
name of
Stuides and Observation Group. Based on declassified SOG documents and
interviews with SOG officers
who operated these program and senior officials
who directed this war. An excellent study.
7321.) SIDEL, MARK: ->Old
Hanoi. HC:Oxford University Press: New York, 1998. 72 pgs., $19.95 A mint copy.
Title is part of the Images of Asia series, contains 20 black and white photos
and 21 color photos.
3295.) SIMMONS, EDWIN H.: ->The Illustrated History
of the Vietnam War: Marines. HC:Bantam Books: New York,
1987. BC Edition 158
pgs., $3.99 PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1987. 1st Edition 158 pgs., $1.99 A fine
copy in a
v/g plus d/j. Wraps a trade size ed., a v/g plus copy. Author was a
Brigadier General in the Marines and served two
tours in Vietnam. He is
author of 'The United States Marine Corps, 1775-1975. As with other books in
this series, it is
well illustrated and accompanied with an informative text.
6385.) SIMONS, DONALD L.: ->I Refuse: Memories of a Vietnam War Objector.
PB:Broken Rifle Press: Trenton, NJ,
1992. 181 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a
fine copy. A personal memoir of a conscientious objector during the
20809.)
SIMONS, FRANK D.: ->You Don't Cry for Heroes: The POW Dilemma. PB:Civil Fact
Finding Commission:
Rochester, IN, 1988. 196 pgs., $5 Wraps trade ed., signed
by author, a v/g plus copy. Author argues that POWs were
left behind in
Vietnam and Laos.
936.) SIMONS, WILLIAM E.: ->Coercion In Vietnam?
PB:Rand Corporation: San Monica, Ca., 1969. 111 pgs.,
$8.5 Monograph format,
a v/g plus copy. Author examines the public record of the first half of 1965 to
determine
whether U.S. air strikes against North Vietnam represented an
attempt at military coercion.
23248.) SIMPSON, HOWARD R.: ->Bush Hat,
Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer. HC:Brassey's:
Dulles, VA,
1998. 1st Edition 206 pgs., $6 A mint copy in a mint d/j. The author served in
Vietnam during the early
years with Conien and Lansdale. However, most of the
book covers his many other assignments.
2652.) SIMPSON, III CHARLES M.:
->Inside the Green Berets. HC:Presidio Press: Novato, Ca., 1983. BC Edition 236
pgs., $2.5 PB:Berkeley Books: New York, 1984. 11th Edition 258 pgs., $1.99 A v/g
plus copy in a v/g d/j. Wraps
mass market ed., a v/g copy. Author spent 9 of
his 30 year Army career with U.S. Army Special Forces. From 1969-71
he was
directly responsible for a Special Forces Group with operational and planning
responsibilities for all of Asia.
6867.) SINAIKO, Ed. EVE: ->Vietnam:
Reflexes and Reflections: The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum.
HC:Harry
N. Abrams, Inc.: New York, 1998. 256 pgs., $6 Remainder mark top edge, o/w a
very fine copy in a very
fine d/j. The book is sponsored by the National
Vietnam Veterans Art Museum located in Chicago. Book contains
307
illustrations, including 123 plates in full color. For those visiting Chicago,
it is located at 1801 South Indiana
Avenue and I would highly recommend your
visiting it.
950.) SINGLAUB, JOHN K. with MALCOLM McCONNELL:->Hazardous Duty:
An American Soldier In the Twentieth
Century. HC:Summit Books: New York,
1991. 1st Edition 574 pgs., $4.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book covers
Singlaub's OSS days behind enemy lines in Europe & Asia, then his heading CIA
operations in postwar Manchuria.
Korea follows and then Vietnam where he
manages a secret war along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. He also tells of his
work
with the Contras.
951.) SIVARAM, M.: ->The Vietnam War: Why? HC:Charles E.
Tuttle: Rutland, VT, 1966. 4th Edition 175 pgs., $6
PB:Charles E. Tuttle:
Rutland, VT, 1968. 8th Edition 175 pgs., $4 Ex-library, a v/g copy in a v/g d/j.
Wraps a trade
size ed., a v/g copy. Author an Indian journalist.
8539.) SKOLNICK, JEROME H.: ->The Politics of Protest. PB:Ballantine Books: New
York, 1970. 4th Edition 419
pgs., $5 Wraps mass market ed., foxing of page
tips, o/w a v/g copy. This is a report prepared for the National
Commission
on the Causes and Prvention of Violence.
3969.) SMALL, Eds. MELVIN and
WILLIAM D. HOOVER:->Give Peace A Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar
Movement. Ex-library, a v/g plus copy. No d/j. Book relies heavily on oral
histories and the editors give brief
introudctions to these histories. There
is a Foreward by George McGovern.
26172.) SMALL, MELVIN: ->At the Water's
Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War. HC:Ivan R. Dee: Chicago,
2005.
1st Edition 241 pgs., $12.5 Review copy with review laid in, a mint copy in a
mint d/j. Author explores how
partisan considerations influenced the policies
of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in regard to Vietnam.
3992.) SMITH, GARY D. and ALAN MAKI:->Death in the Jungle: Diary of a Navy SEAL.
HC:Paladin Press: Boulder,
CO, 1994. 332 pgs., $12.5 PB:Ivy Books: New York,
1996. 2nd Edition 321 pgs., $5.99 Wraps a mass market ed., a
fine copy. Book
is an account of Gary Smith who served 32 months in Vietnam and engaged in 257
combat
missions.
5171.) SMITH, GARY R. and ALAN MAK ->Death in the Delta:
Diary of a Navy Seal. PB:Ivy Books: New York,
1996. 1st Edition 240 pgs.,
$5.99 Wraps mass market ed., a mint copy. This book covers the author's third
and fourth
5170.) SMITH, GARY R.: ->Master Chief: Diary of a Navy Seal.
PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1996. 1st Edition 308 pgs.,
$5.99 Wraps mass market
ed., a mint copy. in this book, the author recounts his fifth tour in Vietnam as
a SEAL.
4043.) SMITH, GEORGE E.: ->P.O.W.: Two Years With the Vietcong.
HC:Ramparts Press: Berkeley, CA, 1971. 1st
Edition 304 pgs., $25 A v/g copy
in a v/g d/j. Account of a Special Forces Sergeant who was captured in 1963 and
released two years later by Vietcong as a gesture in honor of Norman Morrison,
the Quaker pacifist who immolated
himself on the steps of the Pentagon. He
gives an interesting account of the time he spent with his captors in spite
of its ideological bias.
8251.) SMITH, GEORGE W.: ->The Siege at Hue.
PB:Ballantine Books: New York, 2000. 1st Edition 270 pgs., $6
Wraps a mass
market ed., a very fine copy. Auhor served as an information advisor to South
Vietnam's lst Infantry
Division who was charged with monitoring the huge
civilian press corps that descended on Hue during the TET
Offensive.
7112.) SMITH, JOHN: ->The Linebacker Raids: The Bombing of North Vietnam, 1972.
HC:Arms and Armour:
London, 1998. 224 pgs., $10 PB:Cassell & Co.: London,
2000. 224 pgs., $5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Wraps
trade ed., a mint copy. A
history of the Linebacker raids over North Vietnam.
954.) SMITH, JULIAN:
->Looking Away: Hollywood and Vietnam. HC:Charles Scribner's Sons: New York,
1975. 1st
Edition 236 pgs., $4.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Author's view is
that Hollywood chose to ignore Vietnam unlike
other wars. Being written in
1975, it does not view the great films on vietnam that came after the Vietnam
War.
955.) SMITH, MRS.GORDON H.: ->Victory in Viet Nam. HC:Zondervan
Publishing House: Grand Rapids, Mi., 1966.
1st Edition 246 pgs., $2.99 Name
on enpaper, o/w a v/g copy. Author had been a missionary in Indochina since
1929 when she wrote this book. She had previously written two books on her work,
one being of her work among the
Rhade tribal people in Cambodia. The victory
she speaks of is a religious one rather than a political or military one.
957.) SMITH, R.B.: ->An International History of the Vietnam War, Volume
I: Revolution Versus Containment, 1955-
61. PB:St. Martins Press: New York,
1983. 301 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., a fine copy.
958.) SMITH, R.B.: ->An
International History of the Vietnam War, Volume II, The Struggle For South-East
Asia,
1961-65. HC:St. Martins Press: New York, 1985. 429 pgs., $12.5 A v/g
plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. This volume
2781.) SMITH, R.B.: ->An
International History of the Vietnam War, Volume III: The Making of a Limited
War, 1965-
66. HC:St. Martin's Press: New York, 1991. 490 pgs., $19.5 Name on
enpaper, ligth foxing outer edge, o/w a v/g
copy in a v/g d/j.plus d/j. D/J
has been kept in a mylar cover This volume-the third in the series-explores the
Vietnam
War into becoming an American War with an increasing American
commitment while remaining limited. It looks
athe American decision-making
during 1965-66 and at the evolution of Communist strategy in Moscow, Peking and
Hanoi. Furthur, it relates the conflict to events in the wider Asian
perspective, and shows how China suffered a major
strategic setback
throughout the region whereas the Soviet Union sought to make strategic gains in
Asia with its
increased commitment to North Vietnam.
1029.) SMITH,
RALPH: ->Viet-Nam and the West. HC:Cornell University Press: Ithaca, N.Y., 1971.
206 pgs., $12.5
PB:Cornell University Press: Ithaca, N.Y., 1971. 1st Edition
206 pgs., $10 Ex-library, a v/g copy. Wraps trade ed., a
v/g copy. Author
traces the development of Vietnamese nationalism and views the 'two' Vietnams at
the time of the
book's writing as being two rival roads to modernity and
outlines reasons as why 'peaceful co-existence between the
two has proven
impossible. Book was first published in Great Britain in 1968.
1030.)
SMITH, WINNIE: ->American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines with an Army
in Vietnam. HC:William
Morrow & Co.: New York, 1992. 1st Edition 352 pgs.,
$10 Remainder mark bttom edge, o/w a v/g plus copy in a
v/g plus d/j.
Personal memoir of an Army nurse who went to Vietnam in 1965 and returned to a
country that could
not comprehend her experience.
1053.) SNEPP, FRANK:
->Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the
CIA's Chief
Analyst Viet. HC:Random House: New York, 1977. 7th Edition 590
pgs., $3.99 Remainder mark bottom edge,
inscription on enpaper, o/w a v/g
copy in a v/g d/j. Author was CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam at the
time of
the fall of Saigon. He served six years in Vietnam and this is the
best account to date of what went on inside
Vietnam politically during the
final years. His account of the fall of Saigon is most revealing and he was
personally
involved in driving President Thieu to the airport. Needless to
say, the CIA fought the publication of this book and
the author could not
collect any royalties from it.
7885.) SNEPP, FRANK: ->Irreparable Harm: A
Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic
Battle Over
Free Speech. HC:Random House: New York, 1999. 2nd Edition 376 pgs., $7.5
PB:University of Kansas
Press: Lawrence, KS, 2001. 391 pgs., $2.99 A mint
copy in a mint d/j. Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. An account of
what happened
to him and to the public interest after his publication of his book 'Decent
Interval.' In the 2001
paperback edition, Anthony Lewis provides a foreword.
9897.) SNOW, EDGAR: ->War and Peace in Vietnam. PB:Marzani & Munsell,
Publishers: New York, 1963. 26 pgs.,
$5 Wraps trade ed., owner's name stamped
on title page, o/w a v/g copy. This is a reprint from the author's book
'Other Side of the River' with new introduction by him.
28024.)
SOFARELLI, MICHAEL: ->Letters On the Wall: Offerings and Remembrances from the
Vietnam Veterans
Memorial. HC:Smithsonian Books: New York, 2006. 198 pgs.,
$12.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Book has a preface
2997.) SOISET, ROGER
H.: ->The Two-Dollary Bill.
PB:Palmetto Bookworks: Columbia, S.C., 1993. 1st
Edition 249 pgs., $9.5 Wraps trade ed., inscribed by author, a
fine copy.
Stories of the author's experience in Vietnam as an army infantry officer from
1969-1970.
5958.) SOLIS, GARY: ->Son Thang: An American War Crime.
HC:Naval Institute Press: Annapolis, Maryland, 1997.
2nd Edition 340 pgs.,
$10 PB:Bantam Books: New York, 1998. 1st Edition 390 pgs., $5 A mint copy in a
mint d/j.
Wraps mass market ed., a mint copy. Account of the trial of five
Marines charged with the murder of sixteen women
and children at Son Thang-4
three months after William Calley was charged with the infamous massacre of
civilians
at My Lai.
8513.) SOLOMON, RICHARD H.: ->Exiting Indochina: U.S.
leadership of the Cambodia Settlement and
Normalization with Vietnam.
PB:United States Institute of Peace Press: Washington, DC, 2000. 113 pgs., $12.5
Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. This book recounts the diplomacy that brought an
end to great power involvement in
Indochina, including the negotiations for a
UN peace process in Cambodia and construction of a 'road map' for
normalizing
U.S.-Vietnam relations. Author served as assistant secretary for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs from 1989-
1992.
4729.) SOLOTAROFF, PAUL: ->The House
of Purple Hearts: Stories of Vietnam Vets Who Find Their Way Back.
HC:Harper
Collins: New York, 1995. 1st Edition 204 pgs., $2.99 A fine copy in a fine d/j.
This book tells the story of
the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans
that was founded by two Vietnam vets in 1989.
25642.) SON, CHU THAI,
NGUYEN DAI LUONG, NGO DUC THINH, and MICHAEL C. HOWARD:->Patterns On
Textiles
and Other Objects of the Ede and Mnong in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
PB:White Lotus Ltd.:
Bangkok, 2005. 163 pgs., $59.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint
copy. Book provides new information on the textiles of the
Edle and Monong
tribal groups. It also discusses baskets and architectural decoration. It
contains 209 color
photographs, maps, and drawings of patterns.
8189.)
SON, Ed. PHAM VAN: ->The Viet Cong TET Offensive (1968). PB:Printing and
Publications Center:
Saigon, 2000. REP. Edition 487 pgs., $35 Wraps, a
photocopied reprint, a fine copy. This was a study prepared by
the Military
History Division of the Joint General Staff of the RVNAF. Contains an
introduction by General Cao
Van Vien. Translated from the Vietnamese by
J5/JGS translation Board.
5999.) SONNENBERG, Eds. STEPHEN, ARTHUR S.
BLANK, Jr., and JOHN A. TALBOTT:->The Trauma of War:
Stress and Recovery In
Vietnam Veterans. HC:American Psychiatric Press, Inc: Washington, DC, 1985. 454
pgs.,
$25 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j. The book provides a scientific
account of the psychological ravages of the
Vietnam War on the men and women
who served there. It also evaluates effective modes of treatment and the
special readjustment needs of black, Hispanic, and women veterans.
32800.)
SORLEY, Ed. LEWIS: ->The Vietnam War: An Assessment By South Vietnamese
Generals. PB:Texas
Tech University Press: Lubbock, TX, 2010. 1st Edition 919
pgs., $54.95 Wraps trade ed., a mint copy. Dr. Sorley has
edited 17
monographs of South Vietnamese military generals that were written by them
shortly after the end of the
Vietnam War that were spnsored by the Center of
Military History. Their assessments made of the Vietnam War are
invaluable
resources for anyone seeking to gain a fuller understanding of the Vietnam War.
24260.) SORLEY, Ed. LEWIS: ->Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes,
1968-1972. HC:Texas Tech University
Press: Lubbock, TX, 2004. 2nd Edition 917
pgs., $39.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j. Book is a transcription and
analysis
of the more than 455 tape recordings made at Headquarters MACV during the years
Abrams was in
command.
7380.) SORLEY, LEWIS: ->A Better War: The
Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in
Vietnam.
HC:Harcourt Brace & Co.: New York, 1999. 1st Edition 507 pgs., $15 A mint copy
in a mint d/j. Author
argues that the team of Abrams, Colby, and Bunker came
very close to achieving the goal of a free and
independent South Vietnam.
3716.) SORLEY, LEWIS: ->Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of
His Times. HC:Simon and
Schuster: New York, 1992. 1st Edition 429 pgs., $12.5
A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Thirteen of the book's 27 chapters
deal with
Vietnam. Author is a graduate of West Point and he served in Vietnam.
33970.) SORLEY, LEWIS: ->Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam. HC:Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt: 2011.
1St Edition 416 pgs., $23.95 A mint copy in a mint
d/j
5584.) SPALDING, RICHARD D.: ->Centaur Flights. PB:Ivy Books: New
York, 1997. 1st Edition 291 pgs., $6 Wraps
mass market ed., a v/g plus copy.
Memoir of a Cobra pilot who flew an AH-IG gunship as part of D Troop, 3rd
Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infrantry Division.
2832.) SPECTOR, RONALD
H.: ->After TET: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam. HC:Free Press: New York, 1992.
1st
Edition 390 pgs., $7.5 A fine copy in a fine d/j. Author gives an account
of the war immediately after TET, arguing
that the fiercest battles of the
Vietnam War came during that period. He served as a Marine in Vietnam at this
time
as well.
1117.) SPECTOR, RONALD: ->Advice and Support: The Early
Years of the U.S. Army in Vietnam: 1941-1960.
PB:Macmillian Publishing Co.:
New York, 1985. 391 pgs., $2.99 Wraps trade ed., remainder mark bottom edge, o/w
a v/g copy. The best in depth account to date of our early involvement in
Vietnam and that one can not separate the
military affairs from political
affairs
5078.) SPENCER, DUNCAN: ->Facing the Wall: Americans at the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial. PB:Collier Books:
New York, 1986. 1st Edition 95 pgs.,
$7.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g copy. A black & white photo book of persons visiting
the Vietnam Veteran Memorial. Photographs by Lloyd Wolf.
1056.) SPENCER,
ERNEST: ->Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man: Reflections of a Khe Sanh Vet. HC:Corps
Press:
Martinez, Ca., 1987. 1ST Edition 179 pgs., $15 A mint copy in a mint
d/j Author served as a Marine officer in
Vietnam and he was involved in the
battle of Khe Sanh.
7014.) SPILLER, HARRY: ->Death Angel: A Vietnam
Memoir of a Bearer of Death Messages to Families.
PB:Macfarland and Co.:
Jefferson, NC, 1992. 244 pgs., $12.5 Wraps trade ed., owner's initial on
enpaper, o/w a fine
copy. Author was a Marine who served in Vietnam, then he
was assigned as a recruiter after his tour. One of his jobs
as a recruiter
was also to notify families of the death of those killed in Vietnam. In some
cases, the men killed were
those whom he had recruited.
3294.)
SPOCK, BENJAMIN and MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN:->Dr. Spock on Vietnam. PB:Dell
Publishing Co.: New
York, 1968. 2ND Edition 96 pgs., $5 Wraps mass
market,foxing of outer edges, o/w a v/g copy. This infamous doctor
seeks to
answer the questions of 1. How Did We Get In? and 2. And How Do We Get Out?
23546.) ST. PIERRE, MART: ->Of Uncommon Birth: Dakota Sons in Vietnam.
HC:Univeristy of Okhaloma Press:
Norman, OK, 2003. 1st Edition 283 pgs.,
$22.5 A mint copy in a mint d/j. The author weaves together the lives of
two
young men from South Dakota who serve in Vietnam, one a young white middle-class
American and the other a
young Lakota Indian.
2671.) STANDARD, WILLIAM L.:
->Agression: Our Asian Disaster. HC:Random House: New York, 1971. 1st Edition
228 pgs., $7.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Introduction by Senator Wayne Morse.
Author served as chairman of
Lawyers Committee on American Policy Toward
Vietnam.
7215.) STANEK, MURIEL: ->We Came from Vietnam. HC:Albert Whitman
& Co.: Morton Grove, IL, 1985. 36 pgs.,
$9.95 Library binding, a mint copy.
An elementary school book, depicting a Vietnamese family living in Chicago,
1057.) STANTON, SHELBY L.: ->Green Berets At War: U.S. Army Special Forces
In Southeast Asia: 1956-1975.
HC:Presidio Press: Novato, Ca., 1990. BC
Edition 360 pgs., $2.95 A v/g plus copy in a v/g d/j.
1058.) STANTON,
SHELBY L.: ->Rangers At War: Combat Recon in Vietnam. HC:Orion Books: New York,
1992. 1st
Edition 382 pgs., $12.5 PB:Ivy Books: New York, 1993. 1st Edition
371 pgs., $5 A v/g plus copy in a v/g plus d/j.
Wraps a mass market ed., a
v/g copy. The first complete history of the U.S. Army Rangers in Vietnam. There
is a
paperback edition titled 'Rangers At War: LRRPS In Vietnam.'
3470.) STANTON, SHELBY L.: ->The First Cav in Vietnam: Anatomy of a Division.
HC:Presidio Press: Novato, CA.,
1987. 1st Edition 268 pgs., $12.5 A v/g plus
copy in a v/g plus d/j. Author describes the lst Cav in terms of its
distinctive fighting concept and its role as modern cavalry.
1060.)
STANTON, SHELBY L.: ->The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces,
Vietnam: 1965-1973.
HC:Presidio Press: Novato, Ca., 1985. BC Edition 411
pgs., $3.95 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Title describes all major
ground
operations in the Vietnam War.
2672.) STAROBIN, JOSEPH R.: ->Eyewitness
In Indo-China. HC:Greenwood Press: New York, 1968. REP. Edition
187 pgs., $15
Name on enpaper, o/w a v/g plus copy. Author traveled behind Viet Minh lines in
1953 and he
interviewed Ho Chi Minh and General Giap. He was at the time a
member of the UN press corps and he served as
Foreign Editor of the Daily
Worker
5196.) STARR, Ed. JEROLD M.: ->The Lessons of the Vietnam War.
HC:Center for Social Studies Education: ,
1988. 425 pgs., $15 A modular
textbook in a three ring notebook along with a wraps trade ed. book with 355
pages. There are 12 units accompanied with a teacher's manual on strategies and
resources for teaching the
Vietnam War.
1064.) STARRY, DONN A.:
->Armored Combat In Vietnam. HC:Arno Press: New York, 1980. 250 pgs., $3.95 A
v/g
25762.) STATE DEPARTMENT BULLETIN: ->Secretary Rusk's News Conference and
(2) Geographic Aspects of the
Struggle in Viet-Nam. PB:Government Printing
Office: Washington, DC, 1965. 32 pgs., $2.5 Wraps trade ed., a v/g
copy.
Secretary's Rusk was held on August 27th, 1965.
28456.) STATLER, KATHRYN
C.: ->Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam.
HC:Univeristy Press of Kentucky: Lexington, KY, 2007. 1st Edition 378 pgs.,
$29.95 A mint copy in a mint d/j
Drawing upon recently released archival
material, the author examines how the United States came to assume
control as
the dominant western power in Vietnam.
1066.) STAVINS, RALPH, RICHARD J.
BARNET and MARCUS G. RASKIN:->Washington Plans An Aggressive War.
HC:Random
House: New York, 1971. 1st Edition 374 pgs., $12.5 A v/g copy in a v/g d/j. Book
is the result of an
intensive study carried on by members of the Institute
for Policy Studies over a 20 month period.
8254.) STEER, JOHN: ->Faces I
Tried to Forget. PB:New Leaf Press: Green Forest, AR, 1989. 1st Edition 144
pgs.,
$7.5 Wraps trade ed., inscirbed by author, a v/g plus copy. Accoutt of
a Vietnam veteran who became engaged in
Christian evangelistic work after
coming to terms with his Vietnam experience.
19999.) STEERING
COMMITTEE of the CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE FOR a VOTE ON the WAR:->The
Amendment to End the War. PB:Privateley printed.: , 1970. 26 pgs., $5 Wraps,
name on cover, some underling of
pages, o/w a v/g copy. No postage charge if
ordered with another item. This is a report by the Steering Committee.
4814.) STEIBEL, GERALD L.: ->Communist Expansion in Indochina, Part I: The First
Inodchina War and After..
PB:Southeast Asian Perspectives: New York, 1972. 59
pgs., $2.5 Wraps trade ed., slight water damage, o/w a good
plus copy. No
postage charge if ordered with another book. This is a two part article
appearing in the June and
December issues of Southeast Asian Perspectives in
1972, a a publication of American Friends of Vietnam. The
June issue also has
an articles by Frank N. Trager on the Nixon Doctirne and Asian Policy.
1067.) STEIN, JEFF: ->A Murder in Wartime: The Untold Story that Changed the
Course of the Vietnam War. HC:St.
Martins' Press: New York, 1992. 1st Edition
414 pgs., $4.95 Name of owner on title page, o/w a fine copy in a fine
d/j. A
well researched book on the Green Berets charged with the killing of a double
agent in 1969 even though the
subtitle gives it a note of sensationalism.
This is unforunate as the book is a serious work. Author was serving as an
Army intelligence case officer in Vietnam when this case broke.
1068.) STEIN,
JEFF: -