BALLENTINE, DAVID A.

Gunbird Driver a Marine Huey Pilot's War in Vietnam

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1591140196. DJ shows very light shelf wear. ; Book is a near-fine volume in a very good+ DJ. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.1 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 236 pages; "Gunbird Driver is a memoir of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E's in Marine Observation Squadron 6. The book provides information about the missions, operations, and the living conditions at Ky Ha, and about the fellow Marines with whom he served. It also contains several chapters on shipboard operation from deployment aboard the USS Princeton. The squadron's activities ranged widely in I Corps, the northern-most military subdivision of South Vietnam, the one assigned to the Marines. Although, the squadron and the air group to which it was attached (MAG -36) was assigned to the southern third of I Corps, it flew missions north along the DMZ, at Khe Sanh, west of Phu Bai and even into Laos, in addition to those in their local Tactical Area of Responsibility.". Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20135

Catalogue: Militaria::Vietnam

Keywords: 1591140196 Vietnam tet offensive Marines khe sanh huey Militaria

BROWN, LES

There It Is a Canadian in the Vietnam War

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771016921. Only slight wear to book and DJ ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped; B&W Illustrations; 8.58 X 5.51 X 1.10 inches; 232 pages; Written with honesty and humour, There It Is brings us Les Brown’s compelling, grunt’s-eye view of his tour in the Vietnam War.In the raw language of soldiers, Brown describes what it was like to move through dense jungle in unbearable heat; to live in a world of perpetual danger and disease; to confront the enemy in battle; and to see his buddies die. Brown tells of his struggle to survive, a struggle which ultimately leads him to take a risky, rebellious stand.Featuring a scene-setting introduction by Global Television News anchor Peter Kent, There It Is is a powerful, personal account of war, and a surprising reminder of the role played by thousands of Canadians in Vietnam.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 16706

Catalogue: Militaria::Canada::Vietnam

Keywords: 0771016921 Southeast Asia Canadian vietcong Vietnam Militaria

BUTLER, DAVID & MAPS PHOTOS

The Fall of Saigon Scenes from the Sudden End of a Long War

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0671466755. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, with DJ having short tear top of spine area, minor scuffs and creasing. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Map endpapers; B & W photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 510 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 21148

Catalogue: Militaria::United States::Vietnam

Keywords: 0671466755 saigon withdrawal Vietnam War Militaria

ELLSBERG, DANIEL

Secrets a Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

New York: Viking, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670030309. DJ shows light shelf wear, the book shows some wear, light soil front page edges . ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 498 pages; "Ellsberg's transformation from cold warrior and Defense Department analyst to impassioned antiwar crusader who released the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in June 1971 makes a remarkable and riveting story that still shocks 30 years later. Avoiding, for the most part, self-justification and self-aggrandizement, he clearly relates the experiences that led him to reject as arrogant lies the premises six presidents presented to the public and Congress to secure support for the Vietnam War. He describes the disjunction between what he saw during visits to Vietnam in the early and mid-'60s, driving through dangerous Viet Cong-held territory, and what was told to the press and public. And he recalls his first reading of the classified documents later known as the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the motives, in his view unprincipled, behind American involvement in Vietnam.". Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21058

Catalogue: Militaria::Vietnam

Keywords: 0670030309 Vietnam Intelligence pentagon papers History::USA Militaria

FLOOD, CHARLES BRACELEN

The War of the Innocents

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Map Endpapers. DJ shows some shelf wear with short tears and light chipping along top edges. ; A tight solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Stated first edition ; 8.3 X 6.1 X 1.9 inches; 480 pages; "Charles Bracelen Flood entered the Vietnam War not as a correspondent, but as an attached member of a dive-bomber unit which was dropping napalm in the single most unpopular activity of the war. He remained in Vietnam for a year, stationed far from Saigon. Flood spent a total of three months in the jungles of the Cambodian border with an American infantry battalion, and another four months with American civilian and military advisors working with the Vietnamese in the province in which his Air Force unit was stationed. His experience was so unique and deep that at the end of his year in Vietnam he was asked to brief incoming officers on the conditions to expect in the province where he had lived. From this emerges a reportage infused with the grace and force of an accomplished novelist. Flood's involvement was exactly that of the men doing the fighting, and he brings to his narrative the gifts that produced such books as Love Is a Bridge and More Lives than One. Battle scenes alternate with quiet days spent talking with nuns at orphanages. There are conversations with Vietnamese businessmen who are profiting from the war, lunches with famous correspondents in Saigon, and a chilling description of how it was to be in a schoolyard on election day whe the Viet Cong set off a bomb in a crowd of farmers waiting to vote. Flood puts the reader at the elbow of the visiting United States Senator, and the rice farmer just digging out of the ruins of his house. The author had lived three years in the Far East as a university lecturer and journalist before this year in Vietnam, and his knowledge of Asia and feeling for Asians parallels his compassion for the young American draftees. His description of both enemy and Allied civilian and military programs and tactics in on the level of sourcebook material. Flood mixes hard information with a sense of humor, and has the honesty to demonstrate that many a man, on both sides, throughly enjoys warfare. His narrative force and quick-moving scenes, ranging from thrilling descriptions of aerial and ground combat to an account of a Vietnamese bar girl hurling a bottle of beer at an American, are the essence of an experience that has burned itself into the national consciousness. " (jacket blurb). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 19006

Catalogue: Militaria::Vietnam::Personal Account

Keywords: Vietnam ASIA Militaria

KENDRICK, ALEXANDER

The Wound Within America in the Vietnam Years, 1945

Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316488410. Boards show light shelfwear, DJ has small tears, light soiling common to matte dust jackets, price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.30 X 6.30 X 1.40 inches; 432 pages; From the front DJ flap `Vietnam was not a personal idiosycracy,`Alexander Kendrick declares. 'It was rooted in history, habit and hauteur' In THE WOUND WITHIN, Kendrick evaluates the `history`, identifies the `habit`and exposes the `hauteur that led into the war George F. Kennan described as the most disastrous of all Americas undertakings over the whole 200 years of its history.. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 17496

Catalogue: Militaria::Vietnam

Keywords: 0316488410 Vietnam USA History::USA Militaria

PALMER, DAVE RICHARD

Summons of the Trumpet: U.S.

San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1978. Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0891410414. Dustjacket has a few short tears with creasing at head of spine, chipped bottom edge ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 277 pages; "Soldier/scholar Palmer traces the history of the American involvement in Vietnam and shows how events in both the U.S. and Vietnam became inextricably linked as domestic dissent and a lack of realistic, viable military strategy ultimately led to America's first lost war.". Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 21399

Catalogue: Militaria::Vietnam

Keywords: 0891410414 Vietnam Militaria

PARRISH, JOHN

Journal of a Plague Year 12, 20 & 5

London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0233963995. DJ spine is sun-faded and shows light edge wear. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages; From the front DJ flap:"This haunting memoir of one man's confrontation with war is marked by the extraordinary compassion and humour of its author, a young doctor drafted to spend a year behind the front lines in Vietnam.". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 17483

Catalogue: Militaria::Vietnam::Personal account

Keywords: 0233963995 vietcong Vietnam

PHONG, DUONG THANH

The Document Album of Cu Chi Cuchi 1960

Vietnam: Tap Anh-tu Lieu, 1994. Paperback. Small dint in back card cover is only fault in book. Blue folding box shows only light wear. ; A bright, solid book, glossy black pictorial card covers. Book is dated only 1994 but box is dated 2003. Text is in English, French and Vietnamese. Laid in is a numbered booklet about the war from a museum. Oblong 7 1/2" x 10" ; Trade PB; 68 pages; "Attack of the fertile Cu Chi Region of Viet Nam during the Viet Nam War from the perspective of the Vietnamese". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 15824

Catalogue: Militaria::Vietnam::CuChi

Keywords: Vietnam Tunnel Cu Chi Militaria

STANTON, SHELBY L.

The Rise and Fall of an American Army U.S. Ground Forces, Vietnam, 1965

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0891412328. DJ and boards show some shelf wear, with small tears and light chipping of DJ. Previous owner's name stamp on FFEP. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Illustrations; 9.1 X 5.9 X 1.3 inches; 411 pages; "This book provides a complete account of American Army ground combat forces–who they were, how they got to the battlefield, and what they did there. Year by year, battlefield by battlefield, the narrative follows the war in extraordinary, gripping detail. Over the course of the decade, the changes in fighting and in the combat troops themselves are described and documented. The Rise and Fall of an American Army represents the first total battlefield history of Army ground forces in the Vietnam War, containing much previously unreleased archival material. It re-creates the feel of battle with dramatic precision.". Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 19643

Catalogue: Militaria::Vietnam

Keywords: 0891412328 Vietnam Militaria