The Vietnam War began in 1954 after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh (though conflict had raged in the region for years), and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. All told, more than 3 million people (including 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War. And in 1969, at the peak of U.S. involvement in the war, more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the conflict.
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The New York Times bestseller which, according to General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, ". . . should be ‘must’ reading for all Americans, especially those who have been led to believe that war is some kind of Nintendo game.”
In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was brutally slaughtered. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. How these Americans persevered—sacrificing themselves for their comrades and never giving up—creates a vivid portrait of war at its most devastating and inspiring.
The classic and heartrending account of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of an army doctor
In 1968, as a serviceman in the Vietnam War, Dr. Ronald Glasser was sent to Japan to work at the US Army hospital at Camp Zama. It was the only general army hospital in Japan, and he was soon caught up in the waves of casualties that poured in from every Vietnam front. Thousands of soldiers arrived each month, demanding the help of every physician within reach.In 365 Days, Glasser reveals a candid and shocking account of that harrowing experience. He gives voice to seventeen of his patients, wounded men counting down the days until they return home. An instant classic of war literature, 365 Days is a remarkable, ground-level account of Vietnam’s human toll.
In this gripping memoir, a former marine returns to Vietnam to try to make sense of the war. Previously published as Brothers in Arms and the inspiration for China Beach, this edition includes a new preface by the author.
When William Broyles Jr. was drafted, he was a twenty-four-year-old student at Oxford University in England, hoping to avoid military service. He soon realized that he couldn’t let social class or education give him special privileges. He joined the marines, and soon commanded an infantry platoon in the foothills near Da Nang. More than a decade later, Broyles found himself flooded with emotion during the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. He decided to return to Vietnam and confront what he’d been through and the mystery of why men love war even as they hate it.