🧲 Books like this
Silent Warrior: The Marine Sniper's Vietnam Story Continues
Charles Henderson · back to the book
What’s in it
Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.
24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
Bruce Henderson · 293 pages
Tells the true story of Navy pilot Dieter Dengler who led and organized an escape from a P.O.W. camp in the Laotian jungle and returned to his aircraft carrier, emaciated and ill, six months after being shot down.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan · 861 pages
Chronicles the military career of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, profiling his military and civilian roles in the Vietnam War.
Legend: The Incredible Story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines
Eric Blehm · 343 pages
From the bestselling author of Fearless, the dramatic and unforgettable story of Roy Benavidez, a Green Beret in Vietnam who is known among special operations forces members today by a single word: "Legend." Legend tells the heroic story of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, and Benavidez's nearly suicidal rescue mission that saved eight lives and ultimately earned Benavidez a nomination for th
The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Rick Atkinson · 608 pages
The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
Denise Chong · 373 pages
On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.This book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and the story of what happened to that gir
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Mark Bowden · 609 pages
Interviews with participants from both sides of the conflict and materials from Vietnamese and American archives provide multiple points of view on each stage of the Battle of Hue.
They Marched Into Sunlight: War And Peace, Vietnam And America, October 1967
David Maraniss · 572 pages
The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
Frederick Downs · 240 pages
The Boys of ’67: Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam
Andrew Wiest
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Bernard Edelman · 326 pages
A collection of letters, poems, and petitions from the front, written mostly by infantrymen to their families and friends, evokes the emotions of an intense longing for home, fear, hope, grief, and anger aroused by the Vietnam War.
Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There
Mark Baker · 324 pages
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War
Al Santoli · 265 pages
The Ravens
Christopher Robbins · 448 pages
An heroic and authoritative account of the United States Air Force forward air controllers (FACS) who opted out of the War in Vietnam to pursue a plain clothes, top secret mission in neighbouring, neutral Laos. Call sign ‘Raven,’ the flyers trolled the battlefield in light observation aircraft seeking out Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese Army positions and movements and reported and directed follo
America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
George C. Herring · 354 pages
The author portrays American participation in the Vietnam War as the logical culmination of the containment policy that began under Harry Truman in the late 1940's. Also his portrayal of the complex challenge that Vietnam posed for the United States and the varied responses it evoked from American people & leaders.
Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
Wallace Terry · 320 pages
The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other, *Bloods* features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race were sent off in disproportionate numbers and the special test of patriotism they faced. Told in voices no reader will soon forget, *Bloods* is a must-read for anyone who wants to put
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse · 416 pages
Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam
Mark Garrison · 282 pages
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert S. McNamara, Brian VanDeMark · 414 pages
Dispatches
Michael Herr · 260 pages
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, *Dispatches* became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, *Dispatches* makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retelling
Vietnam: A History
Stanley Karnow · 768 pages
Examines American involvement in the Vietnam War, delves into the decisionmaking process in Washington and Asia, and presents interviews with participants on both sides.
About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior
David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman · 896 pages
A startling look at the US Army from a infantry leaders level from Korea through Vietnam. Hackworth was one of the highest decorated soldiers in the army and doesn't hold back on what was wrong with the system.
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
Michael Sallah, Mitch Weiss · 403 pages
At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission was to seek out enemy compounds and hiding places so th
Once A Warrior King: Memories of an Officer in Vietnam
David Donovan · 336 pages
"Portrays the Vietnam experience of an officer and a gentlemen. It is the story of a man with a sense of honor and responsibility that extended beyond his immediate command and encompassed the people of the rural Vietnamese village he was sent to defend. It is a portrait of a compassionate man, a humane soldier and a soldierly humanist, and the precarious mental and physical balance he maintained
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway · 481 pages
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was *We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young*. In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Vall