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  Dispatches

  by Michael Herr

  "He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre. " . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade."--Hunter S. Thompson.
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  Charlie Mike

  by Leonard B. Scott

  If war may be said to bring out the worst in governments, it frequently brings out the best in people. This is a novel about some of the very best. Some led. Some followed. Some died. Meet Sergeant David Grady, Sarah Boyce, Major John Colven, Lieutenant Le Be Son...in the great Vietnam war novel, CHARLIE MIKE.
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  Last Run

  by Leonard B. Scott

  You don't choose your comrades in war--they are assigned to you. In the jungle, there is no past or future, and men from totally different backgrounds forget their differences and struggle to survive and help you survive, in this unforgettable novel of Vietnam.
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  The People of the Mist

  by H. Rider Haggard

  A penniless British adventurer seeks untold wealth in the wilds of the "Dark Continent" after losing his family lands and estates in this thrilling novel of romance, adventure, and lost peoples. An intensely engrossing tale.
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  The Bamboo Cage: The Full Story of the American Servicemen Still Missing in Vietnam

  by Nigel Cawthorne

  A look at the possibility of the existence of American POWs in Vietnam today reveals evidence from CIA documents and Pentagon files and tells the dirty secrets behind the American government's cruel and illegal withholding of critical information. Original.
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  War Story

  The Classic True Story of the First Generation of Green Berets in Vietnam

  by Jim Morris

  Jim Morris was an educated young man who had always wanted to be a soldier. In 1963, he found the perfect war... "The war was like a great puzzle, great to think about, great to plan, great to do. It was so incredibly peaceful out there in the jungle." As an advisor to a Montagnard strike force, Morris and his guerrillas outfought and outmaneuvered the Viet Cong in his sector. But while he loved the... (more)
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  Five Fingers, The

  by Gayle Rivers, James Hudson

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  Journey Into Darkness : A Tunnel Rat's Story

  by Stephen Menendez

  Stephen(Shorty)Menendez was a Tunnel Rat in Vietmam. He takes you deep into the enemy tunnels, making you taste the acrid gunsmoke and feel the cold, black earth. Shorty's below ground battles are nothing less than incredible. A Vietnam thriller. Shorty Menendez takes you headlong into the most dangerous tunnels on earth. Tunnel Rats were a unique weapon in Vietnam. Only the bravest men dared to enter there....
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  Guns Up!

  by Johnnie M. Clark

  THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE. "Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to ten seconds after a firefight began. Johnnie... (more)
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  Gone Native

  An NCO's Story

  by Alan G. Cornett

  On his first combat assignment, Cornett accompanied the Vietnamese Rangers on a search-and-destroy mission near Khe Sang. There he gained entree into a culture that he would ultimately respect greatly and admire deeply. Cornett's most challenging military duty began when he joined the Phoenix Program. As part of AK squad, he dressed in enemy uniform and roamed the deadly Central Highlands, capturing high-ranking... (more)
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  Reckoning for Kings

  by Chris Bunch

  This is a hard-hitting saga of the Tet Offensive -- North Vietnam's all-out attempt to win the war in 1968. It contains an enormous cast of characters including Major Dennis Shannon -- a leader any soldier would follow to hell and back -- and Mosby, who would be recommended for the Medal of Honor for his actions during Tet, North Vietnamese General Vo Le Duan who knows that he will never achieve the glory he... (more)
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  WHEN HELL WAS IN SESSION

  by DENTON JR. JEREMIAH A.

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  Vietnam

  by Christian G. Appy

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  The Things They Carried

  by Tim O'Brien

  One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the... (more)