In Lullabies for Lieutenants, author Franklin Cox describes his in-country experience as a U.S. Marine forward observer during the Vietnam War, 1965-66, giving glimpses at both the “big picture” and the many tiny facets that make up the Vietnam War
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Book Review – The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam: Unparalleled and Unequaled, by Maj. Gen. Ira A. Hunt Jr. (Ret.)
The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam by Ira Hunt addresses its sniper program, problems of weapons retrieval and collateral damage, and offers insights to the 9th ID’s pioneering of tactical innovations and its trouble operating in the Mekong Delta
Book Review – F-105 Thunderchief Units of the Vietnam War, by Peter Davies
F-105 Thunderchief by Peter Davies, part of Osprey’s Combat Aircraft series, details the supersonic bombing mainstay of the Vietnam War, forever associated with Operation Rolling Thunder, and describes the F-105’s hazardous missions over Vietnam
Book Review – After My Lai: My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company, by Gary W. Bray
After My Lai by Gary W. Bray follows the infantryman’s experience as commander of 1st Platoon, Charlie Company (Americal Div 20th Inf Reg) the same platoon that 2nd Lt. William Calley had commanded during the My Lai massacre a year and a half earlier
Book Review – Cash on Delivery: CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos, by Thomas Leo Briggs
Thomas Briggs’ personal memoir, Cash on Delivery, gives a rare and valuable glimpse into American involvement in the little-publicized secret war in southern Laos, Military Region III, where covert U.S. and Lao activities have been largely unreported
Book Review – Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans, by Xiaobing Li
Voices from the Vietnam War, by Xiaobing Li, is the first oral history of the war to include Chinese and Russian veterans, among those from the U.S. and Vietnam. One of the voices is a former KGB spy assigned to the Russian Embassy in Hanoi
Book Review – Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives, edited by Michael H. Hunt
Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives edited by Michael H. Hunt is a collection of 102 documents aimed to help students and teachers gain an understanding of the war, its impact and longterm consequences
Book Review – A Hundred Feet Over Hell: Flying With the Men of the 220th Recon Airplane Company Over I Corps and the DMZ, Vietnam 1968-1969, by Jim Hooper
A Hundred Feet Over Hell, by Jim Hooper, presents firsthand accounts of men of 220th Recon Airplane Company who flew close tactical reconnaissance in Cessna O-1 Bird Dogs over I Corps at the DMZ, calling in artillery and airstrikes, 1968-69
Book Review – Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency, by Thomas L. Ahern Jr.
Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency, by Thomas L. Ahern Jr., is about the CIA’s role in rural pacification operations in Vietnam, 1954-75. Ahern focuses on the struggle to suppress the Viet Cong and win the loyalty of the peasantry
New Book Charts the Air War Against Japan
Barrett Tillman’s book offers an impressive 360-degree look at the 1944-45 air offensive.