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Takes viewers inside the families of Vietnam War combat veterans whose children are or have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan

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A picture book of never-before published Vietnam War photos cleverly interlaced with quotes, snippets from oral histories and firsthand accounts

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Both books from Osprey Publishing detail the guns and their roles in Vietnam

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Told with the authority of a Vietnam vet and backed by a wealth of declassified photos, many taken on missions

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Offers a wealth of little-known information about this shadowy world in Vietnam

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Essential bits of the warrior's reality for a stunningly vivid portrait of the Vietnam War

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In Vietnam Gun Trucks by Gordon L. Rottman, the vehicles' designs, names and markings are given generous treatment in the illustrations and descriptions.

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Blackhorse Riders by Philip Keith is an overdue tribute to the men of Alpha Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, for their daring rescue of a 1st Cav Div unit in March 1970

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Vietnam in HD, which ran on the History channel in November 2011, is a six-hour documentary using film footage from GI's in-country home movies, including first-person accounts

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Donut Dolly: An American Red Cross Girl's War in Vietnam, by Joann Puffer Kotcher, makes a strong case for the impact that a small cadre of women had on the arc of women's equality in the armed forces

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The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon, by Timothy J. Lomperis, who served two tours of duty, is both memoir and history, offering a "mid-level" perspective of the rear-echelon war in Saigon

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The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War, by David Zierler, provides an examination of the first great ideological battle between nascent environmentalism and cold war dogmatism

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Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam by Lewis Sorley, is extensively researched and argued with precision, but it is not a balanced biography of Westmoreland so much as it is an indictment, and a damning one at that

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Some historical perspective on the different ways that "Vietnam" has influenced the Oval Office

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Spells out the medical consequences of war, from the Civil War to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more veterans are surviving but with more serious wounds

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A young surgeon experienced the war in Vietnam intently, and his poignant stories shed light on the reality of a doctor's war

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