SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam, John L. Plaster, Penguin Group, New York, 1998, $6.99 paperback.

SOG was the acronym for Studies and Observations Group, a cover title for the Vietnam War's covert special warfare group–essentially the …

Incoming (Volume 1, Issue III), by Vietnam veterans, edited by Barbara M. Whitemarsh, Hawks Nest Publishing, R.R. 1, Box 204, Aurora, MO 65605, $10.

Published "as a labor of love" by Barbara M. Whitemarsh and her husband, Vietnam veteran Edward …

Through the Valley: Vietnam, 1967-1968, by James F. Humphries, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colo., 1999 $49.95 hardcover.

From the ghastly fight for Hill 104 to Colonel Frank Kroesen's command on Hill 406 comes a "strangely unreported slice of Vietnam," describing …

Tan Phu Special Forces Team A-23 in Combat, by Leigh Wade, Ivy Books, New York, 1997, $5.95 paperback.

Tan Phu is the true story of the 12-man Special Forces Detachment A-23's daily struggle to stay alive during their temporary duty …

The best book on the Tet Offensive wasby the Saigon bureau chief of one ofAmerica's most liberal newspapers.

By Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., U.S. Army (ret.)

The perceived wisdom of many Vietnam War veterans is that the media was …

HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE VIETNAM WAR
For most participants, Vietnam was a one-year snapshot of war. Added together, these snapshots represent a thousanddifferent perspectives of what the war was like. For some, it was lonely drudgery at a supply point, …

Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina, edited by Horst Faas and Tim Page, Random House, New York, 1997, $65.

In April 1965, a series of stunning photographs by Larry Burrows, a British photographer, appeared in LIFE …

The Faces Behind the Names: The Vietnam War, edited by Don Ward, The Memorial Press, Bloomington, Minn., 1996, $50.

Among the treasured books in my late father-in-law's library was a three-volume work, Soldiers of the Great War, listing by state …

Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy, by Arnold R. Issacs, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, $25.95.

The Vietnam War had an impact on an entire generation of American and Asian peoples, leaving a terrible scar and burden …

With the Ho Chi Minh Trail as his stage, historianJohn Prados plays out the tragedy that was Vietnam.

By John I. Witmer

Millions of words have been written about the Vietnam War, and still, nearly 25 years after the fall …

The fatally flawed OPLAN 34A commando raids on North Vietnam were a disaster with lasting consequences.

OPLAN 34A, the flawed and failed operation designed to "send a message to Hanoi," in the words of former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, …

One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam, by Timothy N. Castle, Columbia University Press, New York, $25.

In 1967 aircraft from U. S. Navy carriers in the Tonkin Gulf and U.S. Air Force …

Kontum Diary: Captured Writings Bring Peace to a Vietnam Veteran
by Paul Reed and Ted Schwarz, SummitPublishing Group, Arlington, Texas, 1996, $22.95.

One of the great unanswered questions for most combat veterans is what was his counterpart on the other …

Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam, by Michael Lee Lanning, Ballantine Publishing Group, New York, 1998, $20.

There have been sharpshooters and snipers ever since the advent of firearms. In the military in Vietnam, it took some 204 hours of …

DEATH IN THE JUNGLE: DIARY OF A NAVY SEAL
The Vietnamese referred to it as the Forest of Assassins, and to the Navy SEALs (sea-air-land forces) who conductedcombat operations there it was the Rung Sat Special Zone, a huge, sprawling …

Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology, edited by Andrew J. Rotter, SR Books, Wilmington, Del., 1999, $55 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Ever wonder what today's student is learning about the Vietnam War? A clue is provided …