The Columbia History of the Vietnam War is a collection of 14 essays by respected scholars that examines historical themes with contemporary relevance
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Book Review – Forever Forward: K-9 Operations in Vietnam, by Michael Lemish
Michael Lemish’s book, Forever Forward: K-9 Operations in Vietnam, offers an examination of the some 4,000 dogs that served in Vietnam, frequently engaging the enemy and credited with averting an estimated 10,000 American casualties
Book Review: The Crimean War
Scholar Jeremy Black takes on Orlando Figes’s new history of the Crimean War.
MHQ Reviews: Cry Havoc
John M. Taylor reviews Joseph Maiolo’s book Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941.
MHQ Reviews: The Civil War of 1812
Thomas B. Allen reviews Alan Taylor’s book The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies.
Book Review – Beyond the Killing Fields, War Writing, by Sydney Schanberg
Beyond the Killing Fields is a compilation of Sidney Schanberg’s war reporting, including dispatches from Cambodia as the Khmer Rouge closed in. Schanberg presents his evidence that American POWs and MIAs who survived the war were left behind
Book Review – Lullabies for Lieutenants: Memoir of a Marine Forward Observer in Vietnam 1965-1966, by Franklin Cox
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
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