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
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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.
Book Review: Manstein, Hitler’s Greatest General
David T. Zabecki reviews the book Manstein: Hitler’s Greatest General.
Book Review: The Father of Us All
Stephen Budiansky reviews the book The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern, by Victor Davis Hanson
Book Review: Russia Against Napoleon
Rod Paschall reviews Dominic Lieven’s book about Russian resistance to Napoleon’s campaigns, based on Lieven’s research into Russian military archives that were opened to the public in 1991.
Book Review: Valley of Death, Dien Bien Phu and the Vietnam War
David T. Zabecki reviews Ted Morgan’s 2010 book about Dien Bien Phu and the early development of the Vietnam War.