Biographical Books on Vietnam War

I am not a student of the Vietnam War. I have not researched it. I have only read 2 of the books I'm listing here. But the Vietnam War has become an every day part of my life. Very few days go by that I'm not working on my website... Faces From the Wall... or answering emails in regards to it. I've created this list and the index database as possible resource information for family, friends, and researchers. These aren't all the books written on the Vietnam War... these are just a few that I found moving through the bookstore or that were specially given to me.

THE B-52 OVERTURE
The North vietnamese Assault on Special Forces Camp A-242, Dak Pek
Don Bendell
@1992

Green Berets, Crossbows, and ARC Lights: the incredible True Story of Dak Pek - The Last Stand of the Montagnards

No Index. No Pictures.

THE BAMBOO CAGE
The Full Story of the American Servicemen Still Missing in Vietnam
Nigel Cawthorne
@1991
Nigel Cawthorne is a freelance journalist and autor, and a long-time champion of M.I.A.'s. He spent three years tracking down missing American soldiers, traveling extensively in America, Australia, and Southeast Asia.
Index and Maps.

BAPTISM A Vietnam Memoir
Larry Gwin
@1999

1965-1966. Author served nine months as executive officer for Alpha Company, 2/7, fighting against crack NVA troops in some of the war's most horrific battles

No Index. Personal pictures with captions.

BAT-21 Based on the true Story of Lieutenant colonel Iceal E. Hambleton, USAF
William c. Anderson
@1980

In a chapter at the end of the book titled "Author's Afterword" Anderson points out while the story is true he was forced to omit/alter/change/edit certain facts/names/etc. So I am not goin' to comment except to say some of the men in helicopters that died were from the Pacific Northwest.

No Index and no pictures

BATTLE FOR THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS
A Special Forces Story
George E. Dooley
@2000
The missions Dooley led, often in enemy territory, provided a steady diet of sniping, ambushes, booby traps, and mines. description from back of book
Index and Personal Pictures.

THE BATTLE OF AN LOC
James H. Willbanks
@2005
A firsthand account by a Vietnam War veteran of a desperate battle fought during Hanoi's 1972 Easter Offensive description from book
Index. Pictures of aircraft

BEHIND THE LINES-HANOI Dec 23 1966 - January 7 1967
Harrison E. Salisbury
@1967 No Index. Salisbury, The New York Times, went to Hanoi. The pictures in the book are street scenes with children, bombed out churches with women and children, and ...

BITTER VICTORY
Robert Shaplen
@ 1986
A veteran correspondent's dramatic account of his return to Vietnam and Cambodia ten years after the end of the war.
Index.

Black Jack-33 With Special Forces in the Viet Cong Forbidden Zone
James C. Donahue
Jim Donahue's book Blackjack-33 is an account of a United States Army Special Forces operation of the same name. It was a joint operation conducted by the Mobile Guerrilla Force and project Sigma, both then elements of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), between 24 April and 24 May 967 in the III Corps Tactical zone. It took place in War Zone D, a military subsection of that zone. The Mobile Guerrilla Force was commaned by Capt. James G. Gritz; Project Sigma, as well as operational control of the mission, was under the command of Lt. Col. Clarence T. Hewgley. Description from Foreword on page xi of book
Book is indexed and has 9 pages of pictures.
This book's index has been extracted for individual soldiers, fire bases, units and etc. and placed online at online index . View the complete index pages for this book which contains much more information than the extracted online version

Black Jack-34
(Previously titled No Greater Love )
James C. Donahue
@2000
On July 18 1967 Special forces medic James Donahue and his platoon were on a mission, code-named Blackjack-34, to locate enemy unites for the 1st Infantry to destroy. But instead a crack enemy battalion found them. description from back of book
Index. Personal Pictures

BLOOD ON THE RISERS: An airborne soldier's thirty-five Months in Vietnam
John Leppelman
@1991

In three straight years he was a paratrooper, an army seaman, and a LRRP - and he lived to tell about it.

No Index. Personal photographs of his friends.

BLUE'S BASTARDS A True Story of Valor Under Fire
Randy Herrod
@1989

In Vietnam Randy Herrod saved Oliver North's life. Then Oliver North came back to save his. Personal account of his experiences in Vietnam including his involvement in the destruction of a village of women and children and the court trial that followed.

No Index. No Pictures.

BRAVE MEN, GENTLE HEROES
American Fathers and Sons in World War II and Vietnam
Michael Takiff
@2003

... the stories in Brave Men, Gentle Heroes tell the history of two wars, each the defining experience of a generation... biographical stories for both father and sonz: Mike Sr. and Mike Novosel Jr. John and Michael Mace, Al and Mike Tarbell, Gene and Gary Swanson, Paul and Sandy Walmsley just some of men participating.

No Index. Portrait pictures.

BRIGHT SHINING LIE
John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan
@ 1988
Vietnam 1962-1972. Vann started as the American adviser to the Vietnamese Commander. He left Vietnam and the Army in 1963ish and eventually returned in 1965 as a civilian adviser. He was killed in a helicopter crash in 1972.
Index. Pictures and maps.