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.


ON STRATEGY A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War
Harry G. Summers, Jr.

"Perhaps the most trenchant single postmortem to date of our defeat in Vietnam... a classic... compact, subtle -- and surprisingly readable." Newsweek

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ON YANKEE STATION The Naval Air War Over Vietnam
Cdr. John B. Nichols, USN (Ret.) and Barrett Tillman
1988

Combining personal narrative, statistical data and in-depth analysis of TF 77 operations in the Tonkin Gulf, this remarkable document reveals the truth about how American carrier power was employed in Vietnam description from back of book

Index. Drawings of items. Maps. Graphs

ONE SHOT - ONE KILL American Combat Snipers, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Beirut
Charles W. Sasser and Craig Roberts
@ 1990

24 chapters and it looks like each chapter is a story about an individual Sniper. description from the back of book

No Index.

ONE SOLDIER
@1986

With a sharp eye for detail, John Shook shows us a war of many faces-a war that ranged from the incessant discomfort of ceaselessly biting insects, to thanksgiving prayers that all the mechanical things that flew were outs. description from the back of book

No Index. pencil drawings of equipment.

ONLY WAR WE HAD Platoon Leader's Journal of Vietnam
Michael Lee Lanning
@ 2002

During is tour in Vietnam with the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, Lieutenant Lee Lanning walked the booby-trapped rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, searching for elusive Viet Cong.... Lee Lanning's story is based on the journal he kept of his time in Nam... description from the back of book

No Index. Book is done in a journal form with dates, places, and journal entries along with Lanning's memories

OPERATION BUFFALO USMC FIGHT FOR THE DMZ
Keith William Nolan
1992

1967. 1/0 and 3/9 Marines defending the DMZ. On the first day, only a single platoon survived. By the last day, 159 Americans were dead.

Index. Drawings of items. Maps. Graphs

OPERATION TUSCALOOSA 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, at AnHoa, 1967
John J. Culbertson
@ 1997

description from the back of book

No Index. Book has photographs.

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