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 RAID
Benjamin F. Schemmer
@1986

On November 21, 1970, the U.S. military launched one of the most controversial operations of the Vietnam conflict...a daring surprise assault on the dreaded confines of Son Tay Prison Camp, 23 miles outside Hanoi. The objective: to free 70 American POWs

Index. Pictures

RANGERS AT WAR Combat Recon in Vietnam
Shelby L. Stanton
@1993

They're all here: the Screaming Eagle Patrollers, Cochise Raiders, Charlie Rangers, Cobra Lightning Patrollers, and more

Index. Pictures

RECONDO LRRPs in the 101st Airborne
Larry Chambers
@1992

They will never be able to duplicate the 5th Special Forces Recondo School and the training that gave its grads something they desperately needed - the skills to survive Long Range Patrol missions. description fro back of book

No Index. Personal Pictures. Maps. Glossary

RED THUNDER TROPIC LIGHTNING The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam
Eric M. Bergerud
@ 1993

"A gripping account of one of America's fighting divisions - the 25th Tropic Lightning, in which I (Oliver Stone) served and on which my film Platoon was based. description from back of book

No Index - pictures

RELUCTANT WARRIOR A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam
Michael C. Hodgins
@ 1997

The author "chronicles his experience as a patrol leader in myriad combat situations - from hasty ambush to emergency extraction to prisoner snatch to combined-arms ambush..." description from back of book

Index - with personal pictures

RESCUE OF BAT 21
Darrel D. Whitcomb
@ 1998
In April 1972, a U.S. Airforce navigator bailed out of his EB-66 straight into the heart of NVA territory. His disappearance spurred a search and rescue mission so complex, involving so many new and untried technologies, it rivaled the most intricate covert operations the U.S. had ever attempted.

Index, Pictures. Maps

THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN ARMY U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1973
Shelby L. Stanton
@1985
Campaign history of the ground war in Vietnam.
Index. Pictures. Glossary. Bibliography. Maps

RITES OF PASSAGE Odyssey of a Grunt
Robert Peterson
@2001
Biography His service was 1966 Central Highlands and along the Cambodian border. Foreword by his wife who found out after his death in 1994 his wounds were from "friendly fire."
Index. Pictures. Maps Glossary.

RUMOR OF WAR
Philip Caputo
@ 1977

On March 8, 1965, as a young infantry officer, I landed at Danang with a battalion of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, the first U.S. combat unit sent to Indochina. I returned in April 1975 as a newspaper correspondent and covered the Communist offensive that ended with the fall of Saigon. Pulitzer Prize winning book.

No index or picture. Dedicated to Sergeant Hugh John Sullivan, C Company, First Battalion, Third Marines, KIA, June 1965 and First Lieutenant Walter Neville Levy, C Company, First Battalion, First Marines, KIA, September 1965.

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