Biographical Books on Vietnam War

TAIL WIND A True Story
Robert Van Buskirk with Fred Bauer
@1983 A Biography of the man who found Christ.

No Index. No Pictures.

Second Cover

TAKING FIRE The True Story of a Decorated chopper Pilot Ron Alexander & Charles W. Sasser @2001 Nicknamed "Mini-Man" for his dimminutive stature, a mere five-foot-three and 125 pounds in his flight boots, chopper pilot Ron Alexander proved to be a giant in the eyes of the men he rescued from the jungles and paddies of Vietnam. description from book No Index. Personal pictures.

TAN PHU Special Forces Team A-23 in Combat
Leigh Wade
@ 1997

Vietnam, 1963. Leigh Wade was a radioman for Special Forces Team A-23, a twelve-man unit sent to Tan Phu, a hell on earth in the Mekong Delta where the VC had the advantage of knowing the tangled terrain. The team's mission: run sweeps and hammer-and-anvil operations, kill or capture as many VC as possible, and move back to camp before they could strike back.

No index, book has portrait shots. Men listed: Captain Leites, James Rowe, M.Sgt Kemmer, Norm Hardy, James Browning, Dan Fitzer, S.Sgt Navarro, John Lowe, Roger Vandeberg, Ken Carey, Sidney Cross, Rocky Versace, Karales, Castan, Major Phong, Lyn

TANK SERGEANT Ralph Zumbro @1986 Jungle Busters. From tearing roads through the jungle to blasting out Viet Cong positions, from convoy escort to rescue operations, the tank crews in Vietnam did it all Indexed. Photographers. Glossary

TANKS IN THE WIRE The First Use of Enemy Armor in Vietnam David B. Stockwell @1989 February 7 1968, the North Vietnamese Army steamrollered into the U.S. Army Special Forces camp at Lang Vei. Their brutal attack relied on strategies and weaponry previously unseen in the war. description from back of book Index. No Pictures. Maps.

TEACHING THE VIETNAM WAR A Critical Examination of School Texts and an Interpretive Comparative History Utilizing the Pentagon Papers and Other Documents William L. Griffen and John Marciano @1979 Index. No Pictures. No Maps.

TEAM SERGEANT A Special forces NCO at Lang Vei and Beyond William T. Craig @1989 All through this book Craig mentions different men and gives brief bio summaries. While mostly a biography of Craig's tour of duty in Vietnam it includes Lang Vei, Tet 1968. Index. Pictures. Maps.

TEAMMATES: SEALs AT WAR
Barry W. Enoch, (Chief gunners Mate, U.S. Navy (Ret.) with Gregory A. Walker
@ 1996

The searing inside story of Vietnam War special operations from a founding member of SEAL Team ONE. He was awarded the Navy Cross December 1970.

No index, Personal pictures with names.

THE TEN THOUSAND DAY WAR VIETNAM:1945-1975 Michael Maclear @1981 A History Index Pictures Maps

THAILAND: The War That Is, The War That Will Be Louis E. Lomax @1967 Written in 1967. "A first-hand report of another Viet Nam in the making" No Index or pictures.

13 CENT KILLERS The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam John J. Culbertson @2003 1967. The 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon sniper teams accompanied Marine rifle companies like the 2/3 on patrols and combat missions No Index. Pictures. Glossary

TIME HEALS NO WOUNDS The agony of the real war in Vietnam - the grunt's war - told by a soldier who lived through it
Jack Leninger
@1993

Jack Leninger spent a year humping the boonies as a rifleman in the 4th Inf. Div.... With operational reports, eyewitness accounts, journals and photos, Leninger captures the terror and chaos of Vietnam in all its electrifying intensity.
    discription extracted from the back of the book

No Index - Book has unit list of casualities, maps, graphic photos, and plenty of documentation.

TO BEAR ANY BURDEN The Vietnam War and its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and South Asians
Al Santoli
@1985

The eighty of so interview excerts making up this book are not, and weren't intended to be, a comprehensive history; they are fragments of lives that were themselves fragments of a colossal and complicated tragedy. description from the book

No Index. Pictures.

TOUCHED WITH FIRE The Future of the Vietnam Generation
John Wheeler
@1984

"Out of that dark and angry past comes a voice of hope. John Wheeler, a Vietnam veteran who helped create the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, dares to examine the controversial issues provoked by Vietnam in order to profoundly influence America's future

Index -

TOUR OF DUTY JOHN KERRY and the VIETNAM WAR Douglas Brinkley @2004 Brinkly has drawn on extensive interviews with virtually everyone who knew Kerry in Vietnam. Kerry also relegated to Brinkley his letters home from Vietnam, voluminous "war notes" journals and personal reminiscense written during and shortly after the war. Index and Personal Pictures

TOURING NAM The Vietnam War Reader edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Augustus Richard Nortonl @1985 Contributors: David Reed, Don Porshe, Tim O'Brien, Stan Goff, Ronald J. Glasser, Asa Baber, Kent Anderson, Lee K. Abbott, Elkins, Tom Suddick, Josiah Bunting, Charles Anderson, Thomas Parker, Tom Mayer, Robert Chatain No Index. Pencil drawings.

THE TUNNELS OF CU CHI The Untold Story of Vietnam Tom Mangold/John Penycate @1985 Two journalists re-create a remarkable campaign, a unique battle fought inside a 200-mile labyrinth of underground tunnels and complex chambers that the Viet cong dug just north of Saigon...it is also the story of the American soldiers called "tunnel rats." Index. Pictures. Maps

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A Doctor's Year in Vietnam
John A. Parrish MD
@1972

I looked briefly for a date of the Doctor Parrish's tour... couldn't find it.. but the copyright means War was still active during his service and that the movie M.A.S.H. had been out for two years. The number reflects the numbers that the helicopter brings in "litter-borne wounded, ambulatory wounded, dead."

No Index. No pictures.

THE 25 YEAR WAR America's Military Role in Vietnam General Bruce Palmer, Jr. @1984 "The author, General Bruce Palmer, was Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1973. His insights into the key events and decisions that shaped America's military role in Vietnam are uncommonly perceptive." Index. Glossary. Maps