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.


VERY CRAZY G.I. Strange But True Stories of the Vietnam WAR
Kregg P. J. Jorgenson
@2001

Book of short stories collected by the author during his tenure as a senior editor at Behind the Lines magazine and as a columnist for various military-relted publications. He says the stories are suppose to be true but even he finds some of them far-fetched.

No Index. No pictures

VICTORY IN VIET NAM
Mrs. Gordon H. Smith
@ 1965

Vietnam very early 1956-1964. Mrs. Smith and her husband were missionaries and this book is written from their advantage point. Very different from the military.

Book of short stories collected by the author during his tenure as a senior editor at Behind the Lines magazine and as a columnist for various military-relted publications. He says the stories are suppose to be true but even he finds some of them far-fetched.

No Index. plenty of pictures...

VIETNAM, 1969-1970 A Company Commander's Journal
Michael Lee Lanning
@1988

I am realizing the full burdens of being a company commander. description from the back of book

No Index. plenty of pictures...

VIETNAM The Other Side of Glory
William R. Kimball
1987 The most readable, gut-wrenching collection of first-person accounts of soldiers who underwent the most horrible brutalization and maiming in combat, and still came out alive description from book

No indexed. Pictures of the featured soldiers. Each chapter credited to the following person: William L. Landreth, Robert L. Peragallo, David E. Knight, Phil J. Huss, Bill H. Baldwin, Clebe McClary, Myrl Allinder, Jere Fullerton Sr., Lynn Hampton, John L. Steer, Martin J. Glennon, David C. Shaffer, Mason Ronald E., Eugene "Red" McDaniel,

THE VIETNAM WAR The Illustrated history of the conflict in Southeast Asia
edited by Ray Bonds

indexed.

VOICES from VIETNAM
Barry Deneberg
@ 1995

The war done with direct quotes from many many sources. Presented in a kinda chronological order. It combines letters home to official memos from President

No Index or pictures... Lots of quoteable material.

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