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Posted: 3/12/2006 7:46:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/12/2006 7:46:39 PM EDT
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I liked Marine Sniper and Guns Up.
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Posted: 3/12/2006 7:50:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/12/2006 7:54:21 PM EDT
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"Chalie Mike" by Leonard B Scott, don't know if any of it is based on facts but its one you
can't put down. The second part is continued in the book "The Last Run" by the same author. |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 8:14:30 PM EDT
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I liked all of the above, and wouls add "The Short Timers" and "The Five fingers "
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Posted: 3/12/2006 8:18:52 PM EDT
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I enjoyed most of the above as well, but I gotta add
"We Were Soldiers Once, And Young" |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 8:19:12 PM EDT
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The Vietnam War by Davidson was the only required reading at West Point. Whatever that is worth.
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Posted: 3/12/2006 8:32:54 PM EDT
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Chickenhawk by Bob Mason Huey slick pilot in the Ia Drang Valley Awesome book
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Posted: 3/12/2006 9:01:28 PM EDT
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I would love to get my hands on a copy of 'The Short-Timers'. If anyone has one, I would buy it from them for a reasonable price.
Bump for other recommendations. |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 9:12:46 PM EDT
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Has this been reprinted at all recently. Trying to find a copy without paying a arm and a leg |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 9:27:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/12/2006 9:28:27 PM EDT
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Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills
ANYTHING by Keith William Nolan, but mainly: Battle for Hue: Tet 1968 Into Laos: The Story of Dewey Canyon Ii/Lam Son 719, Vietnam 1971 Into Cambodia, 1970: Spring Campaign, Summer Offensive Fields of Fire by James Webb Brennan's War, 1965-1969 by Matthew Brennan ...just a few of my favorites. |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 9:41:38 PM EDT
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I don't believe it has. I really wish I would've kept my copy of it. Oh well, it got passed along and read by a number of other people so it's not really a loss. |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 9:43:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/12/2006 9:48:48 PM EDT
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A Rumor Of War by Phillip Caputo
Hell In a Very Small Place (The French Foriegn Legion at Dien Ben Phu) by Bernard B. Fall Bernard B. Fall was killed several years later covering America's involvement in Vietnam, and Hell in a Very Small Place is one of the best books I have ever read about any conflict. |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 9:53:38 PM EDT
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Ditto on Keith william Nolan, just got done reading ripcord, operation buffalo was also a great read!
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Posted: 3/12/2006 10:18:55 PM EDT
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Are you looking for a historical account of the whole war, or the experiences of an individual or individuals?
How about The Killing Zone for the latter? |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 10:24:17 PM EDT
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A Life in a Year: The American Infantryman in Vietnam, 1965-1972
by James Ebert amazon link Maybe not the "best" but it's good. GL |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 10:25:24 PM EDT
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If one wishes to read a book that provides a picture of that the average draftee went through, I suggest If I Die In A Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien. The only flaw in this book is that it is rather subjective, and his moral objections to the war are rather obvious. But he hasn't hidden his bias. It is easy to read through this rather short book and seperate O'Brien's personal opinions from the facts.
The best Viet Nam helicopter autobiography I've read so far is Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. He also wrote a 'sequel' to his Viet Nam autobiography about his post-war life and a rather good science fiction novel about a military android named Solo. But the latter is out of print. I always opt for autobiographies and biographies when they are available. They're almost always more interesting than the books written by professional historians. Some historians poo-poo autobiographies as unending sources of memory error and personal biases and they are correct to a point. But they also have an agenda- to sell history books. Galland |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 10:33:29 PM EDT
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For the air war:
A Lonely Kind of War Chickenhawk On Yankee Station Ground war: Dispatches A Rumor of War |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 10:43:02 PM EDT
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Yeah, that was the most emngrossing Vietnam book I've ever read. Other ones were the Hatchcock story, Chickenhawk, Baptism By Fire, Rumors of War, About Face, cant name any more. But Devil's Guard was the most interesting for some reason. |
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Posted: 3/12/2006 11:14:35 PM EDT
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I like LRRP the professional.
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Posted: 3/12/2006 11:19:23 PM EDT
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I've read quite a few Vietnam era LRP books. That is definitely a favored theme of mine. 
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Posted: 3/12/2006 11:25:29 PM EDT
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HEY! Has anyone read Masters of the Art yet? Someone just sent it to me.
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Posted: 3/13/2006 1:12:44 AM EDT
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I really like the book that I think is called "War year"
The basic story follows a infantry soilder from enlistment to his death. Wish that I could find it. |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 1:16:57 AM EDT
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93 confirmed kills. The Carlos Hathcock story- nonfiction
Phu Nam- fiction |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 1:53:08 AM EDT
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Try "Run between the raindrops" by Dale Dye.
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Posted: 3/13/2006 2:13:52 AM EDT
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Fields of Fire, by James Webb
Rumor of War, by Phillip Caputo |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 2:42:47 AM EDT
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A Better War: Untold Victories Post Tet 1968 is an outsanding analysis of all that we did right militarily and wrong politically.
The Best and the Brightest for the skinny on how Johnson and Nixon screwed up the management of the war. Read this and you will want to hunt and kill certain politicians. |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 3:01:11 AM EDT
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We Were Soldiers Once, and Young.
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Posted: 3/13/2006 3:49:09 AM EDT
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I believe the "13Th Valley" was a fictional book. I read it twice. We was soldiers was very good. WarDawg
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Posted: 3/13/2006 3:53:24 AM EDT
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Wow..you really beat me to it... I did not care for his "Carry me home". BTW, I have an ex-LRP friend who flew out a mission with him in Vietnam. He turned mw onto his books. Chickenhawk deserves an honorable mention. About a guy who went in to the Air Cav as a pilot. |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 4:06:06 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/13/2006 4:10:34 AM EDT
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Tunnels of Chu Chi by T Mangold.
Fiction Phantom Leader series by Mark Berent F-4 airwar while fiction give some great insight on how the air war was run. Termite Hill/Lucky's Bridge/Tango Uniform by Tom Wilson Same as above except in F-105 Thuds |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 4:17:14 AM EDT
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Any of S.L.A. Marshall's writings on VN. All non-fiction. Ambush, Bird, etc. Great stuff without the Rambo fiction crap. Ditto on Bernanrd Fall.
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Posted: 3/13/2006 4:30:10 AM EDT
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If your not looking for the hardcover I found mine on ebay for 20 bucks so just keep an eye out there |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 4:36:48 AM EDT
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I liked Dear Mom by Joe Ward.
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Posted: 3/13/2006 4:46:34 AM EDT
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"Sand in the Wind"
By Robert Roth |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 4:47:29 AM EDT
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That's a very good find. Outstanding. |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 4:50:20 AM EDT
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You beat me to it! (For a little more info on Mills, with pics, look for Gunslingers in Action, Squadron Publications) Another good one by Brennan: Hunter Killer Squadron, Aero-Weapons Aero-Scouts Aero-Rifles |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 4:57:09 AM EDT
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100% agree. both are outstanding reads |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 5:03:15 AM EDT
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I didn't even need to open the post to know the answer. I concur. |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 5:13:20 AM EDT
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My top two are SOG and Fields of Fire, I'll haved to try finding Devil's Guard but I have a feeling there may be additional competition on Ebay.
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Posted: 3/13/2006 6:03:01 AM EDT
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Maybe not the BEST book written on the Vietnam War, but
When the Buffalo Fight by Lex McAulay was an outstanding book that gave an insight into the Australian experience in Vietnam, and how their concepts of warfare (particularly jungle warfare) differed from ours. |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 6:07:59 AM EDT
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West Dickens Avenue by John Corbett
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Posted: 3/13/2006 6:30:58 AM EDT
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I liked "Six Silent Men". Three books in all.
I met the "Black Icycle" that is mentioned in the beginning of book one and had him sign my book. |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 6:48:21 AM EDT
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Dereliction of Duty
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Posted: 3/13/2006 6:52:45 AM EDT
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Tie: Devil's Guard and Battle for Hue: Tet 1968 by Keith William Nolan.
Amazing books. I kept looking at Devil's Guard's frontispiece to ensure what I was reading was non-fiction. Seriously. |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 6:53:57 AM EDT
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Good luck - seriously. I sold my copy for $100. No joke. (if you look around you can find e-copies of it, I can't remember where) |
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Posted: 3/13/2006 7:51:21 AM EDT
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Fortune Favors the Bold, a British citizen joins the army and the LRRP's, great book.
Special Men was good, and Blood on the Risers was good. I can't remember the name of the book, but it was about a black choper pilot who gets shot down with a former kkk member while working for the CIA or SOG and goes on the become the Brig. General of the California National Guard. It was outstanding. |
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