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  • Vietnam Was a Just War

    The Evolution of the Cavalry and How it Changed Warfare

    This is one the best books you'll read about the Vietnam War. You'll learn how six U.S. Presidents knew the dire need to protect South Vietnam from Communism. You'll see how the betrayal by politicians, media, academia, and draft-dodgers influenced public opinion and the war's conclusion.Learn some philosophies of war and trace the evolution of the horse cavalry to helicopter cavalry to Air ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Dear Mom and Dad, Love from Vietnam

    2 Gold Global E-book Awards for Nonfiction History and Nonfiction MilitaryBronze Global E-book Award for Nonfiction Autobiography/Memoirs1st Air Cavalry Lieutenant Joe Abodeely shipped off to Vietnam at the beginning and height of the Tet Offensive in January 1968. He kept a diary and wrote letters home recounting his experiences in real-time about the patrols, the combat air assaults, the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Taking Fire

    The True Story of a Decorated Chopper Pilot

    The incredible memoir by one of the most decorated chopper pilots to emerge from the Vietnam War."Some of the best action writing in the field . . . Electrifying." — New York Times –bestselling author W. E. B. GriffinNicknamed "Mini-Man" for his diminutive 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 ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Element of Surprise

    Navy SEALS in Vietnam

    by Darryl Young ...
    It used to be said that the night belonged to Charlie. But that wasn't true where SEALs patrolled. For six months in 1970, fourteen men in Juliett Platoon of the Navy's SEAL Team One--incuding the author--carried out over a hundred missions in the Mekong Delta without a single platoon fatality. Their primary mission: kidnap enemy soldiers--alive--for interrogation. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Baptism

    A Vietnam Memoir

    by Larry Gwin ...
    "The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion."A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three years old when he arrived in Vietnam in 1965. After a brief stint in the Delta, Gwin was reassigned to the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Too Young to Vote but Old Enough to Kill

    by DF Ryschka ...
    Raw, hard hitting, not politically correct, as it was during the early years of the 1970s. See through the soldiers eyes his perspectives, as he takes you visually through his personal slice of the non-winnable Vietnam War. Feel his fear and euphoria from the mundane to the cracking sounds of AK 47 rounds zipping past his head. Meet the friendly creatures persecuting the Grunts daily, while on ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Not Going Home Alone

    A Marine's Story

    Experience the pain, the pride, and the triumph of the Marine CorpsAll the members of 1st Lt. James J. Kirschke’s mortar platoon and then rifle platoon knew the stakes: the Marines are America’s military elite, expected to train harder, fight longer, sacrifice more. Kirschke led by example in the hotly contested zone just south of the DMZ and in the dangerous AnHoa region southwest of DaNang. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Chickenhawk: Back in the World

    Life After Vietnam

    by Robert Mason ...
    Here is the triumphant sequel to Robert Mason's bestselling account of his service as a chopper pilot in Vietnam. Chickenawk: Back in the World is a moving, no-holds-barred post-Vietnam memoir that reveals the war's shattering legacy in the heart and mind of a returning vet. When Robert Mason's first book was published in 1983, it was hailed as one of the finest personal evocations of Vietnam ever ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ripcord

    Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970

    by Keith Nolan ...
    On April 10, 1970, Hill 927 was occupied by troopers of the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division. By July, the activities of the artillery and infantry of Ripcord had caught the attention of the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) and a long and deadly siege ensued. Ripcord was the Screaming Eagles’ last chance to do significant damage to the NVA in the A Shau Valley before the division was ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • In the Shadows of the American Century

    The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

    Series series Dispatch Books
    The award-winning historian delivers a "brilliant and deeply informed" analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration ( New York Journal of Books).In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America's rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Extraordinary Time

    The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy

    by Marc Levinson ...
    The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and families could see their living standards improving year after year. And then, around 1973, the good times vanished. The world economy slumped badly, then settled into the slow, erratic growth that had been the norm before the war. The result ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Doc: Platoon Medic

    HE GAVE MEN A FIGHTING CHANCE... TO SURVIVEDan Evans arrived in Vietnam on October 7, 1968, a 21- year-old Army medic who couldn't stand the sight of blood. Thrust into the cauldron of combat, he soon became a seasoned veteran of emergency medicine and the brutal realties of war. Before his time was up, he would master the skills of a surgeon, acquire the patience of a saint, and demonstrate the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD