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  • The Gunner and the Grunt

    Two Boston Boys in Vietnam with the First Cavalry Division Airmobile

    "That the book simultaneously succeeds on the individual soldier level makes it a standout for any reader with an interest in the airmobile aspect of the Vietnam War."—Vietnam Magazine. The Gunner and the Grunt is written in the voices of two soldiers who fought in the same battles as members of the same recon unit but from different angles. Michael Kelley, the "Gunner," was flying in an armed ... Read more

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    The Gunner and the Grunt

    Two Boston Boys in Vietnam With the First Calvary Division Airmobile

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    The Gunner and the Grunt is written in the voices of two soldiers who fought in the same battles as members of the same recon unit but from different angles. Michael Kelley, the "Gunner," was flying in an armed helicopter above the jungle providing suppressive fire support, while Peter Burbank, the "Grunt," was down in the jungle on foot patrol involved in fire fights with Viet Cong and North ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • War Paint

    The 1st Infantry Division's LRP/Ranger Company in Fierce Combat in Vietnam

    by Bill Goshen ...
    The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/ Ranger company. Their base was Lai Khe, within hailing distance of the Vietcong central ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Phantom Warriors

    Book I: LRRPs, LRPs, and Rangers in Vietnam

    by Gary Linderer ...
    Series Book 1 - Phantom Warriors
    Here are some of the most courageous missions executed by six-man teams on their own deep behind enemy lines. Ranging from the Central Highlands to the Mekong Delta to excursions— authorized and unauthorized—into Cambodia, these gripping accounts begin when the call first went out for covert U.S. long-range reconnaissance patrols in late 1965, continue through the battles of Tet, and go all the ... Read more

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  • Six Silent Men

    Series Book 1 - 101st LRP Rangers
    "No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men." [pg. 13]In 1965 nearly four hundred men were interviewed and only thirty-two selected for the infant LRRP Detachment of the lst Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Old-timers called it the suicide unit. Whether conducting prisoner snatches, search and destroy missions, or ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Down South

    One Tour in Vietnam

    “I was always happy to see first light.By first light it was over . . . for a while.”–from Down SouthThere were a lot of ways to get killed in Vietnam. You could get “zapped,” “dinged,” “burned,” “popped,” “smoked,” or “wasted.” Marine 2nd Lt. William H. Hardwick was familiar with all of them because, unlike most USMC artillery officers–who waged their war from bunkers inside protected compounds ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Phantom Warriors: Book 2

    More Extraordinary True Combat Stories from LRRPS, LRPS, and Rangers in Vietnam

    by Gary Linderer ...
    Series Book 2 - Phantom Warriors
    MORE GRIPPING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED LRRP ACCOUNTSFROM THE FRONT LINESDuring the Vietnam War, few combat operations were more dangerous than LRRP/Ranger missions. Vastly outnumbered, the patrols faced overwhelming odds as they fought to carry out their missions, from gathering intelligence, acting as hunter/killer teams, or engaging in infamous “Parakeet” flights– actions in which teams were dropped ... Read more

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  • Diary of an Airborne Ranger

    A LRRP's Year in the Combat Zone

    by Frank Johnson ...
    Perhaps the most accurate story of LRRPs at warever to appear in print!When Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was nineteen, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others--but with two important differences: Johnson volunteered for the elite L Company Rangers of the 101st Airborne Division, a long range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) unit, and he kept a secret diary, a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Six Silent Men...Book Three

    101st LRP / Rangers

    by Gary Linderer ...
    Series Book 3 - 101st LRP Rangers
    "The Eyes and Ears of the Screaming Eagles . . ."By 1969, the NVA had grown more experienced at countering the tactics of the long range patrols, and SIX SILENT MEN: Book Three describes some of the fiercest fighting Lurps saw during the war. Based on his own experience and extensive interviews with other combat vets of the 101st's Lurp companies, Gary Linderer writes this final, heroic chapter in ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Life and Death in the Central Highlands: An American Sergeant in the Vietnam War 1968-1970

    In 1968 James T. Gillam left college and was drafted into the Army. Within a month he transformed from an uncertain sergeantwho tried to avoid combatto an aggressive soldier killing his first enemy and planning and executing successful ambushes in the jungle. Gillam was a regular point man and occasional tunnel rat who fought below ground an arena that few people knew about until after the war ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Six Silent Men, Book Two

    by Kenn Miller ...
    Series Book 2 - 101st LRP Rangers
    In the summer of 1967, the good old days were ending for the hard-core 1st Brigade LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division, perhaps the finest maneuver element of its size in the history of the United States Army. It was a bitter pill. After working on their own in Vietnam for more than two years, the Brigade LRRPs were ordered to join forces with the division once again.But even as these formidable ... Read more

    $10.99 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