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  • Spies on the Mekong

    CIA Clandestine Operations in Laos

    by Ken Conboy ...
    During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency’s biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advisors and support personnel trained and led guerrilla formations across the mountainous Laotian countryside, as well as running smaller road-watch and agent teams that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Chinese frontier. Added to this number ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The NVA and Viet Cong

    by Kenneth Conboy, Ken Bowra ...
    Series Book 38 - Elite
    In 1940 Japan placed Vietnam under military occupation, restricting the local French administration to a figurehead authority.Seizing the opportunity, the Communists organised a Vietnamese independence league, the Viet Minh, whose armed forces became known as the PAVN (more commonly known to the West as the Vietcong, or NVA) and prepared to launch an uprising against the French at the war's end ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Feet to the Fire

    CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958

    by James Morrison, Ken Conboy ...
    Today the vast archipelago of Southeast Asia islands known as Indonesia is in the headlines because of political instability, religious tension, and violence in the streets. Forty years ago similar conditions led the Central Intelligence Agency to mount a top-secret covert action campaign designed to hold that nation's left-leaning President Sukarno's feet to the fire and prevent a strategic ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The War in Cambodia 1970–75

    by Kenneth Conboy, Ken Bowra ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the troops that fought in Cambodia in the 1970s.Kenneth Conboy and Ken Bowra's detailed text discusses all the US and Cambodian forces, including Special Operations, and summarises the course of the war. Alongside the text, uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail, highlighting the varied range of military clothing used ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The War in Cambodia 1970–75

    by Kenneth Conboy, Ken Bowra ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the troops that fought in Cambodia in the 1970s.Kenneth Conboy and Ken Bowra's detailed text discusses all the US and Cambodian forces, including Special Operations, and summarises the course of the war. Alongside the text, uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail, highlighting the varied range of military clothing used ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Ravens: The True Story Of A Secret War In Laos, Vietnam

    by Christopher Robbins ...
    Officially the war in Laos did not exist – both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the south, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from the air. The Ravens were the pilots, all volunteers, who flew through heavy groundfire to identify ... Read more

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  • The Best and the Brightest

    by David Halberstam ...
    David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain."A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York TimesUsing portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Phoenix Program

    America's Use of Terror in Vietnam

    by Douglas Valentine ...
    Series Book 5 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    "This shocking expose of the CIA operation aimed at destroying the Vietcong infrastructure thoroughly conveys the hideousness of the Vietnam War" ( Publishers Weekly).In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America's Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War on Our Doorstep: The Unknown Campaign on North America's West Coast

    The Unknown Campaign on North America's West Coast

    by Brendan Coyle ...
    In June 1942, Japanese troops occupied the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska in Alaska, the first enemy occupation of US territory since the War of 1812. For the next year a bloody conflict raged that was nearly invisible to most North Americans as Canadian and American soldiers, airmen and sailors went north to hold the Japanese in check.This is the complete story of the war in the North Pacific ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Vietnam

    An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

    by Max Hastings ...
    An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Foreign Planes in the Service of the Luftwaffe

    by Jean-Louis Roba ...
    This pictorial history shows the full extent of captured foreign aircraft used by Nazi Germany during WWII.No air force in the Second World War would make more use of captured planes than the Luftwaffe. With this in mind, military historian Jean-Louis Roba has tracked down hundreds of such aircraft with rare images that illustrate their uses, careers, and eventual fates. Foreign Planes in the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Team

    The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World

    by L. Fletcher Prouty ...
    **“Offers uncommonly penetrating insight.…A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations." —**New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword.The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty’s exposé of the CIA’s brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published in the 1970s. However, virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon ... Read more

    $11.99 USD