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Description: Focuses on the tactical airpower in South Vietnam between 1961 and 1968 and the rivalry among the armed forces of the United States. A

Year/pages: 2006: 208 p.

Price: $18.00

Description: Reference Information Paper 90. Compiled by Charles E. Schamel. Cover title reads: Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the Vietnam War Era, 1960-1994. Describes records that relate to the POW/MIA issue. Item 569.

Year/pages: 1996: 133 p.

Price: $3.25

Description: History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Provides an unusual and illuminating perspective about United States policy during the later part of the Vietnam War. Describes Joint Chiefs of Staff activities related to the Vietnam War during the period 1971-1973 and the continuing withdrawal and the negotiation of a political settlement. Concludes with the departure of all US Troops in the period January through March 1973.

Year/pages: 2007: 537 p.; ill.

Price: $50.50

Description: U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. This book focuses on events in the region between 1945 and 1965 and the growing U.S. concern over Communist inroads into the region. From the Chinese civil war to the French-Indochina war and the rise of Ho Chi Minh, this book describes U.S. response to the Communist movements in Asia and how the U.S. Navys role evolved from an advisory one to actual combat after the Tonkin Gulf attack of August 1964.

Year/pages: 2009: 58 p.; ill.

Price: $16.00

Description: NIC 2005-03. Compiled by CIA analysts John K. Allen, Jr.; John Carver; and Tom Elmore. Introductory Essay written by Lloyd Gardner. Contains intelligence documents (38 in this book and 174 in the accompanying CD) related to the Vietnam War. Shows how the United States intelligence Community viewed critical developments over a 27-year period, ranging from analysis of the implications of the post-World War 2 breakup of colonial empires to the Communist takeover of Saigon in 1975.

Year/pages: 2005: 640 p.; CD-ROM in pocket.

Price: $89.50

Description: EST. DELIVERY DATE 01/30/09.

Year/pages: 2008: 263 p.

Price: $19.00

Description: CMH Pub 70-4-1. By John A. Cash, et al. Includes accounts of various events in the Vietnam War from 1965 through 1968. Based on journals, reports, and interviews. L.C. card 70-605212. Item 344.

Year/pages: 1970: 167 p.; ill. 1984-repr.

Price: $5.50

Description: CMH 91-3-1. U.S. Army in Vietnam Series. Describes the U.S. Army advisory effort to the South Vietnamese armed forces during the period when the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia was at its peak.

Year/pages: 1988: 561 p.; ill.

Price: $32.50

Description: Marine Corps History Division Occasional Paper.

Year/pages: 2009: 179 p.; ill.

Price: $27.00

Description: Focuses on naval air power during the final years of the Vietnam War. For much of this period, Navy aircraft sought to hamper the flow of supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, a huge investment in air power resources that ultimately proved fruitless. After North Vietnam's invasion of the South in 1972, however, Navy tactical aviation, as well as naval gunfire support, proved critical, not only in blunting the offensive but also in persuading North Vietnam to arrive at a peace agreement in Paris in 1973. The Navy's forward presence saved the day in 1972 and allowed President Nixon to achieve peace with honor.

Year/pages: 2009: 83 p.; ill.

Price: $14.00

Description: United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-13-1. Draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the part the press played during the Vietnam War. Discusses the roles of the following in the creation of information policy: Military Assistance Command's Office of Information in Saigon; White House; State Department; Defense Department; and the United States Embassy in Saigon. L.C. card 88-931. Item 345.

Year/pages: 1988: 429 p.; ill.

Price: $38.00

Description: Chronicles the onset of offensive operations by the U.S. Army after eighteen months of building up a credible force on the ground in South Vietnam and taking the first steps toward bringing the war to the enemy.

Price: $50.50

Description: CMH Pub 91-6-1. United States Army in Vietnam. Covers the United States buildup in Vietnam from every angle: strategy, operations, tactics, logistics, inter-service relations, personnel policy, diplomacy, civil relations, and the handling of the news media to show how the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) developed and became the linchpin holding the entire American effort in Vietnam together.

Year/pages: 2006: 546 p.; ill.

Price: $52.50

Description: Marine Corps History Division Occasional Paper. Prepared by the U.S. Marine Advisory Unit, Naval Advisory Group. Compiled and edited by Charles D. Melson and Wanda J. Renfrow.

Year/pages: 2009: 187 p.

Price: $29.00

Description: History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. By Lawrence S. Kaplan, et al. A narrative history and assessment of the early years of Robert McNamara's tenure as Secretary of Defense, including McNamara's relationship with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, the transformation of the Department of Defense as a part of Kennedy's New Frontier, and the Pentagon's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs episode, and onset of the Vietnam War along with other major national security events and developments during a turbulent and momentous period of the Cold War.

Year/pages: 2006: 684 p.; ill.

Price: $51.50

Description: United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-2. Describes the United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam's efforts to manage relations with the news media during the Vietnam War. Follows the development of changes introduced into the program by General Creighton Abrams, General William C. Westmoreland's successor, through to the end of the War. Carries the story from just after the Tet Offensive through the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to the final withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam in 1973. L.C. card 94-35531. Item 0344.

Year/pages: 1996: 679 p.; ill.

Price: $23.50

Description: United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-2-1. Describes the efforts of the United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, to manage relations with the news media during the Vietnam War. Follows the development of changes introduced into the program by General Creighton Abrams, General William C. Westmoreland's successor, through to the end of the war. Carries the story from just after the Tet Offensive through the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to the final withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam in 1973. L.C. card 94-35531.

Year/pages: 1996: 679 p.; ill.

Price: $18.50

Description: CMH Pub. 83-7. Editor, William E. Burkhalter. By Anthony Ballard, et al. Discusses and illustrates many wounds that happened to soldiers during the Vietnam War. Includes sections on wounds of the thigh, leg, hand, foot, joints, and nerves. Also discusses amputations of limbs. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of x-rays. Indexed. L.C. card 93-39914.

Year/pages: 1994: 238 p.; ill.

Price: $27.50

Description: CMH Pub. 30-20. Army Historical Series. 3rd of three volumes by the Center of Military History on the role of federal military forces in domestic disturbances. This volume covers the institutional and other changes that took place during the early postwar years and carries the reader through the civil rights revolution, the disturbances that accompanied the Vietnam War, and the controversies surrounding the Army's intervention in the race riot in Los Angeles in 1992, which occurred after this volume was essentially completed, and with an extensive bibliography containing a note on various sources used.

Year/pages: 2005: 530 p.; ill.

Price: $69.50

Description: CMH Pub. 30-20-1. Army Historical Series. 3rd of three volumes by the Center of Military History on the role of federal military forces in domestic disturbances. This volume covers the institutional and other changes that took place during the early postwar years and carries the reader through the civil rights revolution, the disturbances that accompanied the Vietnam War, and the controversies surrounding the Army's intervention in the race riot in Los Angeles in 1992, which occurred after this volume was essentially completed, and with an extensive bibliography containing a note on various sources used.

Year/pages: 2005: 530 p.; ill.

Price: $13.00

Description: Probes various groups of Americans as they come to grips with the consequences of the Vietnam War. Examines several areas of concern, such as doctrine, force structure, and professional military education, facing the United States Air Force and the other services in varying degrees, in the years after Vietnam. Seeks to find out how the Vietnam experience has affected the United States military. Air University ISBN 1-58566-024-8.

Year/pages: 1988: 140 p.; 2004-repr.

Price: $3.25

Description: State Department Publication 10958. Edited by Kent Seig. General Editor: David S. Patterson. Documents United States policy toward Vietnam in 1967. Presents documentation illuminating responsibility for major foreign policy decisions in the United States Government with emphasis on President Johnson and his advisors. Includes memoranda and records of discussions that set forth policy issues and options and show decisions or actions taken.

Year/pages: 2002: 1213 p.

Price: $74.00

Description: State Department Publication 10959. Edited by Kent Seig. General Editor: David S. Patterson. Documents United States policy toward Vietnam in 1967. Presents documentation illuminating responsibility for major foreign policy decisions in the United States Government with emphasis on President Johnson and his advisors. Includes memoranda and records of discussions that set forth policy issues and options and show decisions or actions taken.

Year/pages: 2002: 1062 p.

Price: $29.00

Description: State Department Publication 11041. Editor, Kent Sieg. General Editor, Edward C. Keefer. Part of a subseries of volumes which document the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Includes memoranda and records of discussions that set forth policy issues and options and show decisions or actions taken.

Year/pages: 2003: 882 p.

Price: $27.50

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