Mekong First Light: An Infantry Platoon Leader in Vietnam
By: Joseph W. Callaway Jr.
4.09
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
“Before we got to Vietnam, the troops all thought you would be the first lieutenant killed, and in …
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By: Douglas L. Edwards
4.57
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
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2. Hill 29 Vietnam 1968: 8th Cav/Blue Ghost
By: Gareth Style
4.19
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
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3. Blood on Red Dirt
By: Gary Cowart
4.32
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
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4. HUEY WAR: VIIETNAM FROM THE BACKSEAT
By: Bruce Nesmith
4.40
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
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5. On Full Automatic: Surviving 13 Months in Vietnam
By: William V. Taylor Jr.
4.60
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
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6. Keeping Each Other Alive: A Vietnam War Memoir
By: Norman Hile
4.35
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
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7. Project Omega: Eye of the Beast: SOG: My Tour
By: James Acre
4.49
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
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8. Fire in the Hole: Tales of Combat with the 1st Engineer Battalion in Vietnam
By: Mike Guardia
4.22
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
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9. Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967
By: Doyle D. Glass
4.56
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
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10. Flight Quack: The true story of the Vietnam War’s most decorated flight surgeon, who became a CIA assassin
By: Alan S. Levin
4.53
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
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11. Infantry Life: Vietnam's Central Highlands, 1966 - 1967
By: Dennis M Witt
4.31
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. Lions of Medina: The True Story of the Marines of Charlie 1/1 in Vietnam, 11-12 October 1967
By: Doyle D. Glass
4.41
Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. One Soldier: Vietnam In 1968
By: John Shook
4.00
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
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14. Di Di Mau: A True Story About Tigers, Rock Apes, the Jungle, and War
By: Darren Walton
4.21
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. Mekong First Light: An Infantry Platoon Leader in Vietnam
By: Joseph W. Callaway Jr.
4.09
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. Particular Bravery: The Battle of Xa Cam My and the Death of a Grunt Company
By: T L Derks
4.45
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
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17. Two Years to Serve: Recollections of a Drafted Marine: Half a Century after the Vietnam War
By: Thomas Elliott
4.52
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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18. Special Men: A LRP's Recollections
By: Dennis Foley
4.46
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. The Odds of Survival: A Helicopter Pilot's Story
By: Phillip Ide
4.35
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Silent Valor: One Man's Vietnam War
By: Rick Greenberg
4.68
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. A Thousand Chances: Air Cavalry in Vietnam's Bloodiest Year
By: Dan Hickman
4.60
Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition
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22. Nothing Left to Drag Home: The Siege of Lao Bao, During Operation Dewey Canyon II; Written by an Artilleryman Who Survived It.
By: Gary Rafferty
4.27
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
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23. Of Helicopters and Heroes
By: Gary Bowman
4.53
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
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24. SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969
By: Joe Parnar
4.50
Format: 519 pages, Kindle Edition
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25. Born Twice: Memoir of a Special Forces SOG Warrior
By: Dale Hanson
4.60
Format: 484 pages, Kindle Edition
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26. Walking Point: A Vietnam Memoir
By: Robert E Kunkel
4.44
Format: 515 pages, Kindle Edition
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27. Warriors: An Infantryman's Memoir of Vietnam
By: Robert Tonsetic
4.36
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
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28. Charlie 1/5 Cav: An Airmobile Infantry Company's 67 Months in Vietnam
By: Steve Hassett
4.45
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
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29. Warpath: One Vietnam Veteran's Journey through War, Disillusionment, Guilt and Recovery
By: A.J. Moore
4.30
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
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30. Frontline Brothers
By: Rick Barnes
4.62
Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition
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31. Vietnam: The Way It Really Was
By: Paul King
3.78
Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition
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