Khe Sanh

Author : Gregg Jones
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306821400

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Last Stand at Khe Sanh by Gregg Jones Pdf

In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by 20,000 enemy troops. Their only road to the coast was cut, and bad weather and enemy fire threatened their fragile air lifeline. The siege of Khe Sanh-the Vietnam War's epic confrontation-was under way. For seventy-seven days, the Marines and a contingent of US Army Special Forces endured artillery barrages, sniper fire, ground assaults, and ambushes. Air Force, Marine, and Navy pilots braved perilous flying conditions to deliver supplies, evacuate casualties, and stem the North Vietnamese Army's onslaught. As President Lyndon B. Johnson weighed the use of tactical nuclear weapons, Americans watched the shocking drama unfold on nightly newscasts. Through it all, the bloodied defenders of Khe Sanh held firm and prepared for an Alamo-like last stand. Now, Gregg Jones takes readers into the trenches and bunkers at Khe Sanh to tell the story of this extraordinary moment in American history. Last Stand at Khe Sanh captures the exceptional courage and brotherhood that sustained the American fighting men throughout the ordeal. It brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters-young high school dropouts and rootless rebels in search of John Wayne glory; grizzled Korean War veterans; daredevil pilots; gritty platoon leaders and company commanders; and courageous Navy surgeons who volunteered to serve in combat with the storied Marines. Drawing on in-depth interviews with siege survivors, thousands of pages of archival documents, and scores of oral history accounts, Gregg Jones delivers a poignant and heart-pounding narrative worthy of the heroic defense of Khe Sanh.

Author : Bernard C. Nalty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Khe Sanh, 2nd Battle of, Vietnam, 1968
ISBN : MINN:30000010491946

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Air Power and the Fight for Khe Sanh by Bernard C. Nalty Pdf

Author : Robert Pisor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Khe Sanh, 2nd Battle of, Vietnam, 1968
ISBN : 0393322696

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The End of the Line by Robert Pisor Pdf

It was the most spectacular battle of the entire war. For 6,000 trapped marines, it was a nightmare; for President Lyndon Johnson, an obsession. For General Westmoreland, it was to be the final vindication of technological weaponry. In a compelling narrative, Robert Pisor sets forth the history, the politics, the strategies, and, above all, the desperate reality of the battle that became the turning point of the United States's involvement in Vietnam.

Author : Ray L. Bowers
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112104122806

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Tactical Airlift by Ray L. Bowers Pdf

Air Force History and Museums Program. Presents the United States Air Force’s use of one form of air power, tactical airlift aviation, in the changing limited warfare situation in Vietnam. Covers the period from the decision of President Truman to assist the French in 1950 to the end of United States involvement in 1975.

Author : Phillip B. Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0195067924

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Vietnam at War by Phillip B. Davidson Pdf

Weaving together the histories of three distinct conflicts, Phillip B. Davidson follows the entire course of the Vietnam War, from the initial French skirmishes in 1946 to the dramatic fall of Saigon nearly thirty years later. His connecting thread is North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, a remarkable figure who, with no formal military training, fashioned a rag-tag militia into one of the world's largest and most formidable armies. By focusing on Giap's role throughout the war, and by making available for the first time a wealth of recently declassified North Vietnamese documents, Davidson offers unprecedented insight into Hanoi's military strategies, an insight surpassed only by his inside knowledge of American operations and planning. Eminently qualified to write this history, Davidson--who served as chief intelligence officer under Generals Westmoreland and Abrams--tells firsthand the story of our tragic ordeal in Indochina and brings his unique understanding to bear on topics of continuing controversy, offering a chilling account, for example, of when and where the U.S. considered using nuclear weapons. The most comprehensive and authoritative history of the conflict to date, Vietnam at War sparkles with a rare immediacy, and brings to life in compelling fashion the war that tore America apart. We witness the chaos in Saigon when fireworks celebrating the Tet holiday are suddenly transformed into deadly rocket and machine-gun fire. We sit in on high-level meetings where General Westmoreland plans operations, or simply engages in some tough "headknocking" with subordinates. And in the end we learn that even the seemingly limitless resources of the U.S. military could not match the revolutionary "grand strategy" of the North Vietnamese. With its easy movement from intimate memoir to trenchant military analysis, from the conference rooms of generals to the battle-scarred streets of Hue, this is military history at its most gripping. A monumental, engrossing, and unforgettable chronicle, Vietnam at War is indispensable for anyone hoping to understand a conflict that still rages in the American psyche.

Author : Moyers S. Shore
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664619600

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The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore Pdf

The Battle for Khe Sanh is a book by Moyers S. Shore. During the Vietnam War a battle was conducted in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Vietnam, and this work presents equipment and tactics of US forces and how they fought VC forces.

Author : Jack Shulimson
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015041734057

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U.S. Marines in Vietnam by Jack Shulimson Pdf

This book was donated as a part of the David H. Hugel Collection, an archival collection of the Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore.

Author : Ronald J. Drez,Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0821261967

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Voices of Courage by Ronald J. Drez,Douglas Brinkley Pdf

Offers a vivid narrative of the seventy-seven-day struggle to control the remote Khe Sanh base in Vietnam, during which a severely outnumbered and isolated group of Marines held off an enemy onslaught, in a multimedia history that features firsthand remin

Author : Phil Haun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009364171

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Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War by Phil Haun Pdf

A theory of tactical air power explaining US air power effectiveness in Vietnam and the modern air wars that followed.

Author : Harry A. Gailey
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0810834014

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Historical Dictionary of the United States Marine Corps by Harry A. Gailey Pdf

Gailey (history, San Jose State U.) provides a chronology of the history of this evolving branch of the US armed forces: from its establishment in 1775 as the Continental Marines, to its 1994 mission in Haiti. The dictionary covers the "Abrams (M1 and M1A1) tank" to "Zeilin, Jacob"-- the marines' seventh commandant who escorted Commodore Perry on his 1853 Asian visits. The bibliography affords general works, official, and nonofficial publications by era. Includes insider acronyms and maps. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UGA:32108057579842

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Air Force Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435052627171

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Fortitudine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Moyar
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781641772983

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Triumph Regained by Mark Moyar Pdf

Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965–1968 is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. Like its predecessor, this book overturns the conventional wisdom using a treasure trove of new sources, many of them from the North Vietnamese side. Rejecting the standard depiction of U.S. military intervention as a hopeless folly, it shows America’s war to have been a strategic necessity that could have ended victoriously had President Lyndon Johnson heeded the advice of his generals. In light of Johnson’s refusal to use American ground forces beyond South Vietnam, General William Westmoreland employed the best military strategy available. Once the White House loosened the restraints on Operation Rolling Thunder, American bombing inflicted far greater damage on the North Vietnamese supply system than has been previously understood, and it nearly compelled North Vietnam to capitulate. The book demonstrates that American military operations enabled the South Vietnamese government to recover from the massive instability that followed the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem. American culture sustained public support for the war through the end of 1968, giving South Vietnam realistic hopes for long-term survival. America’s defense of South Vietnam averted the imminent fall of key Asian nations to Communism and sowed strife inside the Communist camp, to the long-term detriment of America’s great-power rivals, China and the Soviet Union.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435064984008

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : George Donelson Moss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000284270

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Vietnam by George Donelson Moss Pdf

Now in its 7th edition, Vietnam: An American Ordeal continues to provide a thorough account of the failed American effort to create a viable, non-Communist state in Southern Vietnam. Unlike most general histories of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, which are either conventional diplomatic or military histories, this volume synthesizes the perspectives to explore both dimensions of the struggle in greater depth, elucidating more of the complexities of the U.S.-Vietnam entanglement. It explains why Americans tried so hard for so long to stop the spread of Communism into Indochina and why they failed. In this new edition, George Donelson Moss expands and refines key moments of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, including the strategic and diplomatic background for United States’ involvement in Indochina during World War II; how the French, with British and American support, regained control in southern Vietnam, Saigon, and the vicinity, in the fall, 1945; the account for the formation of SEATO; and the account of the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. The text has also been revised and updated to align with recently published monographic literature on the time period. The accessible writing will enable students to gain a solid understanding of how and why the United States went to war against The Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and why it lost the long, bitter conflict. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of American history, the history of foreign relations, and the Vietnam War itself.