Books like Vietnam by Max Hastings

A collection of linked short stories that follows a platoon of American soldiers and their experiences, thoughts, and burdens during the Vietnam War.

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is a personal biography of Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese woman who experienced the Vietnam War, lived in the United States, and later returned home to confront a changed country.

A first‑hand diary of a young Vietnamese doctor, Dang Thuy Tram, who bravely tended her patients while wartime bullets fell around her.

A gripping, candid account of mystery‑maker Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers journey, written for young readers.

A comprehensive reference on the Vietnam War, covering its historical background, detailed chronology, and 500 alphabetically arranged articles on key people, battles, weapons, and controversies.

Ride the Thunder chronicles the Vietnam War from the perspective of U.S. marine officers and Vietnamese counterparts, detailing their personal stories and battlefield actions.

Examines the August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incidents, revealing that the alleged attack was a false radar event and exploring how US policy missteps escalated the Vietnam War.

The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out--with military precision--an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war which, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and bearing future recruits. Belew's disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.--

An oral history of the late 1960s that captures the voices of activists, organizers, students and veterans during the Vietnam War era, detailing protests, campus strife, and the turbulent social movements that shook American society.

"How did the mightiest nation in the history of the planet end up forever fighting unwinnable wars under a dysfunctional government despised by an increasingly divided citizenry? To help make sense of this crash course, Bruce Franklin offers another kind of crash course, a personal odyssey through modern American history. Readers are plunged into history, partly by reliving some of the author's experience and evolving consciousness: born in the Depression, molded by the victory culture of World War II, acculturated into the anti-Communist frenzy of early postwar years, employed by Communists during the Korean War, plunged into class warfare while working on the New York waterfront, flying as a Strategic Air Command Arctic navigator and intelligence officer, becoming a leading anti-war and progressive activist and thus a target of COINTELPRO, and emerging as a trailblazing cultural historian. The main subject is America's wars, abroad against nations and peoples in every continent except Australia, at home along racial and class lines. By bringing multi-disciplinary knowledge and cutting-edge analysis to the forces that shaped and reshaped one American for eight decades, each chapter offers compelling and eye-opening reading to 21st-century Americans"--