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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Alabama

A Novel

"His sentences are perfect but not merely; a surplus of dark and tender wisdom, who knows its source, makes his language--and the world--glow with meaning." -- Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room A long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist, the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government A small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport, with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the pocket of his coat. So begins The Volunteer. But in order to understand this heartbreaking and indefensible decision, the story must return to the moment, decades earlier, when a young man named Vollie Frade, almost on a whim, enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rural Iowan parents, Vollie puts in motion an unimaginable chain of events, which sees him go to work for insidious people with intentions he cannot yet grasp. From the Cambodian jungle, to a flophouse in Queens, to a commune in New Mexico, Vollie's path traces a secret history of life on the margins of America, culminating with an inevitable and terrible reckoning. With intense feeling, uncommon erudition, and bracing style, Scibona offers at once a pensive exploration of how we are capable of both inventing and discovering our true families and a lacerating interrogation of institutional power at its most commanding and terrifying. An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons, The Volunteer is a triumph in the grandest traditions of American storytelling.

The Volunteer

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#hardcover #militaryhistory #military #history #vietnamwar #war #projectpopeye 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

A Military History

Napoleon delayed his attack at Waterloo to allow the mud to dry. Had he attacked earlier, he might have defeated Wellington before Blücher arrived. In November 1942, Russian mud stopped the Germans, who could not advance again until the temperature dropped low enough to freeze the mud. During the Vietnam War, "Project Popeye" was an American attempt to lengthen the monsoon and cause delays on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Soldiers have always known just how significant mud can be in war. But historians have not fully recognized its importance, and few have discussed the phenomenon in more than a passing manner. Only three books--Military Geography (by John Collins), Battling the Elements (by Harold Winters et al.), and Battlegrounds) (edited by Michael Stephenson)-- have addressed it at any length and then only as part of the entire environment's effect on the battlefield. None of these books analyzed mud's influence on the individual combatant. Mud: A Military History first defines the substance's very different types. Then it examines their specific effects on mobility and on soldiers and their equipment over the centuries and throughout the world. From the Russian rasputiza to the Southeast Asian monsoon, C. E. Wood demonstrates mud's profound impact on the course of military history. Citing numerous veterans' memoirs, archival sources, personal interviews, and historical sources, soldier-scholar Wood pays particular attention to mud's effect on combatants' morale, health, and fatigue. His book is for all infantrymen--past, present, or the clean, dry, comfortable armchair variety.

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New Jersey

Vietnam in Their Own Words

The Soldiers' Story

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#biography #nonfiction #hardcover #autobiography #military #bobkerrey #Vietnam #war #Vietnamwar 

Pennsylvania

A Memoir

The author traces his experiences as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam, which led to his being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and describes his sheltered childhood and his search for the truth about his uncle's death in World War II.

When I was a Young Man

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#hardcover #history #ww2 #VietnamWar #American-History 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Tennessee

The War at Home, 1945-1972

"Examines the course of social reformation in America, from the end of the second World War to the Vietnam War." Includes picture essay on Woodstock, as well as material on the civil rights movement, the 1968 Democratic National convention, anti-war protests, Martin Luther King, Jr., the SDS, the Berrigan brothers, "Dissent in the ranks," and "Rock 'n' roll rebellion."

A Nation Divided

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

Fallen Angels

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California

Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever. 

Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world--both its horrors and its thrills--and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.

Matterhorn

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A Rumor of War

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#nonfiction #biography #vietnamwar #paperback #warhistory #army #militaryhistory #vietnam #booktofilm #weweresoldiers 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young

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Book club edition published in 1984. Some tears to dust jacket. Some yellowing of pages. Writing on map (maybe with some historical significance). Great book for price. #hardcover #nonfiction #war #vietnam #military #vietnamwar #history

Connecticut

America’s Military Role in Vietnam

The 25-Year War

Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam

A masterful account of Lyndon Johnson and America's fall into Vietnam by one of our finest historians, filled with fresh interpretations, deft portraits, and new perspectives. Absolutely terrific...simply the best book on the period. --Marilyn B. Young

Pay Any Price

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#historicalfiction #historical #adult #history #fiction #paperback #war #vietnamwar #historicalfiction  #nonfiction 

Texas

The Things They Carried

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A #paperback #action #adventure #Vietnam #militaryservice #war #Vietnamwar 

Uncovering the secrets behind the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, this is "a brutal, cautionary tale that serves as a painful reminder of the worst that can happen in war."--Chicago Tribune.

Four Hours in My Lai

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#paperback #military #war #vietnam #vietnamwar #weapons

Vietnam Weapons Handbook

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Indiana

In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him.

Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Throughout the school year, Holling strives to get a handle on the Shakespeare plays Mrs. Baker assigns him to read on his own time, and to figure out the enigmatic Mrs. Baker. At home, Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family.

As the Vietnam War turns lives upside down, Holling comes to admire and respect both Shakespeare and Mrs. Baker, who have more to offer him than he imagined. And when his family is on the verge of coming apart, he also discovers his loyalty to his sister, and his ability to stand up to his father when it matters most.

Each month in Holling's tumultuous seventh-grade year is a chapter in this quietly powerful coming-of-age novel set in suburban Long Island during the late '60s.

The Wednesday Wars

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The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War

This is a panoramic history taking the reader from 1940 through the aftermath of the harrowing, monumental French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, which ended colonial rule in China and led inexorably to America's Vietnam War.

Valley of Death

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Hardcover (under 2 lbs)

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.

John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

One of the most acclaimed books of our time--the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won.

In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann--"the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam"--and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America's young manhood and resources.

A Bright Shining Lie

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#paperback #VietnamWar #American-History 

An account of the many bungles that characterized our involvement in this war with a warning concerning the possibility of similar disasters in the future.

Backfire

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Missouri

Vietnam

Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.

Free-Fire Zone #3

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In the summer of 1969, fourteen-year-old Lucas Painter carries a huge weight on his shoulders. His brother is fighting in Vietnam. His embattled parents are locked in a never-ending war. And his best friend, Connor, is struggling with his own family issues. To find relief from the chaos, Lucas takes long, meandering walks, and one day he veers into the woods. There he discovers an isolated cabin and two huge dogs. Frightened, he runs. And the dogs run with him. Lucas finds unusual peace in running with the dogs, and eventually he meets their owner, Zoe Dinsmore. Closed off and haunted by a tragic past, Zoe has given up. She doesn’t want to be saved. She wants out. But Lucas doesn’t want her to go, and he sees an opportunity to bring more than one friend back into the light. It’s either the best or worst idea he’s ever had, but Lucas isn’t giving up on Zoe or Connor.

Stay

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Virginia

The Vietnam Experience

"The Americans in Vietnam, 1954-1973"--Jacket subtitle.

A Collision of Cultures

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Recounts the American withdrawal from South Vietnam, the Communist conquest of Saigan, and the plight of South Vietnamese refugees who tried to flee in boats

The Fall of the South

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Describes the next to the last two years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and looks at the political aspects of the war

Salvatore Scibona

The Volunteer

C. E. Wood

Mud

Ron Steinman

The Soldiers' Story

Bob Kerrey, Robert Kerrey

When I was a Young Man

Robert Manning (Editor)

A Nation Divided

Walter Dean Myers

Fallen Angels

Karl Marlantes

Matterhorn

Philip Caputo

A Rumor of War

Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young

General Bruce Palmer, Jr.

The 25-Year War

Lloyd C. Gardner

Pay Any Price

Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

Michael Bilton; Kevin Sim

Four Hours in My Lai

David Rosser-Owen

Vietnam Weapons Handbook

Gary D. Schmidt

The Wednesday Wars

Ted Morgan

Valley of Death

Gary D. Schmidt

The Wednesday Wars

Neil Sheehan

A Bright Shining Lie

Loren Baritz

Backfire

Chris Lynch

Free-Fire Zone #3

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Stay

Edward Doyle; Stephen Weiss; Robert Manning (Editor)

A Collision of Cultures

Clark Dougan; David Fulghum; Robert Manning (Editor)

The Fall of the South

Samuel L. Lipsman; Stephen Weiss; Robert Manning (Editor)

A False Peace