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Making of a Quagmire
by David Halberstam
America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era. Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about.
Year: 1965
Genre: Vietnam War
The Green Berets
by Robin Moore
In Vietnam Robin Moore became on the of the first true "embedded" journalists, training and fighting alongside America's most elite fighters. Though fictionalized, The Green Berets exposed the American public to the horrors of the ground war in Vietnam, and gave the men of the Green Berets the recognition they deserved.
Year: 1965
Genre: Vietnam War
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
Using portraits of America’ s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country’s recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic.
Year: 1972
Genre: Vietnam War
Titles
| Want It | Got It | Read It | Year | Title | |||||||
 | | | 1965 | Making of a Quagmire | by David Halberstam | Vietnam War, Non-Fiction | |||||
| | | 1965 | The Green Berets | by Robin Moore | Vietnam War | |||||
| | | 1972 | The Best and the Brightest | by David Halberstam | Vietnam War, Non-Fiction | |||||
| | | 2003 | Cheating Death | by George J. Marrett | Rescue Mission, Vietnam War, Laos, Vietnam, Non-Fiction | |||||
| | | 2007 | The Rescue of Streetcar 304 | by Kenny Wayne Fields | Rescue Mission, Vietnam War, Laos, Non-Fiction | |||||
| | | 2013 | Air America in Laos | by Stephen I. Nichols | CIA, Rescue Mission, Vietnam War, Laos, Non-Fiction | |||||
| | | 2015 | The Lucky Few | by Jan K. Herman | Vietnam War, Asia, Non-Fiction | |||||
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