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Rarely in military history does an army achieve amazing victory and suffer humiliating defeat in the course of a single battle fought at sites no more than 2 miles apart. This brilliant book details just such an event...

Reviewed by MikeR

Palmer’s book is an attempt to explain the background to the political machinations surrounding the war and gives an insight into the political battle of wills being waged in both Hanoi and Washington. Whereas the US soldier beat the enemy on the ground in almost all instances, the reverse is true in the political arena where Ho Chi Minh and his politicians ran the US ragged...

Reviewed by MikeR

Released to tremendous and universal critical acclaim, Michael Herr's' Dispatches has become almost a literary icon for the war in Vietnam. The book is a kaleidoscopic account of Herr's time in Vietnam as an independent reporter of the war. Michael Herr writes with a style which is almost helter-skelter in it's use of rapid, quick firing images...

Reviewed by MikeR

The book chronicles the build up, deployment and eventual withdrawal of United States Ground Forces over the years 1965 to 1973. The author examines the overall strategic background for the period covered and the activities which took place throughout the various regions of the country. Regularly interspersed throughout the book are dramatic accounts of actual combat which give life to the bones of the narrative...

Reviewed by MikeR

War Stories of the Green Berets is a compendium of war stories, some hilarious, some heroic, and others sad, as told to Halberstadt by 26 men who served in Vietnam with US Army Special Forces. Halberstadt served in Vietnam as a doorgunner and got to know some of the men in this book. The men doing the storytelling are the real thing and represent the whole range of the Special Forces experience in Vietnam...

Reviewed by Rob Krott

A Lonely Kind of War is a real treasure. Not only does the author describe the technical aspects of his war in a clear and concise manner but he also conveys the humour and absurdities of service life in a way that will appeal to both the service and civilian reader. The author, Marshall Harrison, is that rare breed, a serviceman who can not only tell a good story but also put it down in writing...

Reviewed by Barrie Lovell