September 1, 2015
Vietnam 1967-68: U.S. Marine Versus NVA Soldier (Osprey, 80 pp., $18.95, paper; $15, .95 e book) is an excellent book for readers unfamiliar with the Vietnam War. In it, author David R. Higgins, a veteran…
August 10, 2015
Maybe I take things too literally, but I expected to find both hidden and untold information in Kenneth C. Davis’s The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah (Hachette, 416…
July 30, 2015
Don Oberdorfer, a long-time diplomatic correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for The Washington Post and was the author of the well-regarded look at the 1968 Tet Offensive, Tet! (1971), died July 23 in Washington,…
May 14, 2015
U.S. Air Force Col. W. Bruce Arnold created Wilderness of Tigers:A Novel of Saigon (Chandelle of Sonoma, 524 pp., $17.95, paper; $9.99, Kindle) after serving in Vietnam in 1967-68 as the Chief of DARPA’s Research and…
January 22, 2015
H.R. McCoy served in Vietnam with the 3rd of the 39th Infantry in the Army's 9th Infantry Division. “I needed to tell our story, the story of the combat soldier in Viet Nam, the man that did…
September 24, 2014
C. Michael Hiam's A Monument to Deceit: Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars , first published in 2006 under the title Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the…
March 19, 2014
Earlier this month Discovery Communications changed the name of its Military Channel to the American Heroes Channel. One of the newly named channel's new series is "Against the Odds, " which profiles the actions of…