Books about the U.S. military or for members of the military.
General Classified Secret-Controlling Air Strikes in the Clandestine War in Laos by Jan Churchill Code Name Bright Light-US POW Rescue Efforts in the Vietnam War by George J. Veith 10,000 Days Of Thunder- A History of the Vietnam War by Philip Caputo Fast Movers-Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience by John Darrell Sherwood In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by (Former Secretary of Defense) Robert S. McNamara Inside the Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf 1987-88 by Harold Wise One Shot, One Kill- American Combat Snipers: WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Beirut by Charles W. Sasser/Craig Roberts Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military by Oxford University Press Pathfinder: First In, Last Out by Richard R. Burns REQUIEM: By The Photographers Who Died In Vietnam and Indochina by Random House The Secret War Against Hanoi-Kennedy's and Johnson's use of spies, Saboteurs, and covert warriors in North Vietnam by Richard H. Shultz Jr. Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed Of Its Heroes And Its History by B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley Vietnam Firebases, 1965-1973 by Randy E. M. Foster Vietnam Order of Battle by Shelby L. Stanton Where We Were In Vietnam: A Comprehensive Guide To The Firebases, Military Installations, and Naval Vessels Of The Vietnam War, 1945-1975 by Michael P. Kelley
Army A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan Acceptable Loss-Fighting in Vietnam by Kregg P. Jorgenson American Warrior: A Combat Memoir Of Vietnam by John "Doc" Bahansen Jr. A Soldier Reports by GEN William C. Westmoreland A Hundred Miles of Bad Road by D. W. Birdwell & K. W. Nolan The Army and Vietnam by Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. Battle For Hue, Tet 1968 by Keith Nolan Bell UH-1 Huey "Slicks" 1962-75 by Chris Bishop Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden Chickenhawk by Robert Mason Death In The A-Shau Valley, L Company LRRP's Vietnam, 1969-1970 by Larry Chambers Death Valley, Summer Offensive, August 1968 by K. W. Nolan Dispatches by Michael Herr Doc: Platoon Medic by Daniel E. Evans Jr. Dustoff-The Memoir of an Army Aviator by Michael J. Novosel Eyes Behind The Lines-L Company Rangers in Vietnam 1968 by Gary A. Linderer Gunslingers In Action, Cobra-Vietnam by Lou Drendel Hamburger Hill, The Brutal Battle For Dong Ap Bia, May 11–20, 1969 by Samuel Zaffiri House To House-Playing The Enemy's Game, Saigon, May 1968 by Keith W. Nolan If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien In Pharaoh's Army: Memoirs of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff Into Laos, The Story of Lam Son 719/Dewey Canyon II, 1971 by Keith W. Nolan The Killing Zone- My Life In The Vietnam War by Frederick Downs Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills Mounted Combat In Vietnam by GEN Donn A. Starry Recondo: LRRP's In Vietnam by Larry Chambers Ringed in Steel: Armored Cavalry, Vietnam 1967-1968 by Michael D. Mahler RIPCORD(Firebase), Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970 by K. W. Nolan Rolling Thunder, In A Gentle Land by Andrew Wiest Sappers in the Wire - The Life and Death of FIREBASE MARY ANN by Keith W. Nolan Snake Pilot: Flying The Cobra Attack Helicopter In Vietnam by Randy R. Zahn Six Silent Men- LRRP's In Vietnam by Kenn Miller SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos by John Plaster Tanks in the Wire! - The First Use Of Enemy Armor In Vietnam by David B. Stockwell The 13th Valley, by John M. DelVecchio Tank Sergeant-1/69th Armor, Vietnam by Ralph Zumbro They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 by David Maraniss Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Time by Lewis Sorley To The Limit- An Air Cavalry Pilot In The Vietnam War by Tom A. Johnson The Tunnels Of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold Through The Valley, Vietnam, 1967-1968 by James F. Humphries US Army AH-1 Cobra Units in Vietnam by Johnathon Bernstein US Infantry, Vietnam by Jim Mesko Vietnam Choppers, Helicopters In Battle 1950-1975 by Simon Dunstan Vietnam Airmobile Warfare Tactics by Bruce B. G. Clarke Westmoreland: A Biography of General William Westmoreland by Samuel Zaffiri We Served In Silence by author Glenn K. Fannin Jr. A Vietnam war novel relating the activities of the Army Security Agency. Recently categorized as Unclassified by the NSA. We Were Soldiers Once… And Young: Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam by LTG Harold G. Moore
Navy A-6 Intruders In Vietnam by Jesse Randall AD Skyraider-In Detail & Scale by Bert Kinzey The Bluejacket's Manual by Thomas J. Cutler Brown Water, Black Berets-Coastal and Riverine Warfare In Vietnam by Thomas J. Cutler LCDR USN Confession To A Deaf God- Memoir Of A Mekong River Rat by Gary R. Blinn Crusader! Last of the Gunfighters by Rear Admiral Paul T. Gillcrist Douglas A-1 Skyraider-Warbird Tech V13-Revised by Larry Davis Douglas A-1 Skyraider by Robert F. Dorr Douglas A-4 Skyhawk by Peter Kilduff F-8 Crusader In Detail & Scale by Bert Kinzey F-8 Crusader Units of the Vietnam War by Peter Mersky F-8 Crusader In Action by Jim Sullivan First SEAL, by Lieutenant Commander Roy Boehm & Charles Sasser Fox Two- The Story Of America's First Ace In Vietnam by R. Cunningham/Jeffrey Ethell Gray Ghosts-US Navy and Marine Corps Phantoms by Peter E. Davies In the Shadow of Greatness by USNA Class of 2002 Inside the Danger Zone: The U.S. Military in the Persian Gulf 1987-88 by Harold Wise Launch The Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron In The Vietnam War 1972 by Carol Reardon McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk By Brad Elward One Perfect Op: An Insider's Account of the Navy SEAL Special Warfare Teams, by Master Chief Dennis "Snake" Chalker & Kevin Dockery On Yankee Station- The Naval Air War Over Vietnam by CDR John B. Nichols Point Man, by Chief James "Patches" Watson & Kevin Dockery The Real Team, By Commander Richard Marcinko & ten SEAL Team 6 veterans Riverine- A Pictorial History of the Brown Water War In Vietnam by Jim Mesko River Rats by Ralph Christopher Rogue Warrior, by Commander Richard Marcinko & John Weisman Stop and Search - A novel of small boat warfare off Vietnam (1969) by W. E. Butterworth Swift Boat Down-The Real Story Of The Sinking Of PCF-19 by James Steffes, ENC Retired The Vietnam Brown Water Navy 1965-1969 by Gordon L. Rottman Topgun Days by Dave "Bio" Baranek Tour of Duty- (Senator) John Kerry and the Vietnam War by Douglas Brinkley Vietnam-The Naval Story by Frank Uhlig Jr. US Navy F-4 Phantom II MIG KILLERS 1972-1973 by Brad Elward/Peter E. Davies US Small Combatants-From PT Boats to the Brown Water Navy by Norman Friedman War On The Rivers-A Swift Boat Sailor's Chronicle Of The Battle For The Mekong Delta by Weymouth D. Symmes
Marine Corps
A Sniper In The Arizona, 2/5th Marines in the Arizona Territory 1967 by John J. Culbertson Ambush Valley: I Corps Vietnam 1967-A Marine Battalion's Battle For Survival by Eric Hammel 13 Cent Killers: The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam by John Culbertson Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond: U.S. Marine Corps in the Second Iraq War by N.E. Reynolds Battle Cry, by Leon Uris Bloody Tarawa by Eric Hammel and John E. Lane Boot by Daniel Da Cruz Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic Breakout by Martin Russ The Bridge at Dong Ha by John Grider Miller Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC by Jon T. Hoffman Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines by David H. Freedman Dauntless Marine - Joseph Sailer Jr., Dive Bombing Ace of Guadalcanal by Alexander S. White Dear Mom: A Sniper's Vietnam - Joseph T. Ward Devilbirds by John A. De Chant Dog Company Six by Edwin Howard Simmons Expendable Warriors: The Battle For Khe Sanh by Bruce B. G. Clarke Fields of Fire by James Webb First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by Victor H.Krulak Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley Flying Leathernecks by Richard G. Hubler & John A. De Chant Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. by Lewis Puller Jr. Generation Kill by Evan Wright Gray Ghosts - US Navy and Marine Corps Phantoms by Peter E. Davies Guadalcanal - The Definitive Account of the Landmark battle by Richard B. Frank Guidebook for Marines, by the staff of the Marine Corps Association HOGs in the Shadows - Combat Stories from Marine Snipers in Iraq by Milo S. Afong History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II by Robert Sherrod Hill 488 by Ray Hildreth/Charles W. Sassar Hold High the Torch - A History of the 4th Marines by Kenneth W. Conduit & Edwin T. Turnbladh "I'm Staying with My Boys..." The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC by Jim Proser In the Shadow of Greatness by USNA Class of 2002 Images of America - Camp Pendleton by Thomas O'Hara Iwo Jima - Portraits of a Battle by Eric Hammel Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty: United States Marine Corps, Khe Sanh 1968 by Ellen Emerson White Making the Corps, by Thomas E. Ricks Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit by Tom Clancy Marine Fighting Squadron Nine (VF-9M) by Jess C. Barrow Marine Rifleman: Forty-Three Years in the Corps by Wesley Fox The Marine Officer's Guide by Kenneth W. Estes Marine Sniper - 93 Confirmed Kills-Carlos Hathcock, Vietnam by Charles W. Henderson Mongoose in the Sand by Ron Godby No Bended Knee : The Battle for Guadalcanal by Merrill B. Twining, Neil G. Carey (Editor) No True Glory: a Frontline Account of the Battle of Fallujah, by Bing West One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C. Fick Operation Buffalo: USMC Fight for the DMZ by Keith William Nolan Operation Tuscaloosa-2/5th Marines at An Hon, 1967 by John J. Culbertson Phase Line GREEN, The Battle For Hue, 1968 by Nicholas Warr A Rumor Of War-Marines In Vietnam by Philip Caputo Semper Fi in the Sky - The Marine Air Battles of World War II by Gerald Astor Semper Fidelis - The History of the United States Marine Corps by Allan Millett Semper Fi: Vietnam by Edward F. Murphy Stay off the Skyline - The Sixth Marine Division on Okinawa by Laura Homan Lacey The Highway War - A Marine Company Commander in Iraq by Seth Folsom The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Ray L. Smith & Bing West The U.S. Marine Corps Story by J. Robert Moskin The U.S. Marine Corps: An Illustrated History by Merrill L. Bartlett The Village by Bing West Uncommon Men: The Sergeants Major of the Marine Corps by Alfred M. Gray United States Marine Corps Air Stations of World War II by M.L. Shettle United States Marine Corps Aviation Squadron Lineage, Insignia and History Volume 1 by Michael J. Crowler U.S. Marine Corps Aviation - 1912 to Present by Peter Mersky U.S. Marine Corps Aviation Unit Insignia 1941 - 1946 by Jeff Millstein USMC: A Complete History by Jon T. Hoffman US Marines In Vietnam 1965-1973 by Charles D. Melson US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1965-1970 Vietnam by Oscar Gilbert The Walking Dead: A Marine's Story of Vietnam by Charles W. Sasser/Craig Roberts The War That Would Not End-US Marines In Vietnam by Charles D. Melson Warlord - No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy - Ilario Pantano Warrior Culture of the U.S. Marines by Marion F. Sturkey Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick K. O'Donnell With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge
Air Force
Aces and Aerial Victories-USAF In Southeast Asia 1965-1973 by R. Frank Futrell Air War Hanoi by Robert F. Dorr A Code To Keep by Ernie Brace And Kill Migs by Lou Drendel Bury Us Upside Down- The Misty Pilots And The Secret Battle For The Ho Chi Minh Trail by Rick Newman Clashes-Air Combat Over North Vietnam 1965-1972 by Marshall L. Michel Code Of Honor by Lt Col John A. Dramesi Check Six- A Fighter Pilot Looks Back by Maj Gen F. C. Blesse Convair F-102 Delta Dagger-A Photo Chronicle by Wayne Mutza Development and Employment of Fixed-wing Gunships 1962-1972 by Frederick Shaw/Timothy Warnock The Eleven Days of Christmas: America's Last Vietnam Battle (B-52's Maximum Effort) by Marshall L. Michael