"The story of the men of the 25th Infantry, the "Tropic Lightning" Division," in which film producer Oliver Stone served, and which was the basis for his film "Platoon."
Combining vivid personal narrative with historical and operational analyses, this book takes a candid look at U.S. naval airpower in the Vietnam War. Coauthors John Nichols, a fighter pilot in the war, and Barrett Tillman, an award-winning aviation historian, make full use of their extensive knowledge of the subject to detail the ways in which airpower was employed in the years prior to the fal…
The choice taken : the aerial bombardment of North Vietnam. Task Force 77 in action off Vietnam / Malcolm W. Cagle Half an amphibious force at war : the Marines in I Corps. Marine aviation in Vietnam, 1962-1970 / Keith B. McCutcheon ; Marine Corps operations in Vietnam, 1965-1966 / Edwin H. Simmons ; Application of doctrine : victory at Van Tuong village / O.F. Peatross A novel role : the log…
Great Battles and Leaders of the Second World War gathers selections from The Second World War, Churchill's epic six-volume history of the pivotal event of the century. This collection of the most notable pages from Churchill's unique narrative offers a new generation of readers his descriptions of the most significant military operations and the greatest protagonists in the war. From the attac…
East Timor is the largest and longest overseas deployment of New Zealand troops since Malaya/Borneo. Using personal letters, extracts from diaries, interviews and many photographs, this text aims to explain why the New Zealand defence force personnel were sent to East Timor and what they did when they went there.