In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to ...

August 14, 1945. The day Japan surrendered. I was eleven year old. I was crammed in the back of a pickup packed with other boys and girls, all yelling our hearts out as loud as we could to be heard ...

"Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has ...

When North Vietnam's tanks smashed through the gates of Saigon's presidential palace 40 years ago, it heralded the end of nearly two decades of war, a humiliating defeat for the United States and ...

Albany native Gary Petrone was 19 and a gifted musician when he boarded the U.S.S. Gen. Nelson Walker with his guitar in hand and sailed to the Vietnam War in 1966. Petrone's wartime guitar is now ...

David Parsons, Marci Reaven, and Lily Wong. D Giles, $17.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-907804-77-9 Produced in conjunction with a mammoth New-York Historical Society exhibition on the Vietnam War ...

The American War in Vietnam tarnished the United States' international reputation, bitterly divided the country, and continues to haunt US foreign policy. Yet, the war was much more than simply an ...

The Vietnam War remains one of the most divisive episodes in modern history. It was a war fought without censorship. It was a war that pushed the American Imperial project to its very limits. It was a ...

Historian Hastings (The Secret War), serves up a mammoth history of the Vietnam war, drawing on many secondary and primary sources and interviews he conducted with veterans of all sides. The book, he ...