America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
8 best books like America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (George C. Herring): Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt, Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975, Opium Wars, Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899, A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath, The Far Side of the World, A Rumor of War
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
| Author | David McCullough |
| ISBN | 0671447548 |
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Now with...
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
| Author | Lars Brownworth |
| ISBN | 0307407950 |
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for...
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
| Author | Max Hastings |
| ISBN | 0062405667 |
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one...
| Author | W. Travis Hanes III |
| ISBN | 1402201494 |
In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839??1842 and 1856??1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes....
| Author | Dominic Green |
| ISBN | 0743280717 |
A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall apart, and a runaway general makes policy...
| Author | Truong Nhu Tang |
| ISBN | 0394743091 |
When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of...
The Far Side of the World
| Author | Patrick O'Brian |
| ISBN | 0393308626 |
The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various...
| Author | Philip Caputo |
| ISBN | 1250117127 |
The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—with a new foreword by Kevin Powers.
In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed...
