Reviewed by Perry D. Jamieson, Air Force Historical Studies Office By Earl J. Hess […]
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The Confederates of Chappell Hill, Texas (Book Review)
Reviewed by Robert K. Krick By Stephen Chicoine McFarland & Company, www.mcfarlandpub.com, Jefferson, N.C. […]
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The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Book Review)
Reviewed by Eric J. Mink By Peter S. Carmichael University of North Carolina Press, […]
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From Under Iron Eyelids: The Biography of James Henry Burton, Armorer to Three Nations (Book Review)
Reviewed by Robert K. Krick By Thomas K. Tate AuthorHouse, www.authorhouse.com, Bloomington, Ind., 2005 […]
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Interview: Sergeant Terry Buckler / the Son Tay Prison Camp Raid
Almost flawless in execution, the daring rescue raid at the Son Tay prison camp deep within North Vietnam lacked only one essential ingredient—POWs.
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Operation Attleboro: The 196th’s Light Infantry Brigade Baptism By Fire in the Vietnam War
A flawed battle plan turned a combat training exercise in War Zone C into a bloody battle during the fall of 1966.
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Dr. Wayne P. Olson: An American Civilian Caught in the Midst of the 1968 Tet Offensive
As a makeshift ambulance driver and then as a gunrunner, Tet 68 was an adventure for an American civilian caught in its midst.
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J.R. Bullington’s Firsthand Account: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines in Hue
Disguised as a French priest, an American diplomat survived for more than a week as Hue suffered under North Vietnamese occupation.
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Lt. Col. John E. Gross Recalls the Tet Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh
An eyewitness account of the battle for control of Bien Hoa and Long Binh on the first day of the 1968 Tet Offensive.
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Nine Years’ War: Battle of the Yellow Ford
Thomas Lord Burgh had intended it to be ‘an eyesore in the heart of Tyrone’s country,’ but to Burgh’s successor, Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormonde, ‘the scurvey fort at Blackwater’ was a liability that would lead to England’s worst defeat on Irish soil.