Texas Tech University Press Military History Subject Catalog

Military History

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After the Killing Fields

Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide Craig Etcheson

$24.95 pb 978-0-89672-580-5 | 2006 “After the Killing Fields should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in Cambodia and international law.”

—Peter Maguire, author of Facing Death in Cambodia

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An Loc

The Unfinished War

Ge n e r a l T r a n V a n N h u t , w i t h C h r i s t i a n L . A r ev i a n $27.95 hc 978-0-89672-645-1 | 2009 “The struggle for freedom in Vietnam goes on,” said General Tran Van Nhut on the occasion of a Vietnam memorial’s dedication in 2004. “It is a peaceful but unfinished war.”

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The Battle at Ngok Tavak Allied Valor and Defeat in Vietnam B r u ce D av i e s

$24.95 pb 978-0-89672-658-1 | 2009 After interviewing battle survivors and American soldiers’ families, and searching through accounts from official reports that included Vietnamese documents, eyewitness statements, and war diaries, Bruce Davies pieces together the evidence that puts Ngok Tavak in context and addresses questions that still haunt those involved.

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Charlie One Five

A Marine Company’s Vietnam War Nicholas Warr

$39.95 hc 978-0-89672-797-7 | 2013 This book hunkers down with the “Mud Marines” of Charlie One Five, a small but determined band of American fighting men. Their very human and often painful stories of combat cover a wide range of scenarios and situations.

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Finding Dorothy Scott Letters of a WASP Pilot

Sarah Byrn Rickman $24.95 hc 978-0-89672-972-8 | 2016 Dorothy’s extraordinary voice, as heard through her lively letters, tells of her initial decision to serve, and then of her training and service, first as a part of the WAFS and then the WASP. The letters offer a window into the mind of a young, patriotic, funny, and ambitious young woman who was determined to use her piloting skills to help the US war effort.

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Fragging

Why U.S. Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers in Vietnam Ge o r g e Le p r e

$34.95 hc 978-0-89672-715-1 | 2011 But most chilling of all was the advent of a new phenomenon: large numbers of young enlisted men turning their weapons on their superiors. The practice was known as “fragging,� a reference to the fragmentation hand grenades often used in these assaults.

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Hog’s Exit

Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the CIA G ay l e L . M o r r i s o n

$39.95 pb 978-0-89672-792-2 | 2013 It just didn’t sit right. The American Embassy had reported the accidental death of Jerry “Hog” Daniels by carbon monoxide poisoning. Three decades later, his family, friends, and coworkers remain unconvinced that the US government told them the truth.

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The Mayaguez Incident

Testing America’s Resolve in the PostVietnam Era R o be r t J . M a h o n e y

$39.95 hc 978-0-89672-719-9 | 2011 The Mayaguez incident was the first test of the president’s role as commander-in-chief since the enactment of the 1973 War Powers Act, which was intended to limit presidential power.

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Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War R o be r t J . W i l e n s k y

$29.95 hc 978-0-89672-532-4 | 2004 Robert J. Wilensky, using data derived from extensive archival research as well as his personal experience in Vietnam, shows how medical aid to Vietnamese civilians, at first based simply on good will, became policy.

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Operation Passage to Freedom The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954–1955 Ronald B. Frankum, Jr.

$40.00s hc 978-0-89672-608-6 | 2007 In Operation Passage to Freedom, Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. recounts the events surrounding this enormous humanitarian evacuation that was the American military’s first major involvement with the Vietnamese people.

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Path to a Lonely War

A Naval Hospital Corpsman with the Marines in Vietnam, 1965 R i c h a r d W . Sc h a efe r

$29.95 hc 978-1-68283-002-4 | 2017 Not fully aware of the increasing military action in Vietnam, Schaefer found himself on a train bound for boot camp in San Diego in late summer, 1962.

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Uphill Battle

Reflections on Viet Nam Counterinsurgency F r a n k Sc o t t o n

$39.95 pb 978-0-89672-867-7 | 2014 A young Foreign Service officer assigned to Viet Nam in 1962, Scotton drove roads others avoided, walked trails alone, and spent nights in remote hamlets. Learning the Vietnamese language, carrying a carbine, and living out of a rucksack, he proved that small teams, correctly trained and led, could compete with communist units.

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Vietnam and Beyond A Diplomat’s Cold War Education R o be r t H o p k i n s M i l l e r

$36.50 hc 978-0-89672-491-4 | 2002 As a player in the events of those years, Miller provides us with fascinating and informative observations of such luminaries as Maxwell Taylor, Henry Cabot Lodge, Philip Habib, William Bundy, David Bruce, Robert Komer, and the South Vietnamese leadership and offers new insights into the conduct of diplomacy during the war.

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Vietnam Chronicles

The Abrams Tapes, 1968–1972 Le w i s S o r l e y

$39.95 pb 978-0-89672-959-9 | 2016 The 2005 winner of the Army Historical Foundation’s Trefry Award, Vietnam Chronicles reveals, for the first time, the difficult task that Creighton Abrams accomplished with tact and skill.

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Vietnam Labyrinth

Allies, Enemies, and Why the U.S. Lost the War Tran Ngoc Chau w i t h Ke n F e r m oy l e

$39.95 hc 978-0-89672-771-7 | 2013 One of the few Vietnamese Army officers who also saw substantial service in Ho Chi Minh’s National Liberation Army against the French, Tran Ngoc Chau made a momentous and difficult decision after five years with the Viet Minh: he changed sides.

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The Vietnam War

An Assessment by South Vietnam’s Generals E d . b y Le w i s S o r l e y

$60.00 pb 978-0-89672-643-7 | 2010 Since the fall of Saigon, scholars and historians have had opportunities to examine the Vietnam War from diverse viewpoints and the distance of time.

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Window on a War

An Anthropologist in the Vietnam Conflict Ge r a l d C . H i c k e y

$37.95 hc 978-0-89672-490-7 | 2002 When Gerald Hickey went to Vietnam in 1956 to complete his Ph.D. in anthropology, he didn’t realize he would be there for most of the next eighteen years— through the entire Vietnam War.

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Crooked Bamboo

A Memoir from Inside the Diem Regime Nguyen Thai E d i t ed b y J u s t i n S i m u n d s o n

$29.95 hc 978-1-68283-041-3 | OCTOBER 2019 In Crooked Bamboo, Thai provides an essential insider’s account of the Diem regime and the political turmoil that followed it.

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NEW TITLES

Rain in Our Hearts

Alpha Company in the Vietnam War James Allen Logue Gary D. Ford

$45.00 hc 978-1-68283-067-3 | JULY 2020 Each chapter of Rain in Our Hearts focuses on the viewpoint and life of one member of Alpha Company, including aspects of his life before and after Vietnam.

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