Provides an account of the events of April 30, 1975, when, with the North Vietnamese Army threatening invasion, the last remaining Americans stationed at the U.S. embassy and a defense outpost were evacuated by helicopter from Saigon.

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 spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle.

"A classic of Vietnam war literature, The killing zone begins on September 8, 1967, when Fredrick Downs arrives in country, a green but determined twenty-three-year-old infantry lieutenant. In the months of brutal combat that follow, Downs faces near-constant lethal danger, all the while following orders, keeping his men as safe as he can, and searching for the conviction and then the hope that the war is worth the sacrifice. In a new forward, Downs...

O'Brien's searing memoir of his years as a soldier in Vietnam takes readers with him through the ghostly ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong.

Most history-minded Americans have discussed the Vietnam War, becoming familiar, at the very least, with the names of such pivotal events as the Siege of Khe Sanh, the Tet Offensive, and the Fall of Saigon. But to grasp the full impact of this agonizing conflict, the human costs of an infernal war that raged for ten years and took more than 58,000 American lives, one must hear about it from the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who experienced the fighting...

A veteran of Vietnam describes his experiences in the war and his re-entry into American society after he was paralyzed.

"Palace Cobra picks up where Ed Rasimus's When Thunder Rolled left off. Now he's flying the F-4 Phantom and the attitude is still there." "In the waning days of the Vietnam War, Rasimus and his fellow pilots were determined that they were not going to be the last to die in a conflict their country had abandoned. They were young fighter pilots fresh from training and experienced aviators who came back to the war again and again, not for patriotism,...

In mid-1967, the North Vietnam leadership had started planning an offensive intended to win the war in a single stroke. Part military action and part popular uprising, the effort included attacks across South Vietnam, but the most dramatic and successful would be the capture of Hue, the country's intellectual and cultural capital. At 2:30 a.m. on January 31, the first day of the Lunar New Year (called Tet), ten thousand National Liberation Front troops...

This book presents a wide range of objective information on every aspect of the Vietnamese conflict.