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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil Sheehan198840 pts4 wins7 listsRandom HouseWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in VietnamFrances FitzGerald197328 pts3 wins4 listsLittle, BrownHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve Coll200424 pts3 wins3 listsPenguin BooksWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten GenocideGary J. Bass201324 pts2 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's VietnamFredrik Logevall201218 pts2 wins3 listsRandom HouseHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s WarAnthony Shadid200518 pts2 wins3 listsHenry Holt and CompanyJournalism & ReportageVietnam War+2
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of ExpansionElliott West202414 pts1 wins2 listsUniversity of Nebraska PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American HistoryJohn Fabian Witt201214 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
A Stillness at AppomattoxBruce Catton195314 pts1 wins2 listsPocket BooksHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+3
Across the Wide MissouriBernard DeVoto194714 pts1 wins2 listsHoughton MifflinHistoryWar & Military Strategy+3
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave WarVincent Brown202012 pts2 wins3 listsBelknap PressHistoryVietnam War+2
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766Fred Anderson200012 pts2 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
No Good Men among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan EyesAnand Gopal201412 pts1 wins3 listsMetropolitan BooksWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast AsiaCarolyn Woods Eisenberg202410 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryClimate, Weather & Disaster+3
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil WarStephen R. Platt201110 pts1 wins1 listsAtlantic BooksHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous LegacyDavid E. Hoffman200910 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
Aftermath: The Remnants of WarDonovan Webster199610 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksWar & MilitaryWorld War I+3
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974James T. Patterson199610 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryEnergy, Extraction & Resources+3
"The Good War": An Oral History of World War IIStuds Terkel198510 pts1 wins1 listsPantheonWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945Barbara W. Tuchman197010 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945John Toland197010 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseWar & MilitaryAmerican Civil War+2
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between UsJames P. Carroll199610 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyAmerican Civil War+2
Mary Chesnut's Civil WarC. Vann Woodward198210 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the WorldMargaret MacMillan200310 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in IraqThomas E. Ricks200610 pts1 wins3 listsPenguin BooksWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967David Maraniss200210 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War SouthStephanie McCurry20108 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of WarViet Thanh Nguyen20168 pts0 wins2 listsHarvard University PressWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty YearsMcGeorge Bundy19888 pts0 wins2 listsRandom HousePolitics & GovernmentWorld War Ii+2
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific WarJohn W. Dower19868 pts0 wins2 listsPantheonWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to WomenChristina Lamb20196 pts0 wins2 listsHarperCollinsWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
Return of a King: The Battle for AfghanistanWilliam Dalrymple20146 pts0 wins2 listsBloomsburyWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A MemorialViet Thanh Nguyen20236 pts0 wins2 listsGrove PressMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier MarketsKimberly Kay Hoang20244 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam WarLien-Hang T. Nguyen, Edward Miller, Andrew Preston,, Pierre Asselin20244 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of VietnamThuy Linh Nguyen Tu20214 pts1 wins1 listsDuke University PressRace & EthnicityWar & Military Strategy+1
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873Benjamin Madley20164 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryVietnam War+2
The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovernThomas J. Knock20164 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American DemocracyCharlie Savage20074 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownPolitics & GovernmentGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in VietnamMark Lawrence20054 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressHistorySettler Colonialism+3
A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War EraMatthew Connelly20024 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryIndigenous History+3
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle EastMichael B. Oren20024 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryVietnam War+2
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little BighornEvan S. Connell19844 pts1 wins1 listsNorth Point PressHistoryVietnam War+2
A Rumor of WarPhilip Caputo19774 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyWar & Military Strategy+1
Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975A.J. Langguth20004 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+1
The Cat from Hué: A Vietnam War StoryJohn Laurence20024 pts1 wins1 listsPublicAffairsWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+1
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War AssassinationStuart A. Reid20234 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryVietnam War+2
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable AuthoritarianismSteven Levitsky, Lucan Way20224 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressPolitics & GovernmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Tastes Like War: A MemoirGrace M. Cho20214 pts0 wins1 listsFeminist PressMemoir & AutobiographyVietnam War+2
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the WestMegan Kate Nelson20214 pts0 wins1 listsScribnerHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in VietnamMax Boot20184 pts0 wins1 listsHead of ZeusBiographySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Vietnam: A New HistoryChristopher Goscha20174 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl HarborJames M. Scott20164 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American PolicingJoe Domanick20154 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterTrue Crime & JusticeVietnam War+2
Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won ItJohn Ferling20154 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of WarFred Kaplan20134 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American ValorJake Tapper20124 pts0 wins1 listsLittle, BrownWar & MilitaryAmerican Civil War+2
A Life Decoded, My Genome: My LifeJ. Craig Venter20074 pts0 wins1 listsVikingMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierIshmael Beah20074 pts0 wins1 listsFourth EstateMemoir & AutobiographyAmerican Civil War+2
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean WarDavid Halberstam20074 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of VietnamTom Bissell20074 pts0 wins1 listsPantheonWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of InterventionNicolaus Mills, Kira Brunner (editors)20024 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+1
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the GeneralsDavid Halberstam20014 pts0 wins1 listsScribnerPolitics & GovernmentVietnam War+2
In Pharoah's Army: Memories of the Lost WarTobias Wolff19944 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfMemoir & AutobiographyVietnam War+2
Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel HuizdalaVáclav Havel, Paul Wilson19904 pts0 wins1 listsFaber & FaberMemoir & AutobiographyLgbtq History & Life+2
Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–48Robert J. Donovan19774 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor ExecutionersRobert Jay Lifton19734 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
The Glorious Revolution in AmericaDavid Lovejoy19724 pts0 wins1 listsHarper & RowHistoryVietnam War+2
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944Robert O. Paxton19724 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryVietnam War+2
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45Barbara Tuchman19714 pts0 wins1 listsMacmillanHistoryVietnam War+1
The Limits of InterventionTownsend Hoopes19694 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentIndigenous History+2
The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966Robert Shaplen19654 pts0 wins1 listsHarper & RowHistoryMilitary Biography+2
A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865)Edward Channing19264 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Cover-Up: The Army's Secret Investigation of the Massacre at My Lai 4Seymour Hersh19734 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+2
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern EraDonald Keene19854 pts0 wins1 listsHenry HoltArts & CriticismAmerican Civil War+2
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam WarAl Santoli19834 pts0 wins1 listsBallantine BooksWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other BattlesAnthony Swofford20034 pts0 wins1 listsScribnerMemoir & AutobiographyWar & Military Strategy+2
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost WarPaul Hendrickson19964 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and WestIan Buruma20004 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentSoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
The Occupation: War and Resistance in IraqPatrick Cockburn20064 pts0 wins1 listsVerso BooksWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
The War with MexicoJustin H. Smith19204 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil WarSamanth Subramanian20154 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in VietnamMark Bowden20174 pts0 wins2 listsAtlantic Monthly PressWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic StateDavid Vine20202 pts0 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
After the Tall Timber: Collected Non-FictionRenata Adler20152 pts0 wins1 listsNew York Review BooksJournalism & ReportageCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of MexicoAmy S. Greenberg20122 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the WorldMargaret MacMillan20072 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseHistoryAsia & the Pacific+1
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful SavageLawrence H. Keeley19962 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992Jane Hamilton-Merritt19932 pts0 wins1 listsIndiana University PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
Kent State: An American TragedyBrian VanDeMark20242 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryClimate, Weather & Disaster+3
True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just AmericaJames Traub20242 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksMemoir & AutobiographyCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National IdentityChristian G. Appy20152 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressHistoryFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960sCarrie Lambert-Beatty20110 pts0 wins1 listsMIT PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
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All awards · Topic: Vietnam War · Sorted by score · 96 books · filtered