Southeast Asia | Asian History Books

Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina (Stackpole Military History Series)

March 22, 2015

Reprint of an all-time classic on the Vietnam War Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street without Joy offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia: a costly and protracted revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile enemy. […]
Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam’s Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap (The Warriors)

March 22, 2015

Tells the full story of the man who fought three of the world’s great powersand won. Cecil B. Currey makes clear one primary reason why America lost the Vietnam War: Vo Nguyen Giap. He has written the definitive biography of one of history’s greatest generals. Sale Price:$2.00 1574887424
Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know

March 22, 2015

No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held in continual […]
Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam

March 22, 2015

In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s, U.S. leaders hailed Diem as “the miracle man of Southeast Asia” and funneled huge amounts of aid to his South Vietnamese government. But in 1963 Diem was ousted and assassinated in a coup endorsed by […]
Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann & Amer

March 22, 2015

In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, renowned journalist Neil Sheehan tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann-“the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam”-and of the tragedy that destroyed that country and the lives of so many Americans. […]
Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir

March 22, 2015

“The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion.”A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three years old when he arrived […]
The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars

March 22, 2015

From Andrew X. Pham, the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala, a son’s searing memoir of his Vietnamese father’s experiences over the course of three wars.The Philadelphia Inquirer hailed Andrew Pham’s debut, Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, for evoking “the full sadness of the human condition . […]
A Short History of Cambodia: From Empire to Survival (A Short History of Asia series)

March 22, 2015

In this concise and compelling history, Cambodia’s past is described in vivid detail, from the richness of the Angkorean empire through the dark ages of the 18th and early-19th centuries, French colonialism, independence, the Vietnamese conflict, the Pol Sale Price:buy at discount B005IQBWSK
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War

March 22, 2015

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great […]
15 Months in SOG: A Warrior’s Tour

March 22, 2015

“When we cross the border: no ID, and it’s kiss yourself good-bye if Charlie gets ahold of you.” In Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command’s Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) fielded small recon teams in areas infested with VC and NVA. Because SOG operations suffered extraordinary casualties, they required extraordinary soldiers. So when Capt. Thom Nicholson […]

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