Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xv, [3], 224, [6] pages. Endpaper maps. Includes Acknowledgments, Vietnamese Expressions, Historical Note, and Prologue. Chapters cover Send-Off; The Old Man's Trail; Monsoon Strategy; The Treacherous Maze; Opium Trails; Cambodia; Rumors; Enclave; Convoy; Escape; Spectre; Grail; The Golden BB; Hornets' Nest; Bureaucrats; Responsibility; Power; Rewards; "Spend Blood'; and Eulogies. A former U.S. Marine and a veteran of the Vietnam War offers a empathetic, fictional portrait of the Vietcong, tracing the brutal journey of a platoon of teenaged Vietnamese boys down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The enemy is a platoon of fifteen-year-old boys ordered to carry more than a ton of cargo down a primitive network of trails and roads known to the Vietnamese as the Old Man's Trail but called the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the West. This is a tale of courage, motivation, survival, love, teamwork, and one man's determination to survive. For Campbell, Duan is the personification of the Vietnamese patriot and soldier--a soldier first, a nationalist second, a tacit Communist third. And the author believes that it was men like Duan who drove the world's most powerful nation from Vietnam in 1975. Tom Campbell is a retired Marine Colonel who is an award winning senior Lecturer in management and leadership at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. While on active duty he was an advisor... a covan... to the Vietnamese Marines for seventeen months, and commanded two platoons, two companies and two battalions. More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 376 pages. Illus., index, "Autographed Copy" sticker on front DJ. Signed by the author (Nguyen Cao Ky). More

Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. 177, notes, bibliography, index, some wear, soiling, and tears/chips to DJ. More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. First Edition. 346, map, some wear to top and bottom edges of DJ, lettering on DJ spine slightly faded. More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. First Edition. 346, map, lettering on spine slightly faded, some soiling to rear board. More

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. 305, [5] pages. Glossary. Inscribed by author. Tom Carhart, Ph.D., graduated from West Point in 1966 and subsequently served as an infantry platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam and as an Advisor to the South Vietnamese forces. He was awarded two Purple Hearts for wounds suffered in combat. After teaching French at West Point, he left the Army and earned a law degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He subsequently served as editor of “European Taxation,” a journal published by The International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Upon returning to the United States, Tom studied economics at the Rand Graduate School while working for the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, CA. He then returned to Europe as an international corporate lawyer at the Archibald law firm in Brussels representing multinational corporations before the European Economic Community. In later years, Tom again worked for the Army as a civilian policy analyst and historian. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Carhart was fighting in Vietnam tin 1967 and like many servicemen felt it was a duty to risk his life for his country. He discovered not only the horrors of jungle warfare but also the dangers of being given orders by superiors unfamiliar with a situation on the battlefield. He was briefly in Saigon, then was an adviser in the Mekong Delta, where he went on what he terms "search-and-avoid'' missions, allegedly to find Vietcong but actually designed not to encounter the enemy. Carhart's produces a rounded picture of the futility of the struggle. More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [10], 531, [3] pages. James P. Carroll (born January 22, 1943, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American author, historian, and journalist. He has written extensively about his experiences in the seminary and as a priest, and has published books on religion and history. He won the 1996 National Book Award for Nonfiction for An American Requiem, a memoir about the Vietnam War and his relationships with his father, the American military, and the Catholic Church. He is the author of other books on religion and politics, including House of War, which won the first PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for non-fiction. Mr. Carroll's other works include the novels Secret Father, Prince of Peace, Mortal Friends in addition to plays and a book of poetry published. Carroll's work has received the Melcher Book Award, the James Parks Morton Interfaith Award, and National Jewish Book Award in History, and has frequently been named among the Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. More

London: Leo Cooper, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 24 cm. x, [2], 344 pages Wraps. Map. Notes. Index. Ink notations on half-title, some wear to covers. Nigel Cawthorne (born 27 March 1951 in Wolverhampton) is a British freelance writer of fiction and non-fiction, and an editor. According to Cawthorne's website, he has written more than 150 books on a wide range of subjects. He also contributed to The Guardian, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Mail, and the New-York Tribune. He has appeared on television and BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He has also published under the pen names of Gordon Bowers, Al Cimino, Alexander Macdonald, Karl and Opal Streisand (and those works were truly 'gems'). This is claimed to be the first published investigation into whether US prisoners of war were left behind in Southeast Asia after the Vietnam war. More

Washington, DC: Cen for the New Leadership, c1987. 28 cm, 93, wraps, pencil erasure on title page. Forewords by Steve Custer and Judith Langer. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. 512 pages. Illustrations. Map. References. Index. DJ somewhat worn and soiled. Ink marks and notations present. Inscribed on title page by author. Inscription reads For Casimir Yost With all best wishes. James Chace. From 2009 to 2013 Mr. Yost served on the National Intelligence Council (NIC), where he directed the Strategic Futures Group and its predecessor, the Long Range Analysis Unit. In 2013 he was awarded the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal. James Clarke Chace (October 16, 1931 – October 8, 2004) was an American historian, writing on American diplomacy and statecraft. His 12 books include the critically acclaimed Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World (1998). His writings often influenced American thought in policymaking — his coining of the phrase "the indispensable nation" with Sidney Blumenthal to describe America. Chace graduated from Harvard University. He was sent to France and in 1955 and 1956 worked as an Army translator, which involved the translation of French newspapers for the CIA. After his return to the United States his interest in foreign policy grew as he served as managing editor for East Europe, a review of Soviet bloc affairs, from 1959 to 1969, during which time he wrote his book Conflict in the Middle East about the Six-Day War. In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Government at Bard College. Chace believed statesmen effectively leading a nation will understand that resources are limited, including blood and political will, and that in protecting the interests of the nation those resources cannot be overtaxed. More

New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. xxii, 215, [3] pages. Includes Acknowledgments; Introduction; Struggle; Resolution; Afterword by David Chanoff; Important Dates and Events; and A Note on Sources. David Chanoff is a noted author of nonfiction work. His work has typically involved collaborations with the principal protagonist of the work concerned. His collaborators have included; Augustus A. White, Joycelyn Elders, oàn V n To i, William J. Crowe, Ariel Sharon and Kenneth Good. He has also written about a wide range of subjects including literary history, education and foreign for The Washington Post, and The New Republic and the New York Times Magazine. He has authored more than twelve books. oàn V n To i (1945 – November 2017) was a Vietnamese-born naturalized American activist and the author of The Vietnamese Gulag (Simon & Schuster, 1986). Doan became an antiwar activist, a supporter of the National Liberation Front and vice president of the Saigon Student Union in 1969 and 1970, and spent time in jails in South Vietnam for antigovernment activities as a student leader. After the invasion of the North Vietnamese Army and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, he became a senior official of the Ministry of Finance under the Provisional Government. He soon disagreed on purely professional grounds with a superior official and was jailed for 28 months. He left Vietnam in May 1978 and went into exile in Paris. In 1989, he was shot and wounded. There was speculation that he was shot by anti-Communist protesters. More

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 2001. First? Edition. First? Printing. 240, wraps, glossary, covers slightly worn and soiled. Inscribed by the co-author (O'Brien). More