Best Special Forces In Southeast Asia - April 2024

We Few: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam

A Green Beret’s gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.   In 1970, on his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Officially, it was known as the Studies and Observations group. In fact, this Special Forces squad, which Brokhausen calls “an unwashed, profane, ribald, joyously alive fraternity,” undertook some of the most dangerous and suicidal reconnaissance missions ever in the enemy-controlled territory of Cambodia and Laos. But they didn’t infiltrate the jungles alone. They fought alongside the Montagnards... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07CMHKC5Q
• ASIN: B07CMHKC5Q
• Manufacturer: Casemate Publishers

The Green Berets in the Land of a Million Elephants: U.S. Army Special Warfare and the Secret War in Laos 1959-74

The Secret War in Laos was one of the first “Long Wars” for special operations, spanning a period of about thirteen years. It was one of the largest CIA-paramilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now. Between 1959 and 1974, Green Berets were covertly deployed to Laos to prevent a communist take-over or at least preserve the kingdom's neutrality. Operators dressed in civilian clothes, armed with cover stories and answering only to "Mister," were delivered to the country by Air America, where they answered to the U.S. Ambassador. There they were fa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1612006655
• ASIN: 1612006655
• ISBN: 1612006655
• Manufacturer: Casemate

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.” With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that represented the last hope of a staggering empire. All that stood between it and Douglas MacArthur’ s vulnerable invasion force were the Roberts and the other small ships of a tiny American floti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553381482
• ASIN: 0553381482
• ISBN: 0553381482
• Brand: Bantam
• Manufacturer: Bantam Books

Across The Fence

For eight years, far beyond the battlefields of Vietnam and the glare of media distortions, American Green Berets fought a deadly secret war in Laos and Cambodia under the aegis of the top secret Military Assistance Command Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group, or SOG.Go deep into the jungle with five SOG warriors surrounded by 10,000 enemy troops as they stack up the dead to build a human buttress for protection. Witness a Green Beret, shot in the back four times and left for dead, who survives to fight savagely against incredible odds to complete his missions. Shudder as an enemy soldi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B004XMOISG
• ASIN: B004XMOISG
• Manufacturer: SOG Publishing

A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

Amazon Best Book of the Month"Maria Toorpakai is a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfillment, and genuine personhood." --Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains EchoedMaria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered haram-un-Islamic-forbidden-and girls rarely leave their homes. But she did, passing as a boy in order to play the sports she loved, thus becoming a lightning rod of freed... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1455591416
• ASIN: 1455591416
• ISBN: 9781455591411
• Brand: Twelve
• Manufacturer: Twelve

Special Forces at War: An Illustrated History, Southeast Asia 1957-1975

More than 8.7 million Americans reported for military duty in Southeast Asia, but only a select few wore the Green Beret, the distinctive symbol of the U.S. Army Special Forces. Operating out of small outposts in some of the worlds most rugged terrain, these elite soldiers played a crucial role during the protracted conflict. Special Forces at War: an Illustrated History, Southeast Asia 1957-1975 by wartime veteran and military historian Shelby l. Stanton comprises ten chapters, chronologically arranged, that show Special Forces' activity from the first deployments of Green Berets into battle,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0760334498
• ASIN: 0760334498
• ISBN: 0760334498
• Brand: Brand: Zenith Press
• Manufacturer: Zenith Press

Counterinsurgency in Paradise: Seven Decades of Civil War in the Philippines (Asia@War)

Best known in the USA as a former colony and exotic tourist location, the Republic of the Philippines has seen civil unrest, insurgencies and separatism movements ever since independence in 1946. Endemic corruption, human rights violations, ethnic strife and a shaky economy have fueled wars that have been raging on and off for almost 70 years. Against this backdrop the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have been increasingly underfunded, and have to make do with obsolete planes, ships, light armored vehicles, and artillery dating back to World War II. Since the end of the Cold War, the Phi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1910294063
• ASIN: 1910294063
• ISBN: 1910294063
• Manufacturer: Helion and Company

The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II (P.S.)

As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II's outset, closing all of China's seaports, more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a 700-mile overland route - the Burma Road - from the southwest Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma. But when Burma fell in 1942, the Burma Road was severed. As the first step of the Allied offensive toward Japan, American general Joseph Stilwell reopened it, while, at the same time, keeping China supplied by air-lift from India and simultaneously driving the Japanese out of Burma. From... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060746386
• ASIN: 0060746386
• ISBN: 0060746386
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam

At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough to maneuver through the guerrillas’ narrow domain. The brave souls who descended into these hellholes were known as “tunnel rats.” Armed with only pistols and K-bar knives, these men inched their way through the steamy darkness where any number of horrors could be awaiting them–bullets, boo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0891418695
• ASIN: 0891418695
• ISBN: 0891418695
• Brand: Brand: Presidio Press
• Manufacturer: Presidio Press

Fire from the Sky: Seawolf Gunships in the Mekong Delta

Fire from the Sky is the first complete history of the most decorated Navy squadron of the Vietnam War. Richard C. Knott tells the dramatic history of the HAL-3 Seawolves, the U.S. Navy's first and only helicopter gunship squadron of the Vietnam War. The squadron was established "in country" to support the fast, pugnacious river patrol boats of the brown water navy. Flying combat-worn Hueys borrowed from the Army, the mission of the Seawolves quickly expanded to include rapid response air support to any friendly force in the Delta needing immediate assistance. The Seawolves inserted SEALs deep... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159114776X
• ASIN: 159114776X
• ISBN: 9781591147763
• Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press

The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks—a pulse-pounding page-turner by a reporter who was there every step of their journey out. After a practice in June 2018, a Thai soccer coach took a dozen of his young players to explore a famous but flood-prone cave. It was one of the boys’ birthday, but neither he nor th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07G796MFC
• ASIN: B07G796MFC
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Behind Japanese Lines: With the OSS in Burma

In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William “Wild Bill” Donovan, now known historically as the “Father of Central Intelligence,” with orders to form a special unit whose primary mission was to prepare for the eventual reopening of the Burma Road linking Burma and China by performing guerilla operations behind the Japanese lines. Thus was born OSS Detachment 101, the first clandestine special force formed by Donovan and one that would play a highly dangerous but vital role in the reconquest of Burma by the Allies.Behind Japanese Lines, origi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00I2G6RIS
• ASIN: B00I2G6RIS
• Manufacturer: Skyhorse

The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War

A powerful work of literary military history from the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers, the harrowing, redemptive, and utterly unforgettable account of an American army reconnaissance platoon’s fight for survival during the Vietnam War—whose searing experiences reverberate today among the millions of American families touched by this war.On a single night, January 31, 1968, as many as 100,000 soldiers in the North Vietnamese Army attacked thirty-six cities throughout South Vietnam, hoping to topple the government and dislodge American forces. Forty yo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476761914
• ASIN: 1476761914
• ISBN: 1476761914
• Brand: SCRIBNER
• Manufacturer: Scribner

LRRP Company Command: The Cav's LRP/Rangers in Vietnam, 1968-1969

A gripping account of ordinary men with extraordinary courage and heroism who had one last chance to make good—and one helluva war zone to do it in.   The new commander of the Company E, 52d Infantry LRRPs, Capt. George Paccerelli, was tough, but the men’s new AO was brutal. It was bad enough that the provinces of Binh Long, Phuoc Long, and Tay Ninh bordered enemy-friendly Cambodia, but their vast stretches of double- and triple-canopy jungle were also home to four crack enemy divisions, including the Viet Cong’s notorious 95C Regiment. Only the long-range patrols could deliver the crit... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0804119201
• ASIN: 0804119201
• ISBN: 9780804119207
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Low Level Hell: A Scout Pilot in the Big Red One

• ASIN: B001QAP3JQ
• ASIN: B001QAP3JQ
• Manufacturer: Presidio Press

SOG Knives and More from America's War in Southeast Asia

9780764351983

• UPC: 54706001

Insight Guides Southeast Asia (Travel Guide with Free Ebook)

Southeast Asia is a firm favorite on the long-haul travel trail, thanks to its unrivaled range of amazing experiences and unforgettable sights--from the northern hills of Thailand to the dragons of Komodo, frenetic Manila to

• UPC: 269192351

Southeast Asia's Best Recipes : From Bangkok to Bali [Southeast Asian Cookbook, 121 Recipes]

9780804844130

• UPC: 33648360

Thunder Over Vietnam : The American Air War in Southeast Asia

The popular conception of the Vietnam War is as a ground war--soldiers in the jungle fighting the Vietcong face to face--but an important part of the war was waged in the skies over Southeast Asia.

• UPC: 56133104

Special Forces Operations in South-East Asia 1941 - 1945 : Minerva, Baldhead and Longshanks/Creek

Many books have been written about Second World War special forces operations in Europe and the Middle East. Much less has been said about such operations in South-East Asia - those launched against the Japanese

• UPC: 49877176

Tactical Airlift: The United States Air Force (USAF) in Southeast Asia - Vietnam War, French War in Indochina, Air Commando, Special Forces, Khe Sanh, Tet, Air Force Caribous, Laos, Withdrawal - eBook

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication is a comprehensive history of tactical airlift in the Vietnam War era. Throughout the War in Southeast Asia, American and Vietnamese forces relied

• UPC: 950662613

21st Century U.S. Military Documents: The Air Force in Southeast Asia: The Air Force in Vietnam - The Administration Emphasizes Air Power, 1969 - Nixon, Vietnamization, VNAF Modernization - eBook

In this report the author has focused on policy changes introduced by the Nixon administration during 1969 in regard to the Vietnamese war, particularly as they affected the role of air power. Repeatedly expressing determination

• UPC: 410610751

The Path to War: U.S. Marine Corps Operations in Southeast Asia 1961 to 1965 - Response to Communist Aggression, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Tse-tung, Advisors to Major Forces - eBook

This narrative chronicles the activities of the U.S. Marine Corps in Southeast Asia from January 1961 to March 1965. The period witnesses increasing Marine Corps involvement in the region as our nation's leaders responded to

• UPC: 510801388

The United States Air Force (USAF) in Southeast Asia: Development and Employment of Fixed-Wing Gunships 1962-1972 - AC-47, AC-130, AC-119, Commando Hunt, Chase Aircraft - eBook

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique USAF publication traces the gunships history from initial conception in the early 1960s through deployment and operations to the end of American combat involvement in

• UPC: 782884424

The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: The Advisory Years to 1965 - Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ranch Hand, Diem, Interdiction, Gulf of Tonkin, Johnson, Diffusion of Air Assets - eBook

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this U.S. Air Force (USAF) publication tells the story of the Air Forces involvement in the Vietnam region from the end of the second World War until

• UPC: 445825723