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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The development of Agent Orange emerged from the intersection of wartime necessity and scientific advancement during the early 1960s, as American military strategists sought technological solutions to the...

Grunts in the Trenches

Grunts in the Trenches

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The transformation of young American men from civilians to combat infantrymen in Vietnam occurred with shocking rapidity, as soldiers barely out of high school found themselves thrust into a tropical...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The capture of American aviators over North Vietnam marked the beginning of an ordeal that would test human endurance, moral courage, and psychological resilience in ways that no military training could...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The jungles of Southeast Asia presented American forces with one of the most challenging combat environments ever encountered by modern military forces, transforming warfare from a technological contest...

Napalm and Firepower

Napalm and Firepower

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The development of napalm as a weapon of warfare represented a convergence of scientific innovation and military necessity that would transform the nature of combat while creating one of the most...

Operation Rolling Thunder

Operation Rolling Thunder

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The conception of Operation Rolling Thunder in the early months of 1965 represented the culmination of strategic thinking that viewed air power as a precise instrument of political persuasion rather than...

Search and Destroy

Search and Destroy

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The humid morning of February 22, 1967, found Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Haig standing in a helicopter above the dense jungle canopy of Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam. Below him, elements of the 1st...

The Anti-War Movement That Changed America

The Anti-War Movement That Changed America

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.On a crisp October morning in 1965, David Miller stood on the steps of a federal courthouse in Manhattan, holding a small piece of cardboard that would transform him into a symbol of resistance. The...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Thieu stood in the humid morning air of Thu Duc Training Center outside Saigon, watching as young Vietnamese recruits struggled through basic combat exercises under the...

The Battle for Hearts and Minds

The Battle for Hearts and Minds

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Dr. Robert McNamara stood before a map of South Vietnam in the Pentagon briefing room, pointing to clusters of red and blue pins that represented more than military positions. It was September 1963, and...

The Draft and the Vietnam War

The Draft and the Vietnam War

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The letter arrived on a Tuesday morning in March 1966, delivered by a nervous postal worker to the suburban home of eighteen-year-old Michael Thompson in Cleveland, Ohio. The official envelope bore the...

The Fall of Saigon

The Fall of Saigon

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Ambassador Graham Martin stood on the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon, watching North Vietnamese tanks roll down Le Loi Boulevard as the sound of artillery grew closer by the hour. It was April 28,...

The Ho Chi Minh Trail

The Ho Chi Minh Trail

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Ho Chi Minh Trail emerged from the mists of Indochinese history not as a single path, but as a vast network of interconnected routes that would become one of the most significant logistical...

The Phoenix Program

The Phoenix Program

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Phoenix Program emerged from the recognition by American intelligence officials in the mid-1960s that the Vietnam conflict could not be won through conventional military operations alone, but required...