Search Results: Vietnam from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Berkley, 1986 1st ed. thus. 244pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; edges are foxed; else a complete & tight copy] 14 personal stories of Vietnam War veterans who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

New York: PaperJacks, 1988 1st ed. 187pp. paperback: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else VG+] A Vietnam War novel featuring a fictional reporter.

Nashville: The Battery Press, 1983. 359pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

privately issued, 2010 2nd ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. paperback 8vo: Fine. A former West Pointer's personal account of Vietnam in 1964.

New York: Delta/Seymour Lawrence, 1989 reprint. SIGNED on half-title p. by author. 203pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good [text is lightly age browned; light wear @ edges of spine strip; else VG] A nice signature under "Peace" in the author’s first book, a classic memoir of service in Vietnam in 1968 by a reluctant draftee. O’Brien (b. 1946) later won a National Book Award for his 1979 novel, "Going After Cacciato."

New York: Parallax Publishing/Pocket Books. 1966 1st ed. 128pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Good [cover faded; tear @ spine tail; else a clean and complete copy] A collection of early Vietnam War letters, originally sent to THIS WEEK magazine, along the lines of "Yesterday I shot and killed a little 8 or 9 year old girl with the sweetest, most innocent little face, and the nastiest grenade in her hand you ever saw."

New York: Vantage Press. 1971 1st ed. 274pp. burgundy cloth 8vo: Very Good+ in a near Very Good dj in Brodart cover [small name stamp on ffep; else VG+; dj = p-c; coffee ring on front cover; else nrVG] Autobiographical fiction by a Vietnam War era helicopter pilot describing his 1965 experience of Officer Candidate School.

New York: MetroBooks, 2001 1st ed. 608pp. illus. hardback 4to in pictorial boards: near Fine in a near Fine dj [couple of light corner bumps; else nrF] An enormous photo history. No international or priority shipping.

Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003 2nd ptg. SIGNED on half-title p. under "Best regards" by author. 270pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj.

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1993 1st ed. INSCRIBED briefly on dedication p. by North. 280pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj [text is slightly age browned owing to publisher's paper quality; else a nice crisp copy]

New York: Ivy Books, 1992 1st ed. 279pp. illus. paperback: Good [spine creases; text is age browned with some edge foxing; else a complete & tight copy] A memoir of the author’s 15 months of Vietnam service as an LRP/Ranger with the 101st Airborne.

New York: Berkley Books, 2003 1st ed. thus. 318pp. paperback: Very Good [ink squiggle on front fly leaf; text is age browned with some fore edge foxing; else a nice clean and uncreased copy]

New York: Vantage Press. 1993 1st ed. 262pp. cloth tall 8vo: near Fine in a near Fine dj. A novel predicated on the use of nuclear weapons in the Vietnam War, written by a former GI who served in an atomic weapons demolition platoon in Germany during the late 1960s.

New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997 1st ed. 397pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of age darkening to top edge; a light top corner bump; else nrF] An excellent overview and analysis of the long Vietnam disaster.

1980 1st ed. thus of reissue. 88pp. paperback: near Fine. A U.S. Navy journalist's collection of short articles about the riverine campaign in Vietnam.

New York: Harper, 2018 2nd ptg. 857pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Bodart poly cover; slight pull of spine cloth @ top edge; else a nice crisp copy] A much-praised comprehensive history.

Ft. Benjamin Harrison, IN: Defense Information School, 1984. 112pp.  illus.  paperback sm 4to: near Fine.  An edited collection of speeches delivered during a Senior Public Affairs Officers Course at the Defense Information School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, in 1983.  "The object was to derive current public affairs lessons from the Vietnam experience." Retired Major General Winant Sidle said, "I’m not sure we learned too many lessons.  They were there for the learning, but I haven’t noticed any great changes in how we are operating public affairs at the top level of government.  We’re still making the same old mistakes that we made in Vietnam." T’was ever thus.