From Trust to Tragedy

From Trust to Tragedy

Author: Frederick Nolting

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1988-10-12

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Ambassador to South Vietnam during the Kennedy administration, this book is Nolting's frank and perceptive account of the events in Vietnam and Washington that culminated in the overthrow of the Diem government in November 1963.


Mission Vietnam

Mission Vietnam

Author: S. D. M. Carpenter

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781502373267

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Follow the adventures of Major Rick Travis and his hand picked team of six highly skilled former Special Operations Group personnel. Hardened vets one and all, their civilian lives leave them empty of the sheer adrenaline and excitement of living. Without knowing what the mission will be, but longing for renewed excitement they each readily accept Rick Travis' invite out of loyalty, respect, and a brotherly bond. Witness the birth of the team that will become known as the Lords of Destruction.Mission Vietnam will transport you with them back to a time and place, to the war most Americans wanted no part of. Live through some of the atrocities and heartaches our Vets experienced.For the Vietnam vets: Yes you saw it! You lived it! It was real! Your demons are brought into the light of day. You weren't crazy! This book will validate to some, the many horrendous and long repressed realities of the war. Hopefully, it will also give some measure of release and relief to troubled souls. For those who were fortunate enough not to have participated, it gives a glimpse into the stark realities experienced by those who did!


U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965

U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965

Author: Dr. Jack Shulimson

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 1787200833

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This is the second volume in a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War. This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat units were committed to the conflict. The narrative traces the landing of the nearly 5,000-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and its transformation into the ΙII Marine Amphibious Force, which by the end of the year contained over 38,000 Marines. During this period, the Marines established three enclaves in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, and their mission expanded from defense of the Da Nang Airbase to a balanced strategy involving base defense, offensive operations, and pacification. This volume continues to treat the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese armed forces but in less detail than its predecessor volume, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1964; The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era.


One More Mission

One More Mission

Author: Oliver North

Publisher: HarperPrism

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780061093517

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Controversial Vietnam war hero and author of Under Fire, Oliver North returns to Vietnam in an attempt to resolve his own sense of conflict about the war. North's deeply moving narrative chronicles an unforgettable journey to learn if it's possible for something good to come from a nation's epic tragedy.


Servant on the Edge of History

Servant on the Edge of History

Author: Sam James

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2023-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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What makes one man willing to stare death in the face to obey God's call to serve the Vietnamese? And what becomes of all the seeds planted among these fledging Christians as communist oppression advances. This the story of that one man and his family served Jesus among the Vietnamese as the country fell. Even during the Tet Offensive, Sam James shared Christ's love and peace in a hopeless situation.


South of Saigon

South of Saigon

Author: Martin Wilens

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-07-18

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1477135987

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A secret mission sends the author to Vietnam's Mekong Delta, the bread basket of old Indo - China. He uncovers a sophisticated enemy supply network unknown to our military hierarchy. Using intelligence data covertly gathered in Cambodia and analyzed at the Center for Naval Analyses in Arlington, Virginia they discover and destroy Vietcong forces and interdict VC supply lines with a mixture of intrigue and romance. A U. S. Naval story never told, complete with declassified maps from the Office of Naval Intelligence, and illuminating pictures of Saigon and archaic areas of the Delta taken by the author forty - six years ago, a depiction of "old Saigon" and real relationships between North and South Vietnam are related. Headquartered in Saigon, the true interaction between our Navy and Army ( MACV ) brass couched in the background of wartime Saigon, often referred to as the " Paris of the Orient", and Washington, D. C. is insightfully told.


Cultural Integration and the Gospel in Vietnamese Mission Theology

Cultural Integration and the Gospel in Vietnamese Mission Theology

Author: KimSon Nguyen

Publisher: Langham Publishing

Published: 2019-11-14

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1783687398

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Postcolonial Vietnam has an urgent need for contextualized theology of mission, God, Christ, and the church that is rooted in indigenous cultural traditions and the dual Vietnamese spirit of resistance and assimilation. Dr KimSon Nguyen navigates the religio-cultural dimensions of Vietnamese spirituality and Daoism that have hindered the assimilation of the Christian faith in the Vietnamese context and explores a fresh approach to missiology in Vietnam. Dr Nguyen draws upon his deep knowledge of Vietnamese evangelical history to analyze contextualization and mission theology in Vietnam. He proposes an evangelical theology of God as Ðạo (way / 道), the centrality of the Vietnamese home as the “house of the Lord,” and ancestor veneration as a theological framework for an indigenous theology of the family. Narrowing the gap between culturally removed evangelical missionary practice and widespread syncretistic spirituality in Vietnam, Nguyen calls for a paradigm shift in Vietnamese mission theology that is both robustly evangelical and authentically Vietnamese.


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Author: United States. Operations Mission to Vietnam

Publisher:

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Total Pages: 358

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The OSS and Ho Chi Minh

The OSS and Ho Chi Minh

Author: Dixee Bartholomew-Feis

Publisher: University Press of Kansas

Published: 2006-05-12

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 0700616527

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Some will be shocked to find out that the United States and Ho Chi Minh, our nemesis for much of the Vietnam War, were once allies. Indeed, during the last year of World War II, American spies in Indochina found themselves working closely with Ho Chi Minh and other anti-colonial factions-compelled by circumstances to fight together against the Japanese. Dixee Bartholomew-Feis reveals how this relationship emerged and operated and how it impacted Vietnam's struggle for independence. The men of General William Donovan's newly-formed Office of Strategic Services closely collaborated with communist groups in both Europe and Asia against the Axis enemies. In Vietnam, this meant that OSS officers worked with Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh, whose ultimate aim was to rid the region of all imperialist powers, not just the Japanese. Ho, for his part, did whatever he could to encourage the OSS's negative view of the French, who were desperate to regain their colony. Revealing details not previously known about their covert operations, Bartholomew-Feis chronicles the exploits of these allies as they developed their network of informants, sabotaged the Japanese occupation's infrastructure, conducted guerrilla operations, and searched for downed American fliers and Allied POWs. Although the OSS did not bring Ho Chi Minh to power, Bartholomew-Feis shows that its apparent support for the Viet Minh played a significant symbolic role in helping them fill the power vacuum left in the wake of Japan's surrender. Her study also hints that, had America continued to champion the anti-colonials and their quest for independence, rather than caving in to the French, we might have been spared our long and very lethal war in Vietnam. Based partly on interviews with surviving OSS agents who served in Vietnam, Bartholomew-Feis's engaging narrative and compelling insights speak to the yearnings of an oppressed people-and remind us that history does indeed make strange bedfellows.