SKYSOLDIERS BOOKs

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Books by or about Sky Soldiers, written by themselves or their Family Members (Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters and Wife's)

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Books About Vietnam
Three Books by - Pictorial Histories of the 173rd Airborne Bde with Bio's of Sky Soldiers

1st Edition Sky Soldier Large coffee table type of a book	2nd Edition Sky Soldier Large coffee table type of a book	3rd Edition Sky Soldier Large coffee table type of a book


Sky Soldier by F. Clifford Berry A pictorial history book	Good, Better, Best by James Bradley Author James Bradley has crafted a wonderful fictional autobiography. The main character Jim Rooney is both believable and alive with emotion and feelings. In his wonderful coming of age tale of a young man becoming a warrior, “Good, Better, Best – From the Streets of Brooklyn to the Jungles of Vietnam”, Bradley chronicles and fashions a story of rare sensitivity and action. It captures well that time and place in history. The Vietnam War comes alive though the telling of his story. The action is equal in strength to the author’s creative treatment of the relationships between the characters in the novel. This is a story not just about war but about the men who were in war. The sensitive insights that flow almost casually in the background of the plot line are a product of intelligent wording and phrasing by the author. He takes the reader on a adventurous journey and continues to hold your attention from the beginning to the last words on the last page.	I Served by Don C. Hall The young paratrooper volunteers for duty in the Republic of Vietnam and is initially assigned to the 173d Airborne Brigade. Then, he hears a call for volunteers and joins a new long range patrol unit being formed, with the motto "I Serve," and the charter of taking the war to the enemy.

The Hill by L.B. Scott A paperback fiction about hill 875	The Last Run by L.B. Scott A paperback	The Expendables by L.B. Scott A paperback

Platoon Leader by James McDonough A remarkable memoir of small unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam. Truly a classic of military history. Col. James McDonough graduated from West Point and served in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader in the legendary 173d Airborne Brigade	The making of a soldier by Herbert account of infantry combat in the Korean War by the war's most decorated soldier. Soon after the war Herbert wrote "Conquest to Nowhere" this book is a more detailed account of his 13 months in Korea. Prior to the war Herbert served as a paratrooper and cold weather survival expert	Raptor's Prey by G.K. Stesiak A young line 4th BN combat medic

Dak To by Edward F. Murphy 173rd Airborne, June-November 1967 The most complete, in depth, and compelling accounts of combat in South Vietnam from exhaustive interviews with over eighty survivors. Non-Fiction	Sky Soldier by Lawrence D. Okendo Battles of Dak To - Vietnam June 22 - December 1967, the longest and costliest battle in human lives during the Vietnam War, Non-Fiction	Why A Soldier by David Fitz-Enz A Signal Corps tour from Vietnam to Moscow

Blood On The Risers by Leppleman From Dak to to the Tet Offensive. A some fictional account of the war	Men for War by J. R. Gathings	Stealth Patrol by B. Shanahan 74th Inf Det - N/75 Rangers The author manages to weave this Vietnam Ranger's experiences into a suspenseful and entertaining story that even includes humorous episodes. Through Shanahan's eyes you are able to see the wide range of emotions of a Ranger and gain more understanding of Vietnam soldiers.

Kontum Diary Captured writings bring peace to a Vet Twenty years after he fought, he unearths a box he shipped him from Vietnam. He held a North Vietnamese soldier's backpack that contained his diary. He returns to Vietnam to return the diary	Vietnam; A Memoir by David Holland In Airborne Trooper, the author is a semi-trained infantry platoon leader trying to quickly climb a steep learning curve in one of the Vietnam War’s legendary units, the 173rd Airborne Brigade. The central ingredient of the book is not so much actual fighting as the hard, almost animal-like existence of the U.S. infantryman—the grunt, the line doggie, and the boonie rat—during Vietnam. The fighting itself ranges from brief, sometimes one-sided, engagements to one of the most costly efforts of the war, the Battle of Dak To in November 1967.	LAND WITH NO SUN Available now

Frenchy's Whore Although the title suggests a story of sex, nothing could be further from the truth. FRENCHY'S WHORE is a true story written in the third person about teenage paratroopers and how they existed day to day in a strange and violent land. I have been told I have talent in my writings, that even readers who were not there feel as if they had traveled back in time to a place where young men died, loved , dreamed and cried.	Earning the CIB	FNG of C-1/503rd defining novel of the Vietnam war experience, encompassing the wide range of circumstances, emotions and experiences that a combat medic and Airborne trooper could encounter; courage, fear, hatred, love, rage, guilt, and finally leaving the reader to recognize war as it really is and its consequences on the human soul. AVAILABLE NOW

	Heart of the Hawk Tom Red Hawk, a young Apache from Arizona, returns from Vietnam, his odyssey and quest for adventure takes him back to the jungles of Vietnam, the streets of Belfast and them the NY underworld. He finally ends up back with his native people. A triology of three books in one
Books by 173d Chaplains

Beyond Combat	Leapin' Decon	I make my bed in hell
Books about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by Chuck Deane (173d Vet)

NAM VET	TURNING YOUR HEART TOWARDS HOME	DOWN RANGE
Books on Recovering from War by John Steer (173d Vet)

Vietnam, Cure or Blessing	Wounded - A reason to live Shattered physically & psychologically in Vietnam, the author traces his discovery of Jesus Christ as Savior through the bloodiest battles of the war	Faces I Tried To Forget John tried to forget those thousands of faces that haunted him night and day, but God wouldn't let him. John now shares from his heart the plight and agony of those who fought and that of their families.


HEAD-HUNTER ONE KILO Dennis Hendrix tells his comical to gruesome experiences as a teenage Army grunt, growing up hard and fast in the jungles of Vietnam. It’s a true story about naivety, patriotism and heroism morphing into a mix of cynicism and hope.	Cherries

Australian Books about the the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment

and the 173rd Airborne Brigade

FIRST TO FIGHT

BLUE LANYARD - RED BANNER

Books on Poetry

WORDS OF THE WARRIOR

VIEW FROM THE TOWERS

THE CONFLICT WITHIN

Other books by Sky Soldiers

SAIGON COP - Vietnam, a Memior

Military Police duty in Saigon in 1966–67 was a surreal combination of Army nitpicking on a stateside scale, protecting U.S. facilities against Viet Cong terrorism, and policing the large U.S. presence in the city. MPs lived, worked, and occasionally played in the middle of an Oriental metropolis of strange sights, sounds, and smells. Lengthy stretches of tedious, humdrum activity were interrupted by sudden bursts of danger and fear.

Final Invasion - by David Fitz-Enz

Ironsides - by David Fitz-Enz

Mekong Mud Soldier

by David Holland

Available December 2005