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Is Anybody Listening?
A True Story About Pow/Mias in the Vietnam War
2005
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Thirty-five long years and I was still seekinganswers. If I could make someone in the government listento the facts, I knew theyd want to act on them. After all,who wouldnt want to find one of our POW/MIAs from theVietnam War?IS ANYBODY LISTENING? tells of dignitaries, presidentsand those involved with the POW/MIA issue as Ive known itsince November 1968 when my husband, a Special Forcesofficer, became missing-in-action.
2021
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Searching For The Truth, is fiction based on fact and is a sequel to my first book, which was published in 2005 and 2010. The storyline follows new information I have acquired since then. As you read this book, it will become obvious why I needed to change the names of the informants. In order to make a cohesive read, I assembled the tidbits of information with times, places, and connections that are fictious. For those readers who know this issue, and/or have read Is Anybody Listening?, I...
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Area 51
An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
2011
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This bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time.**"Compellingly hard-hitting." —**New York TimesIt is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government—but Area 51 has captivated imagina...
2014
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In one of his boldest bestsellers, Dale Brown creates a shattering scenario of the ultimate race for technology…America’s most advanced fighter plane, DreamStar, has been hijacked. To retrieve it, Lt. Col. Patrick McLanahan takes on his most daring assignment since the Flight of the Old Dog. The odds are against him. His plane, the Cheetah, is less advanced than the DreamStar. And so begins the greatest high-flying chase of all time…Author Dale BrownFormer U.S. Air ...
2012
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Officially the war in Laos did not exist – both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the south, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from the air. The Ravens were the pilots, all volunteers, who flew through heavy groundfire to identify targets and call in air-strikes. Their mission was so secret that they were ‘sold’ their prop-d...
Kill Anything That Moves
The Real American War in Vietnam
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- American Empire Project
2013
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The New York Times Bestseller2014 American Book Award WinnerWinner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction“An indispensable, paradigm-shifting new history of the war...All these decades later, Americans still haven't drawn the right lesson from Vietnam.” —San Francisco ChronicleBased on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history o...
2013
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NOT THEORY—FACT!A MISSLE SHOT DOWN FLIGHT 800!On July 17, 1996, minutes after take-off, TWA Flight 800 was blown out of the sky, killing all 230 people on board.What happened?It took federal investigators nearly a year and millions of tax dollars to point to a fuel tank explosion. But the investigation was riddled with questionable procedures. Was the government hiding a huge military embarrassment? Was the plane shot down by a missile?
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
2013
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This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies.**"a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" —**New York Times Book ReviewFrom the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legen...
A Bright Shining Lie
John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
2009
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One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he d...
2013
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The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a GI who served as a translator/interrogator with Psychological Operations while in Vietnam during the war. The book tells of his experiences and his thoughts on the war.
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- Hachette Military Collection
2010
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The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen.As he flew over South East Asia towards Vietnam, Captain Barry Petersen struggled to keep an aura of calm. Inwardly he was incredibly excited. Aged 28, highly trained, with experience in anti-communist guerilla warfare, he was about to embark on the biggest and most important mission of his life.In 1963, Australi...
Battle for the Central Highlands
A Special Forces Story
2007
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THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS--WHERE DANGER REIGNED SUPREME AND DEATH WAS A CONSTANT COMPANIONThe fighting was fierce in the Central Highlands where Green Beret George Dooley served with elite Special Forces A-teams, training the rugged Montagnards in guerrilla warfare and accompanying them on patrols. The Viet Cong and NVA were entrenched in the sparsely populated Highlands, where towering mountains gave them the ruthless upper hand.The missions Dooley led, often in enemy territor...











