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Books : History : Countries & Regions : Asia : 1946-Present

• Apache

  Ed Macy

  
  
   

• Sniper One: The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege

  Dan Mills

  
  
   

• An Ordinary Soldier: Afghanistan: A Ferocious Enemy. A Bloody Conflict. One Man's Impossible Mission

  Doug Beattie

  
  
   

• Joint Force Harrier

  Adrian Orchard, James Barrington

  
  
   

• 3 Commando Brigade

  Ewen Southby-Tailyour

  
  
   

• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

  Robert Fisk

  
  
   

• Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep

  Siba Shakib

  
  
   

• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

  Ilan Pappe

  
  
   

• Helmand, Afghanistan

  Robert J. Wilson

  
  
   

• The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror

  Dexter Filkins

  
  
   

• A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the War in Afghanistan

  James Fergusson

  
  
   

• Generation Kill

  Evan Wright

  
  
   

• The One That Got Away

  Chris Ryan

  
  
   

• Dear Mom: a Sniper's Vietnam

  Joseph T. Ward

  
  
   

• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

  Loung Ung

  
  
   

• Dispatches (Picador)

  Michael Herr

  
  If you've seen the movies Apocalypse Now and Platoon, in whose scripts Michael Herr had a hand, you have a pretty good idea of Herr's take on Vietnam: a hallucinatory mess, the confluence of John Wayne and LSD. Dispatches reports remarkable front-line encounters with an acid-dazed infantryman who can't wait to get back into the field and add Viet Cong kills to his long list ("I just can't hack it back in the World", he says); with a helicopter door gunner who fires indiscriminately into crowds of civilians; with daredevil photojournalist Sean Flynn, son of Errol, who disappeared somewhere inside Cambodia. Although Herr has admitted that parts of his book are fictional, this is meaty, essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Vietnam.

  Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any other theatre of combat, as well as the flavour of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches was published, other excellent books have appeared on the war--may we suggest The Things They Carried and The Sorrow of War--but Herr's book was the first to hit the target head-on and remains a classic. --Simon Kelly

  
   

• Palestine

  Joe Sacco

  
  
   

• Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm

  Lauren St.John

  
  
   

• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone

  Rajiv Chandrasekaran

  
  
   

• Survival in the Killing Fields

  Haing S. Ngor, Roger Warner