Books about the CAP program
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The Village(Use this search string — “The Village by Francis J. West”)
This is the best book I’ve found, showing how the CAP program was founded and how CAP Marines fought, lived and worked in their villages — RT
By Francis J. West
Revised
Paperback, 288 pages
List price: $12.95 — Amazon.com Price: $12.95
Published by Univ of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: May 1985
Dimensions (in inches): 8.48 x 5.43 x .70
ISBN: 0299102343
Our War Was Different:
Marine Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam
An intriguing oral history of the CAP program, giving personal accounts by a couple of dozen Marines in chronological order from beginning to end of the CAP program in South Vietnam. — RT
By Al Hemingway
Hardcover, 189 pages
List: $28.95 — Amazon.com Price: $20.27
Published by United States Naval Institute
Publication date: May 1, 1994
Dimensions (in inches): 9.26 x 6.23 x .88
ISBN: 1557503559
Combined Action Platoons:
The U.S. Marines Other War in Vietnam
I haven’t read this one. — RT
By Michael E. Peterson
Hardcover
List: $49.95 — Amazon.com Price: $49.95
Published by Praeger Pub Text
Publication date: August 1989
ISBN: 0275932583
Cap Mot: The Story of a Marine Special Forces Unit in Vietnam, 1968-1969 (War and the Southwest Series, No 5)
I haven’t read this one, either. — RT
By Barry L. Goodson
Volume 5
Hardcover, 384 pages
List: $32.50 — Amazon.com Price: $22.75
Published by University of North Texas Press
Publication date: January 1, 1997
Dimensions (in inches): 9.31 x 6.32 x 1.11
ISBN: 1574410040
Moon Dash Warrior
The Story of an American Indian in Vietnam,
a Marine from the Land of the Lumbee
Lumbee Indian Delano Cummings served three tours in Vietnam, including several months in a CAP unit south of Danang. It’s pretty interesting comparing his experiences in the CAP with his tours in the grunts and Force Recon. RT
By Delano Cummings
Amazon Price: $22.00
Hardcover (May 1998)
Signal Tree Pubns; ISBN: 0965185834
Publication date May 1998.
Enemy Contact!
Vietnam Combat Action
I don’t know much about this book, except it’s written by a veteran of CAC 4, Phu Bai. RT
By Steve L. Churchill
Borders Price: $20.00
Hardcover, 300 pages
12 photos and 3 maps
Contact Ken Churchill
Box 85, Canton, IL 61520
Many thousands of books have been written about the Indochina wars. In quality and historical value they range from complete crap to timeless classics. Our favorites will be listed below, with brief reviews — RT
Stalking the Vietcong
(Also published as “Silence Was A Weapon” in 1982 and 1987)
This book provides tremendous insights for anybody who fought the Viet Cong in the villages of South Vietnam. The author was a Vietnamese-speaking U.S. Army intelligence officer who debriefed several VC and North Vietnamese Army soldiers after they surrendered or were captured. Learn how and why the VC and NVA fought, and why the South Vietnamese troops often did not — RT
By Stuart A. Herrington
Softcover, 222 pages
Published by Presidio Press, Novato, Calif.
Publication date: 1997
Dimensions (in inches) ???:
ISBN: 0891416412
Son Thang: An American War Crime
This was a hard book for me to read, because the Marine grunts involved murdered 15 Vietnamese women and children. But the author’s focus is on the weaknesses and failures of the Uniform Code of Military Justice as it was applied in Vietnam. — RT
By Gary D. Solis
Softcover, 448 pages
Publication date: October 1998
Dimensions (in inches) 0.95 x 7.14 x 4.23 :
ISBN: 0553579770
Armed Forces Locator Guide (8th Ed)
This book gives step-by-step instructions on how to find veterans and people in the military. It’s well worth the price.— RT
by Richard S. Johnson, Debra Johnson Knox
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Paperback – 320 pages 8th
edition (March 1999)
Military Information Enterprises; ISBN:
1877639508 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.88 x
8.99 x 6.04
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 45,328