Author : Don Lomax
Publisher : Caliber Comics
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 163294524X
"Regroup". The battle at A Shau Valley continues even though Nixon has taken over as President of the United States. 'Journal', always trying to stay as impartial as possible, can¡¯t contain his rage when he finds the Viet Cong receiving medical supplies from United States protestors back home against the war. Also included in this issue is a special bonus tale called "Infil¡". Part 4 of 4.
Author : Don Lomax
Publisher : Caliber Comics
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1629785326
The acclaimed Vietnam Journal series from Don Lomax, nominated for a Harvey Award, is collected and presented as a series of graphic novels. Vietnam Journal is a look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of a war journalist, Scott 'Journal' Neithammer, as he chronicles the lives and events of soldiers on the front line during the Vietnam War. Creator Don Lomax based Vietnam Journal on his experiences on his tour of duty in Vietnam in the mid 1960's. In BOOK SEVEN, the United States military decides to launch an offensive into the A Shau Valley near the Laotian border. This has been a long time staging area that the Viet Cong have used for years to send men and supplies into South Vietnam from the enemy’s sanctuary in Laos. Meanwhile 'Journal' becomes fascinated with the story of a prisoner of war who belonged to a small tribe that has lived in the A Shau Valley for centuries. They have no sense of country, politics or ideology, only for their local people, but they are dragged anyhow into a war they couldn’t even comprehend. And as the battle at A Shau Valley continues even though Nixon has taken over as President of the United States, ‘Journal, always trying to stay as impartial as possible, can’t contain his rage when he finds the Viet Cong receiving medical supplies from United States protesters back home against the war. Also included in BOOK SEVEN is the collected Hamburger Hill serial series that appeared in Gallery Magazine. Picked by Entertainment Weekly as "a graphic novel you should own" and recommended by the Military History Book Club. "Lomax bases his fictional work on his real experiences in Vietnam in 1966, with powerful results. It is Lomax's concern for average soldiers that, in the end, makes his work significant." - Publishers Weekly. "Even today, VIETNAM JOURNAL is one of the most gritty and brutally honest war stories ever published." - Brian Cronin, Comic Book Resources. "A powerful collection of stories and history of the Vietnam War, created by a veteran of both the war and of war comics " - Douglas P. Dave, School Library Journal. A Caliber Comics release.
Author : Don Lomax
Publisher : Caliber Comics
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1632945215
The mini-series "Valley of Death" continues the acclaimed and awarding Vietnam Journal book saga. In "Blood Stripe" we are taken to the A Shau Valley near the Laotian border where creator, writer, and artist Don Lomax continues to chronicle an embedded journalist's eye-opening experiences of the events during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Journal series has drawn raves and recommendations from Military Book Club, Entertainment Weekly, Library School Journal, and Publishers Weekly. Part 1 of 4.
Author : Ted Morgan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1588369803
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony. Valley of Death is the untold story of the 1954 battle that, in six weeks, changed the course of history. A veteran of the French Army, Ted Morgan has made use of exclusive firsthand reports to create the most complete and dramatic telling of the conflict ever written. Here is the history of the Vietminh liberation movement’s rebellion against French occupation after World War II and its growth as an adversary, eventually backed by Communist China. Here too is the ill-fated French plan to build a base in Dien Bien Phu and draw the Vietminh into a debilitating defeat—which instead led to the Europeans being encircled in the surrounding hills, besieged by heavy artillery, overrun, and defeated. Making expert use of recently unearthed or released information, Morgan reveals the inner workings of the American effort to aid France, with Eisenhower secretly disdainful of the French effort and prophetically worried that “no military victory was possible in that type of theater.” Morgan paints indelible portraits of all the major players, from Henri Navarre, head of the French Union forces, a rigid professional unprepared for an enemy fortified by rice carried on bicycles, to his commander, General Christian de Castries, a privileged, miscast cavalry officer, and General Vo Nguyen Giap, a master of guerrilla warfare working out of a one-room hut on the side of a hill. Most devastatingly, Morgan sets the stage for the Vietnam quagmire that was to come. Superbly researched and powerfully written, Valley of Death is the crowning achievement of an author whose work has always been as compulsively readable as it is important.
Author : Don Lomax
Publisher : Caliber Comics
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 163529195X
Don Lomax's critically acclaimed Vietnam Journal series returns with all new stories. THIS ISSUE: "SIAGON INTRIGUE" - Journal (Scott Neithammer), finally gives up “soldiering” on with his jungle rotted feet and catches a chopper to Saigon to get treatment at the 3rd Field Hospital. While there he decides to take a few days R&R and go out on the town. He quickly finds out that the Saigon nightlife takes on a completely different dimension when looking through the honest prism of a non-drinker. From the high-profile pleasure palaces on TuDo Street to the seedy little back street bars, the war is still there, just below the surface, and just as real and deadly as it is in the bush! Praise for Vietnam Journal: “..the best war comic in more than 35 years...grade A+” - Don Thompson, Comic Buyers Guide.
Author : Don Lomax
Publisher : Caliber Comics
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1629785288
The acclaimed Vietnam Journal series from Don Lomax, nominated for a Harvey Award, is collected and presented as a series of graphic novels. Vietnam Journal is a look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of a war journalist, Scott 'Journal' Neithammer, as he chronicles the lives and events of soldiers on the front line during the Vietnam War. In VOLUME FIVE, the story of the Tet Offensive is chronicled by ‘Journal’. It is the biggest push the Viet Cong launched during the Vietnam War and one that almost brought them immediate victory. The American command realizes that the latest assault by the VS is a massive one as multiple targets are all hit at once. This escalates the war to an entirely new level. And with the Tet Offensive in full force, ‘Journal’ finds the civilian population are more than just tools in the war. As he, along with most of the other press covering the war, realize that although America are winning the battles, they were losing the war. And it is obvious that the Viet Cong would do anything to succeed….anything. And with U.S. troops making their push to Khe Sanh, ‘Journal’ gets a taste of the politics that have taken over the American involvement in the war as it cements the insanity of the entire Vietnam conflict. And lastly with news of the My Lai Massacre overwhelming the media and press, ‘Journal’ begins to understand that the tactics of the Viet Cong cannot be used by the Americans. And this puts the war on unequal footing and the only victory possible is a moral one. Collects entire Vietnam Journal Tet '68 series (issues 1-6). Picked by Entertainment Weekly as "a graphic novel you should own" and recommended by the Military History Book Club. "Even today, VIETNAM JOURNAL is one of the most gritty and brutally honest war stories ever published." - Brian Cronin, Comic Book Resources. "Vietnam Journal by Don Lomax is the best comic book portrayal of Vietnam I have ever read. Its probably one of the best works ever put down in any art form about the war." - Daniel Robert Epstein. A Caliber Comics release.
Author : Larry Chambers
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1101969563
Featuring a new introduction by the author about his return to Vietnam, his reflections on the war, and his humanitarian work in Cambodia. “The enemy had a single purpose: kill me and my teammates.” Larry Chambers was still new to Vietnam in early 1969 when the LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division became L Company, 75th (Rangers). But his unit’s mission stayed the same: act as the eyes and ears of the 101st deep in the dreaded A Shau Valley—where the NVA ruled. Relentless thick fog frequently made fighter bombers useless in the A Shau, and the enemy had furnished the nearby mountaintops with antiaircraft machine guns to protect the massive trail network that snaked through it. So, outgunned, outmanned, and unsupported, the teams of L Company executed hundreds of courageous missions. Now, in this powerful personal record, Larry Chambers recaptures the experience of the war’s most brutal on-the-job training, where the slightest noise or smallest error could bring sudden—and certain—death. . . .
Author : Don Lomax
Publisher : Caliber Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1635291798
HARVEY AWARD NOMINEE comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed VIETNAM JOURNAL books. THIS ISSUE: "Patriot". B-52s hammer Baghdad with relentless carpet bombing taking out Saddam’s “eyes and ears” in the form of his electrical grid and radar capabilities. On TV, the horror of the war is brought into American homes with stark reality as downed American pilots are displayed as war trophies of Hussein’s insane war. War correspondents are shepherded about from site to site and fed the government drivel, “for their own good”. All this forcing Scott "Journal" Niethammer to make drastic decisions.
Author : Don Lomax
Publisher : Caliber Comics
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781635299267
Scott "Journal" Niethammer returns to report on the seemingly endless conflict and this time he heads into Cambodia as the incursion of that country is well underway by United States and South Vietnamese military forces. He is accompanied by a slightly erratic photographer with the unhealthy attitude that he is impervious to enemy fire when behind the camera's lens. While in Cambodia they meet a pistol packing, single-minded Nun and dozens of ethnic Vietnamese orphans who have been delivered a death sentence by Cambodia's new acting Prime Minister, Lon Nol. With Journal's help they make a desperate race for the border and salvation. Now wanted by the Judge Advocate General's office for questioning, Journal retreats back into Cambodia hoping the farce will all blow over. But he meets a female reporter as much an outcast from the mainstream media as he. Their similarities create a bond until the war finds a way to force the heavy hand of horror into their fledgling relationship. And lastly, racism and drugs rear their ugly heads as rear echelon United States troops are moved forward in a support capacity for the line troops. Their real world prejudices and minimal training threaten to rot the core of the effort from the inside out. And the ever present enemy awaits any opportunity to hand the Americans a sound defeat should there be a misstep in their favor. Collects Vietnam Journal Series Two issues 6-10. "Lomax bases his fictional work on his real experiences in Vietnam in 1966, with powerful results. It is Lomax's concern for average soldiers that, in the end, makes his work significant." - Publishers Weekly. "Vietnam Journal by Don Lomax is the best comic book portrayal of Vietnam I have ever read. It's probably one of the best works ever put down in any art form about the war." - Daniel Robert Epstein.
Author : Keith William Nolan
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Hiep Duc Valley (Vietnam)
ISBN : 9780891416654
The 1969 Summer Offensive was unique-the first major engagement after the announcement of U.S.withdrawals.It would send the 1st Marine Division and the 23rd Infantry division (Americal) into a hot , humid killing ground ingiltrated by NVA troops.
