Rare difficult to find and official set of ''US Army Pocket Guide To Vietnam'', dated 1965, with over over 90 pages, and the difficult to find US - Vietnam Phrase book/Card published at the height of the Vietnam in 1967! The pocket guide is highly illustrated, extensive describing the culture, enemies, uniforms, insignia, some basic language phrases and more. For most Americans in the 1960s, Vietnam was a faraway land of which they had little or no knowledge. Yet soon, hundreds of thousands of young American men and women would find themselves on the other side of the globe, fighting—and, in many cases, living—with the Vietnamese people. To lessen the culture shock, the Department of Defense prepared A Pocket Guide to Vietnam, 1965, a remarkably compact and surprisingly timeless crash course in Vietnamese culture for visitors to this foreign land. The Pocket Guide takes the reader on a need-to-know tour through the culture, customs, geography, and politics of Vietnam. Among the straightforward words of wisdom on offer are “Don’t think Americans know everything” and “You will fulfill your duty best by remembering at all times that you are in a land where dignity, restraint, and politeness are highly regarded.” The Pocket Guide was designed to instill in soldiers an understanding of and respect for the Vietnamese people—crucial to the success of the venture—and it therefore also sheds further light on the political aspirations of the time. Famously controversial, the Vietnam War is among the defining conflicts of the latter half of the twentieth century and, as such, the key battles and strategies have been dealt with in considerable depth. But beyond these purely militaristic concerns are the everyday lives of the soldiers who served there. A behind-the-front-lines look at a wide range of social situations they might have encountered, the book makes for captivating reading for anyone interested in Vietnam and its cultural, social, political, and military history. A must-have for the US Vietnam collector, great and difficult to find set of field manualsl! See also our other interesting WW2 items that we offer for auction on catawiki!