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Crossbow
VIETNAM WAR #1
1990
Don Bendell is a number one amazon.com best-selling author of 27 books, a television pilot, and a successful feature film, with over 3,000,000 copies of his books, mainly novels, in print worldwide. He is the author of the western thriller novel BLOOD FEATHER, sequel to the best-selling western STRONGHEART, & hardcover non-fiction western "TRACKS OF HOPE."
THE SHOCKING TRUTH REVEALED A blistering, firsthand account of an American Soldier who joined forces with the Montagnards WHILE LOSING THE WAR AGAINST NORTH VIETNAM, ARVN TROOPS CONDUCTED A SECRET PROGRAM OF GENOCIDE AGAINST THE MONTAGNARD HILL PEOPLE. THE U.S. ARMY DIDN'T INTERVENE. THE GLOBAL MEDIA DIDN'T NOTICE. BUT THE 'YARDS WEREN'T ALONE. A HANDFUL OF GREEN BERETS FOUGHT AT THEIR SIDE...
The Vietnamese stole their land. The NVA raped their daughters. The Green Berets knew them as the most fearless and loyal warriors in the land.... They were the Montagnards, who called themselves "Sons of the Mountains" and always fought to the death. In this incredible memoir of wall-to-wall combat in the jungle near the Laotian border, Special Forces Lieutenant Don Bendell recounts the saga of the A camp of Dak Pek, 242. On those death-strewn hilltops in 1969-70, a handful of Green Berets and an army of 'Yards held off the entire might of North Vietnamese regulars—until even their courage and fighting skill could not staunch the flow of blood and tears.
Don Bendell
Titles are listed in order of first publication. Series numbers are indicated in red.
Don Bendell also wrote a science fiction series titled "Tracker" which is not included in this listing.
The B-52 Overature
VIETNAM WAR #2
1992
THEY CAME TO VIETNAM AS THE BEST-TRAINED, MOST ELITE WARRIORS IN THE WORLD. THEN THEY LEARNED A WHOLE NEW KIND OF WAR. No fighting men in the world were a match for the U.S. Army Special Forces, the men of the green beret. But in the chaos of Vietnam, where enemies, allies, friends, and traitors all shared a landscape of terror, the Green Berets had to develop their own tactics and draw closer to the only people they could trust: each other. In this extraordinary book, former green beret Don Bendell looks back at life and death at A-Team Camp 242, Dak Pek. From clandestine missions alongside the fierce and proud Montagnard tribesmen to wild rides in bullet-riddled Hueys, Bendell tells of firefights, LRRP missions, dust-offs, air strikes, prisoner interrogations, and acts of courage and daring that convinced the enemy that they were dealing with a unique breed of warrior. Most of all, Bendell captures the spirit of the men who were there: how they laughed, cried, and fought by one another's side in the beautiful green hell of the Cambodian border.
THE SHATTERING TRUE STORY OF THE SPECIAL FORCES COMBAT MISSION INSIDE THE SUPERHIGHWAY OF THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL. THE PLEI TRAP VALLEY: NVA STRONGHOLD. POW BASE CAMP. NEXUS OF THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL. Guarded by Soviet-made tanks, riddled with deep fortifications, commanded by regiments of well-equipped elite enemy troops, the Plei Trap Valley was called the superhighway of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. So confident of its invulnerability to U.S. assault were the North Vietnamese that they housed a major POW camp beneath its jungle canopy. Acclaimed Special Forces chronicler Don Bendell tells his all-combat true story of the battle for Plei Trap in a blizzard of spent shell casings, with rockets screaming overhead and fog banks of enemy gas rolling in. Virtually unchecked even by B-52 carpet bombing, a swollen torrent of supplies and fresh troops poured out of the valley into the Communist war effort... until a strike force spearheaded by a Special Forces airborne assault team and their one hundred Montagnard strikers dropped deep behind NVA lines. Their mission: to keep retreating NVA from escaping into Cambodia and free American POWs from behind the barbed wire of the NVA camp... at any cost. They paid heavily for the right to call Plei Trap the... VALLEY OF TEARS.
Snake-Eater
VIETNAM WAR #4
1994
Valley of Tears
VIETNAM WAR #3
1992
In the embattled Oregon Territory, Christopher Columbus Colt was a wanted man. General O. O. "One-Arm" Howard, commanding the U.S. Cavalry, wanted this legendary scout to guide his forces in his campaign to break the power and take the lands of the proud Nez Percé. A tactical genius, Nez Percé Chief Joseph needed Colt as an ally in this last-ditch face-off. Rich, ruthless Rufus Potter wanted Colt out of his greedy way and six feet under the rich Oregon soil. And only Colt could decide which side to fight on in the most stirring and savage struggle the frontier ever knew...
WHILE LOSING THE WAR AGAINST NORTH VIETNAM, ARVN TROOPS CONDUCTED A SECRET PROGRAM OF GENOCIDE AGAINST THE MONTAGNARD HILL PEOPLE. THE U.S. ARMY DIDN'T INTERVENE. THE GLOBAL MEDIA DIDN'T NOTICE. BUT THE 'YARDS WEREN'T ALONE. A HANDFUL OF GREEN BERETS FOUGHT AT THEIR SIDE...
A novel of the U.S. cavalry... A hero worthy of the finest military fiction TORN BETWEEN DUTY AND HONOR Christopher Columbus Colt, chief of scouts; and nephew of gun-maker Sam Colt was always the best man for the job. His skill with weapons was legendary, his service to the Seventh Cavalry invaluable. But as a friend to the Lakota Sioux and Chief Crazy Horse, Colt's loyalty to the Indians ran dangerously high. At Little Big Horn, by the side of General George Custer, Colt faced the hardest choice of his life: fight for a tyrant against overwhelming odds, or side with the warriors who planned a killing field that would live forever in infamy. Rich with the passion and adventure of real history, this is the roaring saga of frontier military life and of a hero who had to work above the law to uphold justice.
Horse Soldiers
COLT FAMILY #2
1993
Chief of Scouts
COLT FAMILY #1
1993
Chris Colt, his hot-tempered half-brother Joshua, and a proud Native American warrior, Man Killer, risk everything in their battle against a ruthless mining company out to seize control of Coyote Run, the Colts' ranch in the Sangre Cristo Mountains.
Forced to lead an all-black U.S. Cavalry unit on a suicide mission in the Apache Wars, Christopher Columbus Colt, the chief of cavalry scouts, must also contend with two legendary Apache chiefs--Geronimo and Victorio.
Coyote Run
COLT FAMILY #4
1994
Colt
COLT FAMILY #3
1994
Saved from a band of murderers by a stranger known as Tora, Texas Ranger Justis Colt offers to help his rescuer when Tora's family is killed by vengeful outlaws and embarks on an adventure in the untamed West.
Chris Colt, retired Chief of Scouts, is drawn back into battle to help his friend, Nez Perce+a7 warrior Man Killer, save Man Killer's beloved Jennifer from a crooked relative and two outlaws on a bloody crime spree.
Justis Colt
COLT FAMILY #6
1996
Warrior
COLT FAMILY #5
1995