Usa today s bob minzesheimer recommends books by 10 authors. Our mission is to be social medias most historically accurate and reliable source of information about the vietnam war. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. Why was the vietnam war of such global significance and how has it affected people on both sides of the conflict. Nothing, certainly not our film or book, can make the tragedy of the vietnam war all right. Despite how one may feel about the war, the universal themes bourke exposes re. The book includes some great observations and agonizing. Feb 05, 2008 every book on vietnam in the section claimed to be the best ever written on the subject. This book is a collection of essays that seeks to examine the current state of scholarship on the war and its aftermath. It was part of a larger regional conflict as well as a manifestation of the cold war. Get the best deals on original vietnam war books when you shop the largest online selection at. Vietnam war 195475, conflict that pitted the communist government of north vietnam and its allies in south vietnam, the viet cong, against south vietnam and its principal ally, the united states. Examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of homers iliad with vietnam veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder.
A slew of war memoirs stand with the best writing of that genre. Vintage early vietnam fm 2177 us army evasion and escape field manual 1958. He can often be seen on pawn stars advising rick harrison on price and authenticity of documents that come in the shop. All our physical stores and our online store are temporarily closed. Complete organized chaos for the new guys would begin as we landed in vietnam. After we posted this article, times readers weighed in with their favorite books on the vietnam war. Dog soldiers won the 1975 national book award for fiction, the first vietnam war novel to do so. The book is not only a splendid account of a conflict often forgotten in the aftermath of americas war in vietnam, but it also speaks to the debate that continues to rage among military experts on the nature of the two wars in indochina and the proper ways to fight them, wrote george herring, the author of americas longest war. During the four years following passage of the tonkin gulf resolution aug.
The final book on your list of books about the vietnam war is 365 days. Some made high falutin claims to be as good a war novel as. Matterhorn by karl marlantes, the things they carried by tim obrien, the th valley by john m. On behalf of the entire admin team and our members, welcome to our historical based facebook page for the vietnam war. What, in this moment of commemoration and reflection, are the lasting legacies of the vietnam war american war for southeast asian diasporic communities. Wehrle page images at hathitrust personalities of the liberation movement of south vietnam 1965, by u. List of books and articles about vietnam war online.
Rowe, a united states army officer who spent five years as a prisoner in vietnam before escaping in 1968, was shot to death yesterday april 21, 1989 by gunmen near manila, where he was a military adviser to the philippine armed forces. Although the tragedy of the vietnam war is promoted as a memoir, it is mostly a political history of the war. The violence, tragedy, bravery, and loss of the vietnam war has been memorialized in countless novels and works of nonfiction. These include winners of national book awards and pulitzer prizes, both fiction and nonfiction. Mar 02, 2015 the best histories of the vietnam war. The photographs show up beautifully in the ebook and the writing was absorbing. Sep 15, 2017 whats your favorite book about the vietnam war. Among the most positive is an abundance of topnotch books, many written by veterans of the conflict. A vietnam war combat nurses 10year fight to win women a place of honor in washington, d. Three are novels, two of which were written by vietnam war veterans. Vintage 1962 vietnam war era history book paratrooper airborne soldiers. The vietnam war explained in 25 minutes vietnam war.
This was a book i read before i went to vietnam and it was written by an army doctor who wasnt even there. Another revolutionary telling of the vietnam war, bao ninhs the sorrow of war is reported to have been written against the communist partys wishes. List of books and articles about vietnam antiwar movement. But what he did was he interviewed the people he was treating and it was one of the great examples of breaking through the statistics. Sep 21, 2017 remembering vietnam a new exhibit at the archives helps us see the causes and impact of the war. The definitive collection of fiction and nonfiction on the war 1998 by stewart onan diving into a book about the vietnam war can be a daunting task. Stuart lutz is a dealer and appraiser of historic documents, letters and manuscripts based in new jersey. Pages in category vietnam war books the following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
Kulka, william e schlenger, john a fairbanks, richard l hough, b. Instead, author nguyen duong uniformly praises the arvn on just about every. Some made high falutin claims to be as good a war novel as norman mailers the naked and the dead. Booktopia buy vietnam war books online from australias leading online bookstore.
Joy about the french experience in indochina, was killed in 1967 by a mine planted on the very street he used as a book title. Collecting vietnam war memorabilia the new antiquarian. Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands. The latin motto of the army security agency was semper vigiles vigilant always, which echoes the declaration, often mistakenly attributed to thomas jefferson, that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Looking back on the vietnam war brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer. Report of findings from the national vietnam veterans readjustment study richard a.
The united states army security agency asa was the united states armys signals intelligence branch from 1945 to 1984. A special collection about the vietnam war is presented in both print books and ebook formats by the naval history and heritage command, plus you will also find other narrative monographs and commemorative resources published by the us department of army center of military history, joint chiefs of staff, and more. Ive spent years working on two book projects about vietnam, and i just want to go to cuba. Michael herrs frontline reporting of the vietnam war is collected in dispatches, one of the first books to capture the unique feel of life on the vietnam battlefront. This is a hilarious tale of an air force combat fighter pilot in vietnam who goes out on patrol with a special forces team he has supported many times from the air. This book stands as an implicit refutation of whitmans famous claim that the real wars will never get into the books and of daniel aarons more recent description of the unwritten war. The powerful words in these eleven books help us understand a complicated time in our recent history, and the political and personal legacy that it still carries.
The vietnam war collection book series thriftbooks. Enough books novels and nonfiction have been published about the vietnam war and its aftermath to fill a modestsized library. Shortlisted for canadas prestigious giller prize, this profoundly humane novel vancouver sun, wrings suspense and humor out of the everyday choices we make, revealing the delicate balance between sacrifice and selfinterest, doing good and being good. Committee to aid the national liberation front of south vietnam multiple formats at. Vietnam 1968, 196th light infantry brigade ebook time, 263 pp. There was a time when all i knew of vietnam war books was tim obriens, the things they carried, a book that prompted the laconic entry in my book journal, this book destroyed me.
The vietnam war pictures that moved them most while the vietnam war raged roughly two decades worth of bloody and worldchanging years compelling images made their way out of the combat. Schlundvials and sylvia shin huey chong, commemorating the 40year anniversary of the fall of saigon and examining the complex gacgacies of the vietnam war. Seeing the pilot is having a hard time keeping up, one of the chinese mercenaries called nungs, says to the team leader, lets kill the dai uy. Rather than taking sides, the book seeks to understand why the war happened the way it did, and to clarify its complicated legacy. The vietnam war has scarred, transformed and inspired countless writers and art practitioners. Fields of fire is a brilliant book about the vietnam war. Vietnam war, conflict in southeast asia, primarily fought in south vietnam between government forces aided by the united states and guerrilla forces aided by north vietnam. It is divided into five sections which address american presidents and the war, the conduct of the war in the field, the impact of the tet offensive, the meaning of the war and its lasting legacies. Vietnam war, book, mac v sog by jason hardy, volume iv, 1st edition, exc. Schlundvials and sylvia shin huey chong, with additional curation by mariam lam, vo h. One of the things i loved so muchand that broke my heart so cleanlyabout the things they carried was that it reminded me of another beloved war book. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. This book seeks to relate the overall events and chronology of the war and shows its impact on everyday lives. Every book on vietnam in the section claimed to be the best ever written on the subject.
Vietnam 1972 us navy fighter weapons school topgun f14 f4 phantom manual book. Teaching the literatures of the american civil war modern. Covering world war i, world war ii, and the vietnam war, this book does an exceptional job illuminating the psychological aspects of wartime on those who do the killing. The best histories of the vietnam war council on foreign. Heres an admittedly subjective list, posted on the military history now website, put together by mark masse, a ball state university literary journalism professor. Online shopping for vietnam war history books in the books store. The best vietnam war books 1 a rumor of war by philip caputo. Recollecting the vietnam war issue cover recollecting. Find the complete the vietnam war collection book series by steven hardesty. Readers weighed in on the best books about the vietnam war. Great deals on one book or all books in the series.
Although the iliad was written 27 centuries ago, it has much to teach about combat trauma, as do the more recent, compelling voices and experiences of vietnam vets. The vietnam war was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of vietnam under a. But a combination of american overconfidence, cold war tensions and. In a fight to reunify their divided country under communist rule, the north vietnamese rebelled against the anticommunist southwhich included their longtime enemies, the french. The best vietnam war books five books expert recommendations. Organized chaos, seemed like a contradiction in terms, but after a few weeks in vietnam, it seemed plausible. The author spent more than 20 years as an officer in the army of the republic of vietnam arvn, but few pages of his book deal with his personal experiences. While the list of books about this conflict includes hundreds of enlightening works, we pick ten of the best texts offering illuminating perspectives on the war, its context and the effects it had on vietnam. This collection of stories follows a cast of characters in an army infantry platoon, making its way through the thick of the war in the central part of vietnam. The novel explores the war from the perspective of a former north vietnamese soldier, kien, and is a nonlinear telling of how the conflict transformed himself, his country and those around him. Twentyfive years after first reading this one, i can still hear rat kiley turning up the heat on the truth so that his fellow soldiers can feel the experience as intensely as he did.
His streamofconscious descriptions are chaotic, choppy, dark, and intense, giving the reader an honest sense of war from the perspective of a soldier. Dec, 2017 this book is a great read if you enjoy reading books about the vietnam war. Ten vietnam war novels to read council on foreign relations. This book happens to be one of the best novels about vietnam and will give you some great insight into what it was like to be in this war. The vietnam war remains one of the most contentious events in american history. The vietnam war this is a wikipedia book, a collection of wikipedia articles that can be easily saved, imported by an external electronic rendering service, and ordered as.
Nov 08, 2012 enough books novels and nonfiction have been published about the vietnam war and its aftermath to fill a modestsized library. Vietnam war, book, mac v sog by jason hardy, volume vi, 1st edition, exc. We would be organized militarily, but we would have to break the bad habit, of trying to fight a conventional war in a guerrilla warfare environment. Despite the books bias and flaws, the vietnam war is a good addition to ones library on the vietnam war. This intervention would become one of the most divisive decisions in u. This official collection features resources about the vietnam war. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide vietnamese diaspora, and the united states military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of vietnam. Ia drang the battle that changed the war in vietnam by harold g. A book signed by many of last marines rescued from the saigon. Kathleen jordan, charles r marmar, daniel s weiss, david a grady. The vietnam war was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of north vietnam against south vietnam and its principal ally, the united states. Extraordinary account of the vietnam war ive read other books about the vietnam war and watched ken burns series. What is the best book about vietnam war written from vietnam. Discover the best vietnam war history in best sellers.
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