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. One of my favourites from this list is the beauty of humanity movement, it might be an oldie but it is a great book that tells an interesting story about key characters and their lives in old vietnam. The united states and vietnam, 19501975 by george herring 1979. Beyond that, on the fiction front, we quickly traipse into forgettable territory. Now in its fourth updated edition, based on new declassified information, its known to vietnam scholars.
Apr 15, 2010 in the same way that after world war i, the germans\r were\r preached to by the forces of what became hitler, you were betrayed at \r\ nthe end\r of world war i and germany was sold down. The vietnam war paperback mark atwood lawrence oxford. Or was it, as president ronald reagan would claim, a noble cause. Schools and families buy books for fun and education. Critically acclaimed since its release in 1977, dispatches was one of the first books which offered an insiders account of the vietnam war to the general public. This book seeks to relate the overall events and chronology of the war and shows its impact on everyday lives. These include winners of national book awards and pulitzer prizes, both fiction and nonfiction. Us soldiers, communist leaders, saigon loyalists, vietnamese peasants and even nixon himself. The vietnam war also called indochina war is the war between north vietnam and south vietnam, which took place from 1954 to 1975.
In the case of vietnam, he has the advantage of having. Instead of throwing out your old books or recycling them, donate them so they can be read and enjoyed again. An epic account of americas involvement in vietnam by a historian who covered much of the war for the new york times langguth a noise of war, 1994, etc. His streamofconscious descriptions are chaotic, choppy, dark, and intense, giving the reader an honest sense of war from the perspective of a soldier. Popular vietnam war books meet your next favorite book. Readers weighed in on the best books about the vietnam war. Detailing both the identifiable costs and the economic benefits, campagna examines the increasing influence. In an enthralling book, newbery medalist russell freedman provides a succinct account of perhaps the most puzzling and contentious of america s wars. Three are novels, two of which were written by vietnam war. Its extraordinarily wellreported and written, and filled with memorable photographs and illustrationsa reminder that the war was, perhaps for. In this work, anthony campagna focuses on one aspect of the war s consequences.
Feel how this story takes you back in time during carsons experiences. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. The book is not like what american writers have written about the vietnam war, and its not like what vietnamese americans have written about this war and this history. The battle of hamburger hill was fought may 1020, 1969, during the vietnam war 19551975. One is literary nonfiction by a vietnam war veteran. Michael herr was a war correspondent for esquire between 1967 and 1969.
In the fiction section, you will find the best books on vietnam war, other vietnam bestseller novels as well as novels set in vietnam. The harrowing lines, war, it aint nothing but a heartbreakerwar, friend only to the undertaker is a brutal reminder that war is a human conflict and kills many people. List of books and articles about vietnam war online. A french colony, indochina made up of vietnam, laos, and cambodia had been occupied by the japanese during the war. The causes of the vietnam war trace their roots back to the end of world war ii. The necessary war, michael lind if you only read one book on the vietnam war, this is it. List of books and articles about vietnam antiwar movement. Dog soldiers won the 1975 national book award for fiction, the first vietnam war novel to do so.
So when one of the teens is drafted into the vietnam war, the others sign up, too. The vietnam war remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels between that conflict and more recent fighting in the middle east. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of the things they carried and what it means. The war began soon after the geneva conference provisionally divided 1954 vietnam at 17 n lat. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together and they promise to do all they can to come home together. Purchasing these books through the book depository is a great way for you to save money, while supporting alpha 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 a printed book. Among the most positive is an abundance of topnotch books, many written by veterans of the conflict. Protest and rock n roll during the vietnam war inquiries.
Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. Bowker then suggested that obrien write a story about someone who feels that vietnam robbed him of his will to livehe said he would write it himself but he couldnt find the words. The untold story of spies, saboteurs, and covert warriors in north vietnam by richard h. It tells the story of the war from every conceivable angle, including that of the young vietnamese fighters. Kennedy became involved in 1961, the situation was out of control. Feb 05, 2008 a rumor of war, philip caputo to call it the best book about vietnam is to trivialise it.
Uss yorktown cvcvacvs10 is one of 24 essexclass aircraft carriers built during world war ii for the united states navy. It escalated from a vietnamese civil war into a limited international conflict in which the united states was deeply involved, and did not end. Instead, author nguyen duong uniformly praises the arvn on just about every. Historians at war national association of scholars. A novel of north vietnam bao ninh well, its about a north vietnamese soldier, but its set in south vietnam, in what the vietnamese know as the american war.
Morris, rudi, ivan, and beck are best friends for life. It is only now, fifteen years after its end, that the full impact of the vietnam war on the united states can begin to be measured. Booktopia buy vietnam war books online from australias leading online bookstore. Three are novels, two of which were written by vietnam war veterans. Air force to start bombing south vietnam, using planes with south vietnamese markings. His coverage of the war in dispatches was groundbreaking for its presented a type of journalism that traded monotonous details for visceral descriptions. The economic consequences of the vietnam war anthony s.
Having been among the first americans to fight in vietnam, i was also among the last to be evacuated, only a few hours before the north vietnamese army entered the capital. There is catch22, and slaughterhouse five, and these are classics to be sure. In late spring 1969, american and south vietnamese forces commenced operation apache snow with the intent of driving north vietnamese troops from the a shau valley. The companion volume to burns vietnam war documentary series on pbs, the book stands alone as a powerful summary of the whole conflict. She was named after the battle of yorktown of the american revolutionary war, and is the fourth u. 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. To shed new light on such a complicated and unsettled time in our history, to struggle to comprehend the special dissonance that is the vietnam war, we needed to look beyond the familiar stories. 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. Why was the vietnam war of such global significance and how has it affected people on both sides of the conflict. Winner of the 2016 pulitzer prize for fiction, this debut novel could fit into half a dozen genres of vietnam war books from war narrative to immigrant story, from mystery to political, from metafiction to historical and even dark comedy. In 1941, a vietnamese nationalist movement, the viet minh, was formed by their leader ho chi minh 18901969 to resist the occupiers. Vietnam war, 19611975 engineering and construction base development in south vietnam, 19651970 1991, by carroll h. Ten vietnam war novels to read council on foreign relations.
Retro cold warrior lind author of the novel powertown, 1996, as well as works of nonfiction, resembling an intellectual rambo, verbally machineguns vietnamese, russian, and chinese communists, along with americans. 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. A singleminded interpretation of the vietnam war based on the authors conviction that the conflicts overriding issue was a moscowdirected international communist conspiracy. Turner, a vietnam veteran and hoover institution fellow who later obtained a nontenured position at the university of virginia law school, disputed the portrayal of the vietnamese communists as devoted nationalists in his book vietnamese communism. 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. Initially to have been named bonhomme richard, she was renamed yorktown while still under construction to. The ultimate 2020 list of best vietnam books to read. Not only do your book donations through pick up please support us veterans, they also support reading in general.
Welcome to alpha historys selection of vietnam war books. Mar 02, 2015 the best histories of the vietnam war. A slew of war memoirs stand with the best writing of that genre. Seeing the pilot is having a hard time keeping up, one of the chinese mercenaries called. However bad things were for the americans and their allies, things were much worse for the men who fought them.
The best histories of the vietnam war council on foreign. Perhaps the only decent thing to emerge from the vietnam war is a body of literature unsurpassed by the writing thats come out of any other war. In this work, anthony campagna focuses on one aspect of the wars consequences. Why was the vietnam war so contentious, and how did one of the worlds superpowers fail to defeat a much less wealthy and populous opponent. Retro cold warrior lind author of the novel powertown, 1996, as well as works of nonfiction, resembling an intellectual rambo, verbally machineguns vietnamese, russian, and chinese communists. A vietnam war combat nurses 10year fight to win women a place of honor in washington, d. Wellwritten and deeply researched, this history covers virtually every aspect of the french and american wars in vietnam from 1945 to 1975, focusing mainly. A summary of notes in tim obriens the things they carried. In the vietnam war, mark atwood lawrence draws upon the latest research in archives around the world to offer readers a superb account of a key moment in u.
The vietnam war features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the. 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. Wellwritten and deeply researched, this history covers virtually every aspect of the french and american wars in vietnam from 1945 to 1975, focusing mainly on military, diplomatic, and political. Great service tax deduction receipts pickups within 24 hours in. Hunts a vietnam war reader is a very different text to onans. In the same way that after world war i, the germans\r\n were\r\npreached to by the forces of what became hitler, you were betrayed at \r\ nthe end\r\nof world war i and germany was sold down. Perhaps more targeted at the scholarly minded, this book collects official documents and private letters from a sea of sources. This war was a direct and indirect intervention by several foreign countries south, mainly the united states, according to the truman doctrine, until his retirement in 1973, and the north various communist block countries. During the four years following passage of the tonkin gulf resolution aug. A rumor of war, philip caputo to call it the best book about vietnam is to trivialise it. While many songs protesting the vietnam war are rockoriented, war crosses this genre boundary by being distinctly motown. The following texts are used and recommended by alpha history authors. Although the tragedy of the vietnam war is promoted as a memoir, it is mostly a political history of the war.
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