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Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There
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Include books by the same authorEverything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War
Al Santoli · 265 pages
Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
Wallace Terry · 320 pages
The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other, *Bloods* features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race were sent off in disproportionate numbers and the special test of patriotism they faced. Told in voices no reader will soon forget, *Bloods* is a must-read for anyone who wants to put
Dispatches
Michael Herr · 260 pages
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, *Dispatches* became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, *Dispatches* makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retelling
A Rumor Of War
Philip Caputo · 356 pages
In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. A decade later, Caputo would write in A Rumor of War, "This is simply a story about wa
Boys in Zinc
Svetlana Alexievich · 304 pages
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Bernard Edelman · 326 pages
A collection of letters, poems, and petitions from the front, written mostly by infantrymen to their families and friends, evokes the emotions of an intense longing for home, fear, hope, grief, and anger aroused by the Vietnam War.
The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
Frederick Downs · 240 pages
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway · 481 pages
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was *We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young*. In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Vall
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O'Brien · 208 pages
A candid view of the American military establishment and the Vietnam conflict as witnessed by a foot soldier in the late sixties.
...And a Hard Rain Fell: A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam
John Ketwig · 368 pages
The classic Vietnam war memoir, ...and a hard rain fell is the unforgettable story of a veteran’s rage and the unflinching portrait of a young soldier’s odyssey from the roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam. Updated for its 20th anniversary with a new afterword on the Iraq War and its parallels to Vietnam, John Ketwig’s message is as relevant today as it was twenty years ago.
They Called It Passchendaele
Lyn Macdonald · 278 pages
The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. In this masterly piece of oral history, Lyn Macdonald lets over 600 participants speak for themselves. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops k
The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Rick Atkinson · 608 pages
GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam
Mark Garrison · 282 pages
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
Studs Terkel · 591 pages
Studs Terkel, a master of the interview, talks with a wide variety of people and learns about their opinions and experiences regarding World War Two - how it affected the lives of those who lived or were born during that period of human history.
Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
Lewis B. Puller Jr. · 400 pages
What It is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes · 272 pages
From the author of the *New York Times* bestseller *Matterhorn*, this is a powerful nonfiction book about the experience of combat and how inadequately we prepare our young men and women for war. War is as old as humankind, but in the past, warriors were prepared for battle by ritual, religion and literature -- which also helped bring them home. In a compelling narrative, Marlantes weaves rivet
We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers
Marcus Brotherton
From Marcus Brotherton, co-author of Call of Duty, comes a new collection of untold stories from the Band of Brothers.They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on DDay and, later, Operation Market Garden. They fought their way through Belgium, France, and Germany, survived overwhelming odds, liberated concentration c
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Jonathan Shay · 246 pages
The number of books on the Vietnam War is, by now, vast and varied. Until recently, however, there has been very little for the public to read about the psychological effect of that conflict on the men who fought in it. Gradually, it has come to be known that the combat veterans of Vietnam suffer, in appalling numbers, from what is known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Indeed, of the th
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War
Tobias Wolff · 221 pages
In Pharaoh's Army is Tobias Wolff's unflinching account of his tour in Vietnam, his tangled journey there and back. Using his old wiles and talents, he passes through boot camp, trains as a paratrooper, volunteers for the Special Forces, studies Vietnamese, and - without really believing it himself - becomes an officer in the U.S. Army. Then, inexorably, he finds himself drawn into the war, sent t
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Mark Bowden · 609 pages
Interviews with participants from both sides of the conflict and materials from Vietnamese and American archives provide multiple points of view on each stage of the Battle of Hue.
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse · 416 pages
Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
Japan at War: An Oral History
Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore F. Cook · 479 pages
This pathbreaking work of oral history captures for the first time ever - in either Japanese or English - the remarkable story of ordinary Japanese people during World War II. In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese homefront during the inhuman raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses