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24 books with the same feel
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Bao Ninh · 228 pages
The Sorrow of War - by turns bleak and poetic, pellucid and cunning - opens with Kien, an infantry cadre from Hanoi, engaged in the grim business of retrieving and burying the dead at the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the war. From here, the novel ranges back to Kien's youth and the pains of adolescent love, and moves forward to his attempts, as a struggling writer in postwar Hanoi, to
The Women
Kristin Hannah · 476 pages
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her br
Fields of Fire
James Webb · 415 pages
The story of a platoon of Marines fighting in Vietnam evokes the ambiguous and gruesome character of the war and contrasts man's realization of war's dangers with his attraction to war as the ultimate test of survival.
The Lotus Eaters
Tatjana Soli · 389 pages
A novel that follows an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.
Message from Nam
Danielle Steel · 417 pages
História de uma jovem correspondente de guerra, inteligente e determinada, que bem cedo conhece a dor e o sofrimento daqueles que direta ou indiretamente foram atingidos pela guerra do Vietnã.
The Other Side
Jason Aaron · 144 pages
*The Other Side* tells an unforgettable Vietnam war story from the point-of-view of two young soldiers on both sides of the conflict. Private Bill Everette is a US Marine. His opposite number, Vo Binh is a fighter for the People's Army of Vietnam. These two young men have never met. They are not even aware of each other's existence. And yet, in the battle-scared country of Vietnam, fighting a w
The Short-Timers
Gustav Hasford · 180 pages
L'opera prima di un ex combattente che ha vissuto direttamente l'inferno della guerra. Siamo in Vietnam nel 1968. Dopo un addestramento selvaggio, i giovani marines sono precipitati in un panorama d'incubo, annerito dal napalm e infestato da cadaveri umani in decomposizione. È allora che la Guerra lascia cadere la maschera di Gloria, Onore, Virilità e Amor Patrio e mostra il suo volto vero. Il cap
Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien · 338 pages
In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing from and meeting the demands of battle, Going After Cacciato stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 384 pages
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
I Pledge Allegiance
Chris Lynch · 183 pages
Best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck all sign up for military service during the Vietnam War. Though in different branches, they swear to look after each other. Morris, stationed off the coast of Vietnam on the USS Boston, is in grave danger when the ship is attacked. Still, he is determined to keep his friends safe.
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts · 368 pages
A Vietnamese girl caught between the North the South and the Americans. Later in life she returns to Vietnam to find her family and continuing distrust and fear. The book goes back and forth between the war years and her return as an American. A great book. One of my favorites.
Highways to a War: 2a Novel
Christopher J. Koch · 460 pages
The Daughters of Mars
Thomas Keneally, Tom Keneally · 517 pages
"From the acclaimed author of Schindlers List comes the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the First World War. In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their fathers farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Though they are used to tending the sick, nothing co
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
Steel Tiger
Mark Berent · 450 pages
In 1967 Vietnam, Court Bannister takes on his second tour of duty, Toby Parker struggles against alcohol to earn his wings, and Wolf Lochert degenerates into mercenary madness.
Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers · 309 pages
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
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
Novel Without A Name
Duong Thu Huong · 292 pages
A piercing, unforgettable tale of the horror and spiritual weariness of war, Novel Without a Name will shatter every preconception Americans have about what happened in the jungles of Vietnam. With Duong Thu Huong, whose Paradise of the Blind was published to high critical acclaim in 1993, Vietnam has found a voice both lyrical and stark, powerful enough to capture the conflict that left millions
A Pledge of Silence
Flora J. Solomon · 364 pages
**A World War II novel based on the American military nurses serving in the Philippines. Follow Margie whose life changes forever when she is captured and held prisoner of war by enemy forces.** January of 1941, Margie Bauer is called to active duty in the Army Nurse Corps of the United States Army Reserves. She delights in her assignment to Manila--the Pearl of the Orient. She falls in love wi
The Tiger's Wife
Tea Obreht · 360 pages
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the ti