Literary, translation, and film rights are handled by nat sobel at sobel weber associates. Richard pena served in vietnam and is now a practicing attorney in austin, texas. This book was written by a vietnam combat veteran with d1st502nd infantry, 101st aibrone division, mike m60 kelley, who is also an accomplished artist, producing exquisite images of the vietnam war. Follow us your content may be featured on, member station websites, and on social media. This weekend, at last, the vietnam war will land on our rooftops, ready to transport us back a half century and more to a conflict begun in good faith, by decent people, out of fateful misunderstandings that led to a decade of agonythe most divisive period since the civil war. The ultimate 2020 list of best vietnam books to read. The war of vietnam legal definition of the war of vietnam. I have read literally 100s of books on these topics.
The necessary war, michael lind if you only read one book on the vietnam war, this is it. In the fiction section, you will find the best books on vietnam war, other vietnam bestseller novels as well as novels set in vietnam. This childrens picture book is about a father and his young sons visit to the vietnam veterans memorial. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. During the four years following passage of the tonkin gulf resolution aug. If you are doing research on the vietnam war this book is a musthave. The vietnam war stands as one of the pivotal moments in recent u. 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.
A north vietnamese perspective on the war bui tin on. Booktopia buy vietnam war books online from australias leading online bookstore. The definitive collection of fiction and nonfiction on the war 1998 by stewart onan. The daring and controversial novel that took the world by storma story of politics, selfhood, survival, and war. 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. The best books about vietnam as a country, not just the vietnam war. Three are novels, two of which were written by vietnam war veterans. This book seeks to relate the overall events and chronology of the war and shows its impact on everyday lives. Department of defense the vietnam war was a 20year conflict in southeast asia 19551975 between the government of south vietnam and the communist government of north vietnam. The greatest battle of the vietnam air war the air combat trilogy book 2 jeffrey ethell. The book includes some great observations and agonizing human truths about the nonstop combat of the war.
These include winners of national book awards and pulitzer prizes, both fiction and nonfiction. 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. Underground gi newspapers during the vietnam war by james lewes book description. This first indo china war lasted until the french defeat at dien bien phu and the signing of the geneva convention in 1954. Fields of fire is a brilliant book about the vietnam war. The sorrow of war is a 1990 novel by the vietnamese writer b. Here are the key events leading up to the vietnam war, the deadly guerrilla warfare of the viet cong, the domestic antiwar movement and the fall of saigon. All our physical stores and our online store are temporarily closed. Vietnam war american soldiers exit a helicopter during operation oregon in the vietnam war. Its extraordinarily wellreported and written, and filled with memorable photographs and illustrationsa reminder that the war was, perhaps for.
The best histories of the vietnam war council on foreign. The vietnam war was among a host of factors that opened deep fault lines in the landscape of u. For those looking for vietnam war books to better understand why the united states entered the vietnam war in the first place, there may be no better book than halberstams. Kien, a lone survivor from the glorious 27th youth. Us soldiers, communist leaders, saigon loyalists, vietnamese peasants and even nixon himself. History in an hour is essential reading for anyone interested in postwar history.
Among the most positive is an abundance of topnotch books, many written by veterans of the conflict. The best vietnam war books, as recommended by vietnam war vet karl marlantes, author of the briliant novel matterhorn, set in the vietnam war. For more suggested resources on the vietnam war, check out the other. Pages in category vietnam war books the following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. 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. The wall picture book about a visit to vietnam war memorial.
Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that. While overseas, richard served as an or tech in the operating room of vietnams largest military hospital during the final year of the war. Charlie haughey was a us army photographer in vietnam in 1967, shooting nearly 2,000 photos. Perhaps more targeted at the scholarly minded, this book collects official documents and private letters from a sea of sources. Hunts a vietnam war reader is a very different text to onans. Instead, author nguyen duong uniformly praises the arvn on just about every. The great vietnam war novel was not written by an american. If you want gripping, true action of ww2, read last battle station, if you can find it, about one of the greatest, rarely told battles of ww2, the battle of java sea, the story of the uss hous. The best histories of the vietnam war council on foreign relations. Tell me about the first book on your list, a rumor of war 1977. Mark atwood lawrence and fredrik logevalls book the first vietnam war is a synthesis of events in various countries that led up to and followed the first vietnam war. Readers weighed in on the best books about the vietnam war.
A rumor of war, philip caputo to call it the best book about vietnam is to trivialise it. If you were to read only one book on the vietnam war, the vietnam reader. 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. The lack of a truly comprehensive encyclopedia on the vietnam war has long been a problem for reference staff in academic, public, and school libraries. It tells the story of the war from every conceivable angle, including that of the young vietnamese fighters. The new series on the vietnam war, and the mysteries of historical resonance in roughly the center of this view of the pee dee river in south carolina is the snows island national historic landmark. The companion volume to burns vietnam war documentary series on pbs, the book stands alone as a powerful summary of the whole conflict. From his encounters with exvietnamese soldiers to interviews with victims of his own violence, broyles memoir is a reminder of how the brotherhood of man can. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. New book explores history of the vietnamese cornell. The new series on the vietnam war, and the mysteries of. An intimate history tells once again the painful tale of americas protracted, divisive and most would.
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. Author eve bunting has a gift for writing about serious subjects in a way that makes them accessible to young children, and she has done just that in her picture book the wall. Real people, real combat, espionage, and conflict in the mekong delta 1969. A slew of war memoirs stand with the best writing of that genre. Before he penned the screenplays for jarhead and castaway, a young william broyles enlisted to serve in the vietnam war. List of books and articles about vietnam antiwar movement. Although the tragedy of the vietnam war is promoted as a memoir, it is mostly a political history of the war. In my mind its one of the first really wellwritten books that describe the moral ambiguities and difficulties faced by a young marine officer in this particular war.
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. Fitzgerald won the pulitzer prize and the national book award by. The 696page book covers 2,000 years of vietnamese government, culture and life, from the qin empire in 221 b. Ten vietnam war novels to read council on foreign relations. Drawing from more than 120 newspapers, published between 1968 and 1970, this study explores the emergence of an antimilitarist subculture within the u. The story follows an anonymous north vietnamese narrator whos acting as a mole in the south vietnamese army and is sent to an exile. He left on the last day of american military involvement in vietnam in march 1973. More than a decade later, he returned to his former battlegrounds and recorded his journey in goodbye vietnam. Booktopia buy vietnam war books online from australias leading online. Every book on vietnam in the section claimed to be the best ever written on the subject.
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. An impressive piece of work that gives a good overview of the vietnam war and the wider issues that surrounded the conflict. Ready to read the most celebrated and best vietnam war books. Taylor is the author of the new book, a history of the vietnamese cambridge concise histories. There is catch22, and slaughterhouse five, and these are classics to be sure. The the negatives have recently been rediscovered and digitized for a. Vietnam war, 19611975 engineering and construction base development in south vietnam, 19651970 1991, by carroll h. Dog soldiers won the 1975 national book award for fiction, the first vietnam war novel to do so.
The top 30 vietnam war books to read this winter historynet. Complete organized chaos for the new guys would begin as we landed in vietnam. What is a good recommendation for a nonfiction book on. Heartwrenching, fragmented, raw, former north vietnamese solder bao ninhs the sorrow of war provides a strikingly honest look at how the vietnam war forever changed his life, his country, and the people who live there. Why was the vietnam war of such global significance and how has it affected people on both sides of the conflict. As before, ward has written a weighty companion book to the series. 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. 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.
In the vietnam war, mark atwood lawrence draws upon the latest research in archives around the world. But meaning can be found in the individual stories. In the short history of vietnam war literature, publishers would hardly touch a book on the war until the late 1970s and early 1980sa part of the selfinduced. But his experience in the vietnam war made a reasonable choice. Philip caputo was a marine who later became a very wellknown journalist. Beyond that, on the fiction front, we quickly traipse into forgettable territory. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. 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. Excellent study of the vietnam war looking at a far wider range of topics than in most books on this war, and with contributions from american, north vietnamese and south vietnamese authors and participants in the war.
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