An Honorable Exit — France in Vietnam
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Tag Archives: Vietnam
Yes, There Were Anti-War Officers, Too
I was co-author of a recent opinion piece in the NY Times on-going Vietnam ’67 series. It begins like this: …
Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
Ken Burns’ PBS series, The Vietnam War has been much in the news, and on many minds, this fall, 52 years …
The Courage Not to Go to War
“I was a coward. I went to the war.” is one of the most true and courageous lines in Tim …
The Things They Carried – Writing About War
The last American troops left Vietnam over 40 years ago but the war goes on. Tens of thousands of veterans …
Kill Anything that Moves: More Terrible Truth About War
Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves:The Real American War in Vietnam, has been praised by virtually everyone who has read …
“The Warriors” and “What It’s Like to Go to War”: Two Wars, Two Marines, Two Conclusions
I took on my first assigned reading in fifty years last month, for a seminar at Juniata college in Pennsylvania. …
The Prince of Peace — A Novel of Love and War Resistance
On a long train ride from Los Angeles to Oakland recently I was able to take up the recommendation of …
No Man’s Land: A Novel from Vietnam by Duong Thu Huong
I couldn’t have been more surprised when our guide in Hanoi, a Vietnamese Catholic, mentioned offhandedly that some soldiers coming …
Behind the Red Mist — Fiction from Vietnam
I first encountered Ho Anh Thai’s fiction at it’s fantastical best in the wonderful Whereabouts volume of Vietnam: A Traveller’s …
Saigon: Surprise and Sorrow
Saigon is a surprise and still a sorrow. 38 years after the American war ended it shows barely a sign …
Reading Vietnam
Packed with my travel duffle for a 5 week trip to South East Asia is one of the indispensable series of books …