Posts Tagged with ‘Vietnam’
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Yes, There Were Anti-War Officers, Too
23 Feb 2018I was co-author of a recent opinion piece in the NY Times on-going Vietnam ’67 series. It begins like this:…
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Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
14 Nov 2017Ken Burns’ PBS series, The Vietnam War has been much in the news, and on many minds, this fall, 52 years…
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The Courage Not to Go to War
25 Apr 2016“I was a coward. I went to the war.” is one of the most true and courageous lines in Tim…
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The Things They Carried – Writing About War
04 Feb 2014The last American troops left Vietnam over 40 years ago but the war goes on. Tens of thousands of veterans…
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Kill Anything that Moves: More Terrible Truth About War
27 Nov 2013Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves:The Real American War in Vietnam, has been praised by virtually everyone who has read…
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“The Warriors” and “What It’s Like to Go to War”: Two Wars, Two Marines, Two Conclusions
03 Oct 2013I took on my first assigned reading in fifty years last month, for a seminar at Juniata college in Pennsylvania. …
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The Prince of Peace — A Novel of Love and War Resistance
15 May 2013On a long train ride from Los Angeles to Oakland recently I was able to take up the recommendation of…
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No Man’s Land: A Novel from Vietnam by Duong Thu Huong
11 Apr 2013I couldn’t have been more surprised when our guide in Hanoi, a Vietnamese Catholic, mentioned offhandedly that some soldiers coming…
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Behind the Red Mist — Fiction from Vietnam
08 Apr 2013I first encountered Ho Anh Thai’s fiction at it’s fantastical best in the wonderful Whereabouts volume of Vietnam: A Traveller’s…
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Saigon: Surprise and Sorrow
04 Mar 2013Saigon is a surprise and still a sorrow. 38 years after the American war ended it shows barely a sign…
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Reading Vietnam
02 Mar 2013Packed with my travel duffle for a 5 week trip to South East Asia is one of the indispensable series of books…
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Paradise of the Blind, a Novel from Vietnam, Duong Thu Huong
07 Jan 2013Paradise of the Blind (1988) is Duong Thu Huong’s second serious novel, following a series of popular short stories, a novel…
