The war in vietnam a cold war era military conflict began november 1, 1955, the first us military advisors arrived in 1950 but would not end until the fall of saigon, april 30, 1975. Before he penned the screenplays for jarhead and castaway, a young william broyles enlisted to serve in the vietnam war. Dog soldiers won the 1975 national book award for fiction, the first vietnam war novel to do so. Pages in category vietnam war novels the following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. 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. The life and times of admiral elmo russell bud zumwalt, jr. Hellgate press offers you the best in books about the military, including military history, veteran memoirs and military fictionas well as nonfiction adventure travel and historicaladventure fiction.
Winner of the 2016 pulitzer prize for fiction, this debut novel could fit into half a dozen genres of vietnam war books from war narrative to immigrant story, from mystery to political, from metafiction to. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Phnom penh, cambodia, found ourselves in an unusual situation. Covering world war i, world war ii, and the vietnam war, this book does. More than a decade later, he returned to his former battlegrounds and recorded his journey in goodbye vietnam. The best vietnam war books five books expert recommendations. It is an aviation book, a militaryadventure story and an outdooradventure tale that will appeal. Vietnam war nonfiction books for sale in stock ebay. The duality of these two novels exemplifies a tonal shift in american science fiction. Enough books novels and nonfiction have been published about the vietnam war and its aftermath to fill a modestsized library. In vietnam, all us forces were ordered to cease fighting and that included air assets as well as the ground troops. 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. The violence, tragedy, bravery, and loss of the vietnam war has been memorialized in countless novels and works of nonfiction. The vietnam war has scarred, transformed and inspired countless writers and art practitioners.
Ia drang the battle that changed the war in vietnam harold g. Feel how this story takes you back in time during carsons experiences. The events of the book are set in hong kong during the vietnam war. In the fiction section, you will find the best books on vietnam war, other vietnam bestseller novels as well as novels set in vietnam. Browse history military vietnam war ebooks to read online or download in epub or pdf format on your mobile device and pc. Quanah parker and the rise and fall of the comanches, the most powerful indian tribe in american history. Heres a list of great books about vietnam, many focused on the country and the culture and a few about the war. The first novel of vietnam, per the dust jacket, although it wasnt, really.
Pages in category vietnam war fiction the following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. The powerful words in these eleven books help us understand a complicated time in our recent history, and the political and personal legacy that it still carries. Both the nonfiction and fictional tales on this list have a sense of chilling realism gleaned from firsthand experience and indepth research. This fastflowing book tells the story of draftee philip dosier, beginning with his induction. Tell me about the first book on your list, a rumor of war 1977. 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. By 1955, and after decades of resistance to french colonials, vietnam was partitioned into northern and southern territories. The ultimate 2020 list of best vietnam books to read. Vietnam war at amazon vietnam war on dvd at amazon vietnam war kindle books. Among the most positive is an abundance of topnotch books, many written by veterans of the conflict.
Search results for vietnam war download free fiction. Anyway, there was huge number of books running the gamut of extreme politics to bourgeoise politics, cooking, diet, novels, history, selfhelp ad nauseum and also plenty of bricabrac. I decided to see whether i could find vietnam fiction written by vietnamese perspectives to balance out and expand my thinking on the subject. The author was a government engineer and became involved in the corruption common at that time. Ten vietnam war novels to read council on foreign relations. Readers weighed in on the best books about the vietnam war. The vietnam war in american stories, songs, and poems by h. Although the cave is a work of fiction, it is based on the authors experiences as a c flareship crewmember combined with his later experiences exploring caves in the hills of eastern kentucky. A slew of war memoirs stand with the best writing of that genre. From americas conflictswwi, wwii, korea, vietnam and iraqto her mountains, rivers and people, hellgate press has just the book for you. Philip caputo was a marine who later became a very wellknown journalist. One of these books was written before vietnam, one written after. These include winners of national book awards and pulitzer prizes, both fiction and nonfiction.
Bruce franklin the first college anthology of american literature about the vietnam war brings together 16 stories, 5 songs, and 63 poems in an affordable text for literature and history courses. While the list of books about this conflict includes hundreds of enlightening works, we pick ten of the best texts offering illuminating perspectives on the war, its context and the effects it had on vietnam. Indeed, the rise and fall of this alliance is one of the most crucial developments in the history of the cold war in asia. Laid in is a copy of a congressional record page, reprinting a speech delivered in the house of representatives by rep. Go beyond ken burns documentary and discover the landmark memoirs and bestselling novels of the vietnam war. Hellgate press a leading independent publisher of books. Larry heinemanns autobiographical novel is one of the earliest pieces of fiction set in the vietnam warand one of the best and most underappreciated. The book describes the expatriate life and relations with the local chinese population. Booktopia buy vietnam war fiction books online from australias leading online bookstore. The 1960s gave rise to books like kurt vonneguts slaughterhousefive, babel17 by samuel delany, and of course frank herberts dune. Derived of the authors vietnam war experience, the thirtyseven stories in this sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious collection look back at the vietnam war from a distance of forty or more years, nearly a halfcentury, and via the perspectives of not only the soldiers themselves, but also their children, spouses, siblings, parents, friends.