Vietnam war books fiction

The vietnam war in american stories, songs, and poems by h. Ia drang the battle that changed the war in vietnam harold g. The ultimate 2020 list of best vietnam books to read. 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. 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.

Hellgate press a leading independent publisher of books. Pages in category vietnam war fiction the following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This fastflowing book tells the story of draftee philip dosier, beginning with his induction. It is an aviation book, a militaryadventure story and an outdooradventure tale that will appeal. While theres a lot of famous popular fiction on the war in vietnam both books and movies, the majority of them are written from american perspectives. Both the nonfiction and fictional tales on this list have a sense of chilling realism gleaned from firsthand experience and indepth research. Readers weighed in on the best books about the vietnam war. More than a decade later, he returned to his former battlegrounds and recorded his journey in goodbye vietnam. The violence, tragedy, bravery, and loss of the vietnam war has been memorialized in countless novels and works of nonfiction. Search results for vietnam war download free fiction.

Quanah parker and the rise and fall of the comanches, the most powerful indian tribe in american history. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Nonfiction an intimate history of killing by joanna bourke. Heres a list of great books about vietnam, many focused on the country and the culture and a few about the war. This book, easily one of the best pieces of war fiction, is definitely one of the best books written by vietnam war veterans. The book describes the expatriate life and relations with the local chinese population. The life and times of admiral elmo russell bud zumwalt, jr. Dog soldiers won the 1975 national book award for fiction, the first vietnam war novel to do so. The vietnam war has scarred, transformed and inspired countless writers and art practitioners. 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. Enough books novels and nonfiction have been published about the vietnam war and its aftermath to fill a modestsized library. The 1960s gave rise to books like kurt vonneguts slaughterhousefive, babel17 by samuel delany, and of course frank herberts dune. 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 best vietnam war books five books expert recommendations. Feel how this story takes you back in time during carsons experiences. Browse history military vietnam war ebooks to read online or download in epub or pdf format on your mobile device and pc. By 1955, and after decades of resistance to french colonials, vietnam was partitioned into northern and southern territories.

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. From americas conflictswwi, wwii, korea, vietnam and iraqto her mountains, rivers and people, hellgate press has just the book for you. Vietnam war at amazon vietnam war on dvd at amazon vietnam war kindle 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. Philip caputo was a marine who later became a very wellknown journalist. In vietnam, all us forces were ordered to cease fighting and that included air assets as well as the ground troops. 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. The events of the book are set in hong kong during the vietnam war. These include winners of national book awards and pulitzer prizes, both fiction and nonfiction. Pages in category vietnam war novels the following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 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. In the fiction section, you will find the best books on vietnam war, other vietnam bestseller novels as well as novels set in vietnam. Tell me about the first book on your list, a rumor of war 1977.

Before he penned the screenplays for jarhead and castaway, a young william broyles enlisted to serve in the vietnam war. Covering world war i, world war ii, and the vietnam war, this book does. 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. 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. Booktopia buy vietnam war fiction books online from australias leading online bookstore. Laid in is a copy of a congressional record page, reprinting a speech delivered in the house of representatives by rep. Among the most positive is an abundance of topnotch books, many written by veterans of the conflict. Ten vietnam war novels to read council on foreign relations. The first novel of vietnam, per the dust jacket, although it wasnt, really. 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. Vietnam war nonfiction books for sale in stock ebay. Phnom penh, cambodia, found ourselves in an unusual situation. A slew of war memoirs stand with the best writing of that genre.