February 20, 2019
A large exhibit of the photographs of Don McCullin---including his acclaimed work in the Vietnam War---opened February 5 at the Tate Britain gallery in London. It runs through May 6. "This exhibition showcases some of…
February 18, 2019
"Remembering Vietnam: Twelve Critical Episodes in the Vietnam War," a pioneering exhibit that opened at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., on Veterans Day 2017 and was slated to end on January 6 this year,…
February 5, 2019
The Canadian journalist Morris Dalla Costa, who recently retired after a long career as a columnist for the London (Ontario) Free Press, is writing a book about Robert Marr. A fellow Canadian, Marr served as…
January 30, 2019
“Last Flag Flying” is a rarity these days: a big Hollywood movie with a strong Vietnam War theme. The movie, which came out in November 2017, has a big director—Richard (“Dazed and Confused”) Linklater; a…
January 25, 2019
Grace Powers, a senior at Drexel University, is working on her senior thesis, which she has titled "The Affect of American Popular Music on Vietnam Veterans during War Time." The goal of the project, she…
January 21, 2019
H. Lee Barnes---the award-winning novelist and short-story writer who served as an Army Special Forces sergeant in the Vietnam War---recently published Life is a Country Western Song (Boabab Press, 176 pp., $16.95), a collection of a…
January 18, 2019
Actor and author Erik Liberman is writing a book about the actress Jayne Mansfield and will include material about her visit to entertain the troops in Vietnam in 1967. If you were in-country when Mansfield…
December 19, 2018
Cyril Pahinui, a renowned Hawaiian lack-key guitar player who was drafted into the Army and served in the Vietnam War, died November 17 at age 68 of an Agent Orange-related lung disorder and pneumonia. Pahinui…
December 7, 2018
The author and publisher James Musgrave is looking for fellow veterans to contribute to a new fiction anthology he'll be publishing next year called Two Birds with One Diamond. The theme of the book is "Surviving…
November 24, 2018
St. Martin's Press has just released a video in which the author Heath Hardage Lee discusses her upcoming, ground-breaking book, The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to…