Book News

People’s Choice: Vote for the Cover You Like for an Upcoming Vietnam War Novel

February 10, 2024

Koehler Books, which will be publishing what promises to be a worthy Vietnam War novel, Mike McLaughlin’s The War You’ve Always Wanted, in the fall, is doing something unique—and pretty cool—in choosing the book’s front…

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Harry Bosch: Alive and Well(ish) in Michael Connelly’s new novel, ‘Resurrection Walk’

December 17, 2023

On the evening of December 5, Hachette Book Group sponsored a live session over the video platform, Crowdcast with best-selling crime fiction author Michael Connelly, in conversation with his editor, Asya Muchnick. The subject was…

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‘America Fantastica’: Tim O’Brien’s First Novel in 20 Years

November 21, 2023

Tim O’Brien’s sprawling, brash new novel has nothing whatsoever to do with the Vietnam War or Vietnam War veterans. In America Fantastica (Mariner Books, 464 pp., $32), O’Brien spins out a careening, Pynchon-esque tale set…

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Author Query: In Search of Vietnam Veterans’ Post-War Stories

October 4, 2023

David Griffiths, a retired journalist who served with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam, is working on a book, Welcome Home Home, Brother, in which he will examine Vietnam War veterans' experiences after coming…

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John McDonald, 1948 – 2023

July 5, 2023

John McDonald, a Canadian-born American Vietnam War veteran who wrote a series of popular novels about the war and its aftermath, died June 20 of bone cancer at age 74. After serving for two years…

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Vietnam War Veteran Rodney Kelley’s New Book about an Early 20th Century Boys Boarding School

April 10, 2023

Retired U.S. Army Col. Rodney Kelley's military career stretched from 1969-99. During the Vietnam War, he served in Cambodia in 1970 and later as MACV senior adviser for a Mobile Advisory Team in Phu Yen…

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New in paperback: ‘Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot’

March 13, 2023

Jeffrey Matthews’ Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot, first published in 2020, is now available in paperback (University of Notre Dame Press, 416 pp., $29). As Dan Hart wrote in his Books in Review II review the book…

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A Unique Way to Tell a Unique Vietnam War Story

June 5, 2022

Judy La Salle had a unique experience during the height of the Vietnam Vietnam War. Beginning in the summer of 1968 she worked both as a charter airline flight attendant (then a "stewardess"), that took…

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McCloud Receives History Award

May 10, 2022

Bill McCloud, a member of Vietnam Veterans of America who served with the 147th Assault (Support) Helicopter Company in Vietnam in 1968-69 and today teaches U.S. History and Political Science at Rogers State University in…

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Author Query: Remembering Martin Luther King & the Vietnam War

November 29, 2021

Mike Selby, a Canadian librarian, newspaper columnist, and the author of  Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South, is working on a book about Martin Luther King Jr. and…

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