April 15, 2013
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall has just been named the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History. Read John Prados's review…
March 20, 2013
Two of the winners of this year's prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards---Robert Caro and Ben Fountain---are the authors of books that touch on the Vietnam War. Caro's The Passage of Power: The Years of…
February 27, 2013
For a book entitled Of Hearts and Minds; Body and Soul: America's Disabled Combat Veterans: Forgotten Heroes of Vietnam , co-authors (and Vietnam veterans) John Brittain and Rick Bell would like hear from former service…
January 28, 2013
Stanley Karnow, the journalist and author best known for Vietnam: A History , his massive 1983 book that won the Pulitzer Prize and was the basis for a 13-part PBS documentary of the same name,…
December 13, 2012
The new Michael Connelly Harry Bosch detective thriller, The Black Box , which we reviewed (extreme positively) on our Books in Brief on the web page a few weeks ago, has become a big bestseller.…
December 3, 2012
Scholastic, the big children's book publisher, announced last week that Suzanne Collins, the author of the wildly successful "Hunger Games" trilogy, has written Year of the Jungle , a forty-page autobiographical picture book for young children that…
November 20, 2012
Robert McGowan, an artist and writer who served with the 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1968-69, died November 15 after a long battle with Agent Orange-caused non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 65 years old. McGowan,…
November 9, 2012
Bill McCloud, a Vietnam veteran who teaches U.S. history at Rogers State University in Oklahoma, recently wrote an op-ed in the Tulsa World on the extent of young people's knowledge of the Vietnam War. McCloud…
October 17, 2012
Nelson DeMille , who served as a First Cavalry Division platoon commander in the Vietnam War, today is one of the nation's most prolific best-selling novelists. Several of DeMille's compulsively readable thrillers---including Medal of Honor…
October 16, 2012
Robert Olen Butler, the novelist and short story writer who served as a U.S. Army linguist in the Vietnam War, is one prolific writer. His latest book, The Hot Country (Mysterious Press, 326 pp., $25),…