October 3, 2012
Robert J. Manning, a long-time newspaper reporter and magazine editor, died September 28 at age 92. Manning, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly from…
September 9, 2012
George Washington University in the nation's capital has been a leader in working with students who are veterans. The latest example: the University's Veterans Campaign, in conjunction with the veterans authors of the book In the…
September 4, 2012
We just received word that Karl Marlantes's powerful 2010 best-selling Vietnam War novel, Matterhorn , is being released tomorrow for the first time in French with a slight title change: Retour a Matterhorn (Calmann-Levy, 610…
August 3, 2012
Lucia Viti, the author of Dr. Tom's War: A Daughter's Journey , a memoir of her father's service as a battalion surgeon with the Fifth Marines in Vietnam in 1967, is at work on a…
August 2, 2012
VVA member Tommy Glenn Mckinney's latest book, Webfoot (Balboa Press, 312 pp., $27.90), was published earlier this year. It's an action-filled novel dealing with "a boy in the swamps of Louisiana who does whatever is necessary to…
August 1, 2012
Karl Marlantes---the former Marine and the author of the highly acclaimed Vietnam War novel, Matterhorn ---was the subject of the July 27 edition of the excellent PBS-TV show "Moyers and Company." Marlantes, who will…
July 17, 2012
You can read a compelling new interview with the author Bobbie Ann Mason on the Haunting Legacy Facebook page run by that book's co-author Deborah Kalb. In the interview Mason---who received the VVA…
June 15, 2012
Susan Cox, a History Professor at City College of San Francisco, is working on what she calls a "Vietnam veteran positive" book. The book, Professor Cox tell us, "debunks the stereotypical image of the Vietnam…
June 11, 2012
Recovering From the War, Patience Mason's pioneering book on PTSD, which first was published 1990 and remains in print, has just been made available on Kindle through Amazon.com The book, subtitled "A Guide…
May 7, 2012
The acclaimed journalist and novelist Bill Granger died April 22 at the Manteno Veterans Home in Illinois. Granger, 70, who served in the U.S. Army from 1963-65, died of heart failure. Granger was born…