Book News

Dale Dye's Latest Venture: 'Code Word Geronimo'

June 28, 2011

VVA member Dale Dye, the former Marine best known for his pioneering military technical advising for the movies (Platoon , Saving Private Ryan , The Pacific , Band of Brothers , et al .), also…

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Another Nelson DeMille Bestseller

June 23, 2011

Nelson DeMille's latest novel, The Lion , which hit the bookstores in June 2010 and quickly became the latest in his long string of bestsellers, just came out in paperback (Grand Central, $14.99). No surprise:…

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NAM On-Line Short Story Reading

June 15, 2011

  The latest edition of the London-based British literary journal Litro website  contains a reading of the story "Billy" from Robert McGowan's new story collection, NAM: Things That Weren't True and Other Stories .  The reader of the…

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Dan Guenther wins Poetry Award

May 18, 2011

  Dan Guenther,  whose trilogy of novels---China Wind , (1990), Dodge City Blues , (2007), and Townsend's Solitaire ( 2008)---are based on his experiences as a Marine officer in Vietnam,  received an award from the Colorado Authors’ League…

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Kelley's Where We Were Now on E Books

May 6, 2011

Former 101st Airborne rifleman and machine gunner (and long-time VVA member) Michael P. ("M-60") Kelley's massive, exhaustively researched, comprehensive guide to virtually every U.S. military installation in Vietnam, Where We Were in Vietnam (2002), has…

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Homer Hickam's Latest

March 30, 2011

Homer Hickam (above ), the best-selling author best known for his 1998 memoir, Rocket Boys , which deals with his life growing up in a small West Virginia coal town in the fifties, will receive…

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The Art of War by Sun Wun — The Comic Book

March 29, 2011

We took the name of this web page (and the column in The VVA Veteran where it originated) from the classic book of military strategy, The Art of War , written by the Chinese general…

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Marlantes' Matterhorn Honored

February 10, 2011

Former Marine Karl Marlantes's powerful in-country Vietnam war novel, Matterhorn , has been awarded the 2011 William E. Colby Award by the Pritzker Military Library in Chicago. The award is named for fomer CIA Director…

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Doonesbury at 40: The Book

February 8, 2011

Garry Trudeau's iconic comic strip, Doonesbury , was born in 1968, during the height of the Vietnam War, when Trudeau was a student at Yale. From the start that war and its legacy was a…

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The Novels of Gene Ladnier

September 15, 2010

You can check out the military-themed books of author and disabled Vietnam veteran Gene Ladnier (above ) at his page on lulu.com . That includes Ladnier's latest novel, Paradox: Hitler’s Granddaughter, an action-adventure thriller with…

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