Book News

Essential Vietnam War Reading

August 19, 2009

The September issue of Armchair General magazine contains an article, "10 Essential Vietnam War Books" by James H. Willbanks, a retired Army colonel, who has written widely about the war, in which the author recommends…

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Stories of a North Vietnamese Childhood

August 13, 2009

You can read Le Ho Lan's autobiographical Stories of a North Vietnamese Childhood ---which deal with a girl growing up in North Vietnam and her family, neighbors, and friends before and during the American war---on…

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Michael Norman's latest

June 24, 2009

Michael Norman is a journalist, author, and Marine Vietnam War veteran, and the author of the excellent 1991 Vietnam War memoir, These Good Men . His latest book, written with his wife Elizabeth M. Norman,…

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William Keith Nolan dead at 44

June 16, 2009

William Keith Nolan, one of the most prolific and most accomplished military historians of the Vietnam War, died February 9 of lung cancer. He was 44 years old and was not a smoker; the disease…

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Army Center of Military History's New e Book Catalog

June 5, 2009

The U.S. Army’s Center of Military History's Web catalog of its publications has recently been redone with big changes in design and content. The new electronic catalog now includes all 600-plus Center publications. The user-friendly…

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