History
New VN War Exhibit Opens at Army Heritage Center in Carlisle, PA
November 6, 2015
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the start of U.S. combat operations in the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, will open a new…
New HBO Doc on Richard Holbrooke
November 2, 2015
Richard Holbrooke was an important voice in U.S. foreign policy from his first State Department assignment in 1963 as a civilian AID worker in South Vietnam until his death in 2010. Along the way, he…
'American Boys' Wins Big Book Honor
October 15, 2015
Journalist Louise Esola 's book, American Boys , which we reviewed on The VVA Veteran 's Books in Review II page back in January, has been named the grand prize winner of the Writer's Digest…
Don Oberdorfer, 1931-2015
July 30, 2015
Don Oberdorfer, a long-time diplomatic correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for The Washington Post and was the author of the well-regarded look at the 1968 Tet Offensive, Tet! (1971), died July 23 in Washington,…
Herbert Schandler, 1928-2015
July 30, 2015
Herbert Y. Schandler, a Special Forces Korean War and Vietnam War veteran who held a PhD from Harvard, died July 16 . He was 87 years old and lived in McLean, Virginia. A native of…
William Conrad Gibbons, 1926-2015
July 9, 2015
William Conrad Gibbons, one of the most respected historians of the Vietnam War, died July 4. He was 88 years old. Bill Gibbons was the author of the monumental work, The U.S. Government and the…
Paying With Their Bodies by John M. Kinder
April 5, 2015
John M. Kinder is an American Studies professor at Oklahoma State University who specializes in the history of war and American culture. He is most interested in war’s aftermath, including how nations and veterans deal with a…
Company of Heroes by Eric Poole
March 24, 2015
During the first five months of 1970, wherever the men of Bravo Company (3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division) operated, NVA troops seemed to be waiting for them. That was a time of what…
In Honor and Memory by Ray Bows and Pia Bows
March 17, 2015
Ray Bows, a retired U.S. Army Master Sgt., served in the Vietnam War with the 25th Infantry Division in 1968-69. His latest book is the gigantic In Honor and Memory: Installations and Facilities of the Vietnam…
Lords of Secrecy by Scott Horton
March 16, 2015
The Vietnam War, “ in its essence, ” was “the national security experts’ war.” That’s journalist and lawyer Scott Horton’s interpretation in a nutshell in Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare (NationBooks,…