August 30, 2015
Lisa A. Lark, the author of There and Back: The Vietnam War Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It (M.T. Publishing Company, Inc., 136 pp., $39.95), also has written All They Left Behind: Legacies…
August 12, 2015
Jerry Byrne’s Twin Marines in Hell: From Grade School to Vietnam (CreateSpace, 204 pp., $14, 95, paper; $3.99, Kindle), is dedicated to his twin brother, John, who died at age 58 of cancer resulting from exposure to…
August 11, 2015
Dick Denne is a man who can think for himself, an ability that caused him a lot of trouble. Halfway through Sorry About That: A Story from A Soldier's Heart (CreateSpace, 172 pp., $15.95 paper,…
August 3, 2015
Billy W. Smith (in the photo above, donating a copy of his book to the Elba, Alabama, High School library ) served as an infantryman with Alpha Company, 1st of the 27th, the "Wolfhounds" of…
July 30, 2015
In 351 Days in Da Nang: Memories of a Navy Investigator (CreateSpace, 116 pp., $23.75, paper) Ray Norton tells us he never says he "fought in Viet Nam (because I didn't). I do say I…
July 29, 2015
The Secret Place of the Most High (Little Miami, 37 pp., $6, paper) is S. T. Simms' testimony to the power of the 91st Psalm. The mother of Simms' best friend called his attention to…
July 28, 2015
Way back when, several Americans wrote about their experiences as POWs in the Vietnam War. The books by Robinson Risner and John Dramesi made a great impact on me because they graphically detailed the physical…
July 14, 2015
The title and subtitle tell it all: Rolling Coffins: Experiences of a Mechanical Infantry Soldier in the Bloodiest Year of the Vietnam War, 1968 (Page Publishing, 442 pp., $19.50 paper; $9.99, Kindle) by Brian Richard…
July 8, 2015
Hamilton Gregory volunteered for the Army, and served three years, including one in the Vietnam War in military intelligence. He was a strong believer in America’s fight against communism, and thought it was his patriotic…
July 6, 2015
Vietnam War memoirs tell us that decades of learning about life were compacted into a year, or a month, or a week, or a day of combat--maybe even a few hours. Kenneth Kinsler learned his life's lesson in his…