January 13, 2015
The novelist Robert Stone, whose best-known and best-received book, the Pulitizer-Prize-winning Dog Soldiers (1975) dealt with the legacy of the Vietnam War, died January 10 in Key West, Florida. He was 77. Stone, who served in…
November 6, 2014
Gray Horse Troop: Forever Soldiers (Powder River Publications, 360 pp., $15.59, paper) pays tribute to the 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry's actions in the Vietnam War during the first six months of 1968. At that time, the book's…
January 24, 2014
Team 19 in Vietnam: An Australian Soldier at War (University Press of Kentucky, 411 pp., $40) is an Australian army officer’s (and pilot’s) account of his year (1968-69) of service in the Vietnam War…
November 12, 2013
Wesley Hoch graduated from the Maine Maritime Academy in 1953, served for a year in the Merchant Marines, then joined the U.S. Navy. He went to Vietnam in 1962 and served for eighteeen months as…
November 8, 2013
Jay and David Groen are brothers who both served in the Vietnam War, and they are the co-authors of Huey: The Story of An Assault Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam , a fine novel first published…
October 24, 2013
Mark Russ Federman’s maternal grandfather Joel Russ opened Russ’s Cut Rate Appetizing store on the Lower East Side of New York a hundred years ago. Russ, who came this country at age twenty-one in 1907…
October 3, 2013
VVA member Clyde Hoch served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1965-69, including a 1968-69 Vietnam War tour with the First Marine Division’s First Tank Battalion. Hock joined the Marine Corps in 1965 at eighteen after…
October 1, 2013
In War Stories: An Enlisted Marine in Vietnam (CreateSpace, 250 pp., $9.95, $2.99, e book) author Stephen G. MacDonald takes us through his time at Parris Island for basic training and Camp Geiger for advanced…
September 10, 2013
Love Our Vets: Restoring Hope for Families of Veterans with PTSD (Deep River Books, 216 pp., $15.99, paper) is a conversationally written self-help book designed for wives and other family members of veterans dealing with…
March 25, 2013
Waiting on DEROS: A Soldier’s Story (Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, 208 pp., $12, paper) is a collection of twenty-five true stories written by Adrian Falchion. Nineteen of the stories are those of Vietnam veteran Floyd…