Nonfiction
Beyond Dark Clouds by Glen D. Edwards
July 17, 2015
Glen D. Edwards, who served as an Australian Army medic in the Vietnam War, called on thirty-eight Vietnam veterans and family members to produce historical capsules of what he calls their pre-service, service, post-service, and next…
Beyond the Names by Gary L. Knepp
July 15, 2015
Beyond the Names: A Tribute to the Clermont County, Ohio, Vietnam War Dead (Little Miami Publishing, 306 pp., $22.50, paper) is a work of love and admiration for forty men who lost their lives as a…
Rolling Coffins by Brian Richard Esher
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…
McNamara’s Folly by Hamilton Gregory
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…
Think Snow by Kenneth Kinsler
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…
Rockin’ In the Round-Eye Lounge by John D. Deaton
June 19, 2015
Dr. John Deaton served as an Air Force doctor in Vietnam in 1967-68 and witnessed the Tet Offensive. He arrived in country mid-August 1967, addicted to the barbiturate Seconal, seeking redemption. “At the 12th Hospital…
How to Cope with Stress after Trauma by E. Anna Goodwin
June 16, 2015
E. Anna Goodwin's extraordinary How to Cope with Stress after Trauma (Bitterroot Mountain Publishing, 308 pp., $17.99, paper) was inspired by the experiences of her father and many other veterans. It is an embracing and empathetic guide for…
Seed of Endurance by Rudy Cooper and Rosemary Wilkinson
June 11, 2015
Sgt. Maj. Rudy Cooper earned three Combat Infantryman Badges—in the Second World War, Korea, and Vietnam—along with many wounds. None of his wounds was as traumatic as the damage he suffered when his main and…
The Most Fun I Ever Had with My Clothes On by Tom Davis
June 3, 2015
Here's the deal. When you pick up a book, do you expect to read all of it? If not, why not? That is the dilemma posed by Retired Army Col. Tom Davis in The Most…
The Dead Were Mine by Charles W. Honaker
May 28, 2015
Bill Honaker begins his Vietnam War memoir by telling us what he is not going to tell: "I have deliberately left out some of the events I experienced, " he says, "in part because I…