September 21, 2015
A Bill Mauldin Second World War cartoon has Willie telling Joe: "You'll get over it, Joe. Oncet I was gonna write a book exposin' the army after th' war myself." Retired Army Master Sergeant Gregory H.…
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 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 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…
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…