Articles Related to Vietnam veterans
A Never-Ending Battle by Howard B. Patrick
May 27, 2015
Howard B. Patrick's A Never-Ending Battle: How Vietnam Changed Me Forever (CreateSpace, 208 pp., $10.99, paper) is a classic account of how combat in the Vietnam War resulted in many years of post-traumatic stress disorder…
I Came Home, But It Wasn’t Me by Bruce Wm. Taneski
May 14, 2015
Bruce Wm. Taneski's I Came Home, But It Wasn't Me: The Memoirs of a Vietnam Combat Veteran as a Recon Scout 'LRRP' (CreateSpace, 338 pp., $19.95, paper; $5.99, Kindle) comes full circle when he sits on…
Firefights of the Mind by Ed Kugler
May 12, 2015
No writing is more important to war veterans than books such as Firefights of the Mind: When the Demons of War Follow You Home (CreateSpace, 322 pp., $15, paper; $9.99 Kindle) by Ed Kugler. And here's why.…
God Help Me! Cause No One Else Will by Clyde Hoch
April 28, 2015
Clyde Hoch, a former U.S. Marine Sergeant and a member of Vietnam.Veterans of America, has written six books. His latest is God Help Me! Cause No One Else Will (CreateSpace, 34 pp., $5.38). This self-help…
Tears of a Warrior by Janet J. Seahorn and E. Anthony Seahorn
April 10, 2015
Tears of a Warrior: A Family's Story of Combat and Living with PTSD by Janet J. Seahorne and E. Anthony Seahorn (Team Pursuits, 225 pp., $20, paper) is an excellent book. Janet and Tony Seahorn are…
Brotherkeeper by Lawrence Winters
March 31, 2015
Lawrence Winters served as a U.S. Marine in the Vietnam War in 1969-70. The author of The Making and Unmaking of a Marine, he is a mental health counselor, and has returned to Vietnam to study PTSD…
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
March 12, 2015
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, the founder and director of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, began practicing psychiatry in 1978 at the Boston VA Clinic. On his very first day on the job he…
Writer Query: Vietnam Veteran Interviews
January 24, 2015
Jack Griffiths, a staff writer at History of War magazine in the U.K., is working on a feature entitled "The Vietnam 50, " and would like to interview Vietnam veterans for it. "We are looking for veterans…
Kill for Peace by Matthew Israel
December 16, 2014
Matthew Israel's Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War (University of Texas Press, 278 pp., $29.95, paper) fills the space that was left by Lucy Lippard’s A Different War: Vietnam in Art and…
Author Query: Friendship in the War Zone
October 3, 2014
Skip Nelson (above, in Vietnam in 1968) , a Vietnam veteran and accomplished photographer, is putting together a book titled A Candle in the Darkness . The heart of the book, Nelson says, will be…