December 14, 2019
Larry Heinemann---the award-winning novelist much of whose work reflected his experiences as a working-class kid from Chicago who was drafted into the Army and served a 1967-68 Vietnam War tour of duty with the 25th…
October 7, 2015
Rick DeStefanis, a veteran of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, dedicates The Gomorrah Principle (more…)
October 6, 2015
Ronnie Foster sums up his opinion of the Vietnam War with words he attributes to his protagonist in his novel, Last Train Runnin (R.D. Foster, 415 pp.; $21.25, paper): Oh the rich kids went to…
October 5, 2015
Al Campo is a Vietnam veteran who served (more…)
September 16, 2015
Lowell Tollefson spent his youth in Southeast Asia and East Asia, an experience that informs his depiction of the regions and its people. Tollefson, a former college philosophy professor, is the author of a book…
August 31, 2015
Michael Lund served in the U. S. Army as a correspondent in Vietnam, 1970-71. He is the author of a memoir, Route 66 to Vietnam: A Draftee’s Story, and a book of short stories,…
April 20, 2015
Westley Thomas served with the U. S. Marines in Vietnam from 1966-68 and in the Marine Reserves from 1975-77. The action in his book, A Hard Decision (AuthorHouse, 136 pp., $23.99, hardcover; $14.95, paper; $$3.99, Kindle), we…
April 8, 2015
Michael McCormick's Across the Pond (CreateSpace, 53 pp., $11.58, paper; $0.99, Kindle) reminds us that the Vietnam War changed many patriotic young men into disillusioned adults who were forsaken by society. This novella, first published in…
March 15, 2015
Friendly Casualties: A Novel in Stories (Glenn Publishing, 171 pp., $3.95, Kindle), author Tom Glenn says, is the result of "the many years I spent in Vietnam during the war. Nearly all the characters are…
March 5, 2015
Dick Fox's The Domestic Vietnam: America’s War of Confusion (Coach Fox, Inc., 512 pp., $21.95) doesn’t look like a novel or read like one, for that matter. But the author’s note says: “The work presented here is…