Articles Related to Vietnam War post-traumatic stress disorder
Bac Si by Tom Bellino
August 15, 2015
Tom Bellino served as a Navy psychologist during the Vietnam War. The main character in his novel, Bac Si (Outskirts Press, 188 pp., $24.95, hardcover; $14.95, paper; $7.99, Kindle), is Navy Lieut. Thomas Staffieri, a psychologist…
Marshall’s Marauders by Allan A. Lobeck
July 18, 2015
Allan A. Lobeck's Marshall’s Marauders (Lulu, 396 pp., $33.92; $2.99, Kindle) has one unique feature: Of the hundreds of Vietnam War novels I have read, this is the only one that has no page numbers.…
Sideman by Gus Willemin
July 7, 2015
Former Marine Gus Willemin's Sideman (Dancing Moon Press, 175 pp., $5.99, Kindle) is a beautiful novel that tells the story of Michael Harker, a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran. Better known as Sideman, Harker shows up in Newport,…
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…
The Other Side of Me by D.L. “Tex” Swafford and Jim Bob Swafford
July 3, 2015
The resigned stare on the face that fills the back cover of The Other Side of Me: Memoirs of a Vietnam Marine (CreateSpace, 169 pp., $12.25, paper) pretty much tells the book's entire story. The…
The Physics of War & Land of Loud Noises and Vacant Stares by Peter M. Bourret
July 2, 2015
Peter Bourret served with 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, as an 81 mm mortar man in Vietnam in 1967-68. He is a life member of Vietnam Veterans of America. His two small…
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…
The Making and Un-making of a Marine by Larry Winters
April 29, 2015
Psychodrama provided the major impetus for Larry Winters' recovery from PTSD. In The Making and Un-making of a Marine: One Man's Struggle for Forgiveness (Millrock Writers Collective, 322 pp., $14.77, hardcover; $9.99, Kindle), Winters tells his…
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…
Everything Changed by Heyward A. Macdonald
April 14, 2015
Heyward Hunter Macdonald was commissioned a lieutenant of Artillery in the U.S. Army upon graduation from University of Virginia in 1964. He served as an ordinance officer in Vietnam at a First Infantry Division fire…