Articles Related to Vietnam War veterans

Author Query: Vietnam Veterans’ Wisdom

August 29, 2016

Pamela Woll is working on a book about Vietnam War veterans and would like to interview men and women who served in the war. “Though anything they want to say will be welcome, the book won’t…

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Eating With Veterans by Michael Lund

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,…

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There and Back by Lisa A. Lark

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…

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Paying With Their Bodies by John M. Kinder

April 5, 2015

John M. Kinder is an American Studies professor at Oklahoma State University who specializes in the history of war and American culture. He is most interested in war’s aftermath, including how nations and veterans deal with a…

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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…

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Condemned Property? By Dusty Earl Trimmer

October 2, 2014

In Condemned Property?: Our Most Unpopular War Continues for Americans Who Fought in Vietnam... WHY? This is Their Story and Mine  (Dog Ear Publishing, 484 pp., $29, hardcover; $25, paper) "Dusty” Earl Trimmer provides a…

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Tours of Duty Edited by Michael Lee Lanning

July 11, 2014

Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Michael Lee Lanning is one of the most prolific Vietnam veteran writers. Many of his twenty-one military-themed nonfiction books deal with the Vietnam War. That includes the well-received memoirs he wrote about…

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From Nam to Normal by Richard A. Price

May 29, 2014

From Nam to Normal: Battle of the Demons (CreateSpace, 182 pp., $8.99, paper) by VVA member Richard A. Price is a passionate, practical, well-organized handbook for Vietnam veterans dealing with PTSD. Price makes no claims…

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