Articles Related to Vietnam War
Wilderness of Tigers by W. Bruce Arnold and Robert Bruce Arnold
May 14, 2015
U.S. Air Force Col. W. Bruce Arnold created Wilderness of Tigers:A Novel of Saigon (Chandelle of Sonoma, 524 pp., $17.95, paper; $9.99, Kindle) after serving in Vietnam in 1967-68 as the Chief of DARPA’s Research and…
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.…
Eleven Months and Nineteen Days by John Bowen
May 11, 2015
John Bowen's Eleven Months and Nineteen Days: A Vietnam Illustrator’s Memoir (Middle River Press, 264 pp., $24.95, paper) is a unique book. It documents his experiences as the only U.S. Air Force illustrator assigned to Tan Son…
Common Valor by S.T. Simms
May 7, 2015
I spent an entire day reading S.T. Simms's slim Common Valor: Ambush at Srok Rung, November 7, 1967 (Little Miami, 103 pp., $14. paper), and I ain't a slow reader. But I read many paragraphs…
Letters Home by Leon Bly
May 6, 2015
Leon Bly served twenty-one years in the U. S. Army as a Special Forces enlisted man, a Green Beret. Letters Home: Diary of a Green Beret (Aegina Press, 126 pp., $19.70, paper) is a small book…
‘Unseen Warriors’: Vietnam War Cameraman Doc
May 4, 2015
The "unseen warriors" of Traditions Military Videos' "Unseen Warriors: Army Combat Cameramen in Vietnam" are---as the subtitle notes---a group of dedicated Army photographers and cameramen who often put their lives on the line to document the…
Looking for Flyboys by Tom Messenger
May 4, 2015
After saying he enlisted for three years in the Army, Tom Messenger takes only eighteen pages to reach Vietnam in Looking for Flyboys: One G.I.'s Journey: Vietnam 1970-1971 (Hellgate Press, 209 pp., $16.95 paper; $4.99,…
Orange Socks and Other Colorful Tales by J.S. Lamb
April 30, 2015
Jim Lamb served in Vietnam in the Navy, stationed in Da Nang. He arrived in-country in the Spring of 1970, “after the Tet Offensive, but well before the Fall of Saigon, ” as Lamb puts it…
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…