Two 2021 books take a fresh look at the unheralded heroes of the Vietnam War: Vietnam’s Prodigal Heroes and Dissenting POWs.
Books
A Counterintelligence Agent in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
Before Americans knew anything about Vietnam: ‘Saigon to Pleiku: … 1962-1963’ a new book by David Grant Noble.
“We Forced Them to Be Brutal to Us”
Book Review of “Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today,” Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke. Review by W.D. Ehrhart.
The Long Silence of Bao Ninh
Ninh, who will turn sixty-six this October, is Vietnam’s most celebrated writer, best-known for The Sorrow of War.
My dad criticized the Vietnam War while he was a POW
Most POWs who turned against the war felt they had to suppress their beliefs, worried that it would harm their careers, or, worse.
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam Revisited
It’s worth revisiting the value of this book’s singular contribution to the knowledge about what the US did in and to Vietnam and its people.
“Dissenting POWs,” a story that has never been told until now….
The US troop opposition to the war was so genuine, it even emerged from within the walls of the POW camp known as “The Hanoi Hilton.”
Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange
Okinawa served as the main US launchpad for the war in southeast Asia – and the island is still contaminated today from that usage.
Veterans Go to Washington – So What?
What, then, has been the actual influence of the veterans now in Congress on this country’s war policy?
In the Shadow of the Annamese Mountains
New book of poetry by Doug Rawlings. Published 2020, 100 pages, hardcover, $20 with free shipping.
From an American soldier in Vietnam, tragedy and poetry
James G. Hershberg reviews the book "Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam" by Daniel H. Weiss...
Did Palestine divide ‘the Movement’?
Book review written by Helena Cobban and published December 9, 2019 on Mondoweiss. THE MOVEMENT AND THE MIDDLE EAST...
How Soldiers Brought a Halt to the U.S. War Machine
A Waging Peace in Vietnam book review by Roger Bybee originally appeared at The Progressive on October 29, 2019....
Viet Nam: One Man’s Atonement in an Ocean of Grief
The following essay, penned by Viet Nam veteran Chuck Searcy, is a chapter in How the U.S. Creates Sh*thole" Countries...
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