Books

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….

April 23, 2021

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

October 11, 2020

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?

July 13, 2020

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

May 12, 2020

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

January 2, 2020

James G. Hershberg reviews the book "Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam" by Daniel H. Weiss...

Did Palestine divide ‘the Movement’?

December 28, 2019

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

October 30, 2019

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

August 25, 2019

The following essay, penned by Viet Nam veteran Chuck Searcy, is a chapter in How the U.S. Creates Sh*thole" Countries...

Bring the War Home explores connections between the white power movement and the Vietnam War

August 5, 2019

In trying to grasp an understanding of the American violence in the past few days and the association with the White...

New GI and Veteran Resistance Curriculum from Notre Dame

July 14, 2019

Suggested classes on GI and veteran resistance to the Vietnam War that can be incorporated into courses on social movements, political change and other topics.

Waging Peace in Vietnam: A Story We Need to Tell

July 14, 2019

Tens of thousands of active duty GIs opposed America’s war in Vietnam, marching, signing petitions, writing underground newspapers for their fellow soldiers, and refusing to fight, often at great personal sacrifice.

The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969: A new oral history of “Bloody Thursday”

July 13, 2019

The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most searing conflicts that closed out the tumultuous 1960s: the Battle for People’s Park. In a Counterpunch review, Ron Jacobs calls it “A masterwork of history.”