“Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today” reckons with the tolls of decisions and responsibility.
Books
“Nothing is Impossible” Finds It Impossible to Tell the Truth About Vietnam
Thoughts on “Nothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam” by Ted Osius, US ambassador to Vietnam, 2014-2017.
Nick Turse Describes the Real Vietnam War
“American culture has never fully come to grips with Vietnam,” says author of “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam”
A Very Long War: From Vietnam to Afghanistan with Detours
Too few Americans are willing to confront the disaster that has befallen the U.S. as a consequence of our serial misuse of military power.
Praise Be to Those Who Refused to Kill
Two 2021 books take a fresh look at the unheralded heroes of the Vietnam War: Vietnam’s Prodigal Heroes and Dissenting POWs.
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.
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