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Bookmark or Share- Book Review: Five Must-Read Vietnam Books - HistoryNetHere are 5 of our favorite books from fall and winter 2020 about the Vietnam War and those who served. By the time this reviewer returned home from a tour in Vietnam as an artillery battery commander circa 1970, the stereotypical image of Vietnam veterans was well-established in the consciousness of the general public.
- The Top 30 Vietnam War Books to Read This Winter - HistoryNetAmong the most positive is an abundance of top-notch books, many written by veterans of the conflict. These include winners of National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes, both fiction and nonfiction. A slew of war memoirs stand with the best writing of that genre.
- The Disaster That Was the Vietnam War - The New York TimesMax Hastings’s “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” condemns all sides for corruption, cynicism and outright cruelty.
- Book Review: 'Matterhorn' By Karl Marlantes — A Stark, Brutal ...In his debut novel, Matterhorn, Vietnam combat veteran Karl Marlantes attempts to transport his readers to 1969, in a jungle near Laos, just south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone — DMZ ...
- Readers Weighed in on the Best Books About the Vietnam WarIn “A Rumor of War,” Philip Caputo forces the reader to “see and feel and understand what it was like to fight in Vietnam,” The Times Book Review wrote.
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