It was the apex of the conflict in Vietnam. Hundreds of American soldiers were being killed every week in the war ravaged country. Rocky Olson, a newly trained and indoctrinated American infantry man,
When scrawny Marty Spencer is drafted into the Vietnam War, he findshimself smack dab in the middle of the heart of darkness. But Marty has asecret. A secret even from himself. And Vietnam is a hell o
Chronicles the memorable events of Princeton University, such as the challenging times of the Civil War and Vietnam eras and the making of the award-winning movie A Beautiful Mind, and profiles famous
Laos remains one of the few officially socialist countries in the world. Once a Buddhist kingdom, its involvement into the Vietnam War, the communist revolution of 1975 and the subsequent introduction
As the focus of protest against a hated war in Vietnam it became one of the best-known company names in America almost overnight during the 1960s. "Dow makes napalm, napalm kills babies," chanted stud
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, “We were a people united in the belief that if we learned in school, worked hard, and did the right thing, we'd be all right.” But the Vietnam War complicated an
The nation's capital and the state of Virginia were a hotbed of political and social turmoil that marked the 1960s and 1970s. The area saw anti-Vietnam War protests, civil rights marches and students
Assisting her grandmother's investigation of her grandfather's fate during the Vietnam War, Mai struggles to adapt to an unfamiliar culture while redefining her sense of family.
Jim Webb’s pursuit of the truth about his grandfather’s role in the Vietnam War puts him squarely in the sights of someone high up in the US military--someone who wants certain events from that war le
In the late sixties, draft boards were gathering young men for the Vietnam War. High school kids who were not bound for college had to enlist or wait for a draft notice. The burden fell on the childre
1.7 million American boys and men, age 19 to 25, were drafted from 1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam conflict. 648,500 of those draftees actually went to Vietnam, a war many believe should never happene
Joseph Bathanti, poet laureate of North Carolina (2012-2014) and professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University, presents 13 prodigious essays about culture, religion, the Vietnam War,
After Annie Jacobson's older brother is deployed to Vietnam during the war, tragedy at home brings their estranged father home without welcome. As tensions heighten, Annie and her family must find a w
The author takes a surrealistic view of American society and politics during the period of unrest in Haight Ashbury and opposition to the Vietnam War, and looks at the spirit and ideology of the times
Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize for 2010At last, here is a beautiful new book from Lou Lipsitz's, one of the great, clear voices of the Vietnam War era. The early work was much admired for its crystalli
Philadelphia is not only the birthplace of America but also the birthplace of America's consumer culture. From the Civil War until Vietnam, Philadelphia's thriving middle class made the city a mercant
Looking back at a time when America was on the brink of all the big changes coming by way of Apollo 11, The Feminine Mystique, and the Vietnam War, this high-spirited memoir focuses on what it was lik
In a 1965 letter to Newsweek, French writer and academic Bernard Fall (1926-67) staked a claim as the 'Number One Realist' on the Vietnam War. This is the first book to study the thought of this overlooked figure, one of the most important experts on counterinsurgency warfare in Indochina.Nathaniel L. Moir's intellectual history analyses Fall's formative experiences: his service in the French underground and army during the Second World War; his father's execution by the Germans and his mother's murder in Auschwitz; and his work as a research analyst at the Nuremberg Trials. Moir demonstrates how these critical events shaped Fall's trenchant analysis of Viet Minh-led revolutionary warfare during the French-Indochina War and the early Vietnam War. In the years before conventional American intervention in 1965, Fall argued that--far more than anything in the UnitedStates' military arsenal--resolving conflict in Vietnam would require political strength, willpower, integrity and skill. Num
