Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Matterhorn is about Vietnam. I've heard it was very good. It's fiction but based on real events the author went through in Vietnam.

Matterhorn is an amazing novel, and was eerily like the stories I've heard from my dad about being a young Lt in Vietnam. My dad always says that Going after Caccciato is the Vietnam novel that best captures the experience of war.

[Anonymous]

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam. Award winning book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's always MASH

+1 A two-fer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The things they carried, Tim O'Brien. New audio version narrated by Brian Cranston.

Great book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam. Award winning book.

He also wrote The Best and the Brightest about Vietnam. It's excellent, but very long.

[Anonymous]

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

[Anonymous]

Bury Us Upside Down - The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail, by Rick Newman and Don Shepperd

[Anonymous]

Here's a list with a lot of non-fiction books:

https://bookriot.com/best-vietnam-war-books/

[Anonymous]

Gustav Hasford, The Short Timers

[Anonymous]

We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young

[Anonymous]

I've read these that have been mention: The Sympathizer, The Things They Carried, Going After Cacciato, Matterhorn and one not mentioned (Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone) and think they are all terrific.

I'd like to check out Jeff's suggestion now too.

[Anonymous]

Daniel Ellsberg's Memoir "Secrets" is good.

And for TV, the Vietnam War on PBS was also good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

+1 to this. Valuable to read books on this topic that come from multiple perspectives, including Vietnamese or Korean perspectives, rather than just US soldier perspectives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young

I agree. This was a great book

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

+1 to this. Valuable to read books on this topic that come from multiple perspectives, including Vietnamese or Korean perspectives, rather than just US soldier perspectives.

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