Anonymous
10/11/2020 13:56
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
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.
+2
Anonymous
10/11/2020 12:38
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
Anonymous wrote:We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young
I agree. This was a great book
Anonymous
10/11/2020 12:35
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
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
10/11/2020 11:46
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
Daniel Ellsberg's Memoir "Secrets" is good.
And for TV, the Vietnam War on PBS was also good.
And for TV, the Vietnam War on PBS was also good.
Anonymous
10/11/2020 06:57
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
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.
I'd like to check out Jeff's suggestion now too.
Anonymous
10/11/2020 00:41
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young
Anonymous
10/11/2020 00:06
Subject: Re:Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
Gustav Hasford, The Short Timers
Anonymous
10/10/2020 23:08
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
Anonymous
10/10/2020 23:02
Subject: Re:Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
Bury Us Upside Down - The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail, by Rick Newman and Don Shepperd
Anonymous
10/10/2020 22:07
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Anonymous
12/18/2013 22:55
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
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
12/18/2013 22:40
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
Anonymous wrote:The things they carried, Tim O'Brien. New audio version narrated by Brian Cranston.
Great book.
Anonymous
12/18/2013 22:39
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
Anonymous wrote:There's always MASH
+1 A two-fer.
Anonymous
12/18/2013 22:37
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam. Award winning book.
Anonymous
12/18/2013 20:34
Subject: Anyone know about novels or popularized nonfiction about Vietnam and Korean wars?
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.