Donut Dolly: An American Red Cross Girl’s War in Vietnam, by Joann Puffer Kotcher, makes a strong case for the impact that a small cadre of women had on the arc of women’s equality in the armed forces
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Book Review – Forever Forward: K-9 Operations in Vietnam, by Michael Lemish
Michael Lemish’s book, Forever Forward: K-9 Operations in Vietnam, offers an examination of the some 4,000 dogs that served in Vietnam, frequently engaging the enemy and credited with averting an estimated 10,000 American casualties
Review – The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation, by Christina Schwenkel
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam, by Christina Schwenkel, describes the ongoing struggle inside today’s Vietnam over memory and history. Today the struggle is between American capitalism and Vietnamese socialism; previously the same struggle took place on the battlefields. of Southeast Asia.
Music Review – Music Anthology: Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War On Record
Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961-2008, is an epic 14 CD anthology of music directly related to the Vietnam War, along audio tracks of key news reports and speeches, and a heavily illustrated 304-page accompanying book, by Hugo Keesing
Book Review – Lullabies for Lieutenants: Memoir of a Marine Forward Observer in Vietnam 1965-1966, by Franklin Cox
In Lullabies for Lieutenants, author Franklin Cox describes his in-country experience as a U.S. Marine forward observer during the Vietnam War, 1965-66, giving glimpses at both the “big picture” and the many tiny facets that make up the Vietnam War
Ed Lansdale’s Black Warfare in 1950s Vietnam
Edward Lansdale, working undercover as an assistant air attache at Saigon’s U.S. Embassy in the mid-1950s, led the CIA’s Saigon Military Mission to apply psychological warfare campaigns, such as rumors and black leaflets, against Viet MInh Communists
Going Back to Vietnam After the War
Almost three decades after they fought the 320th NVA Division at Dai Do, Brig. Gen. Bill Weise led members of his 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, back to the Vietnam War battlefield.
Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War (Book Review)
Reviewed by Earl Tilford By James H. Willbanks University of Kansas Press, Manhattan, Kan., […]
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 (Book Review)
Reviewed by Lewis Sorley By David Maraniss Simon & Schuster, New York David Maraniss […]
Vietnam Veterans Since the War: The Politics of PTSD, Agent Orange, and the National Memorial (Book Review)
Reviewed by Terry L. Decker By Wilbur J. Scott University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, […]
