What was the Vietnam war? A “quagmire”, as one historian called it? A “commitment looking for a justification”, as a 1960s presidential candidate put it? Or a conflict that tore apart villages and ...

“A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the things men do in war and the things war does to them.” By Joseph Berger Philip ...

The Tran Le Xuan villa, the former residence of Tran Le Xuan and her husband Ngo Dinh Nhu in Dalat, Vietnam. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Diane Selwyn In Vietnam today, the war against the United States ...

“See the Light, Kiss the Ground” by Steve Andrews blends historical fact with ground level fiction to deliver one of the most authentic Vietnam War narratives in recent publishing Florence, CO ...

How could America lose the Vietnam War? Even now, 50 years after the last American helicopters left Saigon, the answer is elusive. Despite pouring immense resources into Vietnam — including nearly 3 ...

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has ...

IN HIS SPRAWLING, captivating 1972 masterpiece, “The Best and the Brightest”, the journalist David Halberstam asked the central question about America’s war in Vietnam: “What was it about the men, ...

The Canadian military wasn't involved in Vietnam, but that didn't stop David Noonan from crossing the border and signing up to serve. Noonan recently shared his story with Global Veteran Stories.

WASHINGTON — Jim Taylor is looking forward to seeing some of his Vietnam “band of brothers” again after they took a two-week trip in November and visited the country for the first time since the war. ...