‘ Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader in Vietnam ,’ by Nathaniel Tripp In “Ending the Vietnam War,” Kissinger offers “no great revelations” and “no personal mea culpas.” Still, “he is a deft portrayer of his allies and adversaries,” as he tries to get the United States out of Vietnam, and “he knows how to make the driest diplomacy surprisingly suspenseful.” ‘ Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication From the Vietnam War ,’ by Henry Kissinger The Times review called the book “excellent” and “comprehensive,” and a “powerful portrait of the terrible and futile French war from which Americans learned little as they moved toward their own engagement in Vietnam.” ‘ Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam ,’ by Fredrik Logevallįredrik Logevall’s book focuses on the French conflict in Vietnam at the end of World War II and the beginning of the American one in 1959. It is as if Dante had gone to hell with a cassette recording of Jimi Hendrix and a pocketful of pills: our first rock-and-roll war, stoned murder.” Its materials are fear and death, hallucination and the burning of souls. ‘Dispatches’ is beyond politics, beyond rhetoric, beyond ‘pacification’ and body counts and the ‘psychotic vaudeville’ of Saigon press briefings. Here’s what the 1977 Times review had to say about this book: “If you think you don’t want to read any more about Vietnam, you are wrong. The Times review in 1956 called “The Quiet American” a “political novel - or parable - about the war in Indochina, employing its characters less as individuals than as representatives of their nations or political factions.” The book’s thesis: “America is a crassly materialistic and ‘innocent’ nation with no understanding of other peoples.” Also, be sure to check out Vietnam ’67, a series by our colleagues on Opinion that features essays by historians, veterans and journalists recalling a year that changed the war and America. For those of you interested in books about Vietnam, here’s a list, along with clips and links to The Times Book Review’s assessment of each publication. 17, PBS will begin airing “ The Vietnam War,” a 10-part, 18-hour documentary by Ken Burns and his creative partner Lynn Novick. Fon nonfiction: ‘ Chickenhawk ,’ by Robert Mason ‘ Kill Anything That Moves : The Real American War in Vietnam,’ by Nick Turse ‘ The Killing Zone : My Life in the Vietnam War,’ by Frederick Downs ‘ Pharoah’s Army : Memories of the Lost War” by Tobias Wolf and ‘ Street Without Joy : Indochina at War, 1946–1954,’ by Bernard Fall. Del Vecchio ‘ The Short-Timers ,’ by Gustav Hasford and ‘ The Ugly American ,’ by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. For fiction: ‘ Matterhorn : A Novel of the Vietnam War,’ by Karl Marlantes ‘ The Sympathizer ,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen ‘ The 13th Valley ,’ by John M. These 10 books, in addition to the ones below, were recommended multiple times. UPDATE: After we posted this article, Times readers weighed in with their favorite books on the Vietnam War.
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