I’m a huge history buff and I’ve read a ton of historical fiction as well as non-fiction books about WW2, only one or two about the Vietnam war. Does anyone have suggestions on just read books about that subject?
I’ve read The Women and I’m currently reading Chickenhawk
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The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien
Kill Anything that Moves by Nick Turse
The Tunnels of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold and John Pennycate
Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson
*America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975* by George C Herring.
*Vietnam: A History* by Stanley Karnow.
*We Were Soldiers Once… and Young* by Lt. Gen. Harold G. ‘Hal’ Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.
*Summons of the Trumpet: U.S. – Vietnam in Perspective* by Dave R. Palmer.
*Sideshow* by William Shawcross.
*Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation* by Lawrence M. Baskir.
*The Last Day: America’s Final Hours in Vietnam* by John Pilger.
*Four Hours in My Lai* by Michael Bilton.
*Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Ph*u by Bernard Fall.
*Three Marshals of France: Leadership After Trauma* by Anthony Clayton.
*Friendly Fire* by C. D. B. Bryan.
*Dispatches* by Michael Herr (fictionalized memoir).
*The Soldiers Story: The Battle at Xa Long Tan Vietnam, 18 August 1966* by Terry Burstall.
*Fields of Fire* by James Webb (fiction).
*The Short-Timers* by Gustav Hasford (fiction).
*Better Times Than These* by Winston Groom (fiction).
*Guns Up!* by Johnnie M. Clark.
*Soldier* by Anthony B. Herbert.
*All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way* by Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler.
*Ho Chi Minh: A Biographical Introduction* by Charles Fenn.
*A Rumor of War* by Philip Caputo.
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
“The Sorrow of War”, by Bao Ninh
“Bloods”, by Wallace Terry
“”Everything We Had”, Al Santoli
A Bright Shining Lie, Neil Sheehan
One Morning in the War: The Tragedy at Son My by Richard Hammer
The Men We Left Behind, Mark Sauter
Soldiers of Misfortune, Mark Sauter
Good list so far. I’ll add: Hell in a Very Small Place by Bernard Fall
Edit—saw it was listed already. But I think it should be pretty high on the list as you start to get into it.
The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que (a multigenerational story of a family before and during the Vietnam war)