I’m doing research specifically on the antiwar movement, but want some firmer grounding in the war itself and wider related elements. What are some of your favorite non-fiction Vietnam war books? I just finished Paul Hendrickson’s The Living and the Dead, which I really enjoyed.
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Dispatches by Michael Herr.
The best book on Vietnam. The best book on war. Definitely an inspiration for Apocalypse now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and countless other Vietnam movies. There are scenes in those films that are plucked straight out of the book.
It’s raw, it’s brutal and it’s honest. It captures the horror, and the allure and excitement of war in a way no other book I’ve read really does
Non-fiction:
*Rethinking Camelot,* Noam Chomsky
*The Vietnam Wars,* Marilyn Young
*A People’s History of the Vietnam War,* Jonathan Neale
*Once Upon A Distant War,* William Prochnau
*The Things They Carried* by Tim O’Brien
In pharoah’s army by Tobias Wolff