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Mar 3, 2015 · Here are my picks for the ten best memoirs of the Vietnam War: Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (1977). Caputo was a young U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant who landed on the beach near Da Nang...
Mar 22, 2017 · A slew of war memoirs stand with the best writing of that genre. In the short history of Vietnam War literature, publishers would hardly touch a book on the war until the late 1970s and early 1980s—a part of the self-induced national amnesia about that conflict and its outcome.
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In this book, Andrew Pham tells the story of his father’s life through three wars for Vietnam — the brutal Japanese occupation of the country during the Second World War, the French colonial assault on Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam, and the failed American intervention in South Vietnam to protect it from communism.
Jan 1, 2001 · A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo is a powerful memoir of his experiences as a Marine during the Vietnam War. Initially filled with youthful enthusiasm and a sense of adventure, Caputo's expectations are quickly shattered by the brutal realities of combat.
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The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—with a new foreword by Kevin Powers.
Apr 28, 2023 · Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir by W.D. Ehrhart. There are many great memoirs of Vietnam by combat veterans, especially by Marines who had the misfortune to serve in I Corps, where much of my own book is set.
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However, by the end of the war, Tang had to fled to Paris, disillusioned with the cause he once championed and living in exile. A Vietcong Memoir is a remarkably candid account of his experiences and a necessary perspective on the war.
