Vietnam War Books (217 books) - Goodreads
217 books based on 128 votes: We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore, A Bright Shin...

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The 15 best Vietnam War books ranked across narrative history, frontline memoir, war journalism, and fiction, with an honest read on each title.

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The Top 30 Vietnam War Books to Read This Winter - HistoryNet
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. After sufficient time had elapsed to ease some of the war’s psychic wounds, we saw a mini explosion of important books. Most of the books on the following, very subjective, list ...

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The best Vietnam War books from Tim O’Brien, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and others offer new insights and perspectives into the conflict that you probably never got from history class.

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The best books about the Vietnam War, ranked: combat memoirs, Vietnamese perspectives, policy histories and the journalism that changed America. Where to start?

Vietnam War Books - Goodreads
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback) by Philip Caputo (Goodreads Author) (shelved 159 times as vietnam-war) avg rating 4.17 — 15,948 ratings — published 1977 Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars