Books like The Girl in the Picture by Denise Chong

Robert Mason’s first‑hand account of serving as a Huey gunship pilot in the Vietnam War, charting his combat experiences, subsequent PTSD, alcoholism, and post‑war struggles.

A seminal collection of essays by Susan Sontag that examines photography’s history, meaning and role in capitalist societies.

A detailed account of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann’s service in the Vietnam War, tracing his rise from infantry officer to outspoken military analyst.

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is a personal biography of Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese woman who experienced the Vietnam War, lived in the United States, and later returned home to confront a changed country.

A memoir of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, chronicling his transformation from patriotic soldier to prominent anti‑war activist after a battlefield injury.

The Gulf War and its aftermath have testified once again to the significance placed on the meanings and images of Vietnam by US media and culture. Almost two decades after the end of hostilities, the Vietnam War remains a dominant moral, political and military touchstone in American cultural consciousness. Vietnam War Stories provides a comprehensive critical framework for understanding the Vietnam experience, Vietnam narratives and modern war literature. The narratives examined - personal accounts as well as novels - portray a soldier's and a country's journey from pre-war innocence, through battlefield experience and consideration, to a difficult post-war adjustment. Tobey Herzog places these narratives within the context of important cultural and literary themes, including inherent ironies of war, the "John Wayne syndrome" of pre-war innocence, and the "heavy Heart-of-Darkness trip" of the conflict itself.