Books like A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan

A collection of linked short stories that follows a platoon of American soldiers and their experiences, thoughts, and burdens during the Vietnam War.

First‑hand reportage of the Vietnam War, *Dispatches* captures the confusion and intensity of combat through Michael Herr’s vivid, poetic prose.

A memoir of sixteen months in Vietnam, detailing the life of a Marine infantry officer and the realities of war during the conflict.

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.

A definitive, single‑volume analysis of why U.S. policy led America into and ultimately lost the Vietnam War, featuring portraits of key decision makers and a foreword by Senator John McCain.

On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.This book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and the story of what happened to that girl after the camera shutter closed. Award-winning biographer Denise Chong's portrait of Kim Phuc-who eventually defected to Canada and is now a UNESCO spokesperson-is a rare look at the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese point-of-view and one of the only books to describe everyday life in the wake of this war and to probe its lingering effects on all its participants.

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.

First Lieutenant Ashley White leads a pioneering squad of female U.S. Army soldiers who fight beside Special Operations forces in Afghanistan, charting their trials and triumphs on the battlefield.

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