Books like Bloods by Wallace Terry

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.

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.

As the director of the Department of the Army's Central Identification Laboratory, Robert Dean "Kel" McKelvey has made a career solving some of the country's most complex identification cases. The CIL is responsible for identifying all U.S. war dead from battlefields old and new around the world. The caseload is endless, the endgame invaluable. Kel's work -- the examination of a bone or bone fragment -- may bring blessed closure to thousands of military families and loved ones left behind. But after fifteen years at the CIL, Kel is fast approaching emotional meltdown. And that's when he encounters his thorniest case yet: the recovery of Jimmie Carl Trimble, a soldier from Arkansas who died a hero's death during the Vietnam War. When a rare DNA sequence turns up at both the Army and FBI labs, it points to the unthinkable: a link between Trimble and a forty-year-old unsolved racial killing in the Arkansas delta. Partnered uneasily with the volatile FBI Special Agent Michael Levine, Kel must peel back decades of silence to reveal a complex web of stolen identity, betrayal, patriotism, collusion, and lies.--Publisher description.

Ride the Thunder chronicles the Vietnam War from the perspective of U.S. marine officers and Vietnamese counterparts, detailing their personal stories and battlefield actions.

A graphic memoir of a Vietnam veteran’s harrowing yet humor‑laden journey through war, resilience, and the everyday heroics of ordinary soldiers.

A personal account of Vietnam from John Leppelman, reflecting a perspective few possessed—capturing sacrifice and fading memory of a war from 1961–1975.