Vietnam War
More than thirty years after the last helicopters left the roof of the American embassy in Saigon, the flow of new books on the Vietnam war shows no sign of abating. Among them are some intended for a limited, scholarly market, some for a wider general readership; some for Americans, some for Australians. These three books exemplify some of the trends in both the substance and the style of Vietnam war histories, and illustrate both the virtues and the faults of differing approaches to the most controversial conflict of the twentieth century.
... (read more)Return to Vietnam: An oral history of American and Australian veterans’ journeys by Mia Martin Hobbs
by Peter Edwards •
Save Our Sons: Women, dissent and conscription in the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins
by Michelle Arrow •
Enemy: A Daughter’s Story of How Her Father Brought the Vietnam War Home by Ruth Clare
by Carol Middleton •
The Nashos' War: Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
by Peter Edwards •
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
by Robert O'Neill •
Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies with Gary McKay
by Peter Edwards •
Fighting to the Finish: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War 1968–1975 by Ashley Ekins, with Ian McNeill
by Greg Lockhart •