Best Fiction of Vietnam War
Explore the best fiction books about the Vietnam War, featuring gripping novels, powerful stories, and acclaimed authors. Discover must-read titles that capture the era's drama and emotion.
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The …
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Paco's Story
by Larry Heinemann
Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is …
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The Sorrow of War
by Bảo Ninh
The daring and controversial novel that took the world by storm-- a story of politics, selfhood, survival, and war. Featured in The Vietnam War by …
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Going After Cacciato
by Tim O'Brien
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED "To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like …
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The Short-timers
by Gustav Hasford
Vietnamkrigens rædsler skildres af en amerikansk marinesoldat og krigskorrespondent, som usentimentalt fortæller om den menige soldats oplevelser af krigens meningsløshed
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Fatal Light
by Richard Currey
The death-haunted nightmare world of a medic in Vietnam is set against scenes of the tranquil world he so desperately yearns for--small-town America
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Meditations in Green
by Stephen Wright
Sardonic, searing, seductive and surreal, the award-winning Meditations in Green is regarded by many as the best novel of the Vietnam War. It is a …
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Dispatches
by Michael Herr
"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. …
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
by Robert Olen Butler
Butler's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese is reissued. Includes two subsequently published …
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A Rumor of War
by Philip Caputo
Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.
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In Country RI
by Bobbie Ann Mason
A modest, beautiful, touching story of how Sam discovers ... who her father was and what the Vietnam War was about.