Blogs in May 2020
Going After Cacciato 17th May 2020
Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciatocaptures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked this strangest of wars. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier...
Dispatches 17th May 2020
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching...
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace 17th May 2020
At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far...
The Eaves of Heaven 17th May 2020
A searing memoir by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala offers a portrait of his father’s experiences over the course of three wars–the French occupation of Indochina, the World War II Japanese invasion, and the Vietnam War–as he...
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