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1. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) by Viet Thanh Nguyen ...

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   Apr 2, 2015 · 114,835 ratings11,707 reviews. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los ...

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2. www.npr.org › 2011/05/31 › 136823289Kurt Vonnegut: Still Speaking To The War Weary : NPR

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   May 31, 2011 · After Vonnegut's Death in 2007, NPRs 'Day To Day' Remembered The Author With A Reading. Kurt Vonnegut's blend of anti-war sentiment and satire made him one of the most popular writers of the 1960s ...

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   Was Vietnam a war?

   • Very few of those films gave much thought to the experiences of the Vietnamese—who themselves refer to the conflict as the American War. It's been 51 years since the last American combat troops departed Vietnam.

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   Which books dismantle the illusions that drove the Vietnam War?

   • Two in particular dismantle the illusions, misconceptions, and hubris that drove the war: Neil Sheehan’s A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, which was published in 1988; and David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest, which appeared in the following year.

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   How many books have been written about the Vietnam War?

   • By one estimate, something like thirty thousand books have been written about we call “the Vietnam War.” It’s a term I generally try to avoid, because it distorts our understanding of what the conflict was about, where it was fought, and by whom.

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   What movies portrayed the Vietnam War?

   • Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, and many other films portrayed American heroes fighting their way through a dystopian backwater and then dealing with the psychic toll of defeat back home. Very few of those films gave much thought to the experiences of the Vietnamese—who themselves refer to the conflict as the American War.

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   Apr 28, 2023 · Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam by Frederick Logevall. Logevall, a historian at Harvard’s Kennedy School, has emerged as Herring’s successor as the pre-eminent scholar of the war, and Embers of War deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize. Deeply researched and minutely detailed, but at the same time ...

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5. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh | Goodreads

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   Jan 1, 2001 · 4.07. 9,419 ratings1,122 reviews. Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam War forever changed his life, his country, and the people who live there. Originally published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its non-heroic, non-ideological tone, The Sorrow of War has won ...

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   Apr 9, 2024 · The Sympathizer. Counters 50 Years of Hollywood Vietnam War Narratives. 8 minute read. Illustration by Dakarai Akil for TIME Magazine. By Andrew R. Chow. April 9, 2024 8:00 AM EDT. W hen the ...

7. libguides.fau.edu › vietnam-war › anti-warAnti-War - Primary Sources: Vietnam War - LibGuides at ...

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   Publication Date: 2020-12-02. Campus wars : the peace movement at American state universities in the Vietnam era by Kenneth J. Heineman. Call Number: View Online. ISBN: 0814734901. Publication Date: 1992-12-01. Confronting the war machine draft resistance during the Vietnam War by Michael S. Foley.

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   Schlump (novel) The Short-Timers. Slaughterhouse-Five. The Sojourn. Sozaboy. The Starlight Barking.