The Forever War Over War Literature A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.

The first major novel about Vietnam, Graham Greene's prescient The Quiet American, was published in 1956 — before U.S. troops got involved.Set during the French war in Vietnam, it featured a CIA ...

The Vietnam War was the last extended conflict waged while the U.S. still had a military draft, and the last to inspire a wide range of notable, first-hand fiction — none more celebrated or ...

Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen spoke to a Penn class on Vietnam War literature and film on April 18 | Photo Courtesy of Fourandsixty/Wikimedia Commons. A large group of Penn students and teaching ...

When the Communist forces pushed into Saigon in the final days of the Vietnam War, ... The Orange County writer who saved Vietnam’s wartime literature, poem by poem, dies. 1 / 2.

The Vietnam War inspired enduring literature, from both sides of the world. Hillel Italie. Thursday 24 April 2025 05:00 BST. open image in gallery. Books on Vietnam war (AP) ...

The world of Vietnam War literature written by vets typically goes Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War, and maybe Harold Moore ...

She searched for a father she'd never met. Then, after 52 years, they found each other. About 100,000 Amerasians were born during the war from relationships between Vietnamese women and U.S. soldiers.

The Vietnam War was the last extended conflict waged while the U.S. still had a military draft, and the last to inspire a wide range of notable, first-hand fiction — none more celebrated or ...