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5 Novels Explore Harsh Reality of the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War has been taught in classrooms and history books for decades — from the years fought, to the lives lost, to the immeasurable heroism, and the widespread anti-war protests. But as most wars go, there is a divide between the romanticized, patriotic myth of war and the grittier,…

BookTribAugust 8, 2024

Book Club Network Fiction

A Conflict of Conscience in “The Fourteenth of September”

While attending university on a full army scholarship, Pvt First Class Judy Talton becomes a hippie-freak protestor of the Vietnam War. The Fourteenth of September (She Writes Press) by Rita Dragonette draws on the author's own campus experiences to deliver a fresh perspective—a woman in the military. The story that you…

Sherri DaleyMay 11, 2020

Author Spotlight

Author Delves Into the Reality of War, Not the Fantasy

The War You’ve Always Wanted (Koehler Books) is a gripping, gritty Vietnam novel that is all about the reality of war — not the myth. There are no John Wayne-like heroes in this book. Instead, we see an idealistic young man caught up in the closing months of the Vietnam…

BookTribJune 10, 2024

Fiction

“A Bend in the River” Explores Conflict Between Sisters in War-Torn Vietnam

Libby Fischer Hellman’s latest novel A Bend in the River centers on two young South Vietnamese sisters whose bucolic childhoods in the Mekong Delta change forever when U.S. soldiers invade their small village one morning in March 1968 to hunt down Viet Cong. The book opens with a question: “Is…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 7, 2020

Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured

United We Stand: 6 Stories of Americans in the Age of Protest

To summarize 1960s America with one event or novel would be a tremendous disservice to that era. The decade was shaped by the Vietnam War, political protests, the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism, hippie counterculture and a thriving music scene. But these major events weren’t the only factors in shaping…

Megan BeauregardAugust 29, 2022

Miscellany

New Giveaways and Stories from Four AuthorBuzz Authors

Dear Reader, see what this week’s AuthorBuzz authors have to say! In each note you’ll receive invitations to join contests, get free books, bookplates or bookmarks, read personal stories, and more. Dear Reader: Every romance reader loves a bad boy hero. In Last Night with the Duke, Griffin has never…

BookTribMarch 7, 2017

Nonfiction

A Vietnam War Vet Gives Gives His Firsthand Account in “Going Off the Beach”

Drafted into the Army when he was 20 and sent to South Vietnam in 1969, Robert Garlick spent the next year in the “hostile, volatile, bloody” Binh Dinh Province on the country’s central coast. “If one were to review my military records, I am certain one would find them most…

Joanna PoncavageMay 11, 2022

Nonfiction

BookTrib Q & A with Marcelino Truong, Author-Illustrator of Graphic Novel ‘Saigon Calling’

BookTrib: You’re a self-taught illustrator, and the images you have in both graphic novels are very particular, and sometimes deal with very heavy subject matter, which is reminiscent of MAUS. Did your artistic abilities grow organically in the media of drawing for graphic novels, or did you start off drawing,…

Marcelino TruongDecember 21, 2017

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Witness the Brutality of the Vietnam War in “The First Door Is the Final Exit”

This is an unsettling and powerful novel about the Vietnam war. Timothy O’Neil himself calls it a love story within a war story, but it’s less sanitized than that. The chapters devoted to the war are upsetting and often hard to read. O’Neil is a veteran, so he knows not…

Sherri DaleyMay 5, 2022

Fiction

Vietnam Vet Learns What It Means to Be a Hero in an Imperfect World

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_hero-can-I-be-maureen-hogan-lutz-book-review.jpg Set in the '60s, Maureen Hogan Lutz’s newest novel, Hero Can I Be, is the fast-paced story of James “Jamie” Vincent Corrigan, “a tall redhead with a hair-trigger temper” whose troubled yet street-smart New York City upbringing by Irish Catholic immigrant parents shapes him into the hero he becomes,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanNovember 11, 2020

Fiction

“The Mountains Sing:” A Beautiful Family Saga Written From the Heart

I have recently read wonderful books by Vietnamese authors, Ocean Vuong's On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Thannha Lai's Butterfly Yellow along with Chris Bohjalian’s new book The Red Lotus, which partially takes place in Vietnam. Each of these books pieces together for readers how beautiful the country is and how…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 25, 2020

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Loyalties Shift in “Garden of Lies”

In 1943, as the prologue of Garden of Lies (Open Road Media) opens, a young woman named Sylvie succumbs to her first stirrings of true passion—with the handyman, Nikos, instead of her rich, older husband. She soon discovers she’s pregnant. Sylvie prays that the baby is her husband’s, but when the…

Kathryn CraftDecember 13, 2018

Fiction

“Soldiers of a Foreign War:” A Look Inside Daily Life of a Soldier

I wrote Soldiers of a Foreign War so that people could have a new appreciation for the names on the walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. So people could truly connect more personally with the stories of veterans. Charles McNair served as an operating room technician in Vietnam, and though it…

Rebecca ProulxNovember 12, 2018

Fiction

‘Yonkers Yonkers!’: Patricia Vaccarino’s New Book Explores Racial Tensions and Friendship during Woodstock

Author and PR specialist Patricia Vaccarino's new book, YONKERS Yonkers! A Story of Race and Redemption, is an enriching and beautiful narrative of friendship, breaking social boundaries, and music. In the time of Woodstock, the Vietnam War, the Rolling Stones and more, YONKERS Yonkers! looks at social and racial conventions of a tumultuous and…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaJanuary 24, 2018

Fiction

‘No Good Reasons At All’: A Literary View of the Full Implications of War

Reckless saber-rattling with an unstable despot and growing nuclear power in North Korea, sixteen years of fighting in Afghanistan, insurmountable issues in the Middle East, irrational bigotry and hatred consuming far too many, an enemy power's blatant interference with the sovereignty of our electoral process, terrorism both domestic and foreign,…

Walt GraggNovember 9, 2017

Fiction

Interview with Sam Lightner, Jr., Author of ‘Heavy Green’

Experienced climber Sam Lightner, Jr. talks with BookTrib about his latest book, Heavy Green. Heavy Green focuses on a little known CIA operation that could shift the outcome of the Vietnam War. Expertly researched, Heavy Green is a historical novel that shows a different side of the conflict at the time.…

BookTribOctober 6, 2017

5 Novels Explore Harsh Reality of the Vietnam War

A Conflict of Conscience in “The Fourteenth of September”

Author Delves Into the Reality of War, Not the Fantasy

“A Bend in the River” Explores Conflict Between Sisters in War-Torn Vietnam

United We Stand: 6 Stories of Americans in the Age of Protest

New Giveaways and Stories from Four AuthorBuzz Authors

A Vietnam War Vet Gives Gives His Firsthand Account in “Going Off the Beach”

BookTrib Q & A with Marcelino Truong, Author-Illustrator of Graphic Novel ‘Saigon Calling’

Witness the Brutality of the Vietnam War in “The First Door Is the Final Exit”

Vietnam Vet Learns What It Means to Be a Hero in an Imperfect World

“The Mountains Sing:” A Beautiful Family Saga Written From the Heart

Tall Poppy Review: Loyalties Shift in “Garden of Lies”

“Soldiers of a Foreign War:” A Look Inside Daily Life of a Soldier

‘Yonkers Yonkers!’: Patricia Vaccarino’s New Book Explores Racial Tensions and Friendship during Woodstock

‘No Good Reasons At All’: A Literary View of the Full Implications of War

Interview with Sam Lightner, Jr., Author of ‘Heavy Green’

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