Vietnam -- Can You Handle the Truth?
Explore the raw truths of Vietnam through powerful books that reveal untold stories. Uncover history, war, and culture in these must-read titles about Vietnam's hidden realities.
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The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
An eager American envoy is mysteriously assigned to Saigon during the French occupation of Indochina.
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Stolen Valor
by Bernard Gary Burkett
Military documents reveal decades of deceit about the Vietnam War and myths perpetuated by the mainstream media.
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A Bright Shining Lie
by Neil Sheehan
One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won. In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann—"the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam"—and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America's young manhood and resources.
