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Book Reviews by Joni Bour

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Revised 19 APR 21 by jpr

ALPHABETIZED SECTIONS

A Through C

The Abel Mutiny - Allen Meece

Achilles In Vietnam - Dr. Jonathan Shay

Across the Mekong - Charles O. Davis

After the Flag Has Been Folded - Karen Spears Zacharias

Aftermath: A Song For Tyrone - Doug Todd

AGENT ORANGE: Collateral Damage In Vietnam - Philip Jones Griffiths

Aid And Comfort: Jane Fonda In North Vietnam - Henry Mark Holzer, Erika Holzer

Air Force One - Robert F. Dorr

Amerasians - Cinema Guild, Inc.

America's White Table - Margot Theis Raven

America Won the Vietnam War - Robert R. Owens

An American Veteran - C. M. Hayden

Amigos, Musketeers and Steve McQueen - Alan R. Miller

Angels in Vietnam: Women Who Served - Jan Hornung

Angel's Wing - A Year in the Skies of Vietnam - Joseph R. Finch

Another Kind Of War Story: Army Nurses Look Back To Vietnam - Barbara Deardorff, Diane DuPont,
Linda Goodheart, Rhonda Prescott, and Ann Thompson

At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War - Melvin Small

A Voice of Hope - Thomas Flynn

A Bad Attitude: A novel from the Vietnam War - Dennis Mansker

The Bamboo Bridge - Dennis Hodo

Battle Notes - Lee Andresen

Before The Memories Fade - Robert W. Michel

Beller's Fellars - Vern Greunke

Ben Hai 211 Alpha - George Ragsdale

Blades of Thunder - W. Larry Dandridge

Blood Songs: Lyrics of a Police Action - Dennis P. Knick

Born in the '40s, Raised in the '50s, Died in the '60s - George Brondsema

Brave Men, Gentle Heroes - Michael Takiff

Bringing The War Home - Barry Willdorf

Brownwater - Samuel C. Crawford

Brownwater II - Samuel C. Crawford

Bugs in Armor - Robert Bwire

Bury Me With Soldiers - C.W. Standiford

The Cat From Hue - John Laurence

A Certain Brotherhood - Colonel Jimmie H. Butler, USAF (Ret.)

Chapter One: The Story of Vic Charles - Bob Staranowicz

Chickenhawk and other works - Robert Mason

CMAC: A Vietnam Era Trilogy - James Finnegan

Con Thien: The Hill of Angels - James P. Coan

Conduct to the Prejudice of Good Order - Dan Dane

Confession To A Deaf God - Gary R. Blinn

A Corpsman's Legacy - Stephanie Hanson

Corpsman Up - Paul M. Baviello

Cry In The Wilderness: Guinea Pigs of Vietnam - Jean Williams

Curbstone Press - Books by Vietnam Veterans and Vietnamese Authors

D Through F

Da Nang to Memphis - Linda Moreau

Dead Men Calling - Lawerence Mize

Deadly Presents - K.L. Bye

Dear Daddy - Linh Duy Vo

Dear Donna, It's Only 45 Hours from Bien Hoa - Doug Neralich

DEROS Never - Thomas LaRoe

Desertion In The Time Of Vietnam - Jack Todd

Divided We Fall: How Disunity Leads to Defeat - James Rothrock

Doc: Platoon Medic - Daniel E. Evans, Jr.

Doc Randall's Revenge - Russell E. Savage Jr.

A Dozen Things I Learned About Life as a Marine Sniper in Vietnam - Ed Kugler

Draftee: A High School Teacher Goes to War - David Volk

Drastic Measures - Jason Melby

The Duck Pond - Bob Johnston

Eagle Days - Donald W. Griffis

Earning the C.I.B. - Ed Swauger

The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey - Gregory Vistica

The Endless Tour: Vietnam, PTSD, and the Spiritual Void - Rev. Amy L. Snow, M.A.

Eye Of The Tiger - John Edmund Delezen

Expendable Warriors: Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War - Colonel Bruce B. G. Clarke (Ret.)

Facing The Wall: An Infantryman's Post-Vietnam Memoir - By Phil Ferrazano

Facing The Wall: A Mission - Mary S. King

Fake Warriors - Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer

Farewell, Darkness - Ron Zaczek

Father, Soldier, Son - Nathaniel Tripp

Fields of Fire: A Rock 'n' Roll Tour of Duty in Vietnam - Michael Shapiro

Fifth Infantry Division Operations - Keith Short

The Firebirds - Chuck Carlock

Flying Alligators and Silver Spurs - Charles E. Oualline

The Forgotten Hero of My Lai--The Hugh Thompson Story - Trent Angers

For The Love of Jack - Kathie Costos

Fourth Uncle in the Mountain - Quang Van Nguyen and Marjorie Pivar

Free Fire Zone - John Henry Lee

Frenchy's Whore - Vernon E. Brewer II

G Through J

G(eneral) I(ssue) Blues, Viet Nam to Here: A Warrior's Tour - Captain Sonny Gratzer, Ret.

The Ghosts of Vietnam - Jim Stewart

Global Mom - By Lana Noone

God In The Trenches - Larkin Spivey

Goodbye Vietnam - Robert W. Wood

Grief Denied: A Vietnam Widow's Story - Pauline Laurent

Gun-Totin’ Chaplain - Jerry Autry

Hanoi, adieu - Mandaley Perkins

Highest Traditions - Tony Lazzarini

Highway One: A Vietnam War Story - James E. Davidson

Hitchhiking from Vietnam: Seeking the Ox - Richard Chamberlin

Holding the Hand of Darkness - Arthur Hood

Honor the Warrior - William L. Myers

A Hot Rain - Robert H. Dirr Jr.

Hunger of the Heart - Larry Powell

I Served - Don C. Hall and Annette R. Hall

Images From The Otherland - Kenneth P. Sympson

An Infantry Lieutenant's Vietnam - Ivan N. Pierce

In The Grass - Horace Coleman

In Their Own Words: Vietnam - Topics Entertainment

Into The Elephant Grass - Tim Brannan

It's Not About the War - Richard Ingelido

Jackson Street And Other Soldier Stories - John A. Miller

Jason's Demons - John Paul Rossie

Jimmy's Girl - Stephanie Gertler

Just One - William A. Roble

K Through M

Killer Kane - A Long-Range Recon Team Leader in Vietnam - Andrew R. Finlayson

The Last Boat Out -Truong Nhu Dinh and Tran Thi Truong Nga

The Last Hookers - LTC Carle E. Dunn, USA-Ret.

The Last Parade - Hiland B. Doolittle

The Last Wolf Home - Pat Clark

The Life and Times of Igor Smith - Gordon Neumann

Light Ruck - Tom Lacombe

Long Daze at Long Binh - Steve Donovan and Fred Borchardt

Long Time Passing - Myra MacPherson

The Longest Way Home - Arthur H. Barnes

Lost Survivor - Thomas R. Jones

Low Level Hell - Hugh L. Mills, Jr.

Lucky Enough - Eddie R. Beesley

The Mailbox - Audrey Shafer

Manchu Delta - E. R. Bridwell

Man of the River - SMC Jimmy R. Bryant, USN

March of the Skeleton Men - Harry Hardwick

Marine Helo - D. M. Petteys

The Mark - Jacques Leslie

Medics Wild - Darrell Bain

Meet Me At The Wall - Wayne McCormick

Memories Are Like Clouds - Diana Dell

Memories Of Maggie - Noonie Fortin

Men Made For War - J.R. Gathings

Mercy Warriors: Saving Lives Under Fire - John "Doc" Combs

Mike Force - Lt. Col. L. H. "Bucky" Burress, USA (Ret.)

Military Veterans PTSD Reference Manual - MSG. I. S. Parrish, USA Retired

More than a Band of Metal; Loveletters From Those Who Care - Compiled and edited by the P.O.W. NETWORK

M.P. - John Schembra

My Rock `N Roll War - Don Morrisson

N Through P

Nam Au Go Go - John Akins

Nam Sense - Arthur Wiknik, Jr.

Nam-A-Rama - Phillip E. Jennings

Names I Can't Remember: An Assassin Confesses - Douglas R. Bergman

Never Without Heroes - Lawrence C. Vetter, Jr.

Next of Kin: A Brother's Journey to Wartime Vietnam - Thomas L. Reilly

None So Blind - George W. Allen

No Survivor - Mike Sutton

Not Enough Tears - Dave Wright

Notes to the Man Who Shot Me - John Musgrave

Of Rice and Men: A Novel of Vietnam - Richard Galli

Of Their Own Accord - Gary E. Dolan

Of Uncommon Birth: Dakota Sons in Vietnam - Mark St. Pierre

On Snipers, Laughter and Death: Vietnam Poems - John Musgrave

One Day At A Time - Edward A. Marcin

One Boy's Path to Special Forces Qualification - David Frank Stafford

One-Zulu - Curtis Randolph Kimes

The Originals - Don Truitt

The Other Casualty Of War - Paul Bylin

The Other Side Of Heaven - anthology

Pappy' Raiders - Jimmie W. Brown

A Patch of Ground: Khe Sanh Remembered - Michael Archer

Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides - Christian G. Appy

Peace Among Ourselves: Facing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Jane Elizabeth Hughes

• Pop A Yellow Smoke - W. Charles Truitt

Potawatomi Tracks - Larry Mitchell

POW/MIA: America's Missing Men - Chimp Robinson

The Protected Will Never Know - Donald P. Meyer

The Proud Bastards - E. Michael Helms

Proud To Serve - R. N. Price

Psychedelic Six - Paul Spock




Purple Sun - Lawrence McAuliffe

Q Through S

Reagan's 1968 Dress Rehearsal - Gene Kopelson

Rice Paddy Recon - Andy Finlayson

Quadalajara: The Utopia That Once Was - Jack Tumidajski

Queen's Rook - Croft Barker

Quoth The Raven - Jim Roper

The Real Deal - The Cinema Guild, Inc.

Recovering From The War - A Guide for All Veterans, Family Members, Friends, and Therapists - Patience H.C. Mason

Reflections Of My Past - Jack T. Hartzel

Reflection On Vietnam: Revised Edition - Guy L. Jones

Rejoice or Cry -- Diary of a Recon Marine, Vietnam 1967-68 - John R. Rhodes

Resources for Teaching the Vietnam War - Ann L. Kelsey

Rice And Cotton: South Vietnam And South Alabama - John B. Givhan

The Road from Here to Where You Stay - Thomas T. Kemp

A Saigon Party - Diana J. Dell

Sailors to the End - Gregory A. Freeman

Seawolf 28 - Al Billings

The Secret Vietnam War--The United States Air Force in Thailand, 1961-1975 - Jeff Glaser

A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey - Quang X. Pham

Shadows of Saigon - Mark R. Anderson

A Shadowy Passage - Dr. Paul L. Baker

Slingshot - Edward Vick

Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam - Randy R. Zahn

The Soldier Factory: A Window - Ed Salven

Soldier’s Heart - Lee Burkins

Sparring With Charlie - Christopher Hunt

Spinning Tails: Helicopter Stories - Jan Hornung

Stealth Patrol: The Making of a Vietnam Ranger - Bill Shanahan & John P. Brackin

A Step From Heaven - K.L. Bye

The Stone Throwers - Jackie R. Kays

Stoner - Steve Samples

The Story of Ray Davis - General Raymond G. Davis, USMC (Ret.)

Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War - Dr. Tom Holm

Swift Boat Down, The Real Story of the Sinking of PCF-19 - James W. Steffes

T Through V

Vietnam Memoirs - Part 1: My Experiences as a Marine Platoon Leader - Don Bonsper

Vietnam Memoirs - Part 2: My Experiences as an Advisor with the Vietnamese Marine Corps - Don Bonsper

Tales of an Ugly Angel - Gary Doss

Tears of Blood - The Betrayal of America's Veterans - Chuck Lawrence

Tell Me A War Story - Major George E. Kinback, Jr.

They Answered the Call: Latinos in the Vietnam War - Gil Dominguez

Thunder in the Night: A Sailor's Perspective on Vietnam - Raymond S. Kopp

Thrones of the Arrogant - Patrick J. McGarvey

Through Smoked Glass - E. W. Richardson

Tim O'Brien

To Have and To Hold - John-Michael Hendrix

To Nam And Back - Randall Juge

To Waltz with a White Horse - Ron Shepherd

Trip Wire - Robert Adams

The Twenty-five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War
to the Fall of Saigon - Lam Quang Thi

The Twins Platoon - Christy Sauro

20th Century Anthology - Brian Wizard

Under a Flare-lit Sky: Vietnam Poems - John Musgrave

Unfriendly Fire - Peg Mullen

Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home - Thomas Bass

Vietnam At Peace - Philip Jones Griffiths

Vietnam Generation, Inc.

Vietnam Military Lore - Ray Bows

Vietnam: No Regrets - J. Richard Watkins

Vietnam Remembered: My Journey - Kenneth R. Taylor

Vietnam Veterans Since the War - Wilbur J Scott

Vietnam Vignettes: Tales of an Infantryman - Lee Basnar

The Vietnam War For Dummies - Ronald B. Frankum and Stephen F. Maxner

Vietnam War Literature: an annotated bibliography - John Newman, et. al.

Vietnam's Wall of Blood - Fred Leo Brown

Vietnam's War Diary - Fred Leo Brown

The Vietnam Years: 1000 Questions and Answers - John Musgrave and Micheal Clodfelter

Voices from Vietnam - Charlene Edwards

W Through Z

Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange - Fred Wilcox

A Walk In Hell:The Other Side Of War - Gregory A. Helle

The Walking Dead - R. Dalton Buster

Wall South - Art Giberson

The War Is Over, But The Battle Rages On - Ken Southworth

War on the Rivers - Weymouth D. Symmes

Welcome To Vietnam, Macho Man - Ernie Spencer

Were You There? Vietnam Notes - Wayne Randy Cribbs

West of Hue - James P. Brinker

What is a Hero? - Larry Stevens

What More, Lord? - Larry Stevens

When Duty Calls - Faith DeVeaux

When Life Hands You a Gold Star - Jean Toler

Where We Were In Vietnam - Michael "M-60" Kelley

Why Didn't You Get Me Out? - Frank Anton

With Love Stan: A Soldier's Letters From Vietnam To The World - Karen Ross Epp

Wizard 6 - Douglas Bey

The World, War, Freedom, and More - Del "Abe" Jones

Xin Loi, Vietnam - Al Sever

Your War, My War - By Donald F. Myers

A Year Of Scrambling To Stay Alive In Vietnam: A Black Soldier’s Story - John H. Lyles-Belton

Zero Dark Thirty - Samuel Brantley

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