It’s been nearly half a century since the shooting stopped in Vietnam (1973), and the legacy of that tragic conflict continues to inspire some of America’s best writers to create stories that mirror the profound events of 1965-1973.
Among the most provocative of the fiction and non-fiction books that have been written about the great Indochina conflict are Michael Herr’s hugely powerful journalistic descriptions of combat, Dispatches (1977) and Tim O’Brien’s collection of linked short stories, The Things They Carried (1990).
These are modern classics that explore both the horror and the shining courage of military conflict — and there are dozens of other books out there today that chronicle the events of that tumultuous era in American and Asian history.
To learn more about the stories that have been written about the war in recent decades, click on this link to a New York Times review of some of them: https://www.nytimes.com/
