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The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 717 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.15 — 355,618 ratings — published 1990
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 694 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.00 — 144,265 ratings — published 2015
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 630 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,807,640 ratings — published 2024
The Mountains Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 486 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.31 — 69,455 ratings — published 2020
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 446 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.99 — 441,616 ratings — published 2019
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,162 ratings — published 1955
Matterhorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 378 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.28 — 49,134 ratings — published 2010
Dispatches (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,560 ratings — published 1977
The Sorrow of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,400 ratings — published 1991
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.34 — 33,879 ratings — published 1991
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.19 — 16,667 ratings — published 1977
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,772 ratings — published 1988
The Best We Could Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,505 ratings — published 2017
Vietnam: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,987 ratings — published 1983
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,730 ratings — published 2011
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.33 — 8,570 ratings — published 2017
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 185 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,324 ratings — published 2013
The Refugees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.86 — 22,533 ratings — published 2017
Chickenhawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,055 ratings — published 1983
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,416 ratings — published 2018
The Best and the Brightest (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,079 ratings — published 1969
Dust Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,939 ratings — published 2023
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,827 ratings — published 1999
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 146 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,925 ratings — published 2012
Paradise of the Blind (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,135 ratings — published 1988
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,467 ratings — published 1989
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,824 ratings — published 1972
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,246 ratings — published 1973
Going After Cacciato (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,986 ratings — published 1978
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.69 — 80,068 ratings — published 1984
Fields of Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,072 ratings — published 1978
Dumb Luck (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,942 ratings — published 1936
Street Without Joy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,461 ratings — published 1961
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,960 ratings — published
Absolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.74 — 31,169 ratings — published 2023
Vietnam: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.01 — 848 ratings — published 2016
The Lotus Eaters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,578 ratings — published 2010
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,251 ratings — published 1966
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,426 ratings — published 2018
Novel Without a Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,464 ratings — published 1991
The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)
by (shelved 86 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,904 ratings — published 2021
The Tale of Kiều (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,952 ratings — published 1820
Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,603 ratings — published 2016
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,513 ratings — published 1992
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,725 ratings — published 2005
Build Your House Around My Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,045 ratings — published 2021
Tree of Smoke (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.61 — 16,175 ratings — published 2004
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as vietnam)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,983 ratings — published 1995
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as vietnam)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,942 ratings — published 1986
“If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to be thinking about it in the last minutes of their lives. That stood to reason. Life is awfully important so if you've given it away you'd ought to think with all your mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and the stars and stripes forever?
You're goddamn right they didn't.
They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the things they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child They died with their hearts sick for one more look at the place where they were born please god just one more look. They died moaning and sighing for life. They knew what was important They knew that life was everything and they died with screams and sobs. They died with only one thought in their minds and that was I want to live I want to live I want to live.
He ought to know. He was the nearest thing to a dead man on earth.”
― Johnny Got His Gun
You're goddamn right they didn't.
They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the things they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child They died with their hearts sick for one more look at the place where they were born please god just one more look. They died moaning and sighing for life. They knew what was important They knew that life was everything and they died with screams and sobs. They died with only one thought in their minds and that was I want to live I want to live I want to live.
He ought to know. He was the nearest thing to a dead man on earth.”
― Johnny Got His Gun
“On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.”
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
