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The Vietnam War spawned a large number of informative and artistically successful memoirs and novels. These personal accounts and works of fiction helped readers to understand the war from a variety of perspectives and often in considerable depth. In...

In the summer of 1971, the U.S. military forces in Vietnam were being rapidly reduced. To deplete the forces there quickly, many men were being sent home before the usual tour of twelve months was complete. A urine-screening program was established in...

Approximately 2.5 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, but this figure tells only part of a complex and controversial story. At issue in the controversy is whether men were unfairly sent to Vietnam on the basis of class and race. During and...

The Vietnam War was a struggle between North and South Vietnam in which the USA was directly involved in the defence of the South, and which had severe repercussions both on the politics of South-East Asia and on US domestic politics. Civil war in...

South Vietnam United States South Korea Thailand Australia Philippines New Zealand Khmer Republic Kingdom of...

Like Israelis and Palestinians eyeing each other suspiciously from adjacent hilltops in the West Bank, Americans who were on opposing sides of the Vietnam War may share the same space, but there should be no confusing cohabitation with reconciliation. Even in the best...

WILLIAM PROCHNAU'S WELL-WRITTEN piece on Neil Sheehan {"The Last Prisoner of Vietnam," October 9} painted a vivid picture of a dedicated author who put his heart and soul into reporting something (Vietnam) that his heart and soul had come to disdain. It also shows...

The massive budget bill before Congress contains legislation that would make it easier for Vietnam War allies such as the Hmong to seek asylum in the U.S., by changing a law that bars people who take up arms from asylum or green cards.Under provisions of...

Kate Webb, a pioneering journalist whose powerful reputation was forged on the front lines of the Vietnam War and who roamed Asia for nearly 35 years covering coups and strife from India to the Philippines, died Sunday. She was 64.Webb, who once made the news...

[Hölbling is the author of The Discourse of War in Recent American Novels (1987). In the following essay, he discusses the different types of literary responses the Vietnam war has engendered and relates them to American cultural myths and previous war literature.]

[In the following excerpt, Fenn focuses on David Rabe's The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1968) and Streamers (1976) as he remarks on themes and structures common to Vietnam War dramas.]

[An American educator and critic, Klinkowitz has written extensively on contemporary American fiction and edited Writing Under Fire: Stories of the Vietnam War (1978). In the essay below, he surveys novels published during American involvement in the Vietnam War and focuses his analysis on innovative approaches to plot and structure.]

Essay discusses reasons why America withdrew its forces from the Vietnam War.

Provides a history of the Vietnam War. Analyzes U.S. involvment in the war. Argues the Americans should not have been involved.

Describes how the United States could have succeeded in the Vietnam Conflict.