Vietnam: Follow-Up Study
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...
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Fiction and Memoirs, Vietnam
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 unders...
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Who Served in Vietnam?
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 w...
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The Agony of Vietnam
The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a war like no other in American history. It was America's longest war: military advisors were in the country from 1954 until 1975, and ...
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Fighting the French
U.S. Policy in Vietnam
War Starts Between the United States and Vietnam
A Limited War
Fighting the War
The Tet Offensive
The Media and the War
War Protests
America Begins to Get O...
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[In the essay below, Jason outlines the major issues and trends in Vietnam War literature and its criticism.]
There has always been a literature of war. The classical epics are among its early prototy...
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[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 n...
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[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 a...
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[Beidler is the author of American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam (1982). In the essay below, he argues that Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato and Stephen Wright's Medi...
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[In the following essay, Durham discusses point-of-view in three novels about Vietnam veterans—Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story, Philip Caputo's Indian Country, and Bobbie An...
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[In the review below, Mirsky remarks on three novels by Vietnamese writers about the Vietnam war.]
Reading these novels makes one raise a long-neglected question: How did the North Vietnamese win the ...
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[In the following essay, Whillock analyzes themes and images in Vietnam combat films and points out the disparities between these films and World War II combat films.]
What should the Vietnam War loo...
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[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.]
The ...
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[In the excerpt below, Hug discusses the links and correspondences between Vietnam War films and Hollywood westerns.]
Film makers have often portrayed twentieth-century America at war in images remini...
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[In the essay below, Smith comments on the distinctive traits of Vietnam veteran poetry and analyzes the work of W. D. Ehrhart and Bruce Weigl.]
Amid the flurry of special magazine issues, photo retro...
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[In the following essay, Hidalgo focuses on language and sense-making in his discussion of Vietnam War poetry.]
This is about the margins of the poem, as much as it is about the poem itself, at once a...
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At the peak of the Vietnam War, America had over five hundred thousand troops fighting against an estimated ten thousand Viet Cong guerillas. By all odds they should have easily overpowered their oppo...
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In 1973 President Nixon promised the American people that his government had got them "the right kind of peace, a peace that would last." After the cease-fire agreement, almost all the US forces wit...
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Prior to the Vietnam War, The United States had never lost a battle. In World War I, World War II, and the Korean War the American forces prevailed. However, the Vietnam War finished with the North Vi...
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The Vietnam war had many wonderful and not so wonderful effects on Australia during the period from 1965 to 1972. Australians were continually involved in protest movements that shaped political and c...
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The Vietnam War caused the breakdown of many families and also a breakdown of the Vietnamese culture, which had previously stood strong through many conflicts and occupations. Family networks, which i...
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The United States of America and its people have endured many hardships and come through many difficult situations both on a battle field and otherwise. Never have Americans ...
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Television is a giant invention. Like cars, telephones, and electricity, it has changed the routines of daily life. It can affect how we dress, speak, learn, vote, and relax. Some studies say that it ...
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In 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of Vietnam. Vietnam had 8 more years of French domination. The Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize to sacrifice their lives and properties in or...
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Germany had invaded the USSR twice, so the USSR was determined to protect herself in future. Before the end of WW2 the Americans and the British had promised Russia that she would be allowed to tak...
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This year marks the forty-second anniversary of America's withdrawal from Vietnam. Scenes of that war are being relived as American troops proceed to fight yet another unjustified war, this time in ...
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In 1955 the Vietnam War began, a civil war between two competing philosophies. Several years after Vietnam's independence from France the Geneva Accords insisted free elections be held throughout Viet...
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In a deep, dark and dangerous Vietnamese jungle, a United States marine wades through the foggy undergrowth, wearing his countries flag with pride. Australians walk these parts to, fighting under a ca...
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Vietnam was a lost cause. The United States never truly stood a chance of beating Ho Chi Minh and his determined army of the Viet Cong. Ho Chi Minh said to the French in the late 1940s, "You can ki...
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People are labeled every day, even children in schools. They can be labeled smart kids, good kids and even bad kids. These labels are often given by a kids first appearance. It is very easy for the go...
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America has been criticized by many other nations for their power-hungry and sadistic approach when it comes to war. Too many innocent civilians and patriotic soldiers have died in questionable wars ...
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The Vietnamese War was a war of confusion, biasness, and competition (against the USSR). Results of the Vietnam War were tragic, thousands of lives lost, the brutal aftermath of chemicals such as Age...
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U.S. political and military difficulties in Iraq have prompted comparisons to the American war in Vietnam. Unfolding events in Iraq have caused some observers to make analogies to the American experie...
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Vietnam war was also known as the second Indochina war, military struggled fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975 involving the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation front in conflict with U.S...
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The Vietnam war was one of Americas longest and hardest wars. Even though the soldiers that came home from the war were spat at they still fought there best. Vietnam war was also known as the se...
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The Vietnamese War was a war of confusion, biasness, and competition (against the USSR). Results of the Vietnam War were tragic, thousands of lives lost, the brutal aftermath of chemicals such as Agen...
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The Vietnam War was one of the most important wars in the 20th century. It started in 1965 when the US first sent American Marines onto Vietnamese soil. It seemed as a crusade by the Americans to help...
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The Vietnam War was a psychological and physical battle for all the young men who were drafted or volunteered. Caputo's own reasons for volunteering illustrate the mentality for some of the men e...
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During the war in Vietnam, soldiers faced intensely extreme conditions, including fatigue, hunger, disease, and of course, having to see fellow friends and soldiers die. Although our military has, and...
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The Vietnam War, or the Second Indochina War, was fought from 1959 to 1975 in Vietnam. It involved North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front in disagreement with the United States forces and...
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Vietnam: Follow-Up Study
Fiction and Memoirs, Vietnam
The Agony of Vietnam
Vietnam War
