Review of Books on Vietnam & Indochina

The following books are currently reviewed by John Paul Jones on Amazon.com

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

- The Life of Reason, by George Santayana

The Past is not dead; It is not even the Past

- William Faulkner

 

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Angkor by Jan Myrdal

If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien

Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham

Entre le ciel et la terre by Le Ly Haislip

Vietnam by Stanley Karnow

A People's History of the Vietnam War by Jonathan Neale

River Road to China: The Search for the Source of the Mekong by Milton Osborne

The Cat from Hue by John Laurence

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

We Have Eaten the Forest: The Story of a Montagnard Village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam by Georges Condominas

Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross

Perfect Spy by Larry Berman

La Bataille de Dien Bien Phu by Jules Roy

The Sorrow of War by Bao Dinh

We Were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang- The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Black Virgin Mountain: A Return to Vietnam by Larry Heinemann

Les Belles Heures de L'Indochine Francaise by Christiane d'Ainval

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

The Military Half by Jonathan Schell

Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness by Doug Peacock

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu by Bernard Fall

A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by Norman Lewis

Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side by Tim Page

Requiem: By The Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina by Horst Fass

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Truy Tram