The Christian Century7d
The women who would be war heroes
The women who would be war heroes For many Americans, the tears never stopped. While the 1973 Paris Peace Accords stilled the ...
The Independent28d
How a Navy sailor fell off his ship, played dumb — and became a Vietnam POW hero
“I had probably the most embarrassing capture in the entire Vietnam War,” Hegdahl said in a 1997 interview Leepson quotes in the book. “I found that my defense posture was just to play dum ...
Sussex Express2d
Hove author uses his fascinating personal experience of evading the Vietnam-era draft as a basis for his latest thriller.
Luck of the Draw' is an emotional and gripping thriller, set in 1965, with themes of love, loss, and survival. The novel ...
The National Interest28d
The United States Was Right to Intervene In Vietnam
In his 1999 book Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America’s Most Disastrous Military Conflict, Michael Lind argues that the United States had to fight in Vietnam to prove that ...
Washington Monthly3d
Secretary of Enablement
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s subservience to President Lyndon Johnson led America to disaster in Vietnam.