Recommendations from our site
“At the time it came out, in the 1990s, the North Vietnamese had been stereotyped as robotic killers and fanatic communists. The Sorrow of War was a revelation for anyone who wanted to hear the other side. Kien, the protagonist, is a soldier with the North Vietnamese Army. He is a sensitive, sorrowful soul, caught up in these terrible, terrible events.” Read more...
Sherry Buchanan, Journalist
“He was born in North Vietnam, I was born in a logging town in Oregon. We end up in the same war on different sides and yet the experience of it is so similar for the individual soldier.” Read more...
Karl Marlantes, Military Historians & Veteran
Our most recommended books
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The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam -
The Things They Carried
by Tim O’ Brien -
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher Browning -
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad -
Strategies of Containment
by John Gaddis -
The War Poems of Wilfred Owen
by Wilfred Owen, ed. John Stallworthy
