Vietnam War Archives - Berfrois

Vietnam War

‘The foreigners were gone, at last…’

‘The foreigners were gone, at last…’

‘Guys I’d known my entire life weren’t fun, or funny, anymore.’

‘Guys I’d known my entire life weren’t fun, or funny, anymore.’

‘For the men fighting in the Korengal Valley, war is something formless and intermolecular, an airborne toxin as euphoric as it is lethal.’

‘Adding to Marlantes’s frustration was the fact that it was never his writing that was being rejected – no agent ever even wanted to see it – but the idea behind it’

‘The Vietnamese don’t find themselves particularly incomprehensible. Nor do they find themselves silent and mysterious…’