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Links--The History of the Vietnam War
Web Links>The History of the Vietnam War>Literature & Art
Vietnam War Literature and Art
Bookstores Specializing in Vietnam War Literature
The
Art of Combat: Artists and the Vietnam War, Then and Now
The Art of Combat: Artists and the Vietnam War, Then and Now was a
major exhibit at the Indianapolis Art Museum.
One portion of the exhibit featured 49 works held by the United States Army
Center of Military History that were created as part of the Army's
Vietnam Combat Artist Program. The exhibit ran from from October 27, 2000
to January 7, 2001. Public events were held in connection with the exhibit
and included a panel discussion by members of the Army Vietnam Combat Artists
program. The Art of Combat website is the work of Mike Ruffle.
Vietnam
Journal
Artist Dorothy Simpson Krause has documented her visit to Vietnam in 1997
with her family in a series of beautiful illustrations.
Bob
Fromme's Site
Bob Fromme served as a rifleman and M60 gunner with the 3rd Platoon Delta
Company 4th Batallion 12th Infantry of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade in
Vietnam between April and July, 1969. His website includes articles (some
related to teaching) and several short stories including Scorpions,
Leeches and Hieronymus and Della,
Monte and the Divinity Student that draw from war experiences.
Bob
Staranowicz, Writer
Vietnam Veteran Bob Staranowicz, (101st Airborne 1969-70) includes information
on his novel Chapter One and his poetry on this
website. Chapter
One focuses on Vietnam veteran Vic Charles, a successful
writer working on his second novel and struggling with the resurfacing
of terrors of his tour in Vietnam twenty years later. Related veterans
links are also included on the site. Several poems of the author are located
on the Web including The
Escort, Away
in a Bunker, and When
We Were Called. Staranowicz has also co-written a play about the Wall,
See also, Etchings:
Stories Behind the Wall.
Humidity
Moon
Michael W. Rodriguez served as a rifleman with the 1st Marine Division
in Vietnam from 1966-67. Humidity Moon, his first book, is a collection
of short stories about the lives of Marine combat infantrymen set in and
during the Vietnam War. Rodriguez's website effective website provides
a sample of the stories.
The
Literary Hootch
This site features links to a large collection of literary and other creative
works about the Vietnam War including quotations.
Miss
Saigon
Information about Cameron Mackintosh's world-famous musical Miss Saigon,
a modern day Madame Butterfly set in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
National Vietnam War Art Museum
The National Vietnam War Art Museum in Chicago housese over 700 works of fine
art created by 117 artists who served as soldiers in the Vietnam War. The
works represent artists from the United States, Australia, Cambodia, Thailand,
and North and South Vietnam. The website includes information on the museum's
history, the collection, events, educational programs, membership, the store,
and related links. Quick Time movies are available. See also the Veterans
Memorial Center and Museum in San Diego.
Portraits
of Vietnam - 1968
Paul Emma, a graduate of Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of
the Arts), with a BFA in Photography served in Vietnam in 1968 as a Psychological
Operations (PSY-OPS) photographer. As noted on this beautiful website, "Stationed
in Bien Hoa, he grew to know and care for the Vietnamese people and in his
time off-duty, he photographed the men, women and children whom he met, often
times only with a Poloroid camera, or using film processed under inadequate
conditions." The photographs are very powerful and give a wonderful view
of Vietnam and its people. This is a must visit website.
Private Joker's
Homepage: Gustav Hasford, 1947-1993
Jason Aaron's useful and interesting website is devoted to the life and work
of Gustav Hasford, author of The Short-Timers, the basis for the film
Full Metal Jacket. Included are exerpts from Hasford's work, photographs,
profiles, interviews, book reviews, and articles relating to the author in
addition to links to other Vietnam War Web sites.
A
Saigon Party and Other Vietnam War Short Stories
Diana Dell, who lost her brother in Vietnam, served as a civilian with
USO, working as a program director at the USO Aloha Club at 22nd Replacement
Battalion in Cam Ranh Bay, then as the USO's in-country director of public
relations, and the host of a daily radio show, "USO Showtime," on American
Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN), the military station in Saigon. Her website
describes her collection of 20 short stories relating to the war with
links to major Web book sellers where reviews of the book are available.
Spit and Polish
The text of Richard Seltzer's unpublished Vietnam-era drama can be found
at this site.
Tim O'Brien Page
Marilyn Knapp Litt's website focuses on Vietnam veteran and Pulitzer Prize
winner O'Brien's fiction and non-fiction with links to other O'Brien sites
as well as a chat room and a mailing list. For additional information
on Tim O'Brien, see:
The Heart Under Stress: Interview with Tim O'Brien
Featured Author: Tim O'Brien (New York Times)
In the Lake of the Woods: Reading Guide
Lying for Love: What Does It Mean When Tim O'Brien Gets Funny?
Minnesota Authors Biography Project
Plausability of Denial: Tim O'Brien, My Lai, and America
Tim O'Brien (Ploughshares Magazine)
The Vietnam in Me
Web English Teacher: Tim O'Brien
The "What If" Game
Why Write or Read Stories?
Writing Vietnam: President's Lecture by Tim O'Brien
Vietnam Combat
Art
In 1967, Jim Pollock was selected by competition to serve on 5-man U.
S. army Vietnam Combat Art Team IV (CAT IV). He was one of a cadre of
over 40 U.S. Army soldier artists that took their sketchbooks and
paintbrushes into the fields of war torn Vietnam.
Vietnam combat artist Jim Pollock's work, housed in the CMH U.S. Army Center for Military History War Art Collection, is the focal point for this interesting website. On the artist's main site, Pollock's current work is on display. He also answers questions about his art and his views on art and encourages students to interview him by e-mail for school projects. See also, Pollock's article One Day in Vietnam.
Pollock was
invited by the Library of Congress Professional Association (LCPA) Veterans
Forum to give a presentation about the U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Art Program
in July, 2003. At
the LCPA Veterans Forum Pollock hel spoke about the army's Vietnam Combat
Art Program and showed digital examples of his and other soldier artists work
who participated in the program. Pollock
contacted many artists from the other eight 5-man
soldier art teams that served in Vietnam. Those former Vietnam Combat
Artists have sent him photos of their teams and themselves at work
during this period of history, which Pollock used in his presentation. Pollock
said, "I'm really excited about the opportunity to make this presentation
at the Library of Congress. This will be the first public presentation where
the historical collection of Vietnam war art will be presented in the context
of individual artists and their particular teams."
Jim Pollock's
sketchbooks are featured on Gregory Conley's Watercolorpainting.com
web site. Gregory Conley is an
artist/musician and owner of Watercolor.com. The web site was started
in 1999 and is one of the most prestigious and comprehensive web
sites related to watercolor painting found on the internet.
For additional
art and literature sites, see
Fighting the Vietnam
War in Print
Tennesseans
in Vietnam: A List of Published Material
Veteran Writers
Vietnam War Writer's Symposium
Bookstores |
Dalley
Book Service
Dalley Book Service provides over 3,000 books dealing with Vietnam, Laos,
Cambodia, the Vietnam War, military subjects, and Asia. A search service is
provided and catalogs are issued twice a year. The owner, George Dalley, worked
with A. I. D. in Laos, 1962-1965 and served as a Provincial Representative
in Borkihane Province. He notes on his website that he is interested in sharing
research sources with other researchers on the topic of the influence of U.S.
agencies on the internal politics of Laos.
Ken
Lopez, Bookseller
Hadley, Massachusettes bookseller Lopez provides a special catalog on books
about the Vietnam War and the Sixties.
Recollection
Fine Used Books
This Seattle, Washington book store provides catalogs and free searches.
A large collection of books about the Vietnam War, fiction and non-fiction,
are available.
Other booksellers who can provide books on Vietnam and the Vietnam War include:
Alibris.com
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Author's Notes: Music
of the Vietnam War
Books About Vietnam
Brassey's
Curbstone Press (The
Shopping Cart Soldiers by John Mulligan)
Distantlands.com
McFarland & Company
MagWeb (mililtary history magazines
and books)
Naval
Institute Press
Presidio Press
Tavistock Books
