Vietnam & America, 1965–1975
Vietnam & the Home Front
The nurses, the protests, the homecoming nobody planned for.
what's actually going on
Vietnam broke the American story twice: once in the jungle, and again when the veterans came home to a country that wanted to forget them. The women who served weren't even counted as veterans for years. How a society treats the people who did its hardest work, and who gets written out when the memory is inconvenient — that argument never ended, and the freshest number-one bestseller in America is proof.
the books that prove it
- The WomenPublishers Weekly's #1 book of 2024 · 1M copies in seven weeks
America in '68 charts top-ten in history podcasting — book and podcast demand peaked together within 24 months.
more through this doorway
- The Sympathizer
- The Quiet American
- The Things They Carried
- Going After Cacciato
- Matterhorn
- Tree of Smoke
- Fields of Fire
- In Country
- Paco's Story
- Machine Dreams
From the catalogue — matched on this period's subjects.
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