If your idea of summer reading entails sitting on a beach with a book about World War II, the American frontier or the invention of dynamite, this list is for you. So much of this book, by a ...

NONFICTION “The Best and the Brightest,” David Halberstam (1972) As a young reporter in Vietnam, David Halberstam had been among the first journalists to report candidly on the military's ...

The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990) The Vietnam War was the last extended conflict waged while the US still had a military draft, and the last to inspire a wide range of notable, first ...

Entertainment 10 fiction and nonfiction books inspired by the Vietnam War (AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin) Credit: AP/AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin By The Associated Press April 24, 2025 ...

O'Brien's book has become standard reading about the war and inspired an exhibit at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. “Matterhorn,” Karl Marlantes (2009) ...

Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its origins, its horrors, its aftermath and the innate flaws and miscalculations ...

Ian Fleming, the author who created James Bond, put fictitious spins on real events that occurred while he was the personal assistant to the British director of Naval Intelligence during World War II.

The book’s measured examination considers how World War II, pop culture and profit contributed to the AR-15’s proliferation. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sept. 26 ...

Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 'Jeopardy!' host Ken Jennings creates ‘Kennections’ in new puzzle book 'An Inside Job' is the top national fiction bestseller ...