Book Quote by George Packer

“a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It’s easy to make a decision when…

— Ed Kugler

“They wanted you to grow up into some helpless combination of old person and infant. They wanted you to have a house and a…

— Zachary Lazar

“Best in Print The Quiet American (Graham Greene) Classic novel set in the 1950s as the French empire is collapsing. The Sorrow of War…

— Lonely Planet

“There were splits within families over the present war, where one son had sided with Saigon and the other with Hanoi. The “liberation” of…

— Mark Bowden

“Vietnam is still, as it was thirty years ago, a poor country of rice paddy farms and sandy harbors, where fishermen cast nets from…

— Susan O'Neill

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was,…

— Morley Safer

“Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon to the…

— Michael G. Kramer

“This book is a story about the Vietnam War and illustrates what a mess of a war it was for all involved. However, it…

— Rick DeStefanis

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But…

— Dave Eggers

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it…

— Neil Sheehan

“There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“The article I actually write is a masterpiece. It takes talent to convince people that war is a beautiful experience. Come one, come all…

— Gustav Hasford