“The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien (1990) This combination of book cover images shows ... inspire a wide range of notable, first-hand fiction — none more celebrated or popular than ...

Alden Pyle is a naive CIA agent whose dreams of forging a better path for Vietnam — a “Third Force” between communism and colonialism that existed only in books — leads to senseless ...

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 ...

Alden Pyle is a naive CIA agent whose dreams of forging a better path for Vietnam — a “Third Force” between communism and colonialism that existed only in books — leads to ... first-hand fiction — ...