Title: “Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character” Author: Jonathan Shay Publisher: Atheneum Length, price: 246 pages, $20 In “Achilles in Vietnam,” Dr… ...

The 1968 anti-Vietnam war illustration shows a green-faced Uncle Sam, his mouth agape. Inside of it, bombs are dropping onto Hanoi. It’s a clear piece of visual communication whose message is ...

In a way, The Vietnam War is the culmination of nearly 50 years’ worth of documentaries about one of the most complicated and difficult chapters in the history of the 20th century. Because the ...

Photo Illustration by Joan Wong. Photo by Horst Faas/Associated Press. ... Chinese and Soviets Communists during the Vietnam War — and potentially exploiting them.

American Marines eat rations during a lull in the fighting near the DMZ during the Vietnam War, October 1966. Larry Burrows—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Not published in LIFE.

The M1 Carbine served U.S. forces from World War II, to Korea, to Vietnam. Each “generation” of American combat troops had their own experience, and opinions of the unique little rifle.