When hell was in session

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Andre Dubus III

In the summer of 1967, Vietnam seems a long way off to eighteen-year-old amateur blues musician Leo Suther. With one more year of high school to go he still has a lot to learn. He finds himself in the middle of a consuming love affair with Allie Donovan, and an intense testing of his political values by her father, who challenges him on the escalating Vietnam conflict and forces him to examine just where he stands in relation to the people in his life, especially Allie. -- From back cover.

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Dan Guenther

Vietnam veteran Sam Gatlin, working in law enforcement for the National Park Service in Yellowstone Park, comes to terms with his violent past.

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Larry Heinemann

Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next. One evening, on the tail of a rainstorm, he limps off the bus and into the small town of Boone, determined to find a real job and a real bed--but no matter how hard he works, nothing muffles the anguish in his mind and body. Brilliantly and vividly written, Paco's Story--winner of a National Book Award--plunges you into the violence and casual cruelty of the Vietnam War, and the ghostly aftermath that often dealt the harshest blows.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Peter Benoit

Presents the timeline of the Vietnam War, including the causes of the conflict and the role played by the United States' involvement, and explores the war's impact upon today's political and cultural development.