Ten fiction and non-fiction books inspired by the Vietnam War

Vietnam was the first war broadcast into living rooms across America. It also became a subject of deep reflection for writers, who explored its causes, consequences, and the costly mistakes behind it. Photo: AP Illustration / PETER HAMLIN

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 that drove the world's most powerful country, the United States, into a long, gruesome and hopeless conflict.

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