Audiobooks for Vietnam War Veterans Day
Yes we have Military History. Yes we have Veterans Day. Yes, we most certainly do have Memorial Day.
-BUT-
If you discover that you’ve somehow forgotten the Veterans who’ve meant so much to you? The ones you grew up with?
You make sure you never do it again by giving it its very own Special Occasion.
Hats off, much love to Vietnam Veterans each and every March 29th… Love you all!
And if you’ve been moved by a special book or story not in the Audiobook Accomplice Library thus far, please let me know about it, and I’ll be thrilled to give it a listen and review! Drop me a line at Gillian@AudiobookAccomplice.com.
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Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne
By: Arthur Wiknik Jr. / Narrated By: Todd McLaren
Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
I salute ALL who served, esPECially in Vietnam… but this was rather annoying
From High School in Saigon to His Return There as a Wounded Naval Aviator, Vietnam Shaped His Life
By: Larry Duthie / Narrated By: Elio Agostini
Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
Technical jargon, meticulous research, humor… and? Emotionally evocative as well…
Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence
By: Joe Parnar, Robert Dumont / Narrated By: Arthur Flavell
Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
Light on action; heavy on experiences that haunt… for a lifetime
A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
By: Tom Mangold, John Penycate / Narrated By: Jeff Harding
Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
Where are the Tunnel Rats? Oh that’s right… this is 11 1/2-hours of them getting slaughtered by heroic VC…
A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.
By: Diane Carlson Evans / Contributor: Bob Welch / Foreword By: Joseph Galloway / Narrated By: Janet Metzger
Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
So sobering; so very good
By: Michael Herr / Narrated By: Ray Porter
Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
I may say this a lot, but oh yes: STUNNING
A Dual Memoir of War and Vietnam
By: Susan R. Dixon, Mark M. Smith / Narrated By: Susan R. Dixon, Kevin Basl
Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
… I Want My Hours Back … Where on gosh’s green earth did Susan R. Dixon leave her Soul…?!?
By: Karl Marlantes / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
Intensely Philosophical, Intensely Intimate
By: Jim "Doc" Purtell / Narrated by: Andrew Baldwin
Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
A MUST for veterans, a MUST for the rest of us…
Finding Peace from Wartime PTSD
Written and Narrated By: Christal Presley
Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
So very fragmented winds up being so very moving…
The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
By: Doug Stanton / Narrated By: CJ Wilson
Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
How to say this? I am GUTTED...
A Novel
Series: The Last Detail, Book 1
By: Darryl Ponicsan / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
Heartwarming tho’ sooooo bawdy!!!
By: Tim O'Brien / Narrated By: LJ Ganser
Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
When I read this, I felt it ended one way; when I listened to it? Wow—I’m pretty sure it ended another way!
By: Khanh Ha / Narrated By: Feodor Chin, Andrew Eiden
Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
Three words only? Mesmerizing, Gritty, Redemptive
Children, Youth, and War Series
By: Joel P. Rhodes / Narrated By: Chris Sorensen
Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
This world, yes, became my foundation
What It Was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam
By: Mark Garrison / Narrated By: Eric Martin
Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
Awesome book with yet more heroes!
The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
Written and Narrated By: Heath Hardage Lee
Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
Straight-laced women with no-nonsense voices!
US Special Forces in Vietnam
By: Nick Brokhausen / Narrated By: George Spelvin
Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
Death! Destruction! Mayhem! And a million laughs?!? …Yessss…!!!
Vietnam Then and Now
By: Glyn Haynie / Narrated By: Chris Monteiro
Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
Oh gosh, how I WANTED to like this…
Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
By: Steve Sheinkin / Narrated By: Ray Porter
Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
Oh wow—This is for kids?!? No wonder I found it so accessible, so enjoyable, so, well, even I could grasp all the nuances!!!
A Recon Marine's Vietnam War Experience
By: Rick Greenberg / Narrated By: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
Okay, so apPARently the narration didn’t comPLETEly turn me off… as I listened to this… 4 times…!
Written and Narrated By: Lawrence T. Vosen
Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
Setting the record straight, decades later, never forgotten
Wounded Warriors and the Animals That Help Them Heal
By: Dava Guerin, Kevin Ferris / Narrated By: Teri Clark Linden
Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
Not the best of books on Wounded Warriors and their furry saviors, but there are several compelling and heartwarming stories
A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam
By: Barbara Hesselman Kautz MSN RN / Narrated By: Janet Metzger
Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
A (young) woman to be proud of
By: Tim O'Brien / Narrated By: Bryan Cranston
Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
I have to admit: I still like the book best even tho’ Bryan Cranston’s narration comes out better than I thought it would…
The Untold Story of America’s Canine Heroes
By: Maria Goodavage / Narrated By: Nicole Vilencia
Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
Everything, and I mean EVERYthing you’ll ever wanna know about Military Working Dogs!
By: James Reston, Jr. / Narrated By: Jeff Cummings
Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
Humanity at its worst and best
A Combat Medic’s Chronicle
By: Jim “Doc” Purtell / Narrated By: Eric Martin
Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
Toooo short! I wish it had been longer