National University NEH Dialogues of War Project: Veterans Speak

NEH Discussion Leader Preparatory Program Reading

• Caroline Alexander. The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War. New York: Penguin, 2010.
• Mark Atwood Lawrence. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Norman M. Camp, MD. US Army Psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New Challenges in Extended Counterinsurgency Warfare (Fort Sam Houston, Texas: Borden Institute, 2014). Chapter 8, pp. 259-320.
• Beth Bailey and Richard H. Immerman, eds. Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New York: New York University Press, 2015.

NEH Discussion Leaders will also facilitate a discussion on one-selected Discussion Group reading from the list below.

• Homer, The Iliad. http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html.
• Michael Herr, Dispatches (New York: Vintage, 1977, reprint 1991).
• Kim Heikkila, Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011).
• Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War (London: Corvus, 2012). Focus on chapters on Loyalty, Heroism, Home, and The [veteran] Club (pgs. 134-220).
• John McCain, Faith of my Fathers (New York: Random House, 2000), (4 chapters), Chapter 12, “Fifth from the Bottom;” Chapter 13, “Navy Flyer;” Chapter 16, “Prisoner of War;” Chapter 28, “Free Men.”
• Heidi Squier Kraft, Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital (Boston: Back Bay Books, 2012).