Notable Publications

Discover highlighted books by friends and scholars that add to the discourse on lessons learned from the Vietnam War and the importance of the GI resistance movement.


 Because Our Fathers’s Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, From Vietnam to Today
Craig McNamara

Craig is the son of Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson who was known as the architect of the War in Vietnam. In this revealing memoir, he contends with his relationship to his father and his father’s legacy of war.

 

Dissenting POW’s: From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today
Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke

Dissenting POWs tells the little-known story of who spoke out against the war and why – which for co-author Tom Wilber is a very personal tale. One dissenter profiled in the book is his father Gene, a career officer in the Navy and squadron commander shot down over North Viet Nam in 1968.