The Vietnam War Books in Order

Tennessee native Duff Coleridge joins the Army seeking a better life and becomes a reconnaissance soldier in Vietnam. Recruited into covert operations, he encounters a rogue CIA handler and a mysterious woman whose loyalties may determine his survival.

Nineteen-year-old paratrooper Billy Coker survives his final month in Vietnam only to find homecoming another kind of struggle. Haunted by combat and uncertain about his future, he travels in search of old friends, lost love, and a life with meaning.

Young paratrooper Buck Marino serves with the 101st Airborne after the Tet Offensive, learning from a squad leader committed to keeping his men alive. Combat, troubled leadership, and an attachment to an Army nurse reshape his hopes for the future.

Seventy-three-year-old Vietnam veteran Sam Walker recounts his wartime experiences to journalism student Claire Cunningham. As her questions suggest motives beyond an academic thesis, their conversations reveal shared struggles with loss, loneliness, and unresolved questions about the past.

Brady Nash enlists to investigate his foster brother's suspicious death in Vietnam, risking his relationship with the woman he loves. His skill as a sniper draws him into covert operations, where his search exposes drug trafficking, assassination, and betrayal.

Before deploying to Vietnam, Lieutenant Martin Shadows hears unsettling predictions from his Lakota grandfather. He dismisses the visions as improbable, but events during his tour begin to echo them, forcing him to reconsider the warnings and his own understanding.

Returning to Vietnam in 1970, Martin Shadows hopes to help the Montagnard people but encounters a corrupt colonel's plans against them. A rescue mission becomes a struggle against betrayal when a rogue CIA operative turns American firepower on his team.