Overview

This volume contains the U.S.' explanation for the war, a review of Vietnam's history and the war's, and U.S. armed forces in it, as well as various problems during it, including drug and racial problems, desertion, sedition, and treason. There is also information about POW treatment, POWs and MIAs, the CIA and the drug trade, war crimes, PTSD, Moral Injury, and history lessons not learned. This volume also contains a brief photo overview of some aspects of events, in South Vietnam, in 1968, a decisive year in that war. The autobiographies in the first four volumes of Combat Veterans' Stories of the Vietnam War are told by 57 Americans, Canadians, and Australians that fought in that war. Volume 4 also contains information about U.S. allies that fought in Vietnam.