12 must-read nonfiction books like When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Barbara Kautz

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When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam

By: Barbara Kautz

4.13

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

When she was 18, she joined the Army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of…

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Cover of Home Before Morning by Lynda Van Devanter

1. Home Before Morning

By: Lynda Van Devanter

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

On June 8, 1969, a patriotic, happy-go-lucky young nurse fresh out of basic training arrived in Vie… read more

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Cover of Drafted!: My Year in Vietnam by Morgan  Miller

2. Drafted!: My Year in Vietnam

By: Morgan Miller

4.56

Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition

2024 IBPA Gold Ben Franklin Award Winner • 2024 Foreword Review INDIES FinalistMorgan and I both se… read more

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Cover of HUEY WAR: VIIETNAM FROM THE BACKSEAT by Bruce Nesmith

3. HUEY WAR: VIIETNAM FROM THE BACKSEAT

By: Bruce Nesmith

4.40

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

HUEY WARA UH-1H Huey helicopter is a flimsy machine. It’s the 1960s equivalent of a World War I bip… read more

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Cover of Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C. by Diane Carlson Evans

4. Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.

By: Diane Carlson Evans

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer t… read more

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"Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Collin Powell, a Vietnam Vet, then offered one of the most beautiful tributes I've ever heard. "You went, you served, you suffered. The names of eight o…"

-Diane Carlson Evans, Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.

Cover of Project Omega: Eye of the Beast: SOG: My Tour by James Acre

5. Project Omega: Eye of the Beast: SOG: My Tour

By: James Acre

4.49

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the Kindle edition of my book, published in 1999, and now out of print. It is my memoir of … read more

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Cover of Fire in the Hole: Tales of Combat with the 1st Engineer Battalion in Vietnam by Mike Guardia

6. Fire in the Hole: Tales of Combat with the 1st Engineer Battalion in Vietnam

By: Mike Guardia

4.22

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Combat Engineers. The Unsung Heroes of Vietnam.August 25, 1966. Specialist Dan Crowley was among t… read more

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Cover of Nam Sense: Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division by Arthur Wiknik Jr.

7. Nam Sense: Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division

By: Arthur Wiknik Jr.

4.22

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

A candid memoir of being sent to Vietnam at age nineteen, witnessing the carnage of Hamburger Hill,… read more

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Cover of Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam by James M. Dixon

8. Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam

By: James M. Dixon

4.39

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Things I’ll never forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being draft… read more

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Cover of Infantry Life: Vietnam's Central Highlands, 1966 - 1967 by Dennis M Witt

9. Infantry Life: Vietnam's Central Highlands, 1966 - 1967

By: Dennis M Witt

4.31

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Firefights, mortar attacks, and friendly fire were all part of the experiences of an infantryman in… read more

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10. A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family

By: Mark E. Miller

4.44

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

“Outstanding memoir . . . as well as closely observed, poignant, and wistful."—C. J. Box, #1 New Yo… read more

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"Whatever the reason for their choices, too many country men saw the best years of their lives melt with the ice cubes in the bottom of an empty whiskey glass."

-Mark E. Miller, A Sometimes Paradise: Reflections on Life in a Wyoming Ranch Family

Cover of M*A*S*H Vietnam: What it's like to be a war nurse by Lorna Griess

11. M*A*S*H Vietnam: What it's like to be a war nurse

By: Lorna Griess

4.31

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

M*A*S*H Vietnam shows how one young nurse survived the day-to-day drama in a Mobile Army Surgical H… read more

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Cover of When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Barbara Kautz

12. When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam

By: Barbara Kautz

4.13

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

When she was 18, she joined the Army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of… read more

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Cover of Bitter Medicine, A Doctor's Year in Vietnam by Eugene Eisman

13. Bitter Medicine, A Doctor's Year in Vietnam

By: Eugene Eisman

3.91

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

These are true stories gleaned from the author's experience as a physician in Vietnam. It is a mixt… read more

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Cover of River City: A Nurse's Year in Vietnam by Patricia L. Walsh

14. River City: A Nurse's Year in Vietnam

By: Patricia L. Walsh

4.68

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Patricia L. Walsh grew up the eighth of fifteen children in a poor Minnesota farm family, working h… read more

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Cover of Vietnam Nurse by Lou Eisenbrandt

15. Vietnam Nurse

By: Lou Eisenbrandt

4.38

Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition

A small town girl from Illinois decided to join the Army in order to help others and see the world.… read more

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Cover of Blood on China Beach: My Story as a Brain Surgeon in Vietnam by Paul J. Pitlyk

16. Blood on China Beach: My Story as a Brain Surgeon in Vietnam

By: Paul J. Pitlyk

4.41

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

More than once during his yearlong duty, thirty-two-year-old Paul J. Pitlyk wondered what had posse… read more

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Cover of A LUCKY RED LION: The Marines of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 363 Vietnam by Arch Ratliff

17. A LUCKY RED LION: The Marines of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 363 Vietnam

By: Arch Ratliff

4.40

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Taken from Memoirs, A Lucky Red Lion is the true story of a Marine aviator, then Captain Arch Ratli… read more

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Cover of A Surgeon's War: My Year in Vietnam by Henry Ward Trueblood

18. A Surgeon's War: My Year in Vietnam

By: Henry Ward Trueblood

4.49

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s 1965. A young surgeon is drafted into the U.S. Navy and sent to Vietnam, where he finds himsel… read more

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Cover of "SKI" in Vietnam: The Memoirs of Chuck Niewadomski by RaeLynn Stuart

19. "SKI" in Vietnam: The Memoirs of Chuck Niewadomski

By: RaeLynn Stuart

4.19

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the word for word account of one man's experience in Vietnam at the end of the conflict. He… read more

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Cover of Land With No Sun: A Year in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne by Ted G. Arthurs

20. Land With No Sun: A Year in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne

By: Ted G. Arthurs

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A no-holds-barred, straight-in-your-face account of combat in VietnamYou know it's going to be hot … read more

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Cover of Fort Chastity, Vietnam, 1969: A Nurse’S Story of the Vietnam War by Bernadette J. Harrod

21. Fort Chastity, Vietnam, 1969: A Nurse’S Story of the Vietnam War

By: Bernadette J. Harrod

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

It was 1969 and the war in Vietnam was at its height. At the time, author Bernadette J. Harrod was … read more

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Cover of Vietnam Doc: An American Physician’S Memoir by William Clayton Petty MD

22. Vietnam Doc: An American Physician’S Memoir

By: William Clayton Petty MD

4.62

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. William Clayton Petty believes anesthesia is a gift from God to mankind, and for many years it … read more

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Cover of Round Eyes: An American Nurse in Vietnam: New Illustrated Edition by Diane Klutz

23. Round Eyes: An American Nurse in Vietnam: New Illustrated Edition

By: Diane Klutz

4.21

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

The year was 1969 — Woodstock, free love, peace marches and war. Life was unpredictable at best, bu… read more

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Cover of The Medic's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss and Resilience Amidst the Holocaust and WWII (Historical Fiction Memoir) by Edmumd A. Kruszynski

24. The Medic's Wife: A True Story of Love, Loss and Resilience Amidst the Holocaust and WWII (Historical Fiction Memoir)

By: Edmumd A. Kruszynski

4.71

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

How far would you go to protect the one you love? Based on a true story.1944. During the chaos of W… read more

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Cover of Vietnam: There & Back: A Combat Medic's Chronicle by Jim "Doc" Purtell

25. Vietnam: There & Back: A Combat Medic's Chronicle

By: Jim "Doc" Purtell

4.31

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

I n 1967, Jim Purtell left his small Midwestern town to join the U.S. Army. He did so at a time whe… read more

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Cover of 12, 20 & 5: A Doctor's Year in Vietnam by John A. Parrish

26. 12, 20 & 5: A Doctor's Year in Vietnam

By: John A. Parrish

4.22

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor's year behind the frontlines in Vietnam. Assi… read more

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Cover of Off the Record: A Vietnam War Nurse's Journal by Fay Ferington

27. Off the Record: A Vietnam War Nurse's Journal

By: Fay Ferington

4.04

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Off the Record is the unauthorized, unfolding, real-time account of an army nurse's year-long tour … read more

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Cover of Doc: Platoon Medic by Daniel E. Evans Jr.

28. Doc: Platoon Medic

By: Daniel E. Evans Jr.

4.60

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

HE GAVE MEN A FIGHTING CHANCE... TO SURVIVEDan Evans arrived in Vietnam on October 7, 1968, a 21- y… read more

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Cover of In Just a Year: Coming of Age in Vietnam by Susan Hunt Babinski

29. In Just a Year: Coming of Age in Vietnam

By: Susan Hunt Babinski

4.72

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

When Susan Hunt boarded a plane to Saigon in the summer of 1967, she was twenty-two years old. Afte… read more

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Cover of Unsteady As She Goes: Battling Parkinson's After Vietnam by Lou Eisenbrandt

30. Unsteady As She Goes: Battling Parkinson's After Vietnam

By: Lou Eisenbrandt

4.40

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

In her first book Vietnam Mending and Remembering, Lou Eisenbrandt described her decision to join … read more

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Lynda Van Devanter

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4.48

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Arthur Wiknik Jr.

4.22

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James M. Dixon

4.39

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The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

J. Thomas Grant

4.54

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