Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its ...

If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over.

“The Quiet American” was released when U.S. military involvement in Vietnam was just beginning ... O’Brien’s book has become standard reading about the war and inspired an exhibit at the National ...

It was heavy with anti-military, anti-war sentiment, evoking the zeitgeist of a Vietnam-exhausted populace. “War isn’t Hell,” Hawkeye Pierce, played by Alan Alda, says in a typical line.