“Even now, after almost forty years, I still hurt. And I’m one of the lucky ones.” Friendly Casualties is a novel consisting of short stories compiled to create overall vivid imagery of author Tom Glenn’s experience and memories of Vietnam. As a rare strategy often...

He could see things others could not, so the generals hated him, but the ordinary people loved him. Thanh was a man of high principles and convictions. Having been shaped by his peasant upbringing, being a monk, and now serving as a colonel in the...