Books
May, 1981
Two new books of interviews with Vietnam veterans are just coming out, and the differences between them are as wide as the Pacific Ocean. 'Nam (Morrow), edited by a nonveteran named Mark Baker, has no journalistic credibility whatsoever. Since the interviewees are anonymous, the stories told could be either fact or fiction. On the other hand, Everything We Had (Random House), edited by Al Santoli, who was a rifleman with the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam, gives the names, ranks, places, date...
