The inspiration for this story came to me from a YouTube video that was originally posted three years ago by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs—but reshared on MSN two months ago via the ...
“The Vietnam War was such a shadow across my childhood,” Hannah says of her earliest inspiration for her new novel, “The Women.” “My friends’ fathers were serving, and in fact, my best friend’s father ...
The idea to write about nurses in combat zones in the Vietnam War came easy, novelist Kristin Hannah says. The writing? Not so much. “The Vietnam War was such a shadow across my childhood,” Hannah ...
For 50 years they gathered dust in the basement — the scrapbooks, old photos and news clippings, honors and citations. The uniform and boonie hat remained at the back of a closet. But thanks to the ...
BIANNA GOLODRYGA, SENIOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, now, as we’ve discussed, international pressure is ramping up on Israel, and the U.S. students are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and transparency ...
“Me love you long time,” a Vietnamese sex worker tells the U.S. troops, swiveling her hips as she hawks her services. “You party?” The first female character in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam War classic ...
On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the nearly 20-year Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam ...
Author Kristin Hannah's new novel "The Women" tells a story about a nation divided against itself. The book is about an army nurse in Vietnam who experiences both the horror of the war in Southeast ...