Reddit reviews Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War

A couple of things to start us off...

• As a number of people have remarked upon in recent days, researchers are pretty seriously certain that they've finally found the body of England's King Richard III -- oft accused of murderous machinations, the subject of one of Shakespeare's most scathing plays, and the last English monarch to die in battle. Those involved in the exhumation are particularly excited to be able to confirm the curvature of the spine (likely brought on by scoliosis) that has led so many to refer to the contentious king as a "hunchback."
  
  
• A somewhat provocative article in The Nation about the mythic status of Charles de Gaulle.
  
  
• While passing through a bookstore the other day in a bid to further augment my small but growing collection of material related to the Vietnam War, I was surprised to discover this collection of dispatches written by the great John Steinbeck (author of The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, East of Eden and many other classic works), who at the age of 64 elected to travel to Vietnam as a war correspondent and see what was actually going on. His work appeared in Newsday, and apparently infuriated many. Of course I bought it.
  
  
• Speaking of American authors abroad, here's an account in Open Letters Monthly of the circumstances that saw the poet Ezra Pound locked in a metal cage in Italy in 1945, killing time until facing charges of treason. How did that come to happen? It's a pretty interesting story.
  
  [Note, as always: I do not necessarily endorse all of the contents of the materials linked to here. I merely offer them up as interesting.]

I got to a computer...here are what I was thinking of. I've never read them. Looks like it's articles and stories he compiled of working with and talking to people involved during these times.


http://www.amazon.com/Once-There-Was-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143104799/ref=sr_1_31?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371571988&sr=1-31&keywords=john+steinbeck

http://www.amazon.com/Bombs-Away-Bomber-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143105914/ref=sr_1_40?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371572015&sr=1-40&keywords=john+steinbeck

http://www.amazon.com/Steinbeck-Vietnam-Dispatches-War-John/dp/0813932572/ref=sr_1_25?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371571988&sr=1-25&keywords=john+steinbeck

I really enjoyed Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War, and I think yyou'd enjoy it as well!