This articles explores the power of the literary works written on
account of the Vietnam War to explain a number of factors that factual
political ducumentation has not been able to. This is partly due to the
fact that the already imposing corpus of literature on the Vietnam War
permits a full appreciation of the war’s complexity. The contradictory
thesis explained by works written at different periods of the conflict
serve as barometer of the morale of the writer, the body intellectual and
in general public opinion regarding the conflict.
