A Novel

By: Erich Maria Remarque / Narrated By: Graham Halstead

Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins

History is written by the Victors, but War is lived and survived by those who lived it, who died it

A Novel

By: N. Scott Momaday / Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday, Darrell Dennis

Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins

Dare I say it of this Classic? It’s not meeeee, it’s the danged novel…!

A Novel

Series: The Last Detail, Book 1

By: Darryl Ponicsan / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins

Heartwarming tho’ sooooo bawdy!!!

The Best Dog in Vietnam

By: Cynthia Kadohata / Narrated By: Kimberly Farr

Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins

Cried like a baby—Pretty gritty considering it’s written for Kids… >Sob<

By: Sherri L. Smith / Narrated By: Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins

Good, but Smith should’ve gone for amazing…

By: Erich Maria Remarque / Narrated By: Frank Muller

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Exquisitely written with heartfelt narration. Absolutely devastating…

By: Leslie Marmon Silko / Narrated By: Pete Bradbury

Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins

Wow, this book gets either all love or all haaaate…

Series: The Regeneration Trilogy, Book 1

By: Pat Barker / Narrated By: Peter Firth

Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins

Oh how quietly this book screams—WOW

A Novel

By: Ben Fountain / Narrated By: Oliver Wyman

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Painfully good, really

By: Tim O'Brien / Narrated By: Bryan Cranston

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

I have to admit: I still like the book best even tho’ Bryan Cranston’s narration comes out better than I thought it would…

By: Dean Hughes / Narrated By: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins

The 442nd as delivered in Action and in Emotion

By: Sven Hassel / Narrated By: Kenneth Wright

Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins

Good, but the Publisher’s Summary is misleading. And there are better out there…

An Audible Original

By: Charles Olivier / Narrated By: Full Cast

Length: 1 hr and 13 mins

A truly good audio drama

How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home

Written and Narrated By: Jake Wood

Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins

BRAVO!!!

Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence

By: Joe Parnar, Robert Dumont / Narrated By: Arthur Flavell

Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins

Light on action; heavy on experiences that haunt… for a lifetime

On War, Revolution, and Returning

Written and Narrated By: Elliot Ackerman / Summary of Action By: Mark Deakins

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

(Mostly) Engaging, but -not- STUNNING… until that last line

The Battle Has Just Begun

By: R.J. Belle / Narrated By: Amy Rubinate, Alex Hyde-White, Betsy Baker, Eric Martin, RC Bray, Jeffrey Kafer, Gary Sinise, Scott Brick, P. J. Ochlan, Punch Audio

Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins

Awesome; no politics, just heart and soul and healing in words and actions

A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal- Recovering from PTSD and Moral Injury Through Meditation

By: Tom Voss, Rebecca Anne Nguyen / Narrated By: Tom Voss

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

A rollercoaster, brims with honesty and insight, and at the end? Why, there’s beautiful, shining Hope…

The True Story of an Irish Village, a Man Who Lost His Way, and the Rescue Donkeys That Led Him Home

By: Patrick Barrett, Susy Flory / Narrated By: Gary Furlong

Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins

Gonna have to say it: NOT what I’d been expecting -AND- coulda been edited better… so >SOB<!!!

The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story - The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company

By: Patrick K. O’Donnell / Narrated By: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Intense, searing, sorrowful…

By: Karl Marlantes / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Intensely Philosophical, Intensely Intimate

By: Jim "Doc" Purtell / Narrated by: Andrew Baldwin

Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins

A MUST for veterans, a MUST for the rest of us…

A Journey from Combat to Comedy

By: Audible Originals / Narrated By: Mary-Louise Parker

Length: 1 hr and 16 mins

If you can get past Mary-Louise-Mumbling? Gosh, this is just plain neat

The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers

By: Tanya Lee Stone / Narrated By: JD Jackson

Length: 3 hrs and 1 min

Seriously—if 7th grade History class was like this, maybe I woulda listened. Absolutely wonderful!

A True Story of War and Finding the Way Home

By: Joe Klein / Narrated By: Holter Graham

Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins

BeYONd Admirable! Really, Veterans are just the best…

The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War

By: Doug Stanton / Narrated By: CJ Wilson

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

How to say this? I am GUTTED...

A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

By: Adam Hochschild / Narrated By: Arthur Morey

Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins

AWESOME! Soooo awesome I barely noticed Arthur Morey

A New History of the Western Front in World War I

By: Emily Mayhew / Narrated By: Kelly Birch

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Brava, Ms. Mayhew! The urgency is captured, here, over 100 years past the event!

A Look Inside the Struggles of Military Veterans

By: Elizabeth Heaney MA LPC / Narrated By: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Third time I’ve listened to this; Third time I’ve teared up

One Veteran, One Dog, and Their Bold Quest to Change Lives

By: Luis Carlos Montalvan, Ellis Henican / Narrated By: Kevin Free

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins

Wounds, invisible wounds, love that saves, love that cannot save. This book is perfect to honor the Fallen on Memorial Day…

What It Was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam

By: Mark Garrison / Narrated By: Eric Martin

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Awesome book with yet more heroes!

The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

Written and Narrated By: Heath Hardage Lee

Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins

Straight-laced women with no-nonsense voices!

US Special Forces in Vietnam

By: Nick Brokhausen / Narrated By: George Spelvin

Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins

Death! Destruction! Mayhem! And a million laughs?!? …Yessss…!!!

Vietnam Then and Now

By: Glyn Haynie / Narrated By: Chris Monteiro

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Oh gosh, how I WANTED to like this…

A Recon Marine's Vietnam War Experience

By: Rick Greenberg / Narrated By: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Okay, so apPARently the narration didn’t comPLETEly turn me off… as I listened to this… 4 times…!

An Audible Original

Written and Narrated By: Dale Maharidge

Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins

The other, more searing, side of The Good War

Wounded Warriors and the Animals That Help Them Heal

By: Dava Guerin, Kevin Ferris / Narrated By: Teri Clark Linden

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Not the best of books on Wounded Warriors and their furry saviors, but there are several compelling and heartwarming stories

A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam

By: Barbara Hesselman Kautz MSN RN / Narrated By: Janet Metzger

Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins

A (young) woman to be proud of

An Epic Memoir of War

By: Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, John Bruning / Narrated By: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Raw. Fierce. Brave. …And Ray Porter? Is that you…?!?

On Homecoming and Belonging

Written and Narrated By: Sebastian Junger

Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins

Tho’ at times the Anthropology turned me off (i.e. women get kinda a short shake here), this is a book that comes closest to what I believe to be true

Death and After in Iraq

By: Jessica Goodell, John Hearn / Narrated By: Emily Durante

Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins

Definitely a slug to the gut, but oh so good

The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WW II

By: Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila / Narrated By: David Colacci

Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins

You’d better believe this is a good book about a great man