When Karl Marlantes takes the screen during The Vietnam War, he says ...

Jerry Lembcke
Jerry Lembcke is Associate Professor Emeritus at College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (1998) and Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal (2010). Lembcke’s essay “The War in Vietnam: Studies in Remembrance and Legacy, 2000–2014” is in the June 2016 issue of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. He can be reached at jlembcke@holycross.edu. In 1969 he was an Army Chaplain’s Assistant assigned to the 41st Artillery Group in Vietnam.