THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, April 30, 1995                 TAG: 9504280486
SECTION: COMMENTARY               PAGE: J2   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Book Review
SOURCE: BY DAVID HALBERSTAM, SPECIAL TO THE LOS ANGELES TIMES 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   42 lines

MCNAMARA'S MEA CULPA IS TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

IN RETROSPECT

The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

ROBERT S. McNAMARA with BRIAN VanDeMark

Times Books/Random House. 356 pp. $25.

[This review is not available electronically. For complete text, please see microfilm.] ILLUSTRATION: Graphic

ALSO OF INTEREST

In addition to Robert McNamara's In Retrospect, The New York

Times' No. 1 nonfiction title, four other new books attempt to

assess the war's impact:

A Lovely Country (Harcourt Brace), a first novel by Vietnam

veteran David Lawton, deals with the final years of the American

presence in Vietnam, with double agents and corrupt generals, seedy

brothels and jaded diplomats.

From Vietnam's side comes A Novel Without a Name (William Morrow)

by Duong Thu Huong, an effort to assess the war's psychological

impact on the Vietnamese.

The Sorrow of War (Pantheon), by Bao Ninh, is being called the

Vietnamese version of All Quiet on the Western Front.

In the memoir After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese

(Viking), Lady Borton, who worked in a rehabilitation center for

amputees, recalls the stories of the Vietnamese women she knew.

- THE NEW YORK TIMES

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