Volume 20, Number 11 · June 28, 1973
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By J. Glenn Gray
Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans: Neither Victims nor Executioners
by Robert J. Lifton
Simon and Schuster, 478 pp., $8.95
Free Fire Zone: Short Stories by Vietnam Veterans
edited by Wayne Karlin, edited by Basil T. Paquet, edited by Larry Rottmann
McGraw-Hill/1st Casualty Press, 208 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Is it possible that Vietnam will prove a turning point for Americans? Are we likely at last to turn away from the warrior ethos and toward a more life-affirming one? Robert Lifton, the Yale research psychiatrist who has reported in previous books on survivors of Hiroshima and on China's revolutionaries, seems to think so. From his extensive work with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, more especially his participation in numerous discussions about the war over the last few years, he has discovered in this small group 'a quality that has to do with a transformation of the human spirit.'
Review, 3510 words
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