Bringing It All Back Home An Oral History of New York City's Vietnam Veterans

""Bringing It All Back Home "is a book we should all read, for it takes us from city streets to Vietnam jungles and back again. It's an important and instructive account of the pilgrimage of New York's young men who went to war and came home to resume their city lives and share their experiences."
--Tom Brokaw "The war in Vietnam ended four decades ago, but it still weighs on the men and women who served there, and even on those who, for one reason or another, did not. Philip F. Napoli . . . movingly delivers a belated salute to the former group . . . shatter[s] stereotypes of a lost generation."
--"The New York Times" Bookshelf blog "Riveting . . . "Bringing It All Back Home" crackles with the kind of extraordinary voices Studs Terkel mined from ordinary people."
--Denis Hamill, "New York Daily News ""A thoughtful, deeply personal approach to understanding the Vietnam War for the Americans who fought it."
--"Kirkus Reviews ""[A] readable chronicle that uses the personal histories of the soldiers (in the interviewees' transcribed words) to tell the human story of the American war in Vietnam . . . include[es] rich accounts of the lives of the men before they went to war and after they returned home. While some of the combatants' stories are New York City-specific, the bulk of them mirror the experiences of Vietnam vets from across the nation. The book is a welcome addition to the Vietnam War oral history literary canon."
--"Publishers Weekly ""Napoli is the perfect person to write this book. Having worked with the Vietnam veterans of New York City for many years, he has come to understand us. While focused on vets from NYC, these stories are very representative of all of those who served in Vietnam and what happened to them upon their return home. I want to thank Professor Napoli for telling the true story of Vietnam veterans, who have often been exploited in the media."
--John Rowan, President, Vietnam Veterans