Forgotten Warriors: Combat Art from Vietnam
?Noble gathers watercolors, oils, acrylics, and simple sketches from a number of military archives, and offers a balanced narrative to place them in context. U.S. military artists mainly took infantrymen as their subjects, but there is also work here on life in the rear, on Vietnam and Vietnamese children, as well as portraits of the wounded and of surgeons in operating rooms. Noble quotes James Jones, who said that government art is 'by nature propaganda, ' but makes a strong case that what he has collected is not. . . . Noble's efforts fill a gap, and his documentation of U.S. Coast Guard activities in Vietnam is unique.?-Booklist