- Published: 7 November 2013
- ISBN: 9781780578286
- Imprint: Mainstream Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
A Name on a Wall
Two Men, Two Wars, Two Destinies
- Published: 7 November 2013
- ISBN: 9781780578286
- Imprint: Mainstream Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
This tale should be compulsory reading for MPs and military leaders and anyone else who might lead us into armed conflict. It raises questions about the morality of war and duty to serve that need constant and rigorous attention. It is also an absorbing and meticulously researched work. I wish I had written anything half as good.
Julian Pettifer
A Name On A Wall – part biography, part chronicle, part history – movingly connects past and present and reconciles the differences that seemingly separate them.
The Telegraph and Argus
A remarkable story that skilfully knits together heroic family history and the broader sweep of the tragedy of the Vietnam war. So moving and thoughtful, there has been no history of that conflict remotely like this one
Andrew Marr, journalist and broadcaster
An extraordinary experience like nothing ever done before in America that I know of. It’s important. It matters
Jan Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
One of the finest and most moving books I have read in a long time. It is calm and understated, and yet written with great emotional intensity. I found it hard to think about anything else for days after reading it
John Simpson, BBC world affairs editor
Quite simply a beautiful book. Mark Byford has a curious nature and a tender heart. I shall never look at a war memorial again without wondering who was the young man whose name is on a wall
Dame Jenni Murray, broadcaster and author
We gaze at the names on war memorials and wonder, and now I know the reason why. This book is meticulous in its research, compelling in its structure. A marvellous book
Sir Michael Parkinson, broadcaster