# Event Details - **Event Name**: This Is a True War Story | An Evening with Robert K. Brigham - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for an evening with author Robert K. Brigham for the release of his new book, THIS IS A TRUE WAR STORY.About this Event? This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event! An RSVP grants general entry, but seating is not guaranteed, so please try and show up early. Please RSVP only if you intend to join us. Can't make the event? About The BookA personal account by a war historian and adoptee who discovers his biological father was a famous Marine combat photographer in Vietnam.Robert K. Brigham has had a substantial career as a historian of the Vietnam War, with a hand in nine books, a documentary, public history projects, and more. While many a historian has felt compelled at some point to write about a subject close to them personally, Brigham did not think he was doing that. But, at age fifty-eight, Brigham, who had long known he was adopted, discovered that he’d improbably and unknowingly been studying and talking about his biological father for decades. That man, Bruce Atwell, was a Marine Corps photographer who took some of that war’s most indelible and widely reproduced pictures. Brigham had used those images over and over again in decades’ worth of classes and public lectures, never knowing the truth.Both Brigham and Atwell were products of the American foster care and adoption system, and both were defined professionally by Vietnam. In a story shot through with echoes and shadows, Brigham not only reveals his own history as an adoptee but opens a startlingly fresh vantage on the fragility of American families; the power of social norms and taboos to shape lives; and the forces that inequitably disrupt families, not least of them war. The result is an accessible and moving book that is at once both a powerful personal story and an illuminating social critique.About The AuthorRobert K. Brigham is the Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College. He is the author or coauthor of ten books, among them Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/c9c09860-6411-11f1-9c86-c3d3270d49a7-rimg-w490-h740-dc060606-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/coral-gables/this-is-a-true-war-story-an-evening-with-robert-k-brigham/100001987850031957 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: all_ages - door_time: 2026-06-18T22:30:00Z - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Books & Books - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Coral Gables - **state**: FL - **country**: United States - **location**: Books & Books - **lat**: 25.7505441 - **long**: -80.2599664 - **full address**: Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: This Is a True War Story | An Evening with Robert K. 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