Brothers in Arms, 1984 - 1986

Background information, notes and research, typescripts, correspondence, and reviews document Broyles’s 1986 novel, Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace. The novel describes Broyles’s trip to Vietnam in 1984. Background information includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a 1969 photograph of Broyles in his “study.” Notes and research includes notebooks, note cards, and preliminary drafts and fragments. The development of the novel can be traced further through the succession of typescripts and drafts including corrected typescripts, galleys, and proofs. And finally, correspondence from readers, reviewers as well as from Broyles’s friends and associates document the positive reception that the book received.