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Summary: This FAQ contains a recommended reading list developed
     to cover many aspects of the Indochina (Viet Nam) wars.

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Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War.

Below is the recommended reading list on the Indochina wars
developed by the moderators of soc.history.war.vietnam primarily
on the basis of an extensive survey of noted academics/authors in
the field, veterans and members of the era's anti-war movement. 
In addition, there are ongoing inquiries regarding new works.  An
attempt has been made to make this list as diversified as
possible, both in the range of topics and the viewpoints
represented.

The reading list has been divided into three major section for
ease on use.  The first is a "core list", a small group of works
which cover most of central themes of the Indochina Wars. In
short, it provides a basic overview.  Works for this list were
chosen on the basis of both superior quality and the coverage
requirements of the list itself.  In addition, books in print
were given preference over equivalent works that are currently
out of print.

The second section of the reading list is an extensive selection
of historical and social science analysis and non-fiction
narratives, divided into topics.  The purpose of this section is
to provide the reader with more depth in areas that may be of
interest.  All these works are recommended, and present important
insights into various topics concerning the Indochina wars. They
are listed in the following topical categories:
     A. General Works
     B. World War II to the Geneva Accords.
     C. Geneva to the American Combat Involvement in Vietnam
          (1954 - 1965)
     D. Period of US Ground Combat (1965 - 1972)
     E. From the American Withdrawal to the Fall of the South
          (1972 - 1975).
     F. Covert Operations and Intelligence.
     G. Laos and Cambodia.
     H. Military Personal Narratives and Oral Histories.
     I. The Press.
     J. Issues of Inequality and the Draft.
     K. North Vietnam, the PAVN and the NLF.
     L. Vietnamese Culture and Politics. 
     M. Ethic Minorities in Indochina
     N. War Crime Allegations.
     O. The Anti-War Movement in the US.
     P. POW/MIA Issues.
     Q. Refugee Issues.
     R. Aftermath and Remembrance - Veterans Issues.
     S. Document Collections and Reference Works.

The final section deals with cultural representations of the wars
and their aftermath, including analysis and criticism, fiction,
poetry, film and folklore. These works are listed in the
following topical categories:
     A. Analysis and Criticism: Cultural Representations of the   
          Vietnam War.
     CB. Novels: Representations of the Vietnam War.
     C. Poetry
     D. Folklore.
          a. Written
          b. Recorded

Other selected specialized bibliographies, by topic, will be
posted from time to time on the newsgroup. Along with Professor
Moise's extensive bibliography, as well as the logs of the
newsgroup and the most recent copies of all FAQS, all specialized
bibliographies are available at the following sites:
1. rtfm.mit.edu in pub/usenet/soc.history.war.vietnam
2. byrd.mu.wvnet.edu in the directory 
     pub/history/military/vietnam/soc.history.war.vietnam.  
3. mccaskill.ssn.flinders.edu.au in pub/history/Vietnam-war 


Please send any comments, suggestions or corrections to the
newsgroup request address, vietnam-request@panix.com.

Enjoy.

John Tegtmeier, moderator - soc.history.war.vietnam


Section I.  Core List.

Adams, Sam.  War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir. 
     Introduction by Col. David Hackworth.  South Royalton, VT:
     Steerforth Press, 1994.
          Posthumously published work by a CIA analyst concerning
     the underestimate of ememy forces in Vietnam.  The book had
     been ready for much earlier publication when a great number
     of documents were declassified for the Westmoreland - CBS
     suit on the order of battle controversy.  Adams felt he had
     to incorporate the newly available material; however, at the
     time of his death in 1988, much was still left out.  Despite
     this incompleteness, the work shreds much light on the
     question of intelligence throughout the war.
Anderegg, Michael A., ed.  Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and
     Television.  Culture and the Moving Image.  Philadelphia:
     Temple University Press, 1991.
          Excellent collection of 14 articles from varying
     perspectives on the contedted meaning of Vietnam represented
     in the cultural representations of the war in film and on
     television.  Fine introduction to the subject.
Baskir, Lawrence M. and William A. Strauss.  Chance and
     Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam
     Generation. With a Foreword by Theodore M. Hesburgh. New
     York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
          Still the most complete study of the draft available,
     as well as dishonorable and general discharges from the
     military. Baskir was the General Counsel and Chief Executive
     Officier of President Ford's Clemency Board; Strauss was its
     Director of Planning and Management as well as the director
     of the staff that issued the final report.  Contains
     extemely important information and statistics about various
     aspects and inequalities of the selective service system. 
     The work was originally sponsored by the University of Notre
     Dame.  
Caputo, Philip.  A Rumor of War.  New York: Holt, Rinehart, and
     Winston, 1977; Ballantine, 1978.
          Award winning memoir by a Lieutenant in the Marine 9th
     Expeditionary Brigade in 1965 - 1966.  The work is a
     powerful and compelling account of the early part of US
     ground combat involvement, including Caputo's court-marshall
     for the killing of a Vietnamese civilian which raises
     questions about both the nature of US tactics and the nature
     on guerilla warfare.  The book also contains a short section
     on Caputo's experiences in 1975 as a journalist during the
     fall of the South.
Fall, Bernard.  Street Without Joy.  With an Introduction by
     George C. Herring and a Foreword by Marshall Andrews. 
     Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1961; reprint, Mechanicsburg, PA:
     Stackpole Books, 1994.
          Reprint by the original publisher of the classic
     account of the First Indochina War against the French.  This
     edition contains a new introduction by Geoge Herring.  The
     title is derived from the nickname for Highway 1 which runs
     north-south the lenght of Vietnam along the coastal plain.
Hallin, Daniel C.  "The Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam. 
     New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
          A major and systematic scholarly analysis of coverage
     of the war by major news organizations, in particular the
     New York Times (1961-65) and the television networks (1965-
     73), and its impact on the social construction of the war.
Hickey, Gerald C.  Shattered World: Adaptation and Survival among
     Vietnam's Highland Peoples During the Vietnam War. 
     Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
          This work, by a pre-eminent anthropologist who is
     extensively published in this area, deals with the profound
     effects of the Indochina wars on the highland ethnic groups
     (also known as Montagnards) in terms of displacement,
     survival and the effects on their culture.  It provides a
     unique insight into an area usually ignored or lightly
     covered in other sources.
Huynh Kim Khanh.  Vietnamese Communism: 1925-1945.  Ithaca:
     Cornell University Press, 1982. 
          The definitive study of the implanting and evolution of
     a European anti-capitalist ideology on a Vietnamese socio-
     political conflict of anti-colonial nationalism and anti-
     feudal peasant movements within the context of the debate
     about modernization.  The work traces the formation of the
     ICP, the ultra-nationalist, non social reform era of the
     20s, the anti-nationalist international era in the 30s, to a
     balance emerging at the end of WWII and Ho Chi Minh's role
     in this process.  Also discussed are the Trotskyite and
     Stalinist elements during the thirties.
Jamieson, Neil L.  Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1993.
          An important study which tries to place the Indochina
     Wars within the context of the century long internal debate
     in Vietnamese society concerning the means and direction of
     modernization in the wake of the French conquest.  Using a
     variety of Vietnamese cultural and political sourses,
     Jamieson seeks to place these events in the framework of the
     struggle to define Vietnamese tradition and society within
     the context of the need to evolve the culture in reponse to
     the modern world, a topic which still lies at the heart of
     much of today's Vietnamese politics.
Karnow, Stanley.  Vietnam: A History. New York: Viking, 1983.
          A massive history by a journalist which was written as
     a companion to the PBS series (Vietnam: A Television
     History).  Much of the volume concentrates on the American
     involvement, although there is a useful discussion of
     earlier history and the First Indochina War.  The work is
     generally unbiased, and reflects Karnow's access to many of
     the major figures involved.  The original edition (1983)
     contains some errors which were corrected in the 1984
     paperback edition.
Marr, David G.  Vietnam 1945: The Quest For Power.  Berkeley:
     University of California Press
          A key study by one of the top writers in English about
     the pivotal period at the end of the Second World War and
     the struggle for political ascendency.
Moser, Richard.  The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent
     During the Vietnam Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
     University Press, 1996.
          Moser, using interviews and oral history, presents a
     stunning view of the GI Movement -  the anti-war protest
     that grew within the military itself in the later stages of
     the war, as well as veteran groups (such as the VVAW) who
     actively opposed the war.
Patti, Archimedes.  Why Vietnam: Prelude to America's Albatross. 
     Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
          Patti served as the head of the Office of Stragetic
     Services French Indochina mission during WWII. His account
     deals with the US - Viet Minh cooperation during the war
     against the Japanese, the relationships with the KMT, and
     the aftermath of the change in US policies under Truman with
     regard to Vietnam.
Puller, Lewis B. Jr.  Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis
     B. Puller, Jr.  New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991; Bantam,
     1993.
          Award winning autobiography of a Marine Lieutenant who
     was the son of the legendary general "Chesty" Puller. 
     Puller lost both legs to a booby trap explosive shorty after
     starting his tour in Vietnam.  Much of the book deals with
     the challenges Puller faced in adjusting to both his
     injuries and the social environment in the US concerning the
     war.  Puller committed suicide in 1995.
Race, Jeffrey.  War Comes to Long An: Revolutioanry Confilt in a
     Vietnames Province.  Berkeley: University of California
     Press, 1972.
          The author served in the US Army as a district advisor,
     and later return as a private citizen to attempt to analyse
     the political and social processes that he believed were not
     explained by the conventional military analysis of the
     conflict.  The resultant work is a deeply insightful
     analysis into the contested social realities of the war and
     the success of the VCP in Long An Province (just southwest
     of Saigon in the Mekong Delta).  This is an extreme import
     study which focuses on the war as a social revolution as
     well as a military contest.
Shafer, D. Michael, ed.  The Legacy: The Vietnam War in the
     American Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.
          An excellent collection of 14 articles bearing on
     various aspects of the cultural respresentations and
     differing socially created realities in the US cocerning the
     Vietnam War and its aftermath.  Topics include the
     recreation of the war in the arts, the impact of the draft
     and the treatment of veterans and their narratives, and the
     contested nature of the discourse over the meaning and
     definition of the war.
Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the
     Undoing of Character. New York: Atheneum 1994.
          The author is a psychiatrist for the Department of
     Veterans Affairs in Boston where he has had extensive
     dealings with veterans suffering from PTSD.  The book tries
     to illuminate the causes and universality of this illness
     with passages from the classical Greek epic The Iliad and
     the witness of Vietnam veterans.
Sheenan, Neil.  A Shining Bright Lie: John Paul Vann and America
     in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1988.
          Major study of the US involvement in Vietnam, traced
     through the actions of one of the most senior advisors and
     strategist, John Paul Vann.  Sheenan was an Army journalist
     prior to the war, and covered Vietnam first for UPI, then
     for the NY Times.
Snepp, Frank.  Decent Interval.  New York: Random House, 1977.
          Snepp was a senior CIA analyst in Saigon during the
     period from the American combat withdrawal to the fall of
     Saigon (1972-75). He relates the story of the CIA's and
     State Department's failure to understand that Saigon was
     going to fall, and a stunning indictment of the American
     abandonment those Vietnamese who had helped the CIA in the
     midst of the final US evacuation.
Thayer, Carlyle A.  War by Other Means: National Liberation and
     Revolution in Viet-Nam, 1954-60.  Cambridge, MA: Unwin
     Hyman, 1989.
          Thayer presents a systematic and precise account of the
     formation and implementation of communist policy in Vietnam
     between the Geneva Accords and the establishment of the
     National Liberation Front (NLF) in 1960, the transtional
     period between the First and Second Indochina Wars.
Wells, Tom.  The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam.  With
     a Foreword by Todd Gitlin.  Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1994.
          Wells is a sociologist, and presents in this volume the
     social impact of the anti-war movement and its effects on
     government policies.  Based on both written sources abd
     interviews from both sides, Wells argues the increasing
     difficulties in communication and alienation between the two
     sides, and the media's role as both propagandist and
     mediator of their discourse.


Section IA.  Core List - Documentments.

The Pentagon Papers: The Defense Department History of United
     States Decisionmaking on Vietnam.  Boston: Beacon Press,
     1971, 1972. 5 vols.
          There are three versions of the Pentagon Papers, the
     others being: 1. U.S. Congress, House Committee on Armed
     Services.  United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A
     Study Prepared by The Department of Defense.  Washington,
     DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971. 12 volumes. and 
     2. The Pentagon Papers.  New York: Bantam Books, 1971. All
     are recommended. The Bantam version primarily contains
     summaries of the documents by the staff of the New York
     Times rather than the documents themselves.  For a more
     detailed explanation of the differences, see Professor
     Moise's bibliography in the newsgroup archives.


Section II.  Historical and Social Science Analysis and
     Narrative.

A. General Works

Baritz, Loren. Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us 
     into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. New York:
     Morrow, 1985.
Gelb, Leslie H. with Richard K. Betts.  The Irony of Vietnam: The
     System Worked.  Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1979.
Gibson, James.  The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam.  Boston:
     Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.
Kahin, George M.  Intervention: How America became Involved in
     Vietnam. New York: Knopf, 1986.
Karnow, Stanley.  Vietnam: A History. New York: Viking, 1983.    
Kolko, Gabriel .  Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States,
     and the Modern Historical Experience. New York: Pantheon,
     1985.
Pratt, John Clark, comp.   Vietnam Voices: Perspectives on the
     War Years, 1941-1982. New York: Penquin, 1984.
Sansom, Robert L.  The Economics of Insurgency in the Mekong
     Delta.  MIT Press, 1970.
Sheehan, Neil.  A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America
     in Vietnam.  New York: Randon House, 1988.  
Turley, William S.  The Second Indochina War: A Short Political
     and Military History,1954-1975. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1986
Westmoreland, General William.  A Soldier Reports.  New York:
     Doubleday, 1976.
Young, Marilyn B.  The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990. New York: Harper
     Collins, 1991.


B. World War II to the Geneva Accords.

Fall, Bernard.  Hell in a Very Small Place: The Seige of Dien
     Bien Phu.  Philadelphia: J.J. Lippincott Company, 1967.
Fall, Bernard.  Street Without Joy. With an Introduction by
     George C. Herring.  Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1961;
     reprint, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1994.
Marr, David G.  Vietnam 1945: The Quest For Power.  Berkeley:
     University of California Press
Patti, Archimedes.  Why Vietnam: Prelude to America's Albatross. 
     Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980
Spector, Ronald.  Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1941-1960.
     The United States Army in Vietnam. Washington: Center of
     Military History, 1983.


C. Geneva to the American Combat Involvement in Vietnam (1954 -
     1965)

Browne, Malcolm.  The New Face of War.  Indianapolis:
     Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.
Chomsky, Noam.  Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and
     U.S. Political Culture. Boston: South End Press, 1993.
Race, Jeffrey.  War Comes to Long An.  Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1972.
Spector, Ronald.  Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1941-1960.
     The United States Army in Vietnam. Washington: Center of
     Military History, 1983.
Thayer, Carlyle A.  War by Other Means: National Liberation and
     Revolution in Viet-Nam, 1954-60.  Cambridge, MA: Unwin
     Hyman, 1989. 


D. Period of US Ground Combat (1965 - 1972)

Air War - Vietnam.  Introduction by Drew Middleton.  New York:
     Arno Press, 1978.
Berger, Carl, ed.  The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia,
     1961-1973.  Rev ed.  Originally published 1973. Washington:
     Office of Air Force History and U.S. Government Printing 
     Office, 1984.
Buckingham, William A. Jr.  Operation Ranch Hand: The Air Force
     and Herbicides in Southeast Asia, 1961-1971.  Washington:
     Office of Air Force History, 1982. 
Clarke, Jeffrey J.  Advice and Support: The Final Years, 1965-
     1973.  The United States Army in Vietnam.  Washington:
     Center of Military History, 1988.
Hammel, Eric.  Fire in the Streets: The Battle for Hue, Tet 1968.
     Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1991.
Herrington, Stuart.  Silence was a Weapon: The Vietnam War in the
     Villages.  Novato, CA: Presidio, 1982.
Krepinevich, Andrew F., Jr.  The Army in Vietnam. Baltimore:
     Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Mangold, Tom and John Penycate.  The Tunnels of Cu Chi: The
     Untold Story of Vietnam.  New York: Random House, 1985.
Moore, Lt. Gen. Harold G. and Joseph L. Galloway.  We Were
     Soldiers Once . . . and Young.  New York: Random House,
     1992.
Oberdorfer, Don.  Tet! reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1984.
     Originally published: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. 
Prados, John and Ray W. Stubbe.  Valley of Decision: The Siege of
     Khe Sanh.  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1991; New York: Dell,
     1993.
Schell, Jonathan.  The Military Half: An Account of Destruction
     in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin.  New York: Knopf, 1968. 
Spector, Ronald.  After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam.  New
     York: The Free Press, 1993.
Stanton, Shelby L.  The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S.
     Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1973.  Novato, CA: Presidio,
     1985.
Turley, Col. Gerald H.  The Easter Offensive.  Novato, CA:
     Presidio, 1985.


E. From the American Withdrawal to the Fall of the South (1972 -
     1975).

Burchett, Wilfred.  Grasshoppers and Elephants. New York: Urizen
     Books, 1977.
Cao Van Vien, Gen. The Final Collapse.  Indochina Monographs.
     Washington: Government Printing Office, 1983.
Isaacs, Arnold.  Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia. 
     Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
Snepp, Frank.  Decent Interval.  New York: Random House, 1977.


F. Covert Operations and Intelligence.

Adams, Sam.  War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir. Introduction
     by Col. David Hackworth. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth
     Press, 1994.
Andrade, Dale.  Ashes to Ashes: The Phoenix Program and the
     Vietnam War. Issues in Low-Intensity Conflict.  Lexington
     MA: D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington Books, 1990.
DeForest, Orrin and David Chanoff.  Slow Burn: The Rise and
     Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam.  New York:
     Simon & Schuster, 1990.
McGehee, Ralph.  Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA.  New
     York: Sheridan Square Publications, 1983.
Tourison, Sedgwick D.  Secret Army, Secret War: Washington's
     Tragic Spy Operation in North Vietnam.  Naval Institute
     Special Warfare Series.  Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute
     Press, 1995.
Tourison, Sedgwick D.  Talking with Victor Charlie: An
     Interrogator's Story.  New York: Ivy Books (Ballantine),
     1991.
Valentine, Douglas. The Phoenix Program. New York: William Morrow
     and Company, 1990; Avon Books, 1992.


G. Laos and Cambodia.

Chandler, David P.  The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics,
     War and Revolution since 1945.  New Haven and London: Yale
     University Press, 1991.
Conboy, Kenneth with James Morrison.  Shadow War: The CIA's
     Secret War in Laos.  Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1995.
Dommen, Arthur J.  Laos: Keystone of Indochina.  Boulder, CO:
     Westview, 1985.
Nolan, Keith W.  Into Laos: The Story of Dewey Canyon II/Lam Son
     719; Laos 1971.  Novato, CA: Presidio, 1986.
Parker, James E., Jr.  Codename Mule, Fighting the Secret War in
     Laos for the CIA.  Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
Shawcross, William.  Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the
     Destruction of Cambodia.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Warner, Roger. Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its
     Link to the War in Vietnam. New York: Simon & Schuster,
     1995.


H. Military Personal Narratives and Oral Histories.

Bergerud, Eric M.  Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a
     Combat Division in Vietnam.  Boulder: Westview, 1993. 
Brennan, Matthew.  Brennan's War: Vietnam 1965-1969.  Novato, CA:
     Presidio, 1985.
Broughton, Col. Jack.  Thud Ridge.  Philadelphia: Lippincott,
     1969; New York: Bantam, 1985.
Caputo, Philip.  A Rumor of War.  New York: Holt, Rinehart, &
     Winston, 1977; Ballantine, 1978.  
Downs, Frederick Jr.  The Killing Zone.  New York: Norton, 1978.
Edelman, Bernard, ed. for the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial
     Commission.  Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.  New
     York: Norton, 1985; Pocket Books, 1986.
Goff, Stanley and Robert Sanders, with Clark Smith.  Brothers:
     Black Soldiers in the Nam.  Novato, CA: Presidio Press,
     1982.
Hackworth, Col. David H. and Julie Sherman.  About Face: The
     Odyssey of an American Warrior.  New York: Simon & Schuster,
     1989.
Mason, Robert.  Chickenhawk.  New York: Viking, 1983.
Maurer, Harry.  Strange Ground: Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975:
     An Oral History. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.
Santoli, Al.  Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam
     War by Thirty-three American Soldiers Who Fought It.  hb New
     York: Random House, 1981; Ballantine, 1982.
Sheppard, Don.  Riverine: A Brown-Water Sailor in the Delta,
     1967.  Novato, CA: Presidio, 1992.
Walker, Keith.  A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty Six
     American Women who Served in Vietnam.  Novato, CA: Presidio
     Press, 1985; New York: Ballantine, 1987.


I. The Press.

Arnett, Peter.  Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to
     Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones.  New York: Simon
     & Schuster, 1994.
Braestrup, Peter.  Big Story: How the American Press and
     Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968
     in Vietnam and Washington. Abridged edition. New Haven: Yale
     University Press, 1983.
Hallin, Daniel C.  The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam. 
     New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.  
Herr, Michael.  Dispatches.  New York: Knopf, 1977; Vintage 
     International, 1991. 


J. Issues of Inequality and the Draft.

Appy, Christian G.  Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers
     and Vietnam.  Chapel Hill: University North Carolina Press,
     1993.
Baskir, Lawrence M. and William A. Strauss.  Chance and
     Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam
     Generation. New York: Vintage, 1978.


K. North Vietnam, the PAVN and the NLF.

Bui Tin.  Following Ho Chi Minh: The Memoirs of a North
     Vietnamese Colonel. Translated and adapted by Judy Stowe and
     Do Van; introduction by Carlyle Thayer. Honolulu: University
     of Hawaii Press, 1995.  
Burchett, Wilfred.  Vietnam: Inside Story of the Guerrilla War.
     New York: International Publishers, 1965.
Fall, Bernard, ed.  Ho Chi Minh on Revolution: Selected Writings,
     1920-66.  New York: Praeger, 1967.
Moise, Edwin E.  Land Reform in China and North Vietnam:
     Consolidating the Revolution at the Village Level.  Chapel
     Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
Nguyen Khac Vien.  The Long Resistance (1858-1975).  Hanoi:
     Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1975.
Nguyen Khac Vien.  Tradition and Revolution In Vietnam. 
     Berkeley: Indochina Resource Center, 1974.
Truong Chinh.  Primer for Revolt.  New York: Praeger, 1963.
     Contains two shorter works - "The August Revolution" (1946)
     and "The Resistance Will Win" (1947).
Vo Nguyen Giap.  People's War, People's Army.  Forward by Roger
     Hilsman.  New York: Praeger, 1962.


L. Vietnamese Culture and Politics. 

Hess, Martha. Then the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam.  New
     York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.
Huynh Kim Khanh.  Vietnamese Communism: 1925-1945.  Ithaca:
     Cornell University Press, 1982.
Jamieson, Neil L.  Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1993.
Marr, David G.  Vietnam 1945: The Quest For Power.  Berkeley:
     University of California Press
Marr, David G.  Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945. 
     Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Woodside, Alexander B.  Community and Revolution in Modern
     Vietnam.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.


M. Ethic Minorities in Indochina

Hickey, Gerald C.  Free in the Forest: Ethnohistory of the
     Vietnamese Central Highlands, 1954-1976.  New Haven: Yale
     University Press, 1982.
Hickey, Gerald C.  Shattered World: Adaptation and Survival among
     Vietnam's Highland Peoples During the Vietnam War.
     Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.       
Hickey, Gerald C.  Village in Vietnam.  New Haven: Yale
     University Press, 1964.


N. War Crime Allegations.

Bilton, Michael and Kevin Sim.  Four Hours in My Lai.  New York:
     Viking, 1992.  
Browning, Frank and Dorothy Forman, eds., preface by Gunnary
     Myrdal, introduction by Richard Falk,.  The Wasted Nations:
     Report of the International Commission of Enquiry into
     United States Crimes in Indochina, June 20-25, 1971. New
     York: Harper & Row, 1972.
Duffett, John, ed.  Against the Crime of Silence: Proceedings of
     the Russell International War Crimes Tribunal: Stockholm,
     Copenhagen.  With an Introduction by Bertrand Russell and a
     Forword by Ralph Schoenman.  New York: O'Hare Books and
     Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1968.  
Vietnam Veterans against the War.  The Winter Soldier
     Investigation: An Inquiry into American War Crimes.  Boston:
     Beacon Press, 1972.


O. The Anti-War Movement in the US.

Ehrhart, W.D. Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against
     the War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1989.
Gioglio, Gerald R.  Days of Decision: An Oral History of
     Conscientious Objectors in the Military During the Vietnam
     War.  Trenton: Broken Rifle Press, 1989.
          This work contains the oral history of 24 in-service
     conscientious objectors, including some who served in
     Vietnam as medics. All services are represented.  The
     histories include the decision making processes of the
     individuals, the procedures in the military for the
     application for CO status, and the court marshalls of some
     of those relating their narratives.  Valuable study of the
     GI anti-war movement on a personal scale.  
Hall, Mitchell K.  Because of their Faith: CALCAV and
     ReligiousOpposition to the Vietnam War.  New York: Columbia
     University Press, 1990.
Heineman, Kenneth.  Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American
     State Universities in the Vietnam Era.  New York: New York
     University Press, 1993.
Moser, Richard.  The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent
     During the Vietnam Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
     University Press, 1996.
Small, Melvin and William D. Hoover, eds.  Give Peace a Chance:
     Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement.  Syracuse: Syracuse
     University Press, 1992.
Tollefson, James W.  The Strength Not to Fight: An Oral History
     of Conscientious Objectors of the Vietnam War.  Boston:
     Little, Brown, 1993.
Wells, Tom.  The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam.  With
     a Foreword by Todd Gitlin.  Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1994.
Zaroulis, Nancy and Gerald Sullivan.  Who Spoke Up?  American
     Protest against the War in Vietnam, 1963-1975.  New York:
     Doubleday, 1984.


P. POW/MIA Issues.

Smith, Chief Warrant Officer Garry L.  The Search For MIAs. 
     Columbia, SC: Honoribus Press, 1992.
Stern, Lewis M.  Imprisoned or Missing in Vietnam: Policies of
     the Vietnamese Government Toward Captured and Detained
     United States Soldiers 1969-1994.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland,
     1995.


Q. Refugee Issues.

Weiser, Louis A.  Victims and Survivors: Displaced Persons and
     Other Victims in Viet-Nam, 1954 - 1975.  New York: Greenwood
     Press, 1988.


R. Aftermath and Remembrance - Veterans Issues.

Greene, Bob. Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned from Vietnam.
     New York: Putnam, 1989.
MacPherson, Myra.  Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted
     Generation. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984.
Mason, Robert.  Chickenhawk Back in the World: Life After
     Vietnam.  New York: Viking, 1993.
Puller, Lewis B. Jr.  Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis
     B. Puller, Jr.  New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991; Bantam,
     1993.
Scott, Wilbur J.  The Politics of Readjustment: Vietnam Veterans
     Since the War.  New York: Aldine deGruyter, 1993.
Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the
     Undoing of Character. New York: Atheneum 1994.
Wilcox, Fred A.  Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent
     Orange. New York: Vintage, 1983.


S. Document Collections and Reference Works.

Gettleman, Marvin E., Jane Franklin, Marilyn Young, and H. Bruce
     Franklin, ed. 1985. Vietnam and America: a documentary
     history. New York: Grove Press. 
Gibbons, William C.  The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War:
     Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships.  Part I,
     1954-1960.  Part II, 1961-1964.  Part III, January-July
     1965.  Part IV, July 1965-January 1968. Washington:
     Government Printing Office, 1984-1994; reprint, Princeton
     NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986-1995.
The Pentagon Papers: The Defense Department History of United
     States Decisionmaking on Vietnam.  Boston: Beacon Press,
     1971, 1972. 5 vols.
Stanton, Shelby L.  Vietnam Order of Battle. Foreword by Gen.
     William C. Westmoreland.  New York: Exeter Books, 1986.
Summers, Col. Harry G., Jr.  The Vietnam War Almanac.  New York:
     Facts on File, 1985.


Section III. Cultural Representations of the War: Critical
     Analysis, Fiction, Poetry, Film and Folklore


A. Analysis and Criticism: Cultural Representations of the
     Vietnam War.

Anderegg, Michael A., ed.  Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and
     Television.  Culture and the Moving Image.  Philadelphia:
     Temple University Press, 1991. 
Auster, Arnold and Leonard Quart.  How the War Was Remembered:
     Hollywood and Vietnam.  New York: Praeger, 1988.
Beidler, Philip.  Re-writing America: Vietnam Authors in their
     Generation.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
Dittmar, Linda and Gene Michard, eds. From Hanoi to Hollywood:
     The Vietnam War in American Film. New Brunswick, NJ:
     Rutgers, 1990.
Gilman, Owen W. and Lorrie Smith, eds.  America Rediscovered:
     Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War.
     New York: Garland, 1990.
Gotera, Vince.  Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans.
     Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Gruner, Elliott.  Prisoners of Culture: Representing the Vietnam
     P.O.W.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
Hellmann, John.  American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam.  New
     York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
Lomperis, Timothy J.  Reading the Wind: The Literature of the
     Vietnam War. With bibliographic commentary by John Clark
     Pratt.  Duke University Press.
Louvre, Alf and J. Walsh, eds.  Tell me Lies About Vietnam:
     Cultural Battles for the Meaning of the War.  Philadelphia:
     Open University Press, 1988.
Martin, Andrew.  Receptions of War: Vietnam in American Culture.
     Oklahoma project for discourse and theory, v. 10.  Norman,
     OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Melling, Philip H.  Vietnam in American Literature.  Boston:
     Twayne Publishers, 1990.
Searle, William J. ed.  Search and Clear: Critical Responses to
     Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War.  Bowling
     Green: University Popular Press, 1988.
Shafer, D. Michael, ed.  The Legacy: The Vietnam War in the
     American Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.


CB. Novels: Representations of the Vietnam War.

Baber, Asa.  The Land of a Million Elephants.  2nd ed. reprint.
     Vietnam Generation Series. Burning Cities Press, 1992.
Bao Ninh.  The Sorrow of War.  London: Martin Secker and Warburg,
     1993; New York: Pantheon.
Browne, Corinne.  Body Shop.  New York: Stein and Day, 1973.
Bunting, Josiah.  The Lionheads.  New York: George Braziller,
     1972; Popular Library, 1972.
Buonanno, C.  Beyond the Flag.  New York: Tower Publications,
     1981.
Burdick, Eugene and William Lederer.   The Ugly American.  New
     York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
Butler, Robert Olen.  The Alleys of Eden.  New York: Horizon,
     1981; Ballantine, 1983.
Cassidy, John.  A Station in the Delta.  New York: Charles
     Scribner's Sons, 1979.
Clark, Alan.  The Lion Heart.  New York: William Morrow and
     Company, 1969.
Corder, E.M.  The Deer Hunter.  New York: Exeter Books, 1978;
     Jove, 1979.
Coonts, Stephen.  Flight of the Inruder.  Annapolis: Naval
     Institute Press, 1986.
Crumley, James. One To Count Cadence.  New York: Random House,
     1969.
Danziger, Jeff.  Rising Like the Tucson.  New York: Doubleday,
     1991.
Del Vecchio, John.  The 13th Valley.  New York: Bantam, 1982.
Duong Thu Huong.  Paradise of the Blind.  New York: Morrow, 1993;
     Penguin, 1994.
Durden, Charles.  No Bugles, No Drums.  New York: Viking, 1976.
Eastlake, William.  The Bamboo Bed.  New York: Simon & Shuster,
     1969.
Fleming, Thomas.  Officers' Wives.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday &
     Co., 1967.
Ford, Daniel.  Incident at Muc Wa.  New York: Doubleday & Co.,
     1967.
Greene, Graham.  The Quiet American.  New York: Viking, 1955.
Halberstam, David.  One Very Hot Day.  New York: Avon, 1967.
Haldeman, Joe.  War Year.  New York: Holt, 1972.
Hasford, Gustav.  The Short Timers.  New York: Harper & Row,
     1980.
Heinemann, Larry.  Close Quarters.  New York: Farrar, Straus,
     Giroux, 1977.
Heinemann, Larry.  Paco's Story.  New York: Farrar, Strauss and
     Giroux, 1986.
Huggett, William Turner.  Body Count.  New York: G.P. Putnam's
     Sons, 1973.
Kalb, Bernard and Marvin Kalb.  The Last Ambassador.  Boston:
     Little, Brown & Co., 1981.
Mason, Bobbie Ann.  In Country.  New York: Harper Row, 1985.
Merkin, Robert.  Zombie Jamboree.  New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
O'Brien, Tim.  Going After Cacciato.  New York: Delacorte Press,
     1980; Dell, 1980.
O'Brien, Tim.  The Things They Carried.  New York: Penquin, 1990.
Pratt, John Clark.  The Laotian Fragments.  New York: Viking
     Press, 1974.
Rubin, Jonathan.  The Barking Deer.  New York: George Braziller,
     1974.
Stone, Robert.  Dog Soldiers.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
Webb, James.  Fields of Fire.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-
     Hall, 1978.
Wright, Stephen.  Meditations in Green.  New York: Charles
     Scribner's Sons, 1983.


C.  Poetry

Anderson, Doug.  The Moon Reflected Fire.  Cambridge, MA: Alice
     James Books, 1994.
Baladan, John.  After Our War.  Pittsburgh: University of
     Pittsburgh Press, 1974.
Balaban, John.  Vietnam Poems. Oxford: Carcanet, 1970.
Berry, D. C.  Saigon Cemetery.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia
     Press, 1972.
Ehrhart, W. D. A Generation of Peace.  New York: New Voices,
     1975.
Ehrhart, W. D. To Those Who Have Come Home Tired.  New York:
     Thunder Mountain, 1984.
Ehrhart, W. D. ed.  Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the
     Vietnam War. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1989.
Mc Donald, Walter.  Caliban in Blue.  Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech
     Press, 1976.
Miller, Stephen P. An Act of God (Memories of Vietnam).  Eureka,
     CA: Northcoast View Press, 1987 
          Post Office Box 1374, Eureka, CA 95502.
Rottman, Larry, Jan Berry, and Basil T. Paquet, eds.  Winning
     Hearts and Minds.  Perkasie, PA: East River Anthology, 1972.
Shea, Dick.  Vietnam Simply.  Coronada, CA: Pro Tem, 1967.
Van Devanter, Lynda  and Joan A. Furey, eds.  Visions of War,
     Dreams of Peace: Writings of Women in the Vietnam War.  New
     York: Warner Books, 1991.


D. Folklore.

Written:

Clark, Gregory.  Words of the Vietnam War.  The Slang, Jargon,
     Abbreviations, Acronyms, Nomenclature, Nicknames,
     Pseudonyms, Slogans, Specs, Euphemisms, Double-talk, Chants,
     and Names and Places of the Era of United States Involvement
     in Vietnam.  Jeferson NC: McFarland and Co., 1990.
Dane, Barbara and Silber, Irwin.  The Vietnam Songbook.  New
     York: Guardian, 1969.
          Songs from the anti-war movement
Tuso, Joseph F.  Singing the Vietnam Blues: Songs of the U.S. Air
     Force in Vietnam.  Texas A & M Univesity military history
     series, v 19. College Station: Texas A and M Press, 1990.

Recorded:

In Country.  Saul Broudy, Chip Dockery, Bull Durham, Bill Ellis,
     Toby Hughes, Dick Jonas, Chuck Rosenberg.  Flying Fish
     Records, 1991.
