Select Vietnam War Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE BOOKS: 

John S. Bowman. The World Almanac of The Vietnam War. New York: Bison, 1985.

 Burns and Leitenberg. The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1984. 

Merritt Clifton. Those Who Where There. Paradise, CA: Dust Books, 1984. 

Martin Greenberg and Augustus Norton, Eds. Touring Nam: The Vietnam Reader. New York: Morrow, 1985. 

Caroline D. Harnly. Agent Orange and Vietnam: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1988. 

John Musgrave and Micheal Glodfelter. The Vietnam Years: 1,000 Questions and Answers. Boston: Quinlan Press, 1986. 

James Olsen, ed. The Vietnam War: Handbook of the Literature and Research. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. 

Louis A. Peake. The United States in The Vietnam War, 1954-75. New York: Garland, 1986. 

Ronald Spector. Researching The Vietnam Experience. Washington: Center For Military History, 1984. 

Harry S. Summers. The Vietnam War Almanac. New York: Facts on File, 1985. 

Spencer C. Tucker, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. New York: Oxford, 1998.

 VIETNAM AND AMERICAN CULTURE:

 Loren Baritz. Backfire: A history of how American culture led us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the way we did. New York:     Morrow, 1985.

 Tom Engelhardt. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War Culture and the Disillusioning of a Generation. New York: BasicBooks, 1995.

 Jerry Lembcke. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York:  New York University, 1998.

James Miller. Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.

 D. Michael Shaffer, ed. Legacy: The Vietnam War in the American Imagination. Boston: Beacon, 1990

Marita Sturken. Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDs Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering. Los Angeles: California, 1997.

Robert Brent Toplin, ed. Oliver Stone's America: Film, History, and Controversy. Lawrence, 2000.

 Fred Turner. Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. Garden City: Anchor, 1997.

 GENERAL HISTORIES:

Larry H. Addington. America's War in Vietnam: A Short Narrative History. Bloomington: Indiana, 2000. 

Charles Alexander.  Holding The Line: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1961. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1975.

 Lucien Bodard. The Quicksand War: Prelude To Vietnam. New York: Little, Brown, 1963.

 Thomas D. Boettcher. Vietnam: The Valor and The Sorrow. New York: Little, Brown, 1985.

 Joseph Buttinger. Vietnam: A Political History. New York: Praeger, 1968.

 Walter H. Capps. The Unfinished War: Vietnam and The American Conscience. Boston: Beacon Press, 1982.

 Michael Charton and Anthony Moncrieff. Many Reasons Why: The American Involvement in Vietnam. New York: Hill & Wang, 1978.

 Chester L. Cooper. The Lost Crusade: America In Vietnam. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970.

 Tran Van Dong. Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam. San Rafael, CA: Presidio, 1978.

 Lloyd Gardner. Approaching Vietnam: From World II through Dienbienphu. New York: Norton, 1988. 

James Pinckney Harrison. The Endless War: Vietnam's Struggle for Independence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982. 

Patrick J. Hearden. The Tragedy of Vietnam. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

 George Herring. America's Longest War. 2nd Ed. New York: Knopf, 1986.

 Stanley Karnow. Vietnam: A History. New York: Viking, 1983.

 Alexander Kendrick. A Wound Within: America In The Vietnam Years. New York: Little, Brown, 1974.

 Gabriel Kolko. An Anatomy of a War. New York: Pantheon, 1985.

A.J. Langsurth. Our Vietnam: The War,, 1954-1975. New York: Touchstone, 2000.

 Michael MacLear. The Ten Thousand Day War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.

 David G. Marr. Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. 

Allan R. Millet. A Short History of The Vietnam War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. 

Wilbur H. Morrison. The Elephant and The Tiger: The Full Story of the Vietnam War. New York: Hippocrene, 1990. 

Mark Moyar. Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. New York: Cambridge, 2006.

Jonathan Neale. A People’s History of the Vietnam War: A People’s History. New York:  The New Press, 2003.

 John Schlight, ed. Second Indochina War Symposium. Washington: Center For Military History, 1985.

 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. A Thousand Days. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

      . Robert Kennedy and His Times. New Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.   

      . The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Diplomacy. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1970.  

 Anthony Short. The Origins of The Vietnam War. New York: Longmans, 1989.

 MILITARY HISTORIES:

 Dale Andrade. Trial by Fire: The 1972 Easter Offensive, America's Last Vietnam Battle. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1995.

 Aaron Bank. From OSS to Green Berets. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1986.

 Matt Brennan. Headhunters: Stories from the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry in Vietnam, 1965-1969. New York: Pocket Books, 1987.

 Jeffrey L. Clarke. Advice and Support: The Final Years. Washington, DC: Center for Military History, 1991.

 Phillip B. Davidson. Vietnam at War: The History, 1946-1975. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1988. (Published in Paper 1991 by Oxford).

      . Secrets of The Vietnam War. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1990.

James R. Ebert. A Life In A Year: The American Infantryman in Vietnam, 1965-1972. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1993.

 Edward Clinton Ezell. The Great Rifle Controversy. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1984. 

Bernard Fall. The Street Without Joy. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1967. 

     . The Siege of Dienbienphu. New York: De Capo, 1969.

      . Viet-Nam Witness, 1953-1966. New York: Praeger, 1967.

      . The Two Viet-Nams: A Political and Military Analysis. New York: Praeger, 1963.

      . Last Reflections on a War. New York: Doubleday, 1964.

 Charles A. Krohn. The Lost Battalion: Controversy and Casualties  in the Battle of Hue. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.

 Tom Mangold and John Pennycate. The Tunnels of Cu Chi. New York: Random House, 1985.

 S.L.A. Marshall. West To Cambodia and The Fields of Bamboo. New York: Doubleday, 1971.

      . Ambush and Bird: Two Vietnam Battle Narratives. New York: Doubleday, 1969.  

 Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang --- The Battle That Changed The War in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1992.

Mark Moyar. Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. New York: Cambridge, 2006.

 Kieth William Nolan. The Battle of Hue. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1983.

      . Into Laos. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1986.

      . The Magnificent Bastards: The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1994.

      . Operation Buffalo: USMC Fight For The DMZ. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1991.    

      . Sappers in the Wire: Life and Death of Firebase Mary Ann. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.

 Edgar O'Ballance. The Wars of Vietnam, 1954-1980. New York: Hippocrene, 1985.

 Don Oberdofer. Tet! New York: Doubleday, 1971.

David Richard Palmer. Summons of the Trumpet. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1978.

 Robert Pisor. The End of The Line: The Seige of Khe Sanh. New York: Norton, 1982.

 John Prados. The Sky Would Fall. New York: Dial, 1993.

      . The Hidden History of the Vietnam War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995. 

      . The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999.

 John Prados and Ray W. Stubbe. Valley of Decision: The Siege of  Khe Sanh. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

 Jules Roy. The Battle of Dienbienphu. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

John M. Shaw. The Cambodia Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War. Lawrence: Kansas, 2005.

 Peter Scholl-Latour. Death in the Rice Fields. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.

 Neil Sheehan. The Arnheiter Affair. New York: Random House, 1971.

 Charles M. Simpson. Inside the Green Berets: The First Thirty Years. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1983.

 Lewis Sorley. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam. New York:             Harcourt Brace and Company, 1999.

 Ronald Spector. Advice and Support: The Early Years of The U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1941-1960. New York: Free Press, 1985.

      . After Tet: The Bloodiest Year In Vietnam. New York: Free Press, 1993.    

 Shelby Stanton.  The Rise and Fall of an American Army. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1985.

      .  The Green Berets At War. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1985.

      .  Anatomy of a Division: The 1st Cav in Vietnam. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1987.

      .  Rangers At War: LRRPs In Vietnam. New York: Ivy, 1992.

 G. H. Turley. The Easter Offensive: The Last American Advisors  Vietnam, 1972. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1985.

James H. Willbanks. The Tet Offensive: A Concise History. New York: Columbia, 2006.

 MILITARY ANALYSIS, INTELLIGENCE, AND OPERATIONS:

 Sam Adams. War Of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1994.    

Dale Andrade. Ashes To Ashes: The Phoenix Program and The Vietnam War. Boston: Lexington Books, 1990.

 Christian Appy. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1993. 

Robert B. Asprey. War in the Shadows: The Guerilla in History. New York: Doubleday, 1975.

Dixee R. Bartholomew-Feis. The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War Against Japan. Lawrence: Kansas, 2006.

 Eric M. Bergerund. Red Thunder Tropic Lightning: The World of a  Combat Division in Vietnam. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.

      . The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.  

Richard K. Betts. Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises. NewYork: Columbia, 1991.

     . Surprise Attack. Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1982.

 Matathew Brennan, ed. Hunter-Killer Squadron; Aero-Weapons, Aero-Scouts, Aero-Rifles, Vietnam 1965-1972. New York: Pocket Books, 1990.

Andrew J. Birtle. U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942-1976. Washington: CMH, 2007

 Robert Buzzanco. Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics  in the Vietnam Era. New York: Cambridge, 1996.

 Larry Cable. Conflict of Myths: The Development of American Counterinsurgency Doctrine and the Vietnam Era. New York:  New York University Press, 1986.

     . Unholy Grail: The U.S. and the Wars in Vietnam, 1965-1968. London: Routledge, 1991.

 Tom Carhart. Battlefront Vietnam: How The War Was Really Fought. New York: Warner, 1984.

 John A. Cash. Seven Firefights In Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: Center for Military History, 1989

 Cincinnatus (Cecil B. Curry). Self-Destruction: The Disintegration of the United States Army during The Vietnam Era. New York: Norton, 1981.

 Karl Von Clausewitz, Trans and Ed by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. On War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton, 1976.

 William Colby. Lost Victory. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989.

 J. D. Coleman. Pleiku: The Dawn of Helicopter Warefare in Vietnam. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

      . Incursion. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

 William R. Corson.  The Betrayal. New York: Norton, 1968.

      . Consequences of Failure. New York: Norton, 1974.

 Orrin DeForest. Slow Burn: The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.

 James R. Ebert. A Life in a Year: The American Infantryman in Vietnam, 1965-1972. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1993.

 William B. Fulton. Riverine Operations, 1966-1969. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1985.

 Richard Gabriel. Crisis in Command. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.

 Fred Gaffen. Unknown Warriors: Canadians In The Vietnam War. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1990.

 Vo Nguyen Giap. The Military Art of People's War. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1970.

 James William Gibson. The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.

 Zalin Grant. Facing the Phoenix: The CIA and the Political Defeat of the United States in Vietnam. New York: Norton, 1991.

 S. B. Griffith. Mao Tse-tung on Guerilla War. New York: Praeger, 1961.

 William Head and Lawrence E. Grinter, ed. Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat, and Legacies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

 Al Hemingway. Our War Was Different: Marine Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994.

C. Michael Hiam. Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars. Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2006.

Samuel P. Huntington. The Soldier and the State. New York: Vintage, 1957. 

Morris Janowitz. The Professional Soldier. New York: Free Press,1960.  

Francis J. Kelly. U.S. Army Special Forces, 1961-1971. Washington, D.C.: Department of The Army, 1985. 

Douglas Kinnard. The War Managers. Wayne, NJ: Avery, 1985.

      . The Certain Trumpet: Maxwell Taylor and the American Experience in Vietnam. Washington: Brassey's, 1991.

 Andrew F. Krepinevich. The Army and Vietnam. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1986.

 Nguyen Cao Ky. How We Lost The War. New York: Stein and Day, 1978.

 Guether Lewy. America in Vietnam. New York: Oxford, 1978.

 Michael Lind. Vietnam: The Necessary War. New York: Free Press, 1999.

 Timothy Lomperis. The War Everyone Lost --- And Won. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1984.

 Alfred W. McCoy. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

 Robert S. McNamara, ed. Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy.  Washington: Public Affairs, 1999.

 John Grider Miller. The Bridge At Dong Ha. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989.

 Timothy Endicott Osgood. Limited War: The Challenge to American  Strategy. Chicago, IL: Chicago, 1957.

Alfred H. Paddock, Jr. U.S. Army Special Warfare: Its Origins. Lawrence: Kansas, 2002.

 Bruce Palmer. The 25-Year War. Lexington: Kentucky, 1985.

 F. Charles Parker IV. Vietnam: Strategy For A Stalemate. New York: Paragon House, 1989.

 Mark Perry. Four Stars. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.

 John Prados. Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby. New York: Oxford, 2003.

 Jeffrey Record. The Wrong War: Why We Lost Vietnam. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998.

 D. Michael Shafer. Deadly Paradigms: The Failure of U.S. Counter insurgency Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton, 1988.

 U. S. G. Sharp. Strategy for Defeat. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1979.

 Richard H. Schultz, Jr. The Secret War Against Hanoi. New York:  HarperCollins, 1999.

 Frank Sneep. Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's  Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief of Strategy Analyst  in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1977.

 Donn A. Starry. Mounted Combat In Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1989.

 Harry G. Summers. On Strategy. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1982.

 Thomas C. Thayer. War Without Fronts: American Experience in  Vietnam. Boulder: Westview, 1985.

Sedgwick Tourison. Secret Army Secret War: Washington’s Tragic Spy Operation in North Vietnam. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press,1995.

 Sun Tzu, Trans. by Samuel B. Griffith. The Art of War. New York: Oxford, 1963.

 Cao Van Vien. The Final Collapse. Washington, D.C.: Center for Military History, 1985.

James H. Willbanks. Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War. Lawrence: Kansas, 2004.

 James J. Wirtz. The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.

 INTERNATIONALIZATION OF VIETNAM

 Fred Gaffen. Unknown Warriors: Canadians In The Vietnam War. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1990.

Ilya V. Gaiduk. The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996.

Priscella Roberts, ed. Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and World Beyond Asia. Washington: Stanford, 2006.

 R. B. Smith. An International History of the Vietnam War: V. I, The Revolution vs. Containment. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.

       . An International History of the Vietnam War: V. II, The Kennedy Strategy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.                

      . An International History of the Vietnam War: V III, The Making of Limited War, 1965-1966. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

 Lars-Goran Stenelo. The International Critic: The Impact of  Swedish Criticism of the U.S. Involvement in Vietnam. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1984.

Christopher Pugsley. From Emergency to Confrontation: The New Zealand Armed Forces in Malay and Borneo, 1949-1966. New York: Oxford, 2003.

 Qiang Zhai. China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

 DOMESTIC POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY:

David L. Anderson, ed. Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

 James R. Arnold. The First Domino: Eisenhower, The Military, and  America's Intervention in Vietnam. New York: Morrow, 1991.

David M. Barrett. Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His  Vietnam Advisers. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

 Michael Beschloss. Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

 Larry Berman. Planning A Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam. New York: Norton, 1982.

      . Lyndon Johnson's War. New York: Norton, 1989.

      . No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam. New York: Free  Press, 2001.

 Robert M. Blackburn. Mercenaries and Lyndon Johnson's "More Flags": The Hiring of Korean, Filipina and Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994.   

Joseph A. Califano, Jr. The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson:  The White House Years. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

 William Corson. The Betrayal. New York: Norton, 1968.

 G. David Curry. Sunshine Patriots: Punishment and the Vietnam Offender. Notre Dame, ID: Notre Dame, 1985.

 Robert A. Divine, ed. The Johnson Years: LBJ at Home and Abroad. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

 Robert J. Donovan. Nemesis: Truman and Johnson in the Coils of War in Asia. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984.

 Peter Dunn. The First Vietnam War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.

 Editors of Esquire. Smiling Through The Apocalypse: History of the Sixties. New York: Crown, 1987.

 David Farber, ed. The Sixties: From Memory to History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964.

 David Farber. The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s. New York: Hill & Wang, 1994.

 J. William Fullbright. The Arrogance of Power. New York: Vintage, 1966.

 Lloyd Gardner. Approaching Vietnam: From World War II through Dienbienphu. New York: Norton, 1988.

Leslie Gelb and Richard Betts. The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked. Washington: Brookings, 1979.

 Todd Gitlin. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. New York: Bantam, 1987.

 Annie Gottlieb. Do You Believe In Magic: The Second Coming of the Sixties Generation. New York: Times Book, 1987. 

Sen. Mike Gravel, ed. The Pentagon Papers: The Defense Department History of United States Decision Making on Vietnam. 4 Vols. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1971.

 David Halberstam. Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era. New York: Knopf, 1964.

      . The Best and The Brightest. New York: Random House, 1969.

      . The Fifties. New York: Villard Books, 1983.

 H.R. Haldeman. The Haldeman Diaries: Inside The White House. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994.

Ellen J. Hammer. Death In November: American in Vietnam, 1963.New York: Dutton, 1987.

 Jim F. Heath. Decade of Disillusionment: The Kennedy-Johnson Years. Bloomington, IN: Indiana, 1975.

 Margot A. Henriksen. Dr. Strangelove’s America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age. Los Angeles: University of California, 1997.

 Geogre Heering, ed. The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War:  The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers. Austin: Texas, 1983.

      . LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1994.

 Gary R. Hess. Vietnam and The United States: Origins and Legacy of War. Boston: Twayne, 1990.

Trumbell Higgins. The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and  the CIA at The Bay of Pigs. New York: Norton, 1987.

 Roger Hillsman. To Move A Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy  in the Administration of John F. Kennedy. New York: Doubleday, 1967.

Townshed Hoopes. The Limits of Intervention. New York: McKay, 1969.

 Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman. No One Here Gets Out Alive. New York: Werner, 1980.

 Nguyen Tien Hung and Jerrold L. Schecter. The Palace File. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.

 Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin. America Divided: The Civil    War of the 1960s. New York: Oxford, 2000.  

 Lyndon Johnson. Vantage Point. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1971.

 Howard Jones. Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford, 2003.

 Jeffrey Kimball. Nixon’s Vietnam War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

___. The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the Secret History of the Nixon-Era Strategy. Lawrence: Kansas, 2004.

Henry Kissinger. Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement and Extrication from the Vietnam War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

Margaret Macmillan. Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World. New York: Random House, 2007.

 George McT. Kahin. Intervention: How American Became Involved  in Vietnam. Garden City: Anchor, 1987.

 Robert Mann. A Grand Delusion: America’s Descent into Vietnam. New York: Basic Books, 2001. 

Joseph G. Morgan. The Vietnam Lobby: The American Friends of Vietnam 1955-1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1997.

Rusty L. Monhollon. "This is America?" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

 David Kaiser. American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

 Bernard Kalb and Marvin Kalb. Kissinger. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.

 Paul Kattenberg. The Vietnam Trauma in American Policy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1982. 

Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson and The American Dream. New York:  Harper and Row, 1976.

Henry Kissinger. The White House Years. New York: Little, Brown, 1979.

      . Years of Upheaval. New York: Little, Brown, 1982.

 Rebecca E. Klatch. A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s. Los Angeles: University of California, 1999.

 Kim McQuaid. The Anxious Years: America In The Vietnam-Watergate Era. New York: Basic Books, 1989.

 Allen J. Matusow. The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in The 1960s. New York: Haper and Row, 1984.

 Bruce Miroff. Pragmatic Illusions: The Presidential Politics of John F. Kennedy. New York: Longman, 1976.

 John M. Newman. JFK And Vietnam. New York; Warner Books, 1992.

William L. O'Neill. Coming Apart: An Informal History of the 1960s. New York: Times Books, 1971.

 Archimedes Patti. Why Vietnam: Prelude To America's Albatross. Los Angeles, CA: California, 1980.

 Hugh Pearson. The Shadow Of The Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1994. 

Norman Podoretz. Why We Were In Vietnam? New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.

 Edwin O. Reischauer. Beyond Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1968.

 William Rust. Kennedy In Vietnam: American Vietnam Policy, 1960-1963. New York: Scribner's, 1985.

 William Safire. Before The Fall. New York: Doubleday, 1975.

 Dominic Sandbrook. Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism. New York: Knopf, 2004.

 Herbert Y. Schandler. Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam. Princeton, N.J.: University of Princeton Press, 1977.

 R. B. Smith. An International History of the Vietnam War: V. I, The Revolution vs. Containment. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.

      . An International History of the Vietnam War: V. II, The Kennedy Strategy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.                

      . An International History of the Vietnam War: V III, The Making of Limited War, 1965-1966. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

 Lars-Goran Stenelo. The International Critic: The Impact of  Swedish Criticism of the U.S. Involvement in Vietnam. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1984.

 William A. Strauss and Lawrence M. Baskir. Chance and Circum stance: The Draft, The War, and The Vietnam Generation. New York: Knopf, 1978.

 Michael P. Sullivan. The Vietnam War: A Study in the Making of American Policy. Lexington, KY: Kentucky, 1985.

 Ramesh Thakur. Peacekeeping in Vietnam: Canada, India, Poland  and the International Commission. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press, 1984.

 Wallace J. Theis. When Governments Collide. Los Angeles, CA: California, 1980.

 Gregory F. Treverton. Covert Action: The Limits of Intervention  in the Postwar World. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

 Brian VanDeMark. Into The Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and The Escalation of the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford, 1991.

 Frank E. Vandiver. Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson’s Wars. College Station: Texas A&M University, 1997.

 Lewis W. Walt. Strange War Strange Strategy. New York: Zebra, 1971.

 Richard J. Walton. Cold War and Counterrevolution: The Foreign Policy of John F. Kennedy. New York: Viking, 1972.

 Jayne S. Werner and Luu Doan Huynh, ed. The Vietnam War:  Vietnamese and American Perspectives. Armonk, NY: M.E.Sharpe, 1993.

 Garry Wills. Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man. New York: New American Library, 1974.

       . The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power. New York: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1981.

 Tom Wolfe. Electric-Kool Aid Acid Test. New York: Bantam, 1968.

      . Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.

     . The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1963.

DOMESTIC PROTEST:

 Jane Alpert. Growng Up Underground. New York: Citadel, 1990.

 Terry H. Anderson. The Movement and The Sixties: Protest in America From Greensboro to Wounded Knee. New York: Oxford,1995.

Tom Bates. RADS: The 1970 Bombing of the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin and Its Aftermath. New York: HaperCollins, 1992.

Susan Braudy. Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left. New York: Knopf, 2003.

 David Caute. The Year of The Barricades: A Journey Through 1968. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.

 Charles DeBenedetti. An American Ordeal; The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse, 1990.

 David Farber. Chicago '68. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Jo Freeman. At Berkeley in the '60s. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2004.

 Adam Garfinkle. Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the  Vietnam Antiwar Movement. New York: St. Martin's Press,1995.

 Tom Hayden. Reunion: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1988.

 Kenneth J. Heineman. Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era. New York: NYU Press, 1993.

 D. A. Horne, ed. The Wounded Generation: America After Vietnam. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1981.

 Maurice Isserman. If I Had A Hammer: The Death of the Old Left  and the Birth of the New Left. Urbana: University of  Illinois Press, 1993.

 Maurince Isserman and David Kazin. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. New York: Oxford, 2000 

Jeffrey Kimball. The Vietnam Files: Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon-Era Strategy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004. 

 Rebecca E. Klatch. A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s. Los Angeles: University of California, 1999.

Mark Kurlansky. 1968: The Year that Rocked the World. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.

 James Simon Kunen. The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary. New York: Avon Books, 1968.

David W. Levy. The Debate over Vietnam. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins, 1991.

Mark Hamilton Lytle. America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon. New York: Oxford, 2005

 Norman Mailer. Armies of The Night. New York: American Library, 1968.

 David Maraniss. They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

 James A. Michener. Kent State. New York: Random House, 1971.

 James Miller. "Democracy Is In The Streets": From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Rusty L. Monhollon. "This is America?" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

 Joan Morrison and Robert K. Morrison. From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of those Who Lived it. New York: Oxford, 2001.

Gerald Nicosia. Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement. New York: Crown, 2001.

 Thomas Powers. Vietnam: The War at Home. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984.

 W. J. Rorabaugh. Berkeley at War: The 1960s. New York: Oxford,1989.

 Kirkpatrick Sale. SDS. New York: Vintage, 1973.

 David L. Schlak. War and The Ivory Tower: Algeria and Vietnam. New York: Oxford, 1990.

Melvin Small. At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War. Chicago: Ivan Dee, 2005.

 James W. Tollefson. The Strength Not To Fight: An Oral History  of Conscientious Objectors of the Vietnam War. New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1993.

 Milton Viorst. Fire in the Streets: America In The 1960s. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

 Tom Wells. The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam. Berkeley, CA: University California Press, 1994. 

Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan. Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam. New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1984.

 THE MEDIA:

 Renata Adler. Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al. Sharon v Time. New York: Knopf, 1986.

Milton Bates, et. al. Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1954-1975. New York: The Library of America, 1998.

 Peter Braestrup. Big Story. New Haven, CT: Yale, 1983.

 Bob Brewin and Sydney Shaw. Vietnam On Trial: Westmoreland vs. CBS. New York: Atheneum, 1987.

 Francis Fitzgerald. Fire In The Lake: The Vietnamese and  Americans in Vietnam. New York: Atlantic-Little, Brown,1972.

 Daniel C. Hallin. The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam. New York: Oxford, 1986.

 William M. Hammond. The Military and The Media, 1962-1968. Washington: Center for Military History, 1988.

 Michael Herr. Dispatches. New York: Knopf, 1978.

 Marquerite Higgins. Our Vietnam Nightmare. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

 Ward Just. To What End: A Report from Vietnam.. Washington: Public Affairs, 1968, 2000.

 Philip Knightley. The First Casualty From The Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. 

Don Kowet. A Matter of Honor: Gerneral William C. Westmoreland  Versus CBS. New York: Macmillan, 1984. 

David Lamb. Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns. Washington: Public Affairs, 2002. 

John Laurence. The Cat of Hue: A Vietnam War Story. Washington: Public Affairs, 2002. 

Antoinette May. Witness to War: A Biography of Margueritte Higgins. New York: Beaufort, 1983. 

Harvey Meyerson. Vinh Long. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

 David Rudenstine. The Day the Presses Stopped: The History of the Pentagon Papers Case. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.

 Morley Safer. Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1990.

 Harrison E. Salisbury, ed. Vietnam Reconsidered: Lessons From a War. New York: Harper and Row, 1984.

 Frank Sneep. Irreparable Harm. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999.

 Kathleen J. Turner. Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and The Press. Chicago, IL: Chicago, 1985.

 Clarence R. Wyatt. Paper Soldiers: The American Press and the Vietnam War. New York: Norton, 1993.

 ANTHOLOGIES AND LITERARY CRITICISM OF THE VIETNAM WAR:

 Philip D. Beidler. Re-Writing America: Vietnam Writers in Their Generation. Athens, GA: Georgia, 1991.

 Timothy Lomperis and John Clark Pratt. "Reading The Wind": The Literature of the Vietnam War. Durham, NC: Duke, 1987.

 George Donelson Moss. A Vietnam Reader: Sources and Essays. New York: Prentice Hall, 1991.

 Thomas Myers. Walking Point: American Narratives of Vietnam. New York: Oxford, 1988.

John Carlos Rowe and Rick Berg. The Vietnam War and American Culture. New York: Columbia, 1991. 

Eric James Schroeder. Vietnam, We've All Been There: Interviews with American Writers. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992. 

Grace Sevy, ed. The American Experience in Vietnam: A Reader. Norman, OK: Oklahoma, 1989.

WATERGATE:

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. All the President's Men. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.

John Dean. Blind Ambition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976.

Fred Emery. Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon. New York: Times Books, 1994.

John Ehrlichman. Witness to Power: The Nixon Years. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Leonard Garment. In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

H. R. Haldeman. The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994.

Stanley I. Kutler. The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon. New York: Norton, 1990.

___. Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes. New York: Free Press, 1997.

J. Anthony Lukas. Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years. New York: Viking, 1973.

Richard M. Nixon. Six Crisis. Garden City: Doubleday, 1962.

Keith W. Olsen. Watergate: The Presidential Scandal that Shook a Nation. Lawrence: Kansas, 2003.

Bruce Oudes, ed. From: The President: Richard Nixon's Secret Files. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.

Michael Schudson. Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past. Basic Books, 1992.

William Shawcross, et. al. Watergate. New York: Ballantine, 1973.

John J. Sirica. To Set the Record Straight: The Break-in, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon. New York: Norton, 1979.

Jerry Voorhis. The Strange Case of Richard Milhous Nixon. New York: Popular Library, 1972.

Barry Werth. 31 Days. Garden City: Doubleday, 2006.

Bob Woodward. The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005

CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL REVIVAL:

Dan T. Carter. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Donald T. Critchlow. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade. Princeton, 2005.

John Patrick Diggins. Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History. New York: Norton, 2007.

Barry Goldwater. The Conscience of a Conservative. Shepherdsville, KY: Victor Publishing, 1960.

Godfrey Hodgson. The World Turned Right Side Up: A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America. Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1996.

Nelson Lichtenstein. The State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Princeton, 2002.

John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge. The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America. New York: Penguin, 2004.

J. William Middendorf II. A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

Michael Mills. The Odyssey of the American Right. New York: Oxford, 1980.

Gregory Schneider. Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right. New York: NYU, 1999.

Gregory Schneider, ed. Conservatism in America Since 1930. New York: NYU, 2003.

Robert Brent Toplin. Radical Conservatism: The Right's Political Religion. Lawrence: Kansas, 2006.

Garry Wills. Reagan's America: Innocents at Home. Garden City: Doubleday, 1987.

 WOMEN AT WAR:

 Lynda Van Dervanter and Christopher Morgan.  Home Before Morning. New York: Werner, 1983.

 Duong Van Mai Elliott. The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family. New York: Oxford, 1999.

 Terry Farish. Flower Shawdows: A Novel. New York: Morrow, 1992.

 Thomas Fleming. The Officers' Wives: A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 1981.

 Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt. A Time Remembered: American Women in the Vietnam War. Novato: Presidio, 1999.

 Evelyn Hawkins. Vietnam Nurse: A Novel. New York: Zebra, 1984.

 Le Ly Hayslip. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey From War To Peace. New York: Plume, 1990.

       . Child of War, Woman of Peace. New York: Doubleday, 1993. 

Kathryn Marshall. In The Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam. New York: Little, Brown, 1987.

Donna Moreau. Waiting Wives: The Story of Shilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War. New York: Atria, 2005.

Marian Faye Novak. Lonely Girls with Burning Eyes: A Wife Recalls Her Husband's Journey Home From Vietnam. New York: Little, Brown, 1991.

Winnie Smith. American Daughter Gone To War. New York: Morrow, 1993.

Karen Gottschang Turner. Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of the War from North Vietnam. New York: Wiley, 1998.

 Keith Walker. A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty-Six American Women Who Served In Vietnam. New York: Ballantine, 1985.

 BIOGRAPHIES, MEMOIRS, ORAL HISTORIES, AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES:

Charles Anderson. Grunts. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1976.

     . Vietnam: The Other War. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1982.

Christian G. Appy. The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides. New York: Viking, 2003.

 Rick Atkinson. The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point Class of 1966. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.

Mark Baker. Nam. New York: Quill, 1982.

Philip D. Beidler, Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam. Athens: Georgia, 2004

Irving Bernstein. Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson. New York: Oxford, 1996.

John Stevens Berry. Those Gallant Men. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1984.

Tom Bissell. The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: Pantheon, 2007

Anne Blair. Lodge in Vietnam: A Patriot Abroad. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

 Bui Diem. In The Jaws of History. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

 Alfred S. Bradford. Some Even Volunteered: The First Wolfhounds Pacify Vietnam. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.

 Matthew Brennan. Brennan's War. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1985.

 John M. G. Brown.  Rice Paddy Grunt. Chicago: Regnery, 1986.

 C. D. B. Bryan. Friendly Fire. New York: Putnam, 1976.

 R.D. Camp. Lima-6: A Marine Company Commander in Vietnam June 1967-January 1968. New York: Atheneum, 1989.

 Philip Caputo. A Rumor of War. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.

 Tom Carhart. The Offering. New York: Morrow, 1987.

 Michael Clodfelter. Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months: A Soldier's  Memoir. New York: Zebra Books, 1988.

 Cecil Curry. Victor at any Cost. Washington: Brassey’s, 1997.

 Robert Dallek. Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960. New York: Oxford, 1991.

       . Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973. New York: Oxford, 1998.

       . An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.

 David Donnovan. Once A Warrior King. New York; McGraw-Hill, 1985.

 Frederick Downs. The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War. New York: Norton, 1978.

      . Aftermath: A Soldier's Return From Vietnam. New York: Norton, 1984.

 Bernard Edelman, ed. Dear America. New York: Norton, 1985.

 W. D. Ehrhart. Marking Time. New York: Avon Books, 1986.

 Gloria Emerson. Winners and Losers. New York: Random House, 1972.

Ronald J. Glasser. 365 Days. New York: George Braziller, 1971.

Stanley Goff and Robert Sanders. Brothers: Black Soliders in Vietnam. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1982.

Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller. Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did To Us. New York: Morrow, 1983. 

David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman. About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

 Anthony Herbert. Soldier. New York: Dell, 1973.

 Stuart Herrington. Silence Was A Weapon. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1982.

 Seymour M. Hersh. The Price of Power: Kissinger in the White House. New York: Summit Books, 1983.

 Roger Hilsman. American Guerilla: My War Behind Japanese Lines. New York: Brassey's, 1990.

Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh. South Wind Changing. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1994.

 Rod Kane. Veteran's Day: A Combat Odyssey. New York: Pocket Books, 1990.

 John Ketwig. And A Hard Rain Fell. New York: Pocket Books, 1986.

 Henry Kissinger. Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

 Joe Klein. Payback. New York: Knopf, 1984.

 Ron Kovic. Born On The Fourth of July. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.

 Otto J. Lethrack. No Shining Armor: The Marines At War in Vietnam: An Oral History. Lawrence, KS: Kansas, 1992.

 Jean Lacouture. Ho Chi Minh: A Political Biography. New York: Vintage, 1968.

 Timothy S. Lowry. And Brave Men Too. New York: Crown, 1985.

 Peter MacDonald. Giap: The Victor in Vietnam. New York: Norton, 1993.

Peter Maslowski and Don Winslow. Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War. Lincoln: Nebraska, 2004.

 Robert Mason.  Chickenhawk. New York: Viking, 1983.

      .  Chickenhawk: Back In The World. New York: Viking, 1993.

 Franklin D. Miller. Reflections of a Warrior. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1991.

 Merle Miller. Lyndon: An Oral History. New York: Putnam, 1980.

 Hugh L. Mills, Jr. Low Level Hell: A Scout Pilot In The Big Red One. New York: Dell, 1992.

 James McDonough. Platoon Leader. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1985.

 Robert S. McNamara. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of  Vietnam. New York: Times Books, 1995.

 Myra MacPherson. Long Time Passing: Vietnam & The Haunted  Generation. New York: Doubleday, 1984.

 Harry Maurer. Strange Ground: An Oral History of Americans In Vietnam, 1945-1975. New York: Avon, 1989.

 Michael Norman. These Good Men: Friendships Forged From War. New Crown, 1989.

 Oliver L. North. One More Mission: Oliver North Returns to Vietnam. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Tim O'Brien. If I Die In A Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. New York: Dell, 1969.

 Laura Palmer. Shrapnel In The Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. New York: Vintage, 1987.

 Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Fortunate Son: An Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.

 Dave Rostar. Alpha Niner. Flint, MI: Privately Published, 1991.

 Norman L. Russell. Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story. New York: Praeger, 1993.

 Al Santoli. Everything We Had. New York: Random House, 1981.

      . To Bear Any Burden. New York: Dutton, 1985.

 Benjamin F. Schemmer. Raid. New York: Haper and Row, 1976.

 H. Norman Schwartzkopf with Peter Petre. General H. Norman Schwartzkopf: The Autobiography: It Doesn't Take A Hero. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.     

 Neil Sheehan. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1988.

 Howard R. Simpson. Tiger In The Barbed Wire: An American in Vietnam, 1952-1991. New York: Kodansha International, 1992.

 Melvin Small. The Presidency of Richard Nixon. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

 Lewis Sorley. Thunderbolt: Gen. Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

 James B. Stockdale. A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, 1984.

 James B. Stockdale and Sybil Stockdale. In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice during the Vietnam War. New York: Haper & Row, 1984.

 Peter Tauber. The Sunshine Soldiers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.

 Maxwell D. Taylor. Swords and Plowshares. New York: Norton, 1972.

 Wallace Terry. Bloods. New York: Random House, 1984.

 Robert Timberg. The Nightingale's Song. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

 James Watson and Kevin Dockery. Point Man. New York: Morrow, 1993.

Tom Wells. Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.

 William C. Westmoreland. A Soldier Reports. New York: Doubleday, 1976.

 Kim Willenson. The Bad War: An Oral History of the Vietnam War. New York: New American Library, 1987.

 Tobias Wolff. In The Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War. New York: Knopf, 1994.

 Samuel Zaffiri. Westmoreland: A Biography of William C. Westmoreland. New York: Morrow, 1994.

 Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and LT Elmo Zumwalt III. My Father, My Son. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

 PRISONERS OF WAR AND MIAS:

 William Anderson. Bat-21. New York: Bantam Books, 1980.

 Scott Blakely. Prisoner at War: The Survival of Richard A.  Straton. New York: Penguin, 1978.

 Dreter Dengler. Escape From Laos. New York: Zebra Books, 1979.

 Robert C. Doyle. Voices From Captivity: Interpreting The American POW Narrative. Lawrence: Kansas, 1994.

 H. Bruce Franklin. M.I.A. or Mythmaking In America. New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1992.

 Zalin Grant. Survivors: American POWs in Vietnam. New York: Norton, 1975.

 Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer. Conversations with the Enemy. New York: Penguin, 1983.

 Malcolm McConnell. Into The Mouth of The Cat. New York: Norton,1985. 

Malcolm McConnell and Theodore G. Scweitzer. Inside Hanoi's Secret Archives: Solving The MIA Mystery. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Charles J. Patterson and G. Lee Trippin. The Heroes Who Fell From Grace. New York: Dell, 1987.

 Charlie Plumb. I'm No Hero. Kansas City, MO: Independence Press,1973.

 James N. Rowe. Five Years To Freedom. New York: Little, Brown, 1971.

Garry L. Smith. The Search for MIAs. Spartanburg, SC: Honoribus Press, 1992.

 Monika Jensen-Stevenson and William Stevenson. Kiss The Boys Goodbye: How The United States  Betrayed Its Own POWs In  Vietnam. New York: Dutton, 1990.

 Thomas Taylor. Where The Orange Blooms. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1989.

 THE AIR WAR OVER VIETNAM:

 Jack Ballard. Development and Employment of Fixed Wing Gunships. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1982.

 Ken Bell. 100 Missions North: A Fighter Pilot's Story of the Vietnam War. New York: Brassey's, 1993.

 Jack Broughton. Thud Ridge. New York: Bantam, 1985.

      . Going Down Town: The War Against Hanoi and Washington. New York: Orion Books, 1988.

 Timothy N. Castle. One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

 Mark Clodfelter. The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing  of North Vietnam. New York: Free Press, 1989.

 Stephen Coonts. Flight of The Intruder. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986.

 Richard Drury. My Secret War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.

 Jeffrey Ethell and Alfred Price.  One Day In A Long War: May 10, 1972, Air War, North Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1989.

 Zalin Grant. Over The Beach: The Air War in Vietnam. New York: Norton, 1986.

 Walt Kross. Splash One: Air Victory Over Hanoi --- A Novel.  Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1991.

 George J. Marnett. Cheating Death: Combat Air Rescue in Vietnam and Laos. Washington: Smithsonian, 2003.

 John B. Nichols and Barrett Tillman. On Yankee Station: The Naval Air War over Vietnam. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987.

 Richard Parque. A Distant Thunder: A Novel. New York: Zebra Books, 1989.

 Norman Polmar. The Naval Air War in Vietnam. 2nd Ed. Baltimore, MD: Nautical and Aviation, 1986.

 John Prados. The Sky Would Fall: Operation Vulture, The Secret  U.S. Bombing Mission to Vietnam, 1954. New York: Dial,1983.

Carol Reardon. Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972. Lawrence: Kansas, 2005.

James Clay Thompson. Rolling Thunder: Understanding Policy and  Program Failure. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

 John Trotti. Phantom Over Vietnam: Fighter Pilot, USMC. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1984.

 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL:

Bao Ninh. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam. New York: Riverhead Books, 1993.

 William Broyles, Jr. Brothers in Arms: A Journey From Wart to Peace. New York: Knopf, 1986.

 David Halberstam. Ho. New York: Knopf, 1987.

 Staughton Lynd and Thomas Hayden. The Other Side. New York: New American Library, 1968.

 Duong Thu Huong. A Novel Without A Name. New York: Morrow, 1995.

 Military Institute of Vietnam. Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People’s  Army of Vietnam, 1954-1975. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2002.

 Douglas Pike. Viet Cong. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966.

      . PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1986.

      . War, Peace, and The Viet Cong. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969.

 John Prados. The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War. New York: Wiley, 1998.

 Jeffery Race. The War Comes To Long An. Los Angeles, CA: California, 1972.

 Harrison Salisbury. Behind The Lines: Hanoi. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

 Robert Shaplen. Bitter Victory. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.

 Neil Sheehan. After The War Was Over: Hanoi and Saigon. New York: Random House, 1992.

 Truong Nhu Tang. Viet Cong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.

 Doan Van Toai and David Chanoff. Vietnamese Gulag. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

     . Portrait of the Enemy. New York: Random House, 1986.

 Van Tien Dung. Our Great Spring Victory. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977.

 CAMBODIA AND LAOS: THE OTHER WAR:

 Marie Alexandrine Martin. Cambodia: A Shattered Society. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994.

 Elizabeth Becker. When The War Was Over: The Voices of Cambodia's Revolution and its People. New York: Simon and Schuster,1986.

 David P. Chandler. The Tragedy of Cambodian History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991.

 Arthur J. Dommen. Conflict in Laos: The Politics of Neutralization. New York: Praeger, 1965.

 Craig Etcheson. The Rise and Demise of Democratic Kampuchea. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984.

 Jane Hamilton-Merritt. Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1999.

 Haing Ngor. Haing Ngor: A Cambodian Odyssey. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

 Arnold Isaacs. Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1983.

 Ben Kiernan. How Pol Pot Came to Power: A History of Communism in Kampuchea, 1930-1975. London: Verso, 1985.

      . The Pol Pot Regime: Race Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

John M. Shaw. The Cambodia Campaign: The 1970 Offensive and America's Vietnam War. Lawrence: Kansas, 2005.

 William Shawcross. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and The Destruction of Cambodia. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

      . The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

 VETERANS AFFAIRS:

 Christian G. Appy. Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers in Vietnam. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1993.

 David E. Benior, Steven M. Champlin, and Timothy S. Kolly. The Vietnam Veteran: A History of Neglect. New York: Praeger, 1984.

 Joel Brende and Erwin Randolf Parson. Vietnam Veterans: The Road to Recovery. New York: Plenum Press, 1985.

 Eric T. Dean, Jr. Shook over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

 Charles R. Figley and Seymour Leventman, ed. Strangers at Home. New York: Praeger, 1980.

 Ellen Frey-Wouters and Robert S. Laufer. Legacy of a War: The American Soldier in Vietnam. Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 1986.

 Bob Greene. Homecoming: When The Soldiers Returned From Vietnam. New York: Putnam, 1989.

 Herbert Hendin and Ann Pollinger Hass. Wounds of War. New York: Basic Books, 1984.

 James Kitfield. Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

 Jerry Lembcke. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: New York University, 1998.

 Robert J. Lifton. Home from the War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.

 Al Santoli. Lying The Ground Work, How Vietnam Veterans Rebuilt the U.S. Army: An Oral History. New York: Morrow, 1993.

 Peter H. Schuck. Agent Orange On Trial. Cambridge, MA: Harvard/Belkap, 1986.

 Jonathan Shay. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. New York: Atheneum, 1994.

Jonathan Stevenson. Hard Men Humble: Vietnam Veterans Who Wouldn't Come Home. New York: Free Press, 2002.

 Earl Swift. Where They Lay: Searching for America’s Lost Soldiers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

 Fred Turner. Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. Garden City: Anchor Book, 1996.

 James F. Veninga and Harry A. Wilmer, eds. Vietnam in Remission. College Station, TX: Texas A & M, 1985.

 John Wheeler. Touched With Fire. New York: Bantam, 1988.

 Fred A. Wilcox. Waiting For An Army To Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange. New York: Vintage, 1983.

 Allan Young. The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

 THE FALL OF SOUTH VIETNAM:

 David Butler. The Fall of Saigon. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.

 Allan Dawson. 55 Days: The Fall of South Vietnam. New York: Prentice Hall, 1977.

 Van Tien Dung. Our Great Spring Victory. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977.

 Larry Engelman. Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam. New York: Oxford, 1990.

 Stuart Herrington. Peace With Honor?: An American Reports on Vietnam, 1973-1975. Novato, CA: Presidio,1983.

Arnold I. Isaacs. Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1983.

Henry Kissinger. Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement and Extrication from the Vietnam War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

 Frank Sneep. Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's  Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1977.

 Tiziano Terzani. Giai Phong! The Fall and Liberation of Saigon. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.

 Dennis Warner. Certain Victory: How Hanoi Won The War. New York: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1977.

 WAR CRIMES AND MILITARY JUSTICE:

William Thomas Allison. Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American War. Lawrence: Kansas, 2007. 

David L. Anderson, ed. Facing My Lai: Moving Beyond the Massacre. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

 John Stevens Berry. Those Gallant Men. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1984.

 Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim. Four Hours in My Lai. New York: Penguin, 1992.

 Nelson DeMille. Word of Honor. New York: Bantam, 1985.

 Seymour Hersh. My Lai 4: A Report on The Massacre and Its Aftermath. New York: Vintage, 1970.

      . Cover-up. New York: Vintage, 1972.

 Erwin Knoll and Judith Nies McFadden, ed. War Crimes and The American Conscience.  New York: Holt, 1970.

 Daniel Lang. Casualties of War. New York: Pocket Books, 1969.

 John Norton Moore. Law and The Indo-China War. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1972.

 Robin Moore. Courts Martial. New York: Doubleday, 1971.

 W. R. Peers. The My Lai Inquiry. New York: Norton, 1979.

 Garry Solis. Son Thang: An American War Crime. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997

 Telford Taylor. Nuremberg and Vietnam. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1970.

 VIETNAM WAR FICTION:

Bao Ninh. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam. NewYork: Riverhead Books, 1993.

 Josiah Bunting. The Lionheads: A Novel. New York: George Braziller, 1972.

 Donald Brody. F.N.G.: A Novel. New York: Viking, 1985.

 Robert Owen Butler. On Distant Ground. New York: Knopf, 1985.

      . The Alleys of Eden. New York: Dell, 1980.

 Philip Caputo. Indian Country. New York: Bantam, 1987.

 John Cassidy. A Station in the Delta. New York: Ballantine, 1979.

 Charles Collingwood. The Defector: A Novel. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

 Stephen Coonts. Flight Of The Intruder: A Novel. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986.

      . The Intruders. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

 E. M. Corder. The Deer Hunter. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

 John Del Vecchio. The 13th Valley: A Novel. New York: Bantam, 1982.

      . For The Sake of All Living Things: A Novel. New York: Bantam, 1990.

       . Carry Me Home. New York: Bantam, 1995.

 Nelson DeMille. Word of Honor. New York: Warner, 1985.

       . Spencerville. New York: Warner, 1994.

 ___. Up Country. New York: Warner, 2002.

 P.T. Deutermann. The Edge of Honor. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

 Dale A. Dye. Run Between The Raindrops. New York: Avon, 1985.

 Duong Thu Huong. Novel Without A Name. New York: Morrow, 1995.

 William Easterlake. The Bamboo Bed. Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico, 1989.

 W. D. Ehrhart. Carrying The Darkness: American Indochina-the Poetry of the Vietnam War. New York: Avon, 1985.

 Terry Farish. Flower Shawdows: A Novel. New York: Morrow, 1992.

 Thomas Fleming. The Officers Wives: A Novel. Garden City: Doubleday, 1981.

 Daniel Ford. Incident At Muc Wa. New York: Doubleday, 1967.

 Jack Fuller. Fragments: A Novel. New York: Morrow, 1984.

 Graham Greene. The Quiet American. New York: Viking, 1955.

 Anthony Grey. Saigon. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.

 Winston Groom. Better Times Than These. New York: Summit Books, 1978.

      . Forrest Gump. New York: Pocket Books, 1986.

David Halberstam. On Very Hot Day. New York: Bantam, 1970.

Joe Haldeman. War Year. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.

     . 1968. New York: Morrow, 1995.

Larry Heath. CW2: A Novel. New York: Morrow, 1990.

Larry Heinemann. Paco's Story: A Novel. New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1984.

     . Close Quarters: A Nove. New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1977.

William E. Holland. Let A Soldier Die. New York: Delacorte, 1984.

William Turner Huggett. Body Count. New York: Dell, 1973.

Noel Hynd. Revenge. New York: Dial, 1978.

Ward Just. A Dangerous Friend. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Bernard Kalb and Marvin Kalb. The Last Ambassador. New York: Little, Brown, 1981.

Frank Allen Lieb. The Fire Dream Team. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1989.

     . Valley of the Shadow. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1991.

Charles McCarry. Tears of Autumn. New York: Saterday Review Press, 1975.

Donald E. McQuinn. Targets: A Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1980.

Bobbie Ann Mason. In Country: A Novel. New York: Harper and Row, 1985.

Walter Dean Myers. Fallen Angels. New York: Scholastic Books, 1988.

Ken Miller. Tiger The Lurp Dog: A Novel. New York: Little, Brown, 1983.

Robin Moore. The Green Berets. New York: Crown, 1965.

Tim O'Brien. Going After Cacciato: A Novel. New York: Dell, 1975.

     . The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1990.

     . In The Lake In The Woods. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Richard Parque. A Distant Thunder. New York: Zebra Books, 1989.

J. D. Pollock. Mission M.I.A. New York: Crown, 1982.

John Clark Pratt. Laotian Fragments. New York: Avon, 1974,

Nicholas Proffitt. The Embassy House. New York: Bantam, 1986.

     . Gardens of Stone. New York: Bantam, 1980.

Rob Riggan. Free Fire Zone: A Novel. New York: Norton, 1984.

Robert Roth. Sand In The Wind. New York: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1973.

Barry Sadler. Phu Nam. New York: Tor, 1984.

Leonard B. Scott. Charlie Mike. New York: Bantam, 1985.

     . The Last Run. New York: Ballantine, 1987.

John Park Sloan. War Games. New York: Avon, 1983.

Danielle Steel. Message from Nam. New York: Delacorte Press, 1990.

Robert Stone. Dog Soldiers. New York: Random House, 1979.

Peter Straub. Koko: A Novel. New York: Dutton, 1988.

Peter Tauber. The Last Best Hope: A Novel. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

 Jonathan P. Tomes. Lawful Orders: A Novel. Leawood, KS: Veteran’s Press, 1998.

 James Webb. Fields of Fire. Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978.

      . A Country Such As This. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983.

      . A Sense of Honor. New York: Bantam, 1985.

      . Lost Soldiers. New York: Bantam, 2001.

 Stephen Wright. Meditations In Green. New York: Scribner's, 1983.

As of 19 March 2007