VIETNAM WAR BIBLIOGRAPHY
Resistance and Breakdown of the Military
Cortright, David.  Soldiers in Revolt: The American Military Today.  Garden City, New York: Doubleday (Anchor Press), 1975
Crowell, Joan.  Fort Dix Stockade: Riot and Demonstration. New York: Links Books, 1974
Currey Cecil B.  Self-Destruction:  The Disintegration and Decay of the United States Army During the Vietnam Era.  New York:  W.W.
Norton, 1981 (also published under name Cincinnatus in 1978)
Duncan, Donald.  The New Legions.  New York:  RandomHouse, 1967
Ferber, Michael, and Staughton Lynd.  The Resistance. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971
Finn, James.  Protest.  New York: Vintage Books, 1967
Gardner, Fred.  The Unlawful Concert ‑ An Account of the Presidio Mutiny Case.  Viking Press, 1970
Gioglio, Gerald R.  Days of Decision:  An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors in the Military During the Vietnam War.  Trenton, N.J.:
Broken Rifle Press, 1989
Halstead, Fred.  GIs Speak Out Against the War: The Case of the Ft. Jackson 8. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1970
Hayes, Thomas Lee.  American Deserters: The Men and Their Challenge in Sweden.  New York:  Association Press, 1971
Heath, G. Louis.  Mutiny Does Not Happen Lightly: The Literature of the American Resistance to the Vietnam War.  Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow
Press, 1976
Heinl, Col. Robert D., Jr. "The Collapse of the Armed Forces"  Armed Forces Journal, June 7, 1971
Jury,  Mark.   The Vietnam Photo Book, New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971.
Kerry, John, and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.  The New Soldier. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1971
Levy, M.D., Howard and David Miller.  Going to Jail: The Political Prisoner.  Grove Press
Rinaldi, Matthew. "The Olive-Drab Rebels: Military Organizing During the Vietnam Era"   Radical America (1974)
Sherrill, Robert.  Military Justice Is To Justice As Military Music Is to Music.  New York: Harper & Row, 1970
Short, William and Willa Seidenberg.  A Matter of Conscience:  GI Resistance During the Vietnam War.  Andover, MA:  Addison Gallery of
American Art, 1992
Stapp, Andy.  Up Against the Brass: The Fight to Unionize the US Army.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1970
Vietnam Veterans Against the War.  The Winter Soldier Investigation:  An Inquiry into American War Crimes.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1972
Waterhouse, Larry G. and Mariann G. Wizard.  Turning the Guns Around ‑ Notes on the GI Movement.  Praeger Publishers, 1971
Waters, Mary A.  GIs and the Fight Against War. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1971
Woodstone, Norma Sue.  Up Against the War.  New York: Tower Publications, 1973
Anti-War Movement/Anti-Draft
Baskir, Lawrence M. and William A. Strauss.  Change and Circumstance: The Draft, The War and the Vietnam Generation.  New York: Vintage
Books, 1978
Hoffman, Paul.  Moratorium: An American Protest. New York: Tower Publications, 1970
Kasinsky, Renee.  Refugees from Militarism: Draft‑Age Americans in Canada. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1980
Lynd, Staughton and Thomas Hayden.  The Other Side. New York: New American Library, 1966
Zaroulis, Nancy and Gerald Sullivan.  Who Spoke Up?  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984
Historical/Political/Cultural Analysis of the Viet Nam War
Capps, Walter, Ed.  The Vietnam Reader.  London: Routledge, 1991
Dittmar, Linda and Gene Michaud.  From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 1990
Fitzgerald, Frances.  Fire In the Lake.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972
Gettleman, Marvin E., Jane Franklin, Marilyn Young and H. Bruce Franklin, eds.  Vietnam And America.  New York: Grove Press,  1985
Halberstam, David.  The Making of a Quagmire.  New York: Random House, 1964
Kahin, George McT.  Intervention:  How America became Involved in Vietnam.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1986
Karnow, Stanley.  Vietnam: A History.  New York: The Viking Press, 1983
Kolko, Gabriel.  Anatomy of a War.  New York: Pantheon, 1985
Olson, James, ed.  Dictionary of the Vietnam War.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1988
Schell, Jonathan.  The Real War:  The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1987
Sevy, Grace.  The American Experience in Vietnam.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989
Sheehan, Neil.  A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnam.  New York:  Random House, 1988
Stanton, Shelby L.  The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1973.  Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1985
Werner, Jayne S. and Luu Doan Huynh, eds.  The Vietnam War: Vietnamese and American Perspectives. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1993
Young, Marilyn B.  The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990.  New York: HarperCollins, 1991
Personal Narratives and Oral Histories
Baker, Mark.  Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Soldiers Who Fought There.  New York: William Morrow, 1981
Caputo, Philip.  A Rumor of War.  New York: Ballantine Books, 1977
Ehrhart, W.D.  Marking Time.  New York: Avon Books, 1986
Ketwig, John.  And A Hard Rain Fell:  A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam. Macmillan Publishing Co., 1985
Kovic, Ron.  Born on the Fourth of July. New York: McGraw‑Hill Book Co., 1976
Lane, Mark.  Conversations With Americans.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970
Marshall, Kathryn.  In The Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam.  Boston:  Little, Brown & Co., 1987
Mason, Robert.  Chickenhawk. New York: Viking, 1983
Santoli, Al.  Everything We Had:  An Oral History of The Vietnam War by Thirty-three American Soldiers Who Fought It.  New York:
Ballantine Books, 1981
___________.  To Bear Any Burden:  The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath In the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians.  New York:  E.P.
Dutton, 1985
Van Devanter, Lynda, with Christopher Morgan.  Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam.  New York:  Beaufort Books,
Inc., 1983
Walker, Keith, ed.  A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty-Six American Women Who Served in Vietnam.  Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press,
1985
Willenson, Kim.  The Bad War:  An Oral History of the Vietnam War.  New York: A Newsweek Book, 1987
Terry, Wallace.  Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans.  New York: Random House, 1984
American Soldiers/Veterans
Goldman, Peter and Tony Fuller.  Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did To Us.  New York:  Newsweek, 1983
Herbert, Anthony.  Soldier. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973
Just, Ward.  Military Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970
Kelly, George.  Lost Soldiers.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965
Lifton, Robert J.  Home From the War: Vietnam Veterans, Neither Victims Nor Executioners.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973
Reich, Dale E.  Good Soldiers Don't Go to Heaven. Whitewater, Wis.:  Garden of Eden Press, 1979
Yezzo, Dominick.  A G.I.'s Diary.  New York: Franklin Watts, 1974
Miscellaneous
Emerson, Gloria.  Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins from the Vietnam War. New York: Random House, 1976
Franklin, H. Bruce.  M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America.  Brooklyn, NY: Lawrence Hill Books, 1992
Griffen, William L. and John Marciano.  Teaching the Vietnam War.  Montclair: Allanheld, Osmun & Co., 1979
William, Reese, ed.  Unwinding the Vietnam War.  Seattle: The Real Comet Press, 1987
Veteran Fiction
Hasford, Gustav.  The Short-Timers.  New York:  Bantam Books, 1979 (book on which the movie Full Metal Jacket was based)
Heinemann, Larry.  Paco's Story. New York: Penguin Books, 1986
________________.  Close Quarters. New York: Penguin Books, 1977
Mason, Bobbie Ann.  In Country.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1985
O'Brien, Tim.  The Things They Carried.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990
____________.  Going After Cacciato.  New York: Delacorte Press, 1978
____________.  If I Die In A Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home.  New York: Delacorte Press, 1969
Poetry
Bowen, Kevin.  Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong.  Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1994
Ehrhart, W.D., ed.  Carrying the Darkness: American Indochina - The Poetry of the Vietnam War. (P)  New York: Avon Books, 1985; To Those
Who Have Gone Home Tired (P); The Outer Banks  (P)
Rottman, Larry.  Voices From the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Poetry of America and Vietnam 1965-1993 (with photographs by Nguyen Trong Thanh and
Larry Rottman)  Desert Hot Springs, CA: Event Horizon Press, 1993
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Boyle, Richard.  Flower of the Dragon: The Breakdown of the U.S. Army in Vietnam.  Ramparts Press, 1972
Pratt, John Clark.  Vietnam Voices. New York: Penguin Books, 1984
Rowe, John Carlos and Rick Berg.  The Vietnam War and American Culture.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1991
Goff, Stanley and Sanders, Robert with Smith, Clark.  Brothers: Black Soldiers in the Nam.  Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1982
Herr, Michael.  Dispatches.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1968
Brende, Joel Osler, M.D. and Erwin Randolph Parson, Ph.D.  Vietnam Veterans:  The Road to Recovery.  New York:  Signet, 1985
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