Bibliography

ANCIENT VIETNAM THROUGH
THE FRENCH COLONIAL PERIOD

These books may deal with other parts of Vietnam’s history as well but are good sources for information about the pre American period.

Buttinger, Joseph, The Smaller Dragon. (Praeger, 1958)

Fall, Bernard, The Two Vietnams. (Praegcr, 1963)

Kalb, Marvin and Abel, Ellie, Roots of Involvement. (Norton, 1971)

^*Poole, Peter, Dien Bien Phu, 1954 (Watts, 1972)

Shaplen, Robert, A Turning Wheel. (Random House, 1979)

^*These books were written for younger readers.

AMERICA IN VIETNAM

--, The Pentagon Papers. (Bantam Books, 1971)

Arnett, Peter and Maclear, Miche1, The Ten Thousand Day War. (St. Martin, 1981)

*Fincher, E. B., The Vietnam War. (Watts, 1980)

Fitzgerald, Frances, Fire in the Lake. (Random House, 1973)

Halberstam, David, The Best and the Brightest. (Random House, 1971)

Harrison, J. P., The Endless War. (McGraw-Hill, 1983)

Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. (Viking, 1983)

*Lawson, Don, The War in Vietnam. (Watts, 1981)

Podorhetz. Norman, Why We Were in Vietnam, (Simon and Schuster, 1983)

Snepp, Frank, A Decent Interval. (R:mdol1l House, 1977)

SPECIALIZED BOOKS

Goff, Stanley. Brothers: Black Soldiers in Nam. (Presidio Press, 1982)

Hersh, Seymour, My Lai Four. (Random House, 1970)

Hubbell, John, A Definitive History of the American Prisoner-of-War Experience in Vietnam, (Readers Digest, 1976)

Marshall, S. L. A., Vietnam: Three Battles. (Quality Paperbacks, 1982)

Pisor, Robert, The End of the Line: The Siege of Khe Sahn. (Ballantine Books, 1982)

^**VanDevanter, Linda, Home Before Morning. (Warner Books, 1983)

^**This is the only book of this group that is written about a woman’s experience in Vietnam.

VIETNAMESE VIEW

Dung, Van Tien, Our Great Spring Victory. (Monthly Review, 1977)

Van Canh, Nguyen, Vietnam under Communism. (Hoover Institute Press, 198)

PERSONAL ACCOUNTS

These books tell of individuals experiences in the war. War is not pleasant and these books contain some very unpleasant stories.

Baker, Mark, Nam. (Morrow, 1981)

Caputo, Philip, A Rumor of War. (Ballantine, 1978)

Kovic, Ron, Born on the Fourth of July. (Pocket Books, 1977)

Santoli, AI, Everything We Had. (Random House, 1981)

Two other books are part of a recent effort to look back at the Vietnam War from a scholar’s point of view. These are:

Salisbury, Harrison, ed., Vietnam Reconsidered. (Harpers, ‘984)

Summers, Harry, On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. (Dell, 1982)