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Scruggs, Jan. To Heal a Nation: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. New York:
Harper & Row, 1985.
Turner, Fred. Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. New
York: Anchor, 1996.
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T
he following list of resources focuses on works appropriate
for middle school or high school students. These sources
offer broad coverage of the Vietnam War. For additional
resources on specific topics please see individual chapters.
Aitken, Jonathan. Nixon: A Life. Washington, DC: Regnery, 1993.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon. 3 vols. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1987–1991.
Anderson, David L. Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and
Vietnam, 1953–1961. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.
Appy, Christian. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Viet-
nam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Becker, Elizabeth. America’s Vietnam War: A Narrative History. New York:
Clarion, 1992.
Berman, Larry. Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Viet-
nam. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982.
Billings-Yun, Melanie. Decision against War: Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu,
1954. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Braestrup, Peter. Big Story: How the American Press and Television Reported
and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington. Boul-
der, CO: Westview Press, 1977.
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Butler, David. The Fall of Saigon: Scenes from the Sudden End of a Long War.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.
Buttinger, Joseph. The Smaller Dragon: A Political History of Vietnam. New
York: Praeger, 1958.
Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War. New York: Henry Holt, 1977.
Carroll, James. An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That
Came Between Us. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1996.
Caute, David. The Year of the Barricades: A Journey Through 1968. New York:
Harper & Row, 1988.
Chandler, David P. The Tragedy of Cambodian History. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1992.
Dareff, Hal. The Story of Vietnam: A Background Book for Young People. New
York: Parents Magazine Press, 1966.
DeBenedetti, Charles, and Charles Chatfield. An American Ordeal: The
Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univer-
sity Press, 1990.
Dougan, Clark, and Stephen Weiss. The American Experience in Vietnam.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.
Dougan, Clark, and Stephen Weiss. The Vietnam Experience: Nineteen Sixty-
Eight. Boston: Boston Publishing, 1985.
Downs, Frederick. Aftermath: A Soldier’s Return from Vietnam. New York:
Norton, 1984.
Doyle, Edward, and Stephen Weiss. A Collision of Cultures: The Americans
in Vietnam, 1954–1973. Boston: Boston Publishing, 1984.
Duiker, William J. The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam. 2nd ed. Boul-
der, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
Dung, Van Tien. Our Great Spring Victory. New York: Monthly Review Press,
1977.
Dunn, Peter M. The First Vietnam War. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985.
Ebert, James R. A Life in a Year: The American Infantryman in Vietnam,
1965–1972. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1986.
Ehrhart, W. D. Passing Time. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1989.
Emerson, Gloria. Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and
Ruins from a Long War. New York: Random House, 1976.
Engelmann, Larry. Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South
Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Eschmann, Karl J. Linebacker: The Untold Story of the Air Raids over North
Vietnam. New York: Ivy Books, 1989.
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Fall, Bernard. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. Philadel-
phia: J. B. Lippincott, 1966.
Figley, Charles R., and Seymour Leventman, eds. Strangers at Home: Viet-
nam Veterans Since the War. New York: Praeger, 1980.
Fitzgerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in
Vietnam. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
Franklin, H. Bruce. M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America. Brooklyn, NY:
Lawrence Hill, 1992.
Freeman, James A. Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives. Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 1989.
Gardner, Lloyd C. Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam.
Chicago: Ivan Dee, 1995.
Garfinkle, Adam. Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Anti-
war Movement. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
Gibson, James William. The Perfect War: The War We Couldn’t Lose and How
We Did. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.
Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. New York: Bantam,
1987.
Goulden, Joseph C. Truth Is the First Casualty: The Gulf of Tonkin Affair—
Illusion and Reality. Chicago: Rand-McNally, 1969.
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House,
1972.
Halberstam, David. The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During
the Kennedy Era. Rev. ed. New York: Knopf, 1988.
Hammer, Ellen J. A Death in November: America in Vietnam, 1963. New
York: Dutton, 1987.
Hawthorne, Lesleyanne, ed. Refugee: The Vietnamese Experience. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1982.
Hellman, John. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1986.
Helmer, John. Bringing the War Home: The American Soldier in Vietnam and
After. New York: Free Press, 1974.
Hendrickson, Paul. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five
Lives of a Lost War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Herr, Michael. Dispatches. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
Herring, George C. America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam,
1950–1975. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Herring, George C. LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War. Austin: Uni-
versity of Texas Press, 1994.
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Herrington, Stuart A. Silence Was a Weapon: The Vietnam War in the Vil-
lages. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982.
Hiebert, Murray. Chasing the Tigers: A Portrait of the New Vietnam. New
York: Kodansha International, 1996.
Hubbell, John, with Andrew Jones and Kenneth Y. Tomlinson. P.O.W.: A
Definitive History of the American Prisoner-of-War Experience in Vietnam,
1964–1973. New York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1976.
Isaacs, Arnold R. Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy. Bal-
timore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Isaacs, Arnold R. Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia. New
York: Vintage Books, 1984.
Isaacson, Walter. Kissinger. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Johnson, Lyndon B. The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency,
1963–1969. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
Kahin, George M. Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987.
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. Rev. ed. New York: Viking, 1991.
Kearns, Doris. Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream. New York: Harper &
Row, 1976.
Kimball, Jeffrey. Nixon’s Vietnam War. Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 1998.
Kolko, Gabriel. Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Mod-
ern Historical Experience. New York: Pantheon, 1985.
Kovic, Ron. Born on the Fourth of July. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Kutler, Stanley I., ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. New York: Scribner’s,
1996.
Levy, David W. The Debate over Vietnam. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1995.
Lewy, Gunter. America in Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press,
1978.
Maclear, Michael. The Ten Thousand Day War: Vietnam, 1945–1975. New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980.
MacPherson, Myra. Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Genera-
tion. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984.
Marshall, John Douglas. Reconciliation Road. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Uni-
versity Press, 1993.
Mason, Robert. Chickenhawk. New York: Viking, 1983.
McMahon, Robert J., ed. Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War.
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Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1995.
McNamara, Robert S., with Brian VanDeMark. In Retrospect: The Tragedy
and Lessons of Vietnam. New York: Times Books, 1995.
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Young. New York: Random House, 1992.
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Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.
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French. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1973.
Nguyen Qui Duc. Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family.
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Nixon, Richard. No More Vietnams. New York: Arbor House, 1985.
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Palmer, Laura. Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Viet-
nam Veterans Memorial. New York: Random House, 1987.
Prados, John, and Ray Stubbe. Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh. New
York: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Prochnau, William. Once Upon a Distant War. New York: Times Books,
1995.
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Schell, Jonathan. The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War.
New York: Pantheon, 1987.
Scruggs, Jan. To Heal a Nation: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. New York:
Harper & Row, 1985.
Shandler, Herbert Y. The Unmaking of a President: Lyndon Johnson and Viet-
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Shawcross, William. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cam-
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New York: Random House, 1988.
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Starr, Paul. The Discarded Army. New York: Charterhouse, 1974.
Terry, Wallace. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans.
New York: Ballantine, 1984.
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Carolina Press, 1980.
Turner, Fred. Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. New
York: Anchor, 1996.
VanDeMark, Brian. Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of
the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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