Books & Web Sites About: Vietnam War

Internet Resources

Texas Tech University, Vietnam Center http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamcetner/

American Experience, Vietnam Online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/

Almanacs, Bibliographies, Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias

Bowman, John S., ed. The Vietnam War: An Almanac. New York: World Almanac Publications, 1985.

Brune, Lester H. and Richard Dean Burns. America and the Indochina Wars, 1945-1990: A Bibliographical Guide. Claremont, Calif.: Regina Books, c1992.

Friedl, Vicki L. Women in the United States Military, 1901-1995: A Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Hillstrom, Kevin. Vietnam War: Almanac. Detroit: U.X.L., 2001.

Kelsey, Ann L., ed. Resources for Teaching the Vietnam War: An Annotated Guide. Pittsburgh: Center for Social Studies Education, c1996.

Kutler, Stanley I., ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996.

Leepson, Marc and Helen Hannaford. Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York: Macmillan, c1999.

Moise, Edwin E. Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001.

Olson, James Stuart. Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Tucker, Spencer C., ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, c1998.

Standard Histories and Other Printed Resources

Appy, Christian G.Patriots: the Vietnam War remembered from all sides, New York: Viking, 2003.

Appy, Christian G. Working-class war: American soldiers and Vietnam, Chapel Hill: Univeristy of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Baer, George W. One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Esper, George. The Eyewitness History of the Vietnam War, 1961-1975. New York: Ballantine, 1983.

Fitzgerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.

Gardner, Lloyd C. Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam. Chicago: I. R. Dee, 1995.

Hellman, John. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

Herring, George C. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. New York: Wiley, 1979.

Holm, Jeanne. Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Rev ed. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, c1992.

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

Larabee, Benjamin et al. America and the Sea: A Maritime History. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Publications, 1998.

Lawson, Don. The United States in the Vietnam War. New York: Crowell, c1981.

Marolda, Edward J. By Sea, Air, and Land: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the War in Southeast Asia. Washington: Naval Historical Center, 1994.

Marshall, Kathryn. In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam. New York: Penguin, 1988.

O'Nan, Stewart, ed. The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of American Fiction and Nonfiction on the War. New York: Anchor Books, c1998.

Palmer, Bruce. The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.

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.

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

Young, Marilyn Blatt. The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990. New York: Harper Collins, 1991.