LibGuides: The Vietnam War: Home

HISTORY
(2nd floor)

Reporting Vietnam
by Library of America Staff (Ed.) A journalistic view of the Vietnam War compiled from newspaper and magazine articles of the period.
Call Number:
070.4 Rep
*two-volume set*
ISBN: 1883011582
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
by Clara Bingham [1969: The] anti-war movement could no longer be written off as fringe; …America [was] on the brink of revolution…
Call Number:
303.484 Bin *New & Popular*
ISBN: 9780812993189
Publication Date: 2016-05-31
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
by Bernard B. Fall Fall details the 1954 battle between France and Vietnam which was a significant precursor to the Vietnam War.
Call Number:
959.704 Fal
ISBN: 9780306811579
Publication Date: 2002-04-18
Vietnam: A History
by Stanley Karnow This comprehensive account gives all the facts of the Vietnam War. Includes information from interviews with both sides and many facets of involvement.
Call Number:
959.704 Kar
ISBN: 0670842184
Publication Date: 1991-11-12
They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace in Vietnam and America, October 1967
by David Maraniss The author intertwines accounts of battles in Vietnam, protesters in the U.S., and the goings-on in D.C.
Call Number:
959.704 Mar
ISBN: 0743217802
Publication Date: 2003-09-23
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
by Christian G. Appy [Examines the war’s] impact on our national identity, conscience,…popular culture, and postwar foreign policy.
Call Number:
959.7043 App
ISBN: 9780670025398
Publication Date: 2015-02-05
Huế 1968: The Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
by Mark Bowden Interviews…[and archival materials] from both sides of the conflict…provide multiple points of view…
Call Number:
959.7043 Bow
*New & Popular*
ISBN: 9780802127006
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam Presents answers to many of the questions surrounding the Vietnam War including why the U.S. became involved and what went wrong.
Call Number:
973.922 Hal
ISBN: 9780449908709
Publication Date: 1993-10-26

MEMOIRS & LETTERS
(2nd floor)

A Rumor of War
by Philip Caputo The author was one of the first American soldiers to land in Vietnam in 1965. This is his account of the horrors of war and its effects.
Call Number:
959.704 Cap
ISBN: 9780805046953
Publication Date: 1996-11-15
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
by Bernard Edelman (Ed.) A collection of over 200 letters written by servicemen in Vietnam to their loved ones back in the States.
Call Number:
959.704 Dea
ISBN: 0671661124
Publication Date: 1987-10-02
We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
by Harold G. Moore A horrific battle for the U.S. soldiers who were dropped there, Ia Drang was about courage and sacrifice.
Call Number:
959.704 Moo
ISBN: 0679411585
Publication Date: 1992-10-20
Dispatches
by Michael Herr The author worked as a war correspondent in Vietnam. This account details the experiences of American soldiers who fought there.
Call Number:
959.7043 Her
ISBN: 9780307270801
Publication Date: 2009-02-17
Born on the Fourth of July
by Ron Kovic Patriot Kovic suffered a devastating injury in Vietnam and turned to anti-war activism after returning home to far less than a hero’s welcome.
Call Number:
959.7043 Kov
ISBN: 9781888451788
Publication Date: 2005-06-01

FICTION
(1st floor)

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
by Bảo Ninh Bao Ninh fought for Vietnam; this novel gives a view of the effects of the war in his home country.
Call Number: Fict Bao
ISBN: 9781573225434
Publication Date: 1996-04-01
Novel without a Name
by Duong Thu Huong [A] tale of the horror and spiritual weariness of war [that] will shatter every preconception…about what happened in the jungles of Vietnam.
Call Number: Fict Duo
ISBN: 9780140255102
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Close Quarters
by Larry Heinemann Philip Dosier is a young soldier with little life experience sent to fight in Vietnam. There, his whole world changes violently and intensely.
Call Number: Fict Hei
ISBN: 9781400076840
Publication Date: 2005-08-09
The Pugilist at Rest: Stories
by Thom Jones [Themes:] the horrors of Vietnam; [gender war]; the difficulties of divorce, mental defects, and…cancer; and battling epilepsy and alcoholism.
Call Number: Fict Jon
ISBN: 9780316473040
Publication Date: 1994-05-04
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
by Karl Marlantes Marines venture into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and fight their way into manhood.
Call Number: Fict Mar
ISBN: 9780802119285
Publication Date: 2010-03-23
The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction
by Tim O'Brien Heroic men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam…[on a] journey into the heart of darkness.
Call Number: Fict OBr
ISBN: 9780618706419
Publication Date: 2009-10-13

DOCUMENTARIES
(2nd floor)

*NEW RELEASE*
The Vietnam War
[Testimony] from…Americans who fought in the war…[those] who opposed it…Vietnamese combatants…and civilians from [both sides].
Call Number:
DVD 959.7 VIET
ISBN: 9781531701734
Publication Date: 2017
Last Days in Vietnam
Call Number: DVD 959.7 LAST
Publication Date: 2015
Vietnam in HD
Call Number: DVD 959.704 VIET
Publication Date: 2011
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
Call Number: DVD 959.7 DICK
Publication Date: 2015
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Call Number: DVD 973.92 FOGO
Publication Date: 2004
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Call Number: DVD 959.704 MOST
Publication Date: 2010
Winter Soldier
Call Number: DVD 959.7 WINT
Publication Date: 1971
Sir! No Sir! The Suppressed Story of the GI Movement to End the War in Vietnam
Call Number: DVD 959.7 SIRN
Publication Date: 2006

FICTION DVDs
(1st floor)

Apocalypse Now
Call Number: DVD APOC
Publication Date: 1999
Born on the Fourth of July
Call Number: DVD BORN
Publication Date: 1999
The Deer Hunter
Call Number: DVD DEER
Publication Date: 2005
Full Metal Jacket
Call Number: DVD FULL
Publication Date: 2007
Good Morning, Vietnam
Call Number: DVD GOOD
Publication Date: 2006
Platoon
Call Number: DVD PLAT
Publication Date: 2006

The Vietnam War: Home

HISTORY(2nd floor)

MEMOIRS & LETTERS(2nd floor)

FICTION (1st floor)

DOCUMENTARIES(2nd floor)

FICTION DVDs(1st floor)

HISTORY
(2nd floor)

MEMOIRS & LETTERS
(2nd floor)

FICTION
(1st floor)

DOCUMENTARIES
(2nd floor)

FICTION DVDs
(1st floor)