Moise, Edwin E. Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Race, Jeffrey. War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
- The author served in the US Army as a district advisor, and later return as a private citizen to attempt to analyze the political and social processes that he believed were not explained by the conventional military analysis of the conflict. The resultant work is a deeply insightful analysis into the contested social realities of the war and the success of the VCP in Long An Province (just southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta). This is an extremely important study which focuses on the war as a social revolution as well as a military contest.
Thayer, Carlyle A. War by Other Means: National Liberation and Revolution in Viet-Nam, 1954-60. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1989.
- Thayer presents a systematic and precise account of the formation and implementation of communist policy in Vietnam between the Geneva Accords and the establishment of the National Liberation Front (NLF) in 1960, the transitional period between the First and Second Indochina Wars.
Section I: Historical and Social Science Analysis
- A: General Works
B. The French War: World War II to the Geneva Accords
C. Geneva to the American Combat Involvement in Vietnam (1954 - 1965)
D. Period of US Ground Combat (1965 - 1972)
E. From the American Withdrawal to the Fall of the South (1972 - 1975)
F. Covert Operations and Intelligence
G. Laos and Cambodia
H. Military Personal Narratives and Oral Histories
I. The Draft
J. War Crime Allegations
K. Culture and Politics in Vietnam
L. North Vietnam, the PAVN and the NLF
M. The Anti-War Movement in the US
N. Veterans Issues
O. POW/MIAs
P. Document Collections and Reference Works
Section II: Cultural Representations of the War
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