Bibliography: The Vietnam War

An Annotated Reading List

E. From the American Withdrawal
to the Fall of the South (1972 - 1975)

compiled by John R. Tegtmeier, Charlotte, North Carolina

Dawson, Alan. 55 Days: The Fall of South Vietnam. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1977.

Isaacs, Arnold. Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.

Snepp, Frank. Decent Interval. New York: Random House, 1977.

    Snepp was a senior CIA analyst in Saigon during the period from the American combat withdrawal to the fall of Saigon (1972-75). He relates the story of the CIA's and State Department's failure to understand that Saigon was going to fall, and a stunning indictment of the American abandonment those Vietnamese who had helped the CIA in the midst of the final US evacuation.

Section I: Historical and Social Science Analysis

Section II: Cultural Representations of the War


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