Hess, Martha. Then the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993; New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. Hickey, Gerald C. Shattered World: Adaptation and Survival among Vietnam's Highland Peoples During the Vietnam War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. This work, by a pre-eminent anthropologist who is extensively published in this area, deals with the profound effects of the Indochina wars on the highland ethnic groups (also known as Montagnards) in terms of displacement, survival and the effects on their culture. It provides a unique insight into an area usually ignored or lightly covered in other sources. Huynh Kim Khanh. Vietnamese Communism: 1925-1945. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. The definitive study of the implanting and evolution of a European anti-capitalist ideology on a Vietnamese socio-political conflict of anti-colonial nationalism and anti-feudal peasant movements within the context of the debate about modernization. The work traces the formation of the ICP, the ultranationalist, non social reform era of the 20s, the antinationalist international era in the 30s, to a balance emerging at the end of WWII and Ho Chi Minh's role in this process. Also discussed are the Trotskyite and Stalinist elements during the thirties. Jamieson, Neil L. Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. An important study which tries to place the Indochina Wars within the context of the century long internal debate in Vietnamese society concerning the means and direction of modernization in the wake of the French conquest. Using a variety of Vietnamese cultural and political sources, Jamieson seeks to place these events in the framework of the struggle to define Vietnamese tradition and society within the context of the need to evolve the culture in response to the modern world, a topic which still lies at the heart of much of today's Vietnamese politics. Marr, David G. Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. 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 A. Novels B. Folklore Back to Cry Havoc #21 Table of Contents Back to Cry Havoc List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by David W. Tschanz. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com