Bibliography: The Vietnam War

An Annotated Reading List

A. Novels

compiled by John R. Tegtmeier, Charlotte, North Carolina

Baber, Asa. The Land of a Million Elephants. 2nd ed. reprint. Vietnam Generation Series. Burning Cities Press, 1992.

Bao Ninh. The Sorrow of War. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1993.

Browne, Corinne. Body Shop. New York: Stein and Day, 1973.

Bunting, Josiah. The Lionheads. New York: George Braziller, 1972; Popular Library, 1972.

Burdick, Eugene and William Lederer. The Ugly American. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958; reprint paper, Fawcett, 1987.

Butler, Robert Olen. The Alleys of Eden: A Novel. New York: Horizon, 1981; Ballantine, 1983; reissue paper, Owlet, 1994.

Cassidy, John. A Station in the Delta. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979; Ballantine, 1989.

Coonts, Stephen. Flight of the Inruder. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986; New York: Pocket Books, 1991.

Crumley, James. One To Count Cadence. New York: Random House, 1969; Vintage, 1987.

Del Vecchio, John. The 13th Valley. New York: Bantam, 1982.

Duong Thu Huong. Paradise of the Blind. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1993; Penguin USA, 1994.

Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. New York: Viking, 1955; reprint, Modern Library, 1992; reissue paper, Penguin USA, 1991.

Hasford, Gustav. The Short Timers. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

Heinemann, Larry. Close Quarters. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1977.

Heinemann, Larry. Paco's Story. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1986; reprint paper, Viking, 1989.

Huggett, William Turner. Body Count. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.

Mason, Bobbie Ann. In Country: A Novel. New York: Harper Row, 1985; reissue paper, Harperperennial, 1993.

Merkin, Robert. Zombie Jamboree. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.

O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. New York: Delacorte Press, 1980; Dell, 1980; reissue paper, Delacorte Press, 1989.

O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York: Penguin, 1990; reprint paper, Penguin USA, 1991.

Rubin, Jonathan. The Barking Deer. New York: George Braziller, 1974.

Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974; reprint paper, New York: Penguin USA, 1989.

Webb, James. Fields of Fire. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978; reprint paper, New York: Pocket Books, 1993.

Wright, Stephen. Meditations in Green. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983; reissue paperback, Delta, 1996.

Section I: Historical and Social Science Analysis

Section II: Cultural Representations of the War


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