Part Six
II-K. General Publications - Antiwar Sentiment and the Draft
Albertson, Dean, ed. Rebels or Revolutionaries? Student
Movements of the 1960's. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Appy, Christian G. Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers
and Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University North Carolina Press,
1993.
Aptheker, Herbert with prefaces by Staughton Lynd and Tom Hayden,
Mission to Hanoi. New York: International Publishers, 1966.
Aptheker (who was a member of the American Communist
Party) accompanied Lynd and Hayden (who were not) on a
December 1965 trip to Hanoi.
Bannan, John F. and Rosemary S. Bannan. Law, Morality and
Vietnam: The Peace Militants and the Courts. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1974. 241 pp.
Barnett, Arnold, Timothy Stanley, and Michael Shore. "America's
Vietnam Casualties: Victims of a Class War?" Operations
Research, 40:5 (September-October 1992), pp. 856-66.
Argues, using dubious statistical procedures but
perhaps still correctly, that poor and working-class men
were not seriously overrepresented among the Americans who
died in Vietnam.
Baskir, Lawrence M. and William A. Strauss. Chance and
Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam
Generation. New York: Vintage, 1978.
Bates, Tom. Rads. New York: HarperCollins, (1993?).
About Karl Armstrong, who bombed the Army Math Research
Center at U. of Wisconsin in 1970.
Berrigan, Daniel. Night Flight to Hanoi. New York: Harper &
Row, 1968.
Brown, Robert M., Abraham J. Heschel, and Michael Novak.
Vietnam: Crisis of Conscience. New York: published jointly
by Association {YMCA} Press, Behrman House, and Herder &
Herder, 1967.
The authors - a Protestant, a Jew, and a Catholic -
were all leaders of "Clergy and Laymen Concerned about
Vietnam".
Brown, Sam and Len Ackland, eds. Why are We Still in Vietnam?
New York: Random House, 1970. 144 pp.
Chatfield, Charles. The American Peace Movement: Ideals and
Activism. New York: Twayne, 1992.
Chepusiuk, Ron. Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid
Conversations with Those Who Shaped the Era. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland, 1995. 334 pp.
Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars. The Indochina Story. New
York: Pantheon, 1970.
Curry, G. David. Sunshine Patriots: Punishment and the Vietnam
Offender. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985.
DeBenedetti, Charles. An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement
of the Vietnam Era. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University
Press, 1990.
Cortright, David. Soldiers in Revolt. New York: Doubleday,
1975.
Duffett, John, ed. Against the Crime of Silence: Proceedings of
the Russell International War Crimes Tribunal: Stockholm,
Copenhagen. With an Introduction by Bertrand Russell and a
Forword by Ralph Schoenman. New York: O'Hare Books and
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1968.
Dumbrell, John, ed. Vietnam and the Antiwar Movement.
Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1989.
Flynn, George Q. The Draft, 1940-1973. Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas, 1993.
Franks, Lucinda. Waiting Out a War: The Exile of Private John
Picciano. New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1974.
Picciano was a draftee who deserted from the Army in
1967 and eventually fled to Sweden.
Gausman, William F. Red Stains on Vietnam Doves. Aurora, CO:
Veracity Publications, 1989.
Gaylin, Willard. In the Service of their Country: War Resisters
in Prison. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1970.
Gioglio, Gerald R. Days of Decision: An Oral History of
Conscientious Objectors in the Military During the Vietnam
War. Trenton: Broken Rifle Press, 1989.
Gordon, William A. The Fourth of May: Killings and Coverups at
Kent State. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1990.
Gottlieb, Sherry Gershon. Hell No, We Won't Go: Resisting the
Draft During the Vietnam War. New York: Viking, 1991.
Greene, Felix. Vietnam! Vietnam! Palo Alto, CA: Fulton, 1966.
A strongly critical view of the war.
Hall, Mitchell K. Because of their Faith: CALCAV and Religious
Opposition to the Vietnam War. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1990.
CALCAV was a moderate interfaith group of religious
leaders that emerged in the New York area in 1965.
Halstead, Fred. Out Now! 1978; reprint Pathfinder Press,
(1993?).
A participant account of the anti-war movement by a
member of the Socialist Workers Party.
Hartke, Vance. The American Crisis in Vietnam. Indianapolis:
Bobbs Merrill, 1968. 163 pp.
Anti-war statement, said to be well reasoned, by a US
Senator.
Hayden, Tom. The Love of Possession is a Disease with Them.
Chicago: 1972.
Hayden, Tom. Reunion: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1988.
By a leading anti-war activist.
Heath, G. Louis, ed. Mutiny Does Not Happen Lightly: The
Literature of the American Resistance to the Vietnam War.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1976. 597 pp.
Heineman, Kenneth. Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American
State Universities in the Vietnam Era. New York: New York
University Press, 1993.
Kastenmeier, Robert W. Vietnam Hearings: Voices from the Grass
Roots. New York: Doubleday, 1965. 159 pp.
Hearings held by congressman Kastenmeier in his home
district, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1965. Both pro- and
anti-war viewpoints.
Kennan, George. Democracy and the Student Left. Boston: Little,
Brown, 1968.
A statement by Kennan, responses by various people
including numerous student radicals, and a long concluding
comment by Kennan.
Lynd, Alice, ed. We Won't Go: Personal Accounts of War
Objectors. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968. 308 pp.
Lynd, Staughton and Thomas Hayden. The Other Side. New York:
New American Library, 1966; Signet, 1967.
Lynd and Hayden, both important figures in the
relatively small anti-war movement of the time, visited
North Vietnam in December 1965 and January 1966.
McCarthy, Eugene. The Year of the People. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1969.
McCarthy, a Democratic US Senator, was so disillusioned
with President Johnson's Vietnam policy that he ran against
Johnson in the Democratic primaries preceding the 1968
presidential election.
Mailer, Norman. The Armies of the Night. New York: New American
Library, 1968.
Mailer, a novelist, gives his impressions of October
1967 anti-war demonstrations in Washington.
Marshall, John Douglas. Reconciliation Road: A Family Odyssey of
War and Honor. Syracuse University Press, (1994?).
Marshall, a lieutanant, obtained a discharge from the
US Army in approximately 1970, as a conscientious objector,
in order to avoid service in Vietnam. He had decided the
war was wrong. His father, General S.L.A. Marshall, disowned
him. (The book also discusses the accusations of dishonest
writing that have been made recently against S.L.A.
Marshall.)
Mitford, Jessica. The Trial of Dr. Spock, William Sloane Coffin,
Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman, and Marcus Raskin. New
York: Knopf, 1969.
Monroe, Malcolm. The Means is the End in Vietnam. White Plains,
NY: Murlagan Press, 1968. 124 pp.
Rosenberg, Milton J., Sidney Verba, and Philip E. Converse.
Vietnam and the Silent Majority: The Dove's Guide. With a
Foreward by George McGovern, and a Postscript by Ralph K.
White. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
A manual for anti-war propaganda.
Schalk, David L. War and the Ivory Tower: Algeria and Vietnam.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Schoenbrun, David. Vietnam: How We Got In, How to Get Out. New
York: Atheneum, 1968.
Schrag, Peter. Test of Loyalty: Daniel Ellsberg and the Rituals
of Secret Government. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
Simons, Donald L. I Refuse: Memories of a Vietnam War Objector.
Trenton: Broken Rifle Press.
Small, Melvin. Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam
War Movement. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
(forthcoming).
Small, Melvin and William D. Hoover, eds. Give Peace a Chance:
Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement. Syracuse: Syracuse
University Press, 1992(?).
Sontag, Susan. Trip to Hanoi. New York: Noonday (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux), 1968. 91 pp.
A May 1968 trip.
Spock, Dr. Benjamin and Mitchell Zimmerman. Dr. Spock on
Vietnam. New York: Dell, 1968. 96 pp.
Strahs, James. Seed Journal. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Account by a draft dodger.
Taylor, Telford. Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy.
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970.
Tollefson, James W. The Strength Not to Fight: An Oral History
of Conscientious Objectors of the Vietnam War. Boston:
Little, Brown, 1993.
Tollefson was himself a CO during the war.
Vietnam Veterans against the War. The Winter Soldier
Investigation: An Inquiry into American War Crimes. Boston:
Beacon Press, 1972.
Vogelgesang, Sandy. The Long Dark Night of the Soul: The
American Intellectual Left and the Vietnam War. New York:
Harper & Row, 1974.
Wells, John M. with Maria Wilhelm. The People vs. Presidential
War. With a Foreword by William Fulbright. New York:
Dunellen, 1970.
Wells, Tom. The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam. With
a Foreword by Todd Gitlin. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1994. xviii, 706 pp.
Williams, Roger N. The New Exiles: American War Resisters in
Canada. New York: Liveright Publishers, 1971.
Woodstone, Norma Sue. Up Against the War. New York: Tower
Publications, 1970.
Zaroulis, Nancy and Gerald Sullivan. Who Spoke Up? American
Protest against the War in Vietnam, 1963-1975. New York:
Doubleday, 1984.
Zelman, Walter. "Senate Dissent and the Vietnam War, 1964-1968".
Ph.D. diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 1971.
Zinn, Howard. Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1967.
II-L. General Publications - The Air War
Air War - Vietnam. New York: Arno Press, 1978.
Appears to be a combined reprint of four studies
originally written by historians working for the U.S. Air
force: A Tale of Two Bridges (story of U.S. bombing of what
were probably the two most important bridges in North
Vietnam the Paul Doumer Bridge over the Red River on the
outskirts of Hanoi, and the Ham Rong or Dragon's Jaw Bridge
over the Song Ma in Thanh Hoa province), Airpower and the
1972 Spring Invasion, The Battle for the Skies over North
Vietnam, and The Mayaguez Incident
Ambrose, Stephen E. "The Christmas Bombing." MHQ: The Quarterly
Journal of Military History. 4 (Winter 1992), pp. 817.
Basel, Lt. Col. G.I. Pak Six: A Story of the War in the Skies of
North Vietnam. Associated Creative Writers, 1982; New York:
Jove (Berkley), 1987.
Bell, Brig. Gen. Kenneth H. 100 Missions North: A Fighter
Pilot's Story of the Vietnam War. McLean, VA: Brassey's,
1993.
Bell flew F-105 Thunderchiefs over North Vietnam,
October 1966 to June 1967. He describes every one of the
hundred missions.
Blesse, Maj. Gen. Frederick C. Check Six: A Fighter Pilot Looks
Back. Original 1987; pb New York: Ballantine, 1992.
Blesse devotes several chapters to his two tours in
Vietnam, the first flying F-4s out of Danang 196768, the
second (brief) on the staff of 7th Air Force in early 1971.
Pretty good.
Boldrini, Nik. Sitting Duck.
Boldrini was a USAF aircraft radar technician at Tan
Son Nhut, 1967-68.
Boyle, Jerome M. Apache Sunrise. New York: Ivy, 1994. 258 pp.
Boyle flew Cobra helicopters in A (Apache) Troop, 1st
Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, for about
one-and-a-half years starting March 1970. This book
apparently covers the early part of his service, when he was
flying co-pilot. There may be a sequel on the later months,
after he graduated to aircraft commander, during part of
which he flew air cover for ARVN in Cambodia.
Broughton, Col. Jack. Thud Ridge. Philadelphia: Lippincott,
1969; New York: Bantam, 1985.
Memoir by a senior Air Force pilot, of air strikes
flown from Thailand against targets in the northern section
of North Vietnam.
Broughton, Col. Jack. Going Downtown: The War against Hanoi and
Washington. New York: Orion, 1988.
Chinnery, Philip D. Life on the Line: Stories of Vietnam Air
Combat. New York: St. Martin's. 256 pp.
Chinnery, Philip D. Vietnam: The Helicopter War. Annapolis:
Naval Institute Press, 1991.
Chinnery, Philip D. "Any Time, Any Place": Fifty Years of the
USAF Air Commando and Special Operations Forces, 1944-1994.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994 (forthcoming).
Clodfelter, Mark. The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing
of North Vietnam. New York: The Free Press, 1989.
Mainly focussed on the USAF and its strategic bombing
doctrine.
Clodfelter, Mark. "Problems and Pitfalls in Researching the Air
War Against North Vietnam." Air Power History. 38 (Fall
1991), pp. 49-53.
Cunningham, Randy with Jeff Ethell. Fox Two: The Story of
America's First Ace in Vietnam. Mesa, AZ: Champlin Fighter
Museum, 1984; New York: Warner, 1989.
The story of Cunningham's tour flying the F-4 Phantom
from the Constellation, 1971-72 (he had had a much quieter
previous tour, 1969-70, aboard the America).
Davis, Larry. Wild Weasel: The SAM Suppression Story.
Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1986.
Dorr, Robert F. Air War Hanoi. London: Blandford Press, 1988.
Dorr, Robert F. Air War South Vietnam. London: 1990.
Drendel, Lou. . . . And Kill MIGs. Warren, MI: Squadron/Signal
Publications, 1974. 63 pp.
Elkins, Frank C. The Heart of a Man: A Naval Pilot's Vietnam
Diary. Original 1973; reprint Annapolis: U.S. Naval
Institute, 1991.
Lt. Elkins began flying missions in A-4s in May 1966.
His diary was edited for publication by his wife, after his
death.
Eschmann, Karl J. Linebacker: The Untold Story of the Air Raids
Over North Vietnam. New York: Ivy, 1989.
Ethell, Jeffrey and Alfred Price. One Day in a Long War. New
York: Random House, 1989; Berkely, 1991.
Detailed story of May 10, 1972, the first day of
Operation Linebacker.
Eubank, Taylor. Alone, Unarmed, and Unafraid: Tales of
Reconnaissance in Vietnam. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992.
Eubank flew an RF-4C over North and South Vietnam, but
the stories apparently are not all about himself.
Flanagan, John F. Vietnam Above the Treetops: A Forward Air
Controller Reports. New York: Praeger, 1992; Dell, 1993.
Flanagan flew an O-1 Bird Dog, approximately 1966,
sometimes in support of Delta units in Laos.
Foster, Capt. Wynn F. Captain Hook: A Pilot's Tragedy and
Triumph in the Vietnam War. Annapolis: Naval Institute
Press, 1992.
Foster flew missions over NVN from the `Oriskany~ 1965-
66, lost his right arm to AA fire in 1966, and managed to
return to flying with a prosthesis.
Francillon, Rene. Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: U.S. Carrier
Operations off Vietnam. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press,
1988.
Particular emphasis on the Coral Sea, but to some
extent an overall study.
Gillcrist, Rear Admiral Paul T. Feet Wet: Reflections of a
Carrier Pilot. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1990.
About fifty pages are devoted to the period Gillcrist
flew F-8 Crusaders on missions over North and South Vietnam,
between 1966 and 1968. Details, not broad reflections.
Glasser, Jeffrey D. The Secret Vietnam War: The United States
Air Force in Thailand, 1961-1975. Jefferson, NC: McFarland,
1995 (forthcoming). 368 pp. ?
Glasser served two tours with the USAF in Thailand.
Grant, William T. Wings of the Eagle: A Kingsmen's Story. New
York: Ivy, 1994. 340 pp.
Grant was a helicopter pilot, in Vietnam March 1968 to
March 1969, apparently working a lot with LRPs.
Grant, Zalin. Over the Beach: The Air War in Vietnam. New York:
Norton, 1986; Pocket Books, 1988.
Specifically about Fighter Squadron 162, which operated
off the carrier Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Gregory, Barry. Vietnam Helicopter Handbook. Wellingborough,
England: Patrick Stephens, 1988. 152 pp.
Harrison, Marshall. A Lonely Kind of War: Forward Air
Controller, Vietnam. Novato, CA(?): Presidio(?), 1989; New
York: Pocket Books, 1990.
Warning: names of people, and even geography, have been
altered in this memoir.
Harvey, Frank. Air War - Vietnam. Bantam, 1967.
Kross, Walt. Splash One: Air Victory over Hanoi. McLean, VA:
Brassey's, 1991.
By a participant. Deals (among other things?) with
Operation Bolo, a January 1967 attack on the DRV's MIG
force.
Lepore, Herbert P. "The Coming of Age: The Role of the
Helicopter in the Vietnam War." Army History, no. 29
(Winter 1994), pp. 29-36.
Levinson, Jeffrey L. Alpha Strike Vietnam: The Navy's Air War,
1964 to 1973. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1989; New York: Pocket
Books, 1990.
Littauer, Raphael and Norman Uphoff, eds. The Air War in
Indochina, revised ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1972.
Mains, Randolph P. Dear Mom, I'm Alive. New York: Avon, 1992.
Mains, a helicopter pilot, served a one-year tour,
October 1968 to October 1969, with the 101st Airborne
Division, including Hamburger Hill. He was undisciplined.
Mersky, Peter B. and Norman Polmar. The Naval Air War in
Vietnam. New York: Zebra, 1986
From 1981 hardback.
Mills, Hugh L., Jr., with Robert A. Anderson. Low Level Hell: A
Scout Pilot in the Big Red One. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1992;
New York: Dell, 1993.
Mills flew a Loach (OH-6) in D Troop, 1st Squadron, 4th
Cavalry, having arrived in Vietnam at the beginning of 1969.
Milton, General T. R., (USAF, Ret.). "USAF and the Vietnam
Experience." Air Force Magazine, June 1975.
The "our hands were tied" theory.
Moriarty, J. M{ichael}. Ground Attack Vietnam: The Marines who
Controlled the Skies. New York: Ivy, 1993.
Moriarty commanded VMO-2 (Marine Observation Squadron
2), flying OV-10 Broncos, approximately 1970. The book is a
memoir, rather than the broader study the title suggests.
Nichols, CDR John B. and Barrett Tillman. On Yankee Station: The
Naval Air War Over Vietnam.
Deals with policy issues, not just combat.
Rosenburgh, Bob. Snake Driver. New York: Ivy, 1993. 208 pp.
Stories of helicopter combat in Vietnam, most but not
all from men who flew Cobra gunships.
Scutts, Jerry. Wolf-Pack: Hunting MIGs Over Vietnam. Warner,
1989.
Sisk, Robert W. Wings for the Valiant. New York: Warner, 1991.
The author was a helicopter pilot with the 229th
Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Air Cavalry, starting in
1966.
Stoffey, Col. Bob. Cleared Hot: A Marine Combat Pilot's Vietnam.
New York: St. Martin's, 1992.
Stoffey flew helicopters in Vietnam 1965-66, and
fixed-wing OV-10 Broncos 1969-70.
Tilford, Earl H. Crosswinds: The Air Force's Setup in Vietnam.
College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1993.
A revised version of a book published by the Air
University Press in 1991.
Trotti, John. Phantom over Vietnam.
Wilcox, Robert K. Scream of Eagles: The Creation of Top Gun and
the U.S. Air Victory in Vietnam. New York: Wiley, 1990.
Yarborough, Col. Tom. Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's
Year of Combat over Vietnam. New York: St. Martin's, 1990;
St. Martin's, 1991.
In fact, a lot of Col. Yarborough's missions during his
year (April 1970 to April 1971) were over Laos.
II-M. General Publications - In the Villages.
Bergerud, Eric M. The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau
Nghia Province. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.
Brocheux, Pierre. The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and
Revolution, 1860-1960. Madison: Center for Southeast Asian
Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1995. xix, 269 pp.
Callison, Charles S. Land-to-the-Tiller in the Mekong Delta:
Economic, Social and Political effects of Land Reform in
Four Villages of South Vietnam. University Press of
America, 1983.
Corson, Col. William R. The Betrayal. New York: Norton, 1968;
Ace. ?.
Flynn, Robert. A Personal War in Vietnam. Texas A&M University
military history series, no.13. College Station, TX: Texas
A&M University Press, 1989.
The author, a journalist, spent time with a company of
Marines involved in the Combined Unit Pacification Program
in 1971.
Hemingway, Al. A Different Kind of War: An Oral History of the
USMC Combined Action Platoons, 1965-1971. Annapolis: U.S.
Naval Institute, 1993?.
Herrington, Stuart. Silence was a Weapon: The Vietnam War in the
Villages. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1982.
Herrington, then a captain in the US Army, was involved
in trying to uproot the Communist organization in the
villages of Hau Nghia province, a little northwest of
Saigon, from February 1971 to August 1972.
Hickey, Gerald C. Village in Vietnam. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1964.
Detailed study of peasant life in the village of Khanh
Hau, in the Mekong Delta southwest of Saigon.
Hunt, Richard A. Pacification: The American Struggle for
Vietnam's Hearts and Minds. Boulder: Westview, 1995
(forthcoming). ca. 340 pp.
Metzner, Col. Edward P. More than a Soldier's War: Pacification
in Vietnam. Colege Station: Texas A&M University Press,
(1995?).
Metzner worked in pacification for seven years.
Nighswonger, William A. Rural Pacification in Vietnam. New
York: Praeger, 1966.
Peterson, Michael E. The Combined Action Platoons: The U.S.
Marines' Other War in Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1989.
The author served several tours with the CAP program.
Sansom, Robert L. The Economics of Insurgency in the Mekong
Delta. MIT Press, 1970.
Schell, Jonathan. The Village of Ben Suc. New York: Knopf,
1967. 132 pp.
A good account of how the U.S. totally destroyed a
village about 30 miles from Saigon early in 1967, moving out
the whole population, to make operations against the
Communists easier.
Tanham, George K. with W. Robert Warne, Earl J. Young, and
William A. Nighswonger. War Without Guns: American
Civilians in Rural Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1966.
Trullinger, James. Village at War. New York: Longman, 1980.
The Story of one village in central Vietnam near Hue,
from the French period up to 1975.
West, F. J., Jr. The Village. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
288 pp.
Operations of a CAP team--a unit of about a dozen
Marines--in a village near the coast of central Vietnam.
II-N. General Publications - The ARVN and the RVN
Bui Diem with David Chanoff. In the Jaws of History. Houghton
Mifflin, 1987.
Cantwell, Thomas R. "The Army of South Vietnam: A Military and
Political History, 1955-1975." Ph.D. diss, University of
New South Wales, 1989.
Order directly from university?
Critchfield, Richard. The Long Charade: Political Subversion in
the Vietnam War. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.
Criticism of the top leadership of the RVN.
Dacy, Douglas C. Foreign Aid, War, and Economic Development:
South Vietnam, 1955-1975. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Goodman, Allan E. An Institutional Profile of the South
Vietnamese Officer Corps. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1970.
Goodman, Allan E. Politics in War: The Bases of Political
Community in South Vietnam. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1973.
Herman, Edward S. and Frank Brodhead. Demonstration Elections:
U.S.-Staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam,
and El Salvador. Boston: South End Press, 1984.
Hickey, Gerald C. Accommodation and Coalition in South Vietnam.
Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1970. Rand Paper P-4213.
Hickey, Gerald C. Accommodation in South Vietnam: The Key to
Sociopolitical Solidarity. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1967.
Rand Paper P-3707.
Hickey, Gerald C. The American Military Advisor and his Foreign
Counterpart: The Case of Vietnam. Santa Monica: Rand, 1965.
Hosmer, Stephen T., Konrad Kellen, and Brian M. Jenkins. The
Fall of South Vietnam: Statements by Vietnamese Military and
Civilian Leaders
Jade Ngoc Huynh. South Wind Changing. Gray Wolf Press, 1994.
Joiner, Charles A. The Politics of Massacre: Political Processes
in South Vietnam. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
1974.
Nghiem Dang. Viet-Nam: Politics and Public Administration.
Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1966.
Nguyen Anh Tuan. South Vietnam Trial and Experience: A Challenge
for Development. Monographs in International Studies,
Southeast Asia Series 80. Ohio University Press, 1987.
Nguyen Cao Ky. Twenty Years and Twenty Days. Stein & Day, 1976.
The paperback, published by Stein & Day in 1984, is
titled `How We Lost the Vietnam War. The memoirs of the
South Vietnamese Air Force General who became Prime Minister
of the South Vietnamese government in 1965.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhan (with E. E. Richey). The Will of Heaven. New
York: E. P. Dutton, 1982.
Memoir by a Vietnamese who served in the ARVN in the
Mekong Delta in the early 1970's. The bulk of the book is
devoted to events after the war ended in 1975.
Nguyen Qui Duc. Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamse
Family. Addison-Wesley, (1993?).
Angry memoir (anti-Communist, anti-American) by the son
of a provincial official in Hue.
Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai, ed. by Monique Senderowicz. The Rubber
Tree: Memoir of a Vietnamese Woman Who was an Anti-French
Guerrilla, an Aide to the First President of the Republic of
Vietnam, a Publisher and a Peace Activist. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland, 1994. 264 pp.
Nguyen Tien Hung and Jerrold Schecter. The Palace File.
Story of the relationship between the Saigon government
and Washington, roughly 1969-75. Schecter has been both a
journalist and a government official in the U.S.; Hung was a
senior official in Saigon and is writing largely from his
own knowledge.
Parrish, Robert D. Combat Recon: My Year with the ARVN. New
York: St. Martin's, 1991.
Lt. Parrish was an advisor 1967-68 first to an ARVN
infantry battalion, then to an ARVN recon company.
Pho, Hai B. Vietnamese Public Management in Transition: South
Vietnam Public Administration 1955-1975. Lanham, MD:
University Press of America, 1990. 210 pp.
Taylor, Thomas. Where the Orange Blooms: One Man's War and
Escape in Vietnam. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.
Apparently an as-told-to autobiography of an ARVN
officer named Ben Cai Lam, who had worked with the US 101st
Division, and who spent five years in a re-education camp
after the war.
Tran Van Don. Our Endless War. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press,
1978.
By an ARVN general.
II-O. General Publications - The Communists
Beresford, Melanie. Vietnam. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1988.
Chanoff, David and Doan Van Toai. Portrait of the Enemy
New York: Random House, 1986. 215 pp.
Doan Van Toai and David Chanoff. The Vietnamese Gulag. New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Henderson, William D. Why the Vietcong Fought: A Study of
Motivation and Control in a Modern Army in Combat.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1979.
Hosmer, Stephen T. Viet Cong Repression and its Implications for
the Future. Lexington, MA: Heath, 1970. ix, 172 pp.
A RAND Corporation study.
Lacouture, Jean. Ho Chi Minh
Life of the man who effectively founded Vietnamese
Communism, by a French journalist and scholar.
Lanning, Michael Lee and Dan Cragg. Inside the VC and the NVA:
The Real Story of North Vietnam's Armed Forces. New York:
Fawcett, 1992.
McCoy, James W. Secrets of the Viet Cong. New York: Hippocrene,
1992. 549 pp.
This book, which appears on brief skim to have been
rather carelessly written, without much use of Vietnamese
sources, really deals with the North Vietnamese Army more
than the Viet Cong (though it is careless about the
distinction between the two).
MacDonald, Peter. Giap: The Victor in Vietnam. New York:
Norton, 1993.
The brief glance I have taken at this suggests it is
not reliable.
Nguyen Khac Huyen. Vision Accomplished? The Enigma of Ho Chi
Minh. New York: Macmillan, 1971; Collier, 1971.
O'Neill, Robert. General Giap: Politician and Strategist
Pike, Douglas. History of Vietnamese Communism, 1925-1976.
Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1978. 181 pp.
Full of wrong dates, wrong statistics, wrong geography,
mistranslations, and every other type of factual error. If I
were you I wouldn't touch this thing with a ten-foot pole.
Pike, Douglas. PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam. Novato, CA:
Presidio, 1986.
Likely to become notorious for the way Pike
manufactured proof that there was really a North Vietnamese
attack against U.S. ships in the second Tonkin Gulf
incident, August 4, 1964. He took a sentence published in
Hanoi about combat between North Vietnamese and American
vessels in the first Tonkin Gulf incident, several days
earlier, deleted the date, and published the remainder of
the sentence as a description of the second incident.
Pike, Douglas. The Viet Cong Strategy of Terror. Saigon: US
Mission, 1970.
Rousset, Pierre. Le parti communiste vietnamien. Paris:
Maspero, 1975. 363 pp.
Ton That Thien. The Foreign Politics of the Communist Party of
Vietnam: A Study in Communist Tactics. Alternate data list
this as either Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, or New York:
Crane Russak, 1989.
II-O-1. General Publications - The Communists: Vietnamese
Communism before 1945
Duiker, William. The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900-1941.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976.
Huynh Kim Khanh. Vietnamese Communism: 1925-1945. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1982.
This excellent study shows how Ho Chi Minh, who was the
most important single person in the founding of the
Vietnamese Communist movement between 1925 and 1930, lost
control of it in the early 1930's. Ho Chi Minh was a
nationalist, but the leaders who ran the Communist movement
in the mid 1930's were much more concerned with Communism as
an international movement than they were with Vietnamese
nationalism. Ho regained control only around the beginning
of World War II.
Marr, David G. Vietnamese Tradition on Trial. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1981.
Superb study, but very difficult to read, of what was
happening among educated Vietnamese, including the
Communists, from about 1920 to 1945.
McConnell, Scott. Leftward Journey: The Education of Vietnamese
Students in France, 1919-1939. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction, 1989. 195 pp.
II-O-2. General Publications - The Communists: North Vietnam
Boardman, Elizabeth J. Phoenix Trip: Notes on a Quaker Mission
to Haiphong. Burnsville, NC: Celo Press, 1985.
A Quaker mission that delivered medical supplies to
North Vietnam in 1967.
Cameron, James. Here is Your Enemy. New York: Holt, Rinehart, &
Winston, 1966.
By a British journalist who was allowed into North
Vietnam in December 1965.
Chaliand, Gerard. The Peasants of North Vietnam. Penguin, 1969.
By a Frenchman who visited North Vietnam for several
months late in 1967.
Gerassi, John. North Vietnam: A Documentary. Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1968.
Hy V. Luong, with Nguyen Dac-Bang. Revolution in the Village:
Tradition and Transformation in North Vietnam, 1925-1988.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.
Le Chau. Le Viet Nam socialiste: une economie de transition.
Paris: Maspero, 1966.
de Quirielle, Francois. A Hanoi sous les bombes americaines.
Paris: Tallandier, 1992.
Memoir by a diplomat.
Salisbury, Harrison E. Behind the Lines - Hanoi. New York:
Harper & Row, 1967; Bantam, 1967.
By a reporter from The New York Times who got into
North Vietnam at the end of 1966, and inspired considerable
controversy by his reporting.
Van Dyke, Jon M. North Vietnam's Strategy for Survival. Pacific
Books, 1972.
II-O-3. General Publications - The Communists: The Communist
Viewpoint
Budanov, A.G. Amerikanskaia agressiia vo Vietname. [American
aggression in Vietnam]. Moscow: date variously given as
1965 or 1967.
Bui Tin. Following Ho Chi Minh: The Memoirs of a North
Vietnamese Colonel. (Vietnamese original Hoa xuyen tuyet).
Translated and adapted by Judy Stowe and Do Van. With an
Introduction by Carlyle Thayer. Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press, 1995. xx, 202 pp.
A mixture of memoir and analysis of the defects of the
Vietnamese Communist system, with considerable detail about
individual leaders. Recommended.
Chien si bien phong. [The border guards]. Hanoi: Bo tu lenh bo
doi bien phong, 1984.
Chu tich Ho Chi Minh voi cong tac ngoai giao. [Ho Chi Minh and
Foreign Relations]. Hanoi: Su That, 1990.
Divilkovsky, S. and I. Ognetov. The Road to Victory: The
Struggle for National Independence, Unity, Peace and
Socialism in Vietnam. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980.
Duong mang ten bac. [The Road Bearing Our Uncle's Name]. Hanoi:
PAVN Publishing House, 1984. 326 pp.
First volume of a projected three-volume history of the
Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Ho Chi Minh: Anh hung giai phong dan toc danh nhan van hoa.
Hanoi: Nha Xuat Ban Khoa Hoc Xa Hoi, 1990.
Fall, Bernard, ed. Ho Chi Minh on Revolution: Selected Writings,
1920-66. New York: Praeger, 1967.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail. Hanoi: Red River (Foreign Languages
Publishing House), 1982.
A collection of vignettes and short stories, rather
than a coherent history.
Hoang Van Hoan. A Drop in the Ocean: Hoang Van Hoan's
Revolutionary Reminiscences. Beijing: Foreign Languages
Publishing House, 1988.
Memoir by a senior Vietnamese leader who defected to
China in 1979.
Hoang Van Thai. The Decisive Years: Memoirs of Vietnamese Senior
General Hoang Van Thai. JPRS-SEA-87-084. Springfield, VA:
NTIS, 1987.
(Vietnamese original serialized in the Ho Chi Minh City
newspaper Saigon Giai Phong, March 13 to May 14, 1986.)
Deals with the period 1973 to 1975.
Isaev, M. P. and A. S. Chernyshev. Istoriia
Sovetsko-V'etnamskikh otnoshenii. Moscow: International
Relations, 1986.
Lich su binh chung thiet giap Quan doi nhan dan Viet Nam 1959-
1975. [History of the armored corps of the People's Army of
Vietnm, 1959-1975]. Hanoi: Nha xuat ban Quan doi nhan dan,
1982.
Lich su hai quan nhan dan Viet Nam. [History of the People's
Navy of Vietnam]. Hanoi: Bo tu lenh hai quan, 1980.
Lich su hai quan nhan dan Viet Nam. [History of the People's
Navy of Vietnam]. Hanoi: Nha xuat ban Quan doi nhan dan,
1985.
Lich su Quan doi Nhan dan Viet Nam. [History of the People's
Army of Vietnam]. vol. I. Hanoi: Nha xuat ban Quan doi Nhan
dan, 1977.
History of the People's Army from its origins to 1954.
Lich su Quan doi Nhan dan Viet Nam. [History of the People's
Army of Vietnam]. vol. II, part 1. Hanoi: Nha xuat ban
Quan doi Nhan dan, 1988.
History of the People's Army from 1954 to 1968.
McGarvey, Patrick J. Visions of Victory: Selected Vietnamese
Communist Military Writings, 1964-1968. Stanford: Hoover
Institution, 1969.
In fact, none of the documents in this volume dates
from before the middle of 1966.
Nguyen Duy Thanh. My Four Years with the Viet-Minh. Bombay:
Democratic Research Service, 1950.
The author had served in the China section of the DRV
Foreign Ministry.
Nguyen Khac Vien. The Long Resistance (1858-1975). Hanoi:
Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1975.
Nguyen Thi Dinh, Mrs. No Other Road to Take. Translated by Mai
V. Elliott. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia
Program, 1976.
Memoir of the Communist movement up to the end of 1960,
especially in Ben Tre (in the Mekong Delta), by a woman who
joined the movement in the 1930's.
An Outline History of the Viet Nam Workers' Party. Hanoi:
Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1970.
The Paris Agreement on Vietnam (Fundamental Juridical Problems)
Hanoi: Institute of Juridical Sciences, Committee of Social
Sciences of the DRVN, 1973.
Includes the complete texts of the agreements.
Phao binh nhan dan Viet Nam: Nhung chang duong chien dau. [The
people's artillery of Vietnam: The first stages]. Hanoi:
Nha xuat ban Quan doi nhan dan, 1982.
Covers the period up to 1954.
The Thieu Regime Put to the Test: 1973-1975. Hanoi: Foreign
Languages Publishing House, 1975.
Tran Van Tra. Vietnam: History of the Bulwark B-2 Theatre. vol.
5: Concluding the 30-Years War. JPRS 82783. Springfield,
VA: NTIS, 1983.
Vietnamese original: Ket thuc cuoc chien tranh 30 nam
Ho Chi Minh City: Van Nghe, 1982. Memoir by a senior DRV
general. This is the only volume that has been published in
Vietnam so far; it is generally believed that Tra got in
trouble for having published it.
Truong Chinh. Primer for Revolt. New York: Praeger, 1963.
The texts of two short works by the man who was General
Secretary of the Vietnam Workers' (Communist) Party, lost
the job in 1956 for his errors in connection with land
reform, and finally got it back again (under a slightly
different title) in 1986. The works are The August
Revolution (originally written 1946) and The Resistance Will
Win (originally written 1947). The English translations
were published in Hanoi in 1962 and 1960, respectively.
Truong Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai. A
Vietcong Memoir. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
Truong Nhu Tang served as a Communist agent in Saigon
for several years; he has interesting comments on Pham Ngoc
Thao. He became Minister of Justice in the PRG in 1969.
After the end of the war he defected to the West.
Van Tien Dung. Our Great Spring Victory. New York: Monthly
Review Press, 1977.
The final Communist victory of 1975, as told by the
general who commanded the North Vietnamese forces in that
campaign.
Vietnam: The Anti-U.S. Resistance War for National Salvation,
1954-1975: Military Events.
The original was published by the People's Army
Publishing House, Hanoi, 1980. The English translation by
JPRS and/or FBIS was published in June 1982; it is available
from the National Technical Information Service as JPRS
80968. This is, in effect, a PAVN official history of the
war. While significantly biased, it is far more candid than
Hanoi publications during the war; fairly detailed
discussion of the infiltration of men and equipment from
north to south during the war is especially valuable.
The main problem is the lack of serious analysis, and the
episodic nature of the narrative.
Vietnamese Studies
A series of short paperback books, available in both
English and French, on the war and a variety of other
topics.
Vo Nguyen Giap. People's War, People's Army. New York: Praeger,
1962.
Basic work by the man who beat the French.
Books written by Vietnamese Communists are often pretty hard
for Americans to read. One of the best ways to get around this
difficulty is to read the books by the Australian writer Wilfred
Burchett. He travelled widely in the Communist-ruled sections of
Vietnam during the war, he wrote well, and for a Communist
propagandist he was unusually honest.
His relevant books include:
The Furtive War: The United States in Vietnam and Laos.
New York: International Publishers, 1963.
Vietnam: Inside Story of the Guerrilla War. New York:
International Publishers, 1965.
Vietnam North. New York: International Publishers, 1966.
Vietnam Will Win! New York: Monthly Review Press, 1968.
The Second Indochina War: Cambodia and Laos. New York:
International Publishers, 1970.
Grasshoppers and Elephants. 1977.
At the Barricades: Forty Years on the Cutting Edge of
History. New York: Times Books, 1981.
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